[000:00:00;00] exports, it is inevitable, because without this it will be impossible to restrain russia's industrial development, these are the forecasts, mr. valentin, we talked about what we now expect, what will be the volumes of military or military-technical assistance from the united states and other countries there of the event, but somehow the issue of security guarantees, or aid guarantees for ukraine, was put on the back burner, whether it will be conventionally speaking, this is a component of the security guarantee for ukraine, it is important. element that ukraine should use and what could be the potential reaction from our partners? valid question, just yesterday i read what is already happening with the fifth of the g7 negotiating countries, and for us the key countries here will definitely be the united states, and the introduction of the israeli model, we have seen how it works, it works very powerfully, because even ammunition intended

for ukraine. and were in warehouses in israel, a sudden decision was made to hand them over to israel, and everything that israel asks for, everything is given to them quickly, literally, even launchers for them, iron houses, and, that is , anti-missile defense systems, especially since israel at the expense of joint developments, we have made a lot of progress, actually with the united states, joint developments, so this model is very suitable for us, it is. it is very important for us if we go further and, in addition to the united states, reach powerful agreements, primarily with great britain, with germany, i have less faith in france, because macron is constantly wavering, he said that the eu should prepare and support ukraine on in case of the arrival of friend macron, sorry,

friend trump, but... a few weeks later he already said that if the states could not to help in full, then europe will not be able to replace, yes, then these fluctuations changed again and now paris is catching up, berlin took up, and just a few days ago announced that huge help will be in ammunition, the production volume will be tripled from, well, it will be more ammunition per month will be supplied from the 24th, i will not say the number so as not to be mistaken, and the production of caesar self-propelled artillery units has been increased from two to eight, i understand that ukraine will also get enough there, so this is all very important , europe still understands the danger more than the politicians in the united states understand it, i am not talking about

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of the armed forces, which can significantly increase losses of the enemy on the front line, which is extremely important. dear, today the general staff reported that 1,380 occupiers were destroyed in the past day, these are actually colossal losses on the part of the enemy, and we understand that our snipers contributed to the losses of the enemy, and against this background, of course, the question arises that it is extremely important to engage and the training of snipers, increase the number of schools and provide them with modern means to destroy the enemy , how this is happening, what progress is now in our state, we will talk about this with our next guest, and we will be joined by yuri chornomor. doctor of philosophical sciences, volunteer and sniper. mr. yuri, i congratulate you, i am glad to see and hear you. good day everyone. i would like you to tell us something about what has changed during these 19 months of hostilities,

can we say that attention to snipers has increased, that there have been more schools training snipers of different levels, that equipment has improved, what is happening, what is the dynamic positive or neutral or something else? well , there is a positive dynamic here in that the state, as well as western partners, prepare and retrain a large number of snipers, that is, a large number of snipers are being trained in ukraine in the west, and informally we also try to retrain snipers, and accordingly, in principle, these are the snipers that we personally provide, we handed over 216 rifles and also 160 state rifles, we were able to put them into service , they are now effectively used more, because we put better sights on them and, accordingly, in total, it is more

than 3.5 hundred snipers are now using our help, but let's say, it's just it is not enough to prepare people, i once again... emphasize that it is necessary to study the 21st year, the experience of using sniper groups, special operations forces, based on the experience of the ato. where it is said that it is necessary to create combat units of six to ten snipers, which would be provided with full-fledged cover, and scouts, and drones and the like, provided with everything that is necessary, because there are unfortunate cases, for example, i have one commander battalion asked my sniper group to kherson direction, to take up the task where their battalion is, because the battalion... suffered heavy losses from the enemy,

four of my professionals arrived, led by the group commander, i.e. a total of five people, worked for a week, inflicted substantial losses on the enemy , the enemy completely lost its activity on this front, because the guys together with the local scouts from this battalion did all kinds of miracles and accordingly the enemy was completely demoralized, and then an unexpected question arose, on the last day when they left, here it turned out that in this brigade , to which this battalion belonged, there were 32 full-time snipers who were equipped with absolutely beautiful rifles, who were able to actually work day and night, but they said that there was no way to work on the battle line , behind the line of battle and so on, then... my sniper group commander, who

has been in the profession for 15 years, just started shouting at the chief of staff, what is this, i worked here for a week, here are my results, here are the results of my guys, yours 32 beds equipped with everything provided by the state, everything like that, having passed all the training and so on, they couldn't buy thermal ponchos that would protect them from russian drones at night, what couldn't they do? this 5-10th, and to be able to really function, i want to say here that everything depends very much on how experienced people are leading these sniper groups below, how proactive they are accordingly, how much they can use this huge toolkit, er, because there really are such stupid approaches, when, on the contrary, snipers worked, and only then the guys who are defending there will receive even

more artillery, mortars and so on, and it would be better if they did not appear there, it really happens that snipers are used as a high-precision surgical tool, but it all depends, again, it depends on specific commanders, specific sniper groups, how experienced they are, how well they know how to use this tool, and it also depends on what is happening in some areas of the front. there are good snipers, but the command cannot understand that they are needed, let's say, really into autonomous groups, to form and so that they really have the opportunity to work autonomously, to set tasks for themselves , to propose to the command, and to coordinate with the command, it is very cool to work and , accordingly, then have results, now everywhere in the south, in the east, where it functions groups, they perform a large number of tasks, especially where the russians

are pressing near kupyansk and trying to capture kupyansk, the most dangerous situation right now is even more dangerous than under avdiivka, and we are a large number of guys there, for example, from the kherson direction , from other minor directions, we cast there, and there are results, because people act autonomously, they themselves know what to do, and can act accordingly even in a squad, which is just a sniper. couple and already do miracles, and when they come there with 6-10 people with an escort , the results are fantastic, unfortunately, there are losses, because during the entire war we lost seven snipers, for these 200, even more snipers, who are by our subordinates, in the last 10 days we lost two snipers and yesterday we lost two more, but overall you can see that this survivability

is absolutely fantastic for the front. i.e. well 11 killed for several hundred snipers, it shows that this is a highly professional backbone of the defense, and now that the main recruits, they are very little proactive, they are so passive, they tend to leave their positions and so on, and how many of them don't teach, they are all the same, well, they are not the combat guys who in the 22nd year made up the backbone...' of the army, now it is necessary to value professionals in each profession accordingly and snipers to be this backbone, because very often the guys just look where they are, oh snipers with machine gunners don't leave, so we stay, oh snipers say that it is better to storm a high-rise than to die in this landing, as was the case with the robot, because we stormed the dominant height, because just if they understood that they would die in the landing , they said again, we will lead you along the paths and

you will be able to navigate, well, if we go anyway, we will die in the landing, and accordingly , really act so that everyone survives. and that more ordinary fighters really survived, and for this it is necessary to strengthen these sniper groups, now everyone is asking for 375 caliber, 416 caliber, 408, that is, long-range rifles that can shoot further than 2 km, everyone is asking for them very much, it would be necessary for the state to pay attention, and we are now collecting for a party one more such rifles, in total we gave 30 such rifles to the front out of all 216, but now we want to focus our efforts on these rifles , because there are, especially in the south, where there are long distances and it is necessary to get the orcs at a very long

distance, there are professionals, who are ready to move on these calibers, to use them effectively, then the state would also have to wake up and provide more guys with precisely... such calibers, well, that is, in fact, if i summarize what i heard from you, firstly, sniper groups, who gained experience there before the start of the active phase, are now the carriers of that combat experience, and in fact they can be the backbone that ensures the effectiveness of units on the battlefield, even outside of sniper directions. the problem is that not all level commanders brigades or battalions, well, rather equally, brigades understand the effectiveness of snipers, and the main problem is to ensure the dissemination of the experience of sniper groups to the brigade commanders themselves, so that they understand this effectiveness, and the third component is new requirements for weapons, we now have more pay attention to the appearance in our sniper groups of rifles with a range of 2 km plus, and all this in the complex are the main elements,

here i want to say that, for example, the positive experience of the offensive corps, where they simply took the sniper groups that were in the brigades appointed that the senior sniper of the corps, here is one who is so experienced, who has not 15 years of experience, but five, and he is accordingly a very rational person, very well provides himself guys logistically, and with our help does a lot, and this one, accordingly, took the overall sniper business in the offensive corps to a completely different level: that is, if you have snipers who say that you know, now there is no way to work, something else and so on, just take them, group them together would obey some highly professional cool guy who is really ready

to fight, even if he is not even an officer or an officer, let him, respectively, all these people who are ready in principle... would fight if they were properly commanded, then let he uses them more effectively, that is, there are two tasks , the first is to provide more and more all the time, especially with cool drones, sniper groups, cool rifles, and the second is to accordingly look for these hidden reserves, where, accordingly, there are trained snipers, but they cannot dispose of them correctly, accordingly, where there are, for example, narao or some remnants of good rifles, they could be repaired and sent into battle, which also sometimes happens, that is, all this must be sought out and strengthened, yes it is necessary to strengthen all the time the professional backbone of karma, the one that remained there from the 14th, from the 22nd year,

to trust all these guys with the machine gunners there and so on, and direct efforts to raise the survivors accordingly, for example , we direct our efforts to to increase the survivability not only among the sleeping period, yes, but also among the assault groups that they are covering, and so we, for example, are looking for ways to provide them with mini-machine guns, respectively, and to make it more than that, because if you are swarmed with machine guns at assault, still on the pier cover, accordingly, this assault group, then the losses among the assault. become four to five times smaller, we need to preserve this professional backbone of the army, otherwise there will be no one to go on an assault, because it's just like that to prepare even in the west... guys and say, go, storm, they will not leave, it is necessary that there should be something in a person, well, some

kind of resistance to all these people with a rod, it is necessary to protect them like gold and invest more material resources, that is, that there should be, for example, 10 times more female snipers, 10 times more artillery, 15 to 16 times more machine guns, especially in the national guard, and to reduce overall casualties. then due to the fact that we have a huge saturation that goes precisely with weapons and understanding, according to the fact that it is better to invest there in starting from drones and ending with female snipers than, let's say, just people, because those people who are new come, they do not have the quality that was in those people who have already died, you can't just continue this, it is necessary to preserve life people it is necessary for our army to be as saturated with weapons as the german

army, at least during the second world war, just look at how the unit had its own machine gun, necessarily, and we have, accordingly, two machine guns, and this is already considered very good, it should not be like this at all, accordingly, if it is a platoon, then it is at least four machine guns, its own mortar and the like, and when we have at... such, then we will be able to advance accordingly effectively, look at our successes, we are actually a whole army in the south grinded, but it is a huge effort and it is a huge blood, and it is necessary, accordingly, that it was just a huge effort, huge resources, but the lives of the guys, so that it was preserved during the grinding of all these successive russian armies, during our offensive, during our defense, madam. thank you very much for your inclusion, you said a lot of important things , i think we will spread them on the defense express resource as well, because you

really said the key things, they are extremely important, i will remind our viewers that it was yuri chornomorets, a sniper and a volunteer at on chornomorets's facebook page, you can find directions in which you can support ukrainian sniping, determine which samples yuriy chornomorets is currently buying and support these initiatives, because as we can see, it is precisely at the expense of our snipers that we have a substantial advantage over the enemy and have the ability to destroy the enemy, minimizing losses, primarily among our personnel, and further to another topic that is also related to the advantage, we are talking about the active use of drones and primarily fpv drones. what is the situation with the training of the operators of these drones in ukraine, is there progress, what are the problems, what are the difficulties, we will now talk about this with our next guest, ihor kravchenko will join us, this. lieutenant colonel of the reserve, leading instructor of the training center for upl operators in krug. mr. igor, i greet you, glad to see and hear. good day

studio, good day, dear viewers, glad to see you all. i'll start with the question i asked yuliy chornomovets about training snipers. what is the situation with the training of fpv drone operators using the example of your training center? the beginning of the war, that is, an absolute drama, there is nothing anywhere and everyone used everything that anyone can find, so today the work is basically fixed , many centers are already training operators, not only fpv drones, but also other types and classes of drones, if you know, this is in accordance with our regulatory documents, this multi...rotor and aircraft drones of three types, those drones f, they can be both multi-rotor and aircraft type, so we work in both

directions, both with this type of drone and with aircraft type, the aircraft type is a little more complicated , but we have already mastered it from the type of training and the work is in full swing, in general, to date, we have already managed to train about 3,000 uav operators, and when we talk about the training of operators, is there a connection with our military, that is, is there a guarantee that that when the operator is trained, he will really get into a unit where his skills will be applied, and not become there, in particular , a shooter, a grenade launcher, or are there any there at all, well, yes, i understand your question, there are such cases, but such cases they are more single, as a rule, in the operator it is a valuable, so to speak, personnel and resource of the commander, which he tries to use, of course, according to his purpose.

that's why the operators, of course, most often do their work, that's why most of the training is done by our military and there is a certain understanding of what they are studying for and for which tasks, so in such cases, i would say, they are single, and in principle, most of people go about their business, what they studied for, but how is your training in your center taken into account combat experience, because we see that every day something changes on the battlefield, some other conditions appear there, how is this exchange between practitioners, well, and initial theoreticians who want to become practitioners, of course, we stay in touch in connection with our graduates , waste is a feedback to us, they bring us useful information, if something new appears there, or something from the russians, the russians, by the way, too, they progress, they do not stop at one place , and you can learn a lot from this opponent, that's why of course, there is feedback, and we try to incorporate everything that is new into

our training, but still, we have many advantages in this regard, which we probably shouldn't mention now, but nevertheless, there is a connection everything works in a progressive direction. mr. igor, does the variety of structures, drones and their combat units complicate, in particular, the training of operators, and how does this affect the specifics of training? yes, of course , it makes it more difficult, because many people already come who already have the initial experience of using uavs, for example. come from learn about the wing type of a multirotor, the principle of flight is completely different, here you need to understand more about aredynamics, speeds , the ability to control, on that, even the philosophy of flight is completely different here, and if you are on a multirotor you can stop a drone, then on the wings of a drone does not stop, he is constantly flying somewhere and he needs to understand where you are directing him, so here, as i always tell

our students and cadets, that your mind flies ahead of the plane, then you will be... adequate and normal and experienced a pilot, so yes, of course, it complicates the training, but it is not so critical , people get experience with warheads, with cameras, with software, then they only select the experience that they need, for example, from a multirotor to aircraft type, and they can once again continue to perform combat missions already on other unmanned aerial vehicles. mr. igor, i would like you to elaborate on something, i understand that people who are not yet fighting, they can come to you... study, they are on their own if they want they can study and there can be operators from the armed forces who can come to your school and acquire certain skills , are these two processes combined, do you only take the first course of study, no, the two processes combined, in my opinion, it is very wonderful,

because people, for example, civilians come, they see the military, they join this cause, they have an understanding, and a vision, perhaps a vision of their destination in the future, when they, having already joined the military, will be mobilized and will begin to execution of combat missions, so in my opinion, it is very wonderful , we gather, young and experienced pilots and they communicate, exchange experience, and in my opinion, this is very important, so we work in both directions, and the process of training operators, the training process , this is all exactly a financial and cost direction, and the question arises whether there is support from the state for such training centers as yours, because relatively speaking, at the beginning of the year, i remember , the ministry of statistics financed there, then some peculiarities began there, and this led to up to the limit how does this situation look now, you know, unfortunately, these features have not been distributed anywhere and they are present, of course, you rightly said that it is quite expensive and, well, dear little

thing, they cost a lot of money, and especially the educational process, drones fight , i have not yet seen a single drone that would not be destroyed sooner or later, because well, people learn, and this is normal, this is a normal process, it should be like that, learning how it happens, knowledge, skills, skills, because you'll get to the bottom, of course you 'll get a lot of cones, so you need, yes, financial infusions are definitely needed, unfortunately, there are none now, i can't say, unfortunately, that the support and support of the state would be so wonderful. organized, so these are specific moments, unfortunately they happen , well, this is an important moment, because linguistically speaking, we are now talking about the fact that we have to manufacture more drones, what is the point of increasing the number if we do not have the ability of experienced operators , which number will be used on the battlefield, there is probably such a logical error that must be taken into account either by the ministry of defense or the ministry of defense or