do they really count the money of american taxpayers in the first place to continue helping ukraine? first of all, we must understand how effective american support is and every cent is invested in ukraine, as far as we have shown how weapons are used very effectively in the armed forces, this is mathematics and calculations. second, there are several plants in the united states of america, located in various states and demo... and republican, that have doubled or even tripled their production of weapons now, and this is also about the american economy, which is growing, thanks to the fact that the united states of america is helping ukraine, it's hymars and, f-16 and , it's ammunition, and i hope, fighter jets in the future, and it's just as important to the american taxpayers, taxes, that it's not

just money, what they give to ukrainians are also economic processes that strengthen the american economy and create new jobs, that is, if we talk about pragmatic rational arguments. hanna, i would like to ask you to stay connected and listen to our colleague from the united states america, ostap, a journalist of the voice of america, he joins our broadcast and he will already share the latest news with us, so to speak. ostap, i congratulate you, what are the chances of mike johnson becoming the next speaker? congratulations, you know, in almost 15 minutes the voting will start here on kapitalsky hill for a new speaker, this is already the fourth candidacy. yesterday, at least mike johnson and the republican party, they sounded optimistic in the evening when they actually went and agreed on a new candidate and they say now that the party is united and that there are 217 votes, at least, or enough

votes to elect mike johnson as speaker, we'll see how that vote plays out on the floor on capitol hill, we know there can be some very unexpected turns like this showed the experience of previous votes, however, at least now , we have not heard of any public, clear opposition among mike johnson's fellow party members for the moment, we will see if they will be able to vote, again, so far this is what you see on the screens now, this is footage from yesterday in the evening, the republican pa and they sounded optimistic, before today's vote, we will follow. i'll just remind you that the previous speaker was elected 15 times on the 15th try, so you know, there's no , no limit to how many times a speaker can be voted for, it can go on for a long time, right? well, the previous ones, yes, it was kevin mccarthy 15 times, but after that there were still three candidates, who now, yes, in the last three weeks could not get enough votes, it was jim jordan, it was stephen scalise and literally yesterday yes, another candidate tom.

which didn't get on the ballot at all, he literally dropped out of the race about three hours after his nomination because he couldn't get enough support within the party, but again the republicans wanted to make sure they could get all the votes, so it looks like they're tired right now, at least from the statements we've heard from american lawmakers, today, yesterday, they're saying that really, maybe they don't agree on certain things with mr. johnson, but this is already the fourth round, for what week now they can't... against the speaker and they need to, they say, get to work, although we see mike johnson on the screen now, he consistently voted against supporting ukraine , we showed an analysis of the organization of the republic for ukraine, it seems it is called, and they analyzed which of the candidates for speakers could be, could potentially stand on the side of ukraine, well, contribute to support. thank you very much, ostapysh, a voice of america journalist, was on the radio freedom. well, we will put an end to this

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the enemy is trying something like this to move somewhere, the map of hostilities for the period of october 19-25 , 2023, has turned into a mass grave of the occupiers, but the rashists are climbing further. while the counteroffensive of the armed forces either slowed down significantly or stopped completely in certain areas of the front, the russians, on the contrary, activated themselves along the entire front line. east of kupyansk and dolnovakha. avdiivka is putin's number one target. how important the storming of avdiyivka is for putin was demonstrated by his visit to rostov, where he or his double called soldiers on hernias. one way or another, but after that, the command of the russian armed forces transferred as many as two armies from the luhansk region to the command of the russian armed forces. previously, during august and september in luhansk region, the rashtists failed to achieve any results. their offensive went into a latent phase. during this week, the occupiers with new forces went... to attack in the south and north, with the intention of implementing their plan to capture the city. if in the south their

advancement in vodynogo district did not have significant success, then in krasnogovka district there was no threatening images. for the second time in a week , the invaders managed to climb terekon, which rises above the city. terekon has rather hard ground and it is impossible to dig in on it, the first time the artillery of the armed forces of ukraine knocked out the rashists from it, so let's hope that they will meet their end there in the same way this time, however , the russian advance towards the village of stepove, where the road from avdiyivka it is this road that is not used to secure the city, but it is the key defensive line of the armed forces of ukraine on this part of the front. that is why our military will carry out counterattacks to push the invaders away from it. bakhmut. south of bakhmut, the russian armed forces are desperately trying to regain lost positions in klishchiivka. in counterattacks, they destroyed two of their mechanized brigades, the remnants of which had to be returned as prisoners. this made it possible for our soldiers to occupy even more positions east of the railway line.

meanwhile, other armed forces brigades are fighting to gain control over the villages of kurdyumivka and ozaryanivka, which stand in the way of our further progress east in order to push back the invaders beyond the bakhmutka river. to the north of bakhmut, the rashists managed to carry out a series of attacks and advance a few meters into the districts of berkhivky and dubovosylivky, as well as within the southern outskirts of the city itself. southern front and kherson oblast. battles in the berdyansk direction have turned into positional battles, and their intensity has significantly decreased compared to the situation near the robotny. it seems to have reached a dead end for a certain period. the zsu cannot knock out the occupiers from the commanding heights near novoprokhopivka, and the russians are carrying out another unsuccessful counterattack in the area verbovoy and kupaniv, trying to narrow down the robot performance. the front line here has not changed in a week. at the same time, the events on the left bank of the kherson region began to worry the occupiers so much. that they began to transfer there their unfinished units on the southern front.

in their opinion, this should strengthen the garrisons along the banks of the dnieper, but according to the russians themselves, they are currently unable to do so, as the subversive units of the armed forces of ukraine are increasingly expanding their zone of influence, daily transporting new reinforcements to the left bank. currently ours the military took control of the territory from the antoniv bridge to the villages of pishchannivka and podstepne, entering the road that goes from oleshok to the cossack camps. on... at night, from the camps of the armed forces of ukraine, they also began to create another bridgehead in the district villages of krynka, probably controlling part of this village. the russians are afraid that these sabotage operations could turn into a real second front in their rear. after the air strikes, the airport in berdyansk lost its functionality, and according to detailed information, the armed forces of the russian federation 19 lost their rotorcraft, 17 more were liquidated in luhansk. for the third day in a row, sevastopol bay is attacked by our underwater and aerial drones, the occupiers report that everything has been shot down, but the smoke over the city indicates that

this is not the case, so we are waiting for good news from crimea, we are winning daily, death to the enemies. so, what we see, we see that the focus of hostilities has shifted from the south-east, in the south, our offensive actions have stopped, but the russians have started to move very actively and are trying to arrange something... as if autumn-winter offensive, apparently it is really very important for them, to which i can add, even to the fact that it was said that not only putin went there to rostov, sheigu was also yesterday, somewhere, it is not known exactly where, but somewhere in this donetsk direction, that is, this is exactly the direction of avdiyivka, and the fact that he came there personally and tried to direct something to him there, something was reported there. as written in the russian official reports of the ministry of defense, they

talked there with the commanders who are there, regarding the provision of bpll and strengthening of this component in the russian army, that is, for the top management, well, at least yes , the russian top management actively shows that this direction is directly key for them, and they took it very, very, very, well, we cannot for sure it is difficult to say whether this is really the case, or whether it is some kind of distracting maneuver again, or there will be something else, but the point is... from the fact that they did pull forces there, well somehow just an imitation, it doesn’t look like it, it’s still after all, it is really an attempt somehow to push back, let's say, ukrainian forces away from donetsk, well, in general, the ovdiivka district is a serious district, it must be said that it is convenient to defend

there, there is a place to defend, there is an enterprise there, there are good positions already arranged there, well, this is such an important moment, so it is not surprising , that they are trying to do something there, especially taking into account the fact that in all other areas of the front, in principle, they are not doing very well at the moment, that is, no matter what offensive actions they try to take there in the summer, in the fall there, in the spring, in the fall of last year, this spring year, for example, in the southern direction of the russians, it did not work out very well for them, that is, all attempts to advance near ugleder, all attempts to advance, then somehow, as they dreamed of it, and as they said at first there, reject the ukrainian counteroffensive and then start their own there on the shoulders of the retreating enemy in the south, nothing came of it, that's why we now

concentrated on the lyman direction, now you see, we can already see that they are moving their forces from the lyman direction to guest serhii jerch, head of the public league ukraine nato, a serviceman of the armed forces of ukraine, i congratulate you, mr. serhiy, congratulations, glory to ukraine, to the heroes, glory, tell me what you think about this situation that has developed now, that is, what we are currently observing, which the idea may be with the russian command in general with these actions of theirs, then there is liman, then avdiyivka, near marina, they are serious, by the way... if you look at the last day, then half of all offensive actions of the russians were actually on this day exactly near mariyanka , as it is not surprising, well, that is, what is it, how can you characterize these actions? well, they are going crazy, they want at least some success, it is clear that putin would not come to rostov just like that, there or his double,

as they say, in order to strengthen there... to somehow influence the situation on the generals with the fact that for them to achieve at least some success, because in principle it was about the ukrainian counteroffensive, which continues and will take place, i hope that with the strengthening of the weapons of the ukrainian, ukrainian troops, this situation will change with the fact that it save the lives of ukrainian... soldiers, and the russians want to demonstrate at least some success to society, and here it is clear that there will be elections, not so not as expected in russia. putin is the only candidate who, unable to formulate anything positive, for

internal profit, use, in fact, according to the situation in ukraine, that is why we need some foreign policy... successes, well, one of the successes is the capture of some village there, or in particular it is about avdiivka or another city, so i think that in this connection they are concentrating so they destroy their forces their soldiers, in fact, and mobilized and all others, and all the same , they do not achieve any results, well, you see, it is interesting to watch how they change in general, the attempt to take, well, seize the avdiivka and in general these attempts of assaults, at first they threw a lot of equipment , the ukrainian defense forces of ukraine burned this equipment, there is a lot of it, there are 150 pieces of equipment, well, something like that, well, it’s just kind of unbelievable, absolutely, if we say so conditionally, then the ukrainian defense forces burned a brigade, you can say,

of russian troops, under one audio player for 10 days, that's a lot. that's right, that's right, well actually, thank god that there are weapons with which we can defend ourselves, and in addition to these, the artillery systems that we received from our partners are now inferior to bohdan, these ukrainian artillery systems on wheels are also mobile and very well aimed , accurate, so all this together makes it possible to restrain... the enemy, in particular, to destroy his equipment. it is very important to increase the number of drones, drones, drones, others for surveillance, so that you have an advantage. because the russians during these one and a half years of war, they too, if they did not sleep, have developed and created new lines for the production of drones, there they also have much more

of these aircraft than before, so that there is parity, that we have some kind of activity, this is an advantage, then of course these things need to be strengthened, and those subdivisions. ours, who have the opportunity to use drones, have a sufficient number of them, and they are showing success on the battlefield, actually, this is what you said , well, it was very noticeable near avdiivka, by the way , firstly, the drones themselves were burned there, well , quite a lot of equipment, but uh, in addition to the fact that direct kamikaze drones were active, but also aerial reconnaissance, for example, we saw these shots when the convoys were moving and our troops were hitting them, well, it was thanks to the aerial reconnaissance that they could see these convoys, they were noticed in time, they were rightly brought under fire there

and in the end they struck, that is, it is like this, well, all this became possible precisely thanks to the drones, precisely thanks to the fact that we had a sufficient saturation of drones in this area and a very competent leadership, and it must be said that now avdiivka is being defended by the 110th brigade, all they note a very competent leadership, but this is so far, you see, it is impressive, it seems that i am not mistaken, the sun is impressed, this is a very serious such thermobaric weapon of theirs, very dangerous, unpleasant, and imagine, some drone for 200 dollars literally destroys, well, the installation , which costs millions and of which there are not so many in the russian army, and only in the last couple of weeks they destroyed two sunspots, precisely with drones, it must be emphasized, this is very important, what you say about drones is important, and the russians understand it, i already said about the fact that it is not surprising that putin already talked about it there, and shuigu came directly

to talk about it, this suggests that they are trying to organize this whole story on a non-state level in some way in order to provide their own troops with drones, but in addition to the fact that they, judging by everything, concentrated the armored vehicles, concentrated the living. i, i don’t know about you, for example, i was struck by the figure, this last one that was made public, i’m not mistaken, hur, it was made public that the russians now have 4,000 military personnel in ukraine, the total number , i can't remember clearly, maybe you know, it's not the largest, i think, since the first offensive actions in february, there were no more, it's a very large number. that's right, well, it's with crimea, in general with the occupied territories, in crimea too, we know that the number is increasing, they use the crimean bridge, if for this, then,

the general mobilization went, not all these troops are fighting there on the first line, because there is such a tactical rotation, there for two or three days, the combat positions are occupied by one units, then they are changed... others within the framework of, well, the same combat operation, a part, it is on rotation further from the front line, that is, thank god that not all of them, not all of them, but this is such, such a cluster , this also gives us positives in the fact that if intelligence, and in particular bpp intelligence, which was talked about, makes it possible to monitor the accumulation of live... power of combat equipment, it is possible to use these modern long-range missiles of both ukrainian and non-ukrainian production,

which are now available, in this way it is possible to increase and to reduce the number of enemies on ukrainian territory, in particular, well , in their bases, where they stockpile there, it would be good, but i’m just to the point... that if they stockpiled these troops, if they stockpiled armored vehicles, i guess we don’t we can expect that their offensive efforts will suddenly stop, that is, most likely they have intentions, both in one place and in another, to try to advance somewhere, and we see that they are flexible enough to shift from liman to avdiivka, from on the other hand, somewhere, that is, they will move these troops, they now... well, they have this opportunity, i understand correctly, that is, this rain is for a long time, roughly speaking, well, they are looking for weak points, as they think, and where there are some... tactical

positions there, are there positive tactical positions for them positions, the possibility of encirclement, in particular, the way they plan it, with regard to avdiyivka, then of course, there is a movement along the front line of the units there, in one direction or another, then there are also certain intensification of hostilities, as a diversionary maneuver, because - in this plan, with this schedule, the ukrainian side also needs to move certain forces, pull them away from the main line of attack there or from the main lines or main directions of our offensive in order to close, close the defense more firmly where the enemy activates, well, this is what happens,

in particular, i think , that after all, in the long run, we expect airplanes , which are talked about a lot, and aromatic helicopters would also not hinder us, because with airplanes there is such a system that they drop tons of explosives in seconds, and what, what and that does a breach in the enemy's defense and everyone who is in this territory, they, the enemy, either die, or are not able to ... resist due to wounds, contusions and so on, and this then opens the way for our assault groups to advance sharply and quickly, so aviation is extremely necessary , i think that with the arrival of western aviation in ukraine , which we have been expecting for a long time, in principle, the situation will change and we will be able to achieve the strategy that was conceived from the very beginning, which is

an exit... to the sea of ​​azov, with to cut off the land corridor between crimea and the rest of occupied ukraine. well actually if we talk about aviation, then for avdiivka it is a big problem now, because at the moment, for example, as far as can be seen from the latest reports, the russians have stopped storming so actively with armored vehicles, now they are storming with infantry, but in front of the infantry... they they are attacking aviation, and by the way, this shows that, first of all, they, well, you know , this moment when they protected aviation is also a little over, they really now, apparently, have concentrated everything there, and aviation and everything, because they are also aviation in the last few days lost enough, and they even shot down their own plane there, that is, the situation there is so saturated now that they already, well, there

their own air defense does not quite cope with what is happening, and they are quite actively involved in ras-aviation, and here, well this creates a big problem, in principle, and something has to be solved with this problem, apparently, and can it be solved without airplanes, let's say so, because to expect airplanes in the next month or two, well, you know that a little, i think vain hopes, well, another one option, to strengthen anti-aircraft, there are no our planes, there should not be theirs, and here, of course, there are such chaff tactical anti-aircraft systems, there should be more of them, of course, a lot of attention is paid to the protection of cities from kamikaze drones, from these missiles, kraylats, which are shelling ukraine as a whole, but, well, the front line...

it must also be saturated, even saturated with these means of defense, reconnaissance groups, which in certain directions, precisely with the possibility of using anti-aircraft anti-aircraft missiles of the complex, along those routes, glide paths, on which enemy aircraft can, if it were, fly, there in order to destroy it, well, in principle, if, we have already achieved the main point that enemy planes do not fly across the line front to ukrainian territory, they fly as close as possible, closer to the front line, and launch either unguided rockets with such a characteristic lift of the nose of the aircraft before launching these missiles, or, if they are bombers,

use guided aircraft... bombs that the distance there is 20-30.