[000:00:00;00] the council of the public union, the all-ukrainian energy assembly, the former minister of fuel and energy of our country, a person who knows about energy in ukraine, everything, if not more, borkovsky and i will say goodbye to you on this, but not just goodbye, a word, thank you khrystyna, thank you antina, well, literally from minute to minute we expect the meeting of the european council , the summit of the heads of state of the european union to start, and we will learn about all the details: in our issue, i hope that our correspondent will join us, so wait, either please, 5:00 p.m. in ukraine, news time on the espresso tv channel, in the studio of iryna koval, greetings to all viewers. the meeting of the european council,

the summit of the heads of state of the european union, the issues of the agenda of the meeting of the eu leaders ukraine and its support begin in brussels. tetyana vysotska, spress correspondent in european institutions, works on the sidelines of the summit. tanya, i welcome you and i expect from you the details of what is already known at this time and what will be talked about, what decisions can we expect? congratulations irina, greetings from brussels. yes, the main working session of the european council in brussels. it has not started yet, due to the fact that the leaders of the european states arrived at the summit slowly and untimely, that is, we are still waiting for the start of the main working session, it should start minute by minute, before that the leaders of the states will hold talks with the president of the european parliament, roberta metsola, they will discuss the current situation in the eu and the plans of the european parliament and in the future, then

they will start the closed part, the summit, which will not be broadcast live, and precisely, during this closed parts, indeed, the first issue will be ukraine, and the leaders of the european union countries will be addressed, the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi will be addressed via video link, it is also already known that the european union wants to send, wants to send ukraine an important political... signal is that , that ukraine is not being forgotten, ukraine is not taking a back seat in connection with the war in the middle east, as someone in the kremlin would like, and the european union sent a clear signal to ukraine that the eu will continue to support ukraine in the military, political, financial, humanitarian plan. also in the plans of the heads of state of the european union, a discussion on an important issue is the increase

of the budget of the european union for... four years, which actually includes a package of 50 billion euros for ukraine, which the european union is going to allocate to us, starting from 2024, but the final decision regarding this issue will not be accepted today, the deputy heads of eu states will exchange opinions and the final decision will be made in december, another issue on the agenda is the sanctions of the european union against. in russia, it is already known that the long-awaited 12th package of sanctions should include russian diamonds and diamonds, russian aluminum, and also, somehow, today eu leaders will discuss how to punish third countries that help russia avoid sanctions. another big block for discussion is the issue of using the frozen assets of the european union for

the benefit of ukraine. this is also a question. it is important, we are waiting for some news about this, in fact, about the expansion of the eu and the start of negotiations with ukraine on membership, unfortunately, in order daytime, this summit, this issue does not exist, it was postponed to december and in december it will be decided whether to start negotiations with ukraine about our accession to the european union, and for now we are waiting for the beginning, the actual working session of the summit and already before tanya, well and we will be waiting for news from you from the summit and we will definitely tell them to our viewers, it was tetyana vysotska from brussels, and we are moving on, and a 16-year-old boy died as a result of the shelling of the village of pozhnya in the sumy region. the russians shelled the village with artillery, boy was on the porch of the house at the time of the attack. for the sake

of saving lives, the forced evacuation of children will be announced in the settlements of kupyanska, kindrashivska and kurylivska communities, oleg sinigubov, the head of the region, said. today there are 275 minors. the final decision will be made within a few days. all evacuees will be provided with housing, provided with support and full support from international humanitarian organizations. if people leave the region, they will receive one-time payments. another 206 copters the ukrainian-made hey shot was transferred to the front under the state program of the drone army. the minister of digital transformation , mykhailo fedorov, said, according to him, these attack copters are accurate, heavy and powerful, they can deliver combat cargo up to 30 km to a distance of 15 km. birds destroy enemy infantry, headquarters and

lightly armored enemy vehicles. the copters are resistant to the actions of the counter-occupier, in addition, they are equipped with a gps system, so they automatically return to the base. the european union promised ukraine 1 million artillery shells, but delivered only 300 thousand. the minister of foreign affairs of lithuania , gabrielus landbergis, called on the eu to speed up the delivery of what was promised to ukraine. he reminded that the european union has the resources to supply more than its eastern ally north korea transfers to russia. the eu plans to deliver 1 million shells by march next year. only 30% completed. searches are taking place in sumy, law enforcement officers are conducting investigative actions in yulia pavlyk, who is in charge of affairs of the executive committee of the city council, who currently actually performs the duties

of sumy's mayor. it happens in within the framework of criminal proceedings on the fact of misappropriation of budget funds allocated for the purchase of winter clothing for voluntary formations. the entrepreneur is also being investigated. who may be involved in this, according to the pre-trial investigation, officials of the sumy city council, in collusion with representatives of commercial structures, set up a scheme to seize budget funds, which were allocated for the purchase of goods and material values, with the aim of obtaining materials that may be of importance for criminal proceedings, employees of the office of strategic investigations in the sumy region and the sumy regional police department. carry out authorized searches in the premises of officials of the city council and at the places of residence of the persons involved. and the dbbr also told why they searched the office of the acting chairman of the chernihiv city council, oleksandr

lomako. law enforcement officers are checking the legality of his departure abroad in may of this year. in the morning, lomako reported that his home had been searched. investigative actions take place on the basis the decision of the court - noted in the dbbr. the official arranged a business trip to germany from may 7, 2023. currently, the circumstances of how he ended up in france, belgium, the netherlands and poland are being investigated. according to available information, these vacations lasted approximately from may 7 to may 21, 2023. he is proud of his meeting with putin. prime minister of hungary viktor orbán said at the summit of 27 national leaders of the european union in brussels that it was an honor for him to have contacts with the president of russia. let me remind you that orbán met with the kremlin dictator month in china. at the same time, the hungarian prime minister ignores the european union's efforts

to isolate moscow by waging war against ukraine. russia and hungary have a common neighbor called ukraine. we have a peaceful strategy, so we wanted to keep all channels of communication open. you have a war strategy, we have a peace strategy. we are the only ones who speak on behalf of the eu for peace that will be in the interests of everyone in europe. such was the news at that time, we will see you at 6 p.m., well , in just a few minutes, meet my colleague, olga len. oops, sprained your back or joints, flamides, flamides gel quickly reduces inflammation and cures pain, from pain in the back and joints,

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change the world. stories, issues, analysis and personalities. john herbst, the former ambassador of the united states to ukraine, is waiting for us. good afternoon, you have questions, you will receive answers. also interesting questions, they should be analyzed, sportnikov veresen, every friday at 21:15 on espresso. greetings, today let's talk about how, on the one hand, the russian federation uses combat operations in psychological warfare, and on the other, information war as an element of influence on the battlefield. it is hard not to notice that the military efforts of the russians have picked up quite a bit since the end of september. these are, on the one hand, attempts at offensive actions, various information campaigns, some trips there, demonstrations of putin, shoigu, and something else, well, from the last ones. these are the training launches

of the nuclear triad of the russian federation, which took place, well, literally yesterday, everything took place under the leadership of vladimir putin, the supreme commander was in contact with the minister of defense and the chief of the general staff. however, it is also true that russia considers nuclear weapons only as such a means of deterrence, the use of which is an extremely forced measure, it is prescribed in our nuclear doctrine, even for our tv viewers, today the russian army, an important circumstance, worked massively. a nuclear attack on the enemy in response to a nuclear attack on the russian federation, everything went successfully, successfully, the targets were hit, that is, if they are us, and they are us , obviously as a result of a nuclear attack, then we name them too, well, i hope that our rockets will overtake them, in the sense that they will die faster than us, first they, and then we, you it's important, vytalya tovych, okay, i'm... an optimist, what's interesting here is that it's not for the first

time in recent times that it has been said that russia does not consider nuclear weapons as something, but only literally as a method of deterrence, they haven't said that for a long time , obviously, earlier there were constant hints that this is us threatening something, but in any case, the demonstration of these nuclear weapons and that we are launching something there somewhere, although all of them, what they launched, are old soviet models, and in principle. in principle, nothing new, they are all there, satan, one more thing, one more thing, well, they had a whole bunch of new ones, some of them. there are no means, there is none of this, everything is old, there is something else, well, but no, that is not the point , the point is that, again, you know, a new spin on the matter of what, look, somehow you have to we need to talk about something, and somehow we need to reduce the supply of weapons to ukraine, because

for literally two months in a row, the russians told us that everyone would get tired right now, literally ukrainians right now. will stop supplying everything, but biden's latest request to congress again sounds like 60 billion for help to ukraine, this is a huge amount, in fact, new weapons are being heard again, there is again talk of the need to help ukraine, and this already causes even russian propagandists, you know, such a doubt, and whether they correctly understand the general line of the party, so often in our in the program we say, with some weariness, even irritation, that it is impossible to support the ukrainian regime any longer, either militarily or financially, i mean it is impossible for the americans, it is true, it is true, we do not pass off what we wish for as reality, that here, for example, europeans say that they themselves convince themselves that ukraine will win

on the battlefield, so they must do everything to make it happen, well, please, if such self-suggestion helps them in life, god is their judge. fatigue in financing, it is felt that many people are fed up with ukraine in europe, due to inertia, they are trying to keep this situation afloat through self-suggestion , but i don’t know how much they will have enough, and the other one is also helpless, this is the question, how long , how long and again the same questions, well, that's it we say, yes, suspend, suspend, but something does not stop, the equipment was delivered as it was and will continue to be delivered. well, returning to the battlefield, this is where the interesting thing began, because

it seems that the leadership of the russian army absolutely believed in its own propaganda, because shoigu's last trip to the army, she... was just in such a good mood about that is literally exhaling, the russian, ukrainian army is exhaling, everything is over for it, let's see what he said, the ability to resist in the army of ukraine is becoming less and less, thanks to the competent work of the russian military, who skillfully use the potential of modern technology , sergey shaigu talked about this today with our soldiers, who were awarded state awards right on the front lines on behalf of the president, the soldiers confirmed that the enemy's tactics have been studied, yes, he already throws those who were caught right on the street into battle and immediately sent to fight without training. today's life, today's situation indicates that the enemy has fewer and fewer opportunities, shot down 24 planes in 5 days, well, complete

fiction, this is from a series of stories by kanashenkov, who shot down literally everything, this is the same story again, which is simple. there is absolutely nothing to do with life at all, that is, this is a fantasy of a shaygu somewhere in one place, life somewhere in another place, but literally under the influence of these fantasies, at first they tried to attack kupyansk, and on september 20, they talked about it like this, is it possible, well , i know, many people do not like me because of this, i would like to ask the guys for forecasts places, during the month it says that fighting for kupyansk is possible in principle, because kupinsk is less than a kilometer away, but the fighting for kupyansk has not started and now it sounds completely different. and our guys, how are they progressing in the kupinsky direction?

well, i would say that this is not an advance, this is a maneuverable defense, because now the main task of our troops is to hold the positions that we have taken, just... now, for the last few weeks, i have observed that that our troops are basically standing in the same positions, on in the kupin section of the front , our advance has now stalled somewhat, we have rested on the enemy's fortified areas on the western bank of the oskol river, and now we are gathering strength for a new thrust. even more, what hopes the russians actually placed on the avdiiv direction. in october, quiet promotion of the fact that something will start near avdiivka, something like that, began. the parties are preparing for a new round of beats. for avdeevsky ukreprain. the manning of our troops in this area is 100%. we are only waiting for

the order to force the occupation avdeivskogo ukraina. it remains only to hope that this time it will not be undertaken head-on, perhaps the contours of the operation will be somewhat different than before. hopes did not come true, but despite this, in the first days of these attempts, there were very high expectations. in southern avdeevka, we also have local tactical successes, that is, everything is going to the point that avdeevka can really fall by the new year, or maybe even earlier, for us it is fundamentally important now, especially now before winter, to break through this avdeevsko-maryansky defensive knot, where they were buried there by 10, there are whole underground cities, they will break through, then a field will open before us, where our officers will already be able to see slavyansk and kramatorsk through binoculars, and this, perhaps, is another important strategic goal for our army. mary of the officers did not come true, after 10 days, the whole situation is already

described in a completely different way. the operation should take about a month and a half. it implies several stages. one of its main parts is, first of all , withdrawals, one of the main tasks is the withdrawal of reserves from other directed, in particular the zaporizhzhya court was transferred from the kharkiv court, or rather the north ukrainian court. and their breakdown on this site. where our troops have prepared positions, where we understand how the enemy will move and force him to transfer troops to this, with permission to say a thresher, that we will be able to easily occupy avdeevka itself, i do not believe, because in order to clear this whole fortified area, which was created and fortified for 10 years, huge forces are needed and much more resources are needed than there are сейчас, that is, they themselves, these russian military bloggers are confused, or to be more precise, they do not believe that something is possible to happen there, well, in the end, after all, how

do they see this situation as a whole, which is already going on literally month? according to feelings, ours are very carefully, cautiously trying, let's say, for strength in all places , that is, simultaneously overloading, let's say, the front line and waiting for them to crack, they have a very, let's say, very difficult situation with the reserves, the reserve is left... they are between them in the north and in the south, they are all the time provoking, we roughly speaking are provoking them, but here they say that it is possible, let's say so , preparation for a big offensive, why be careful, yes, because we say so, i understand that, yes, that they don't want will fail, roughly speaking, so that resources are not wasted on unnecessary battles, like how we had them there, let's say, for unnecessary ones, that is, the ukrainians really want to impose such on us: counter-battles somewhere will turn into another the city in the fortress of orekhov, let's say yes?

well, you know, this is interesting, and apparently something went wrong again, but what went wrong and what they wanted, i will talk to our guest today, colonel taras dzyuba, the chief specialist of the strategic communications department of the staff of the commander-in-chief of the armed forces valery zaluzhny , congratulations, mr. taras, congratulations, ms. olga, congratulations to our viewers, well, you know, such a question , around all this it is clear that the military operation itself, military actions, they are self-sufficient to a certain extent, but here we see, you know, in i always have the impression that that even these hostilities were still somehow preparing for certain political steps, do you see such interrelationships, because there is something like that both in the way they hurry and in the way they do afterwards. as the first attempts to take avdiivka failed , putin and shoyu immediately ran there and everyone started driving, all this suggests that something is happening there, what

exactly? yes, look, we also believe that these are related actions in the audiev direction, the direction precisely due to political processes and events that should take place not long after this year, as well as next year, in the month of march, putin's next election will be held, well, we are not talking about the election of the president of russia, there the result is already known, and for these elections, we need some kind of victory, a victory no less than they had in the bakhmut direction, well, what do they think, and how did they promote it after this victory, the same thing they want to do with avdiivka, most likely, and even rybal here, look at this military telegram channel, which for some reason is allowed there, well, unlike from others, to have access to relevant documents and...' to communicate with the direct participants in the hostilities, and he also says that there

will be about a month and a half and about that, preferably by the new year. own, well, this direction, and therefore we can see the connection with the political processes in the russian federation, and i might even mention the fact that, well, on the 10th , this offensive began, and on the 17th-18th, putin went to sitzenfin, and , well, maybe there is still this option, that is, they were waiting for this meeting and preparing for it, in order to demonstrate something about the chinese, maybe there is another this could be the motive, what do you think, well, it is quite possible, but it is unlikely that china would agree even to military aid, or aid, with dual-use goods for the russian federation, we have very big doubts about this, because it contradicts the titai positions , chinese strategies chosen now, in particular, xi's latest statement

that he is ready to work with washington because things have become difficult in the world. dangerous, i just paid attention, but i want us to watch two such small fragments very quickly, the first fragment is how about this it was said, literally on the first, well, on the second, not on the first, on the second day of the visit, it’s very short, let’s see it, the main shots of the day, handshakes, which... and now look, after everything is over, after - firstly, i noticed two things that the topic of the chinese, and this trip, suddenly disappeared altogether from the russian media , well, that is, the visit passed, after that they stopped talking about it, there was no

post of such a play, and secondly, this is an attempt to justify , why there is no military alliance, it is also very interesting, let's take a look, and explain why we are never friends with anyone against someone, but if you see that there is an escalation, you can see that peace is on the verge, everything is on the edge, why we, for example , we will not announce the creation of a military alliance with the same china, the north koreans will certainly join, but why? and why, we are ours , you know, even the president of russia, the presidents of the people's republic of china, in their numerous documents have repeatedly said that our relations are stronger and more effective than the military alliance in their classical sense, or did they expect any larger military forces, military cooperation with china, did the unsuccessful attack on avdiivka really frustrate these efforts, i am interested in this, i do not think that it is connected with avdiivka, i think that,

first of all, there the goal was not so much a military one as an economic one, half of gazprom’s leadership also came with putin to participate in this international forum, one train, one way, they wanted to solve the issue of a powerful gas pipeline through china, and this issue of a joint gas pipeline has also not been resolved, that is, no documents are not signed, and as for the military alliance, well, to be honest, no one expects it, i doubt that any kind of support from the russian federation is appropriate for china now. they already succeed in their foreign policy, i mean, then the question is a little different, and why in this case are the russians trying to present their own, well, hopeless efforts to their own population as the direct formation of, well, a slightly non- military union, for what, because this is already an action on one's own audience, in fact, there

is simply nothing more to present, well, not them can say that this is a great victory. foreign policy, it is the fact that kimshchin visited the russian federation on his armored train, that is, china is one of the world players, it is the only one, well, it is really one of the poles of power now, well, i mean not so much military, but general economic, industrial, technological, etc., that is, having such a friend is something that can be sold to one's own population . these efforts intersect with what is happening now globally, well, that is, it has begun active hostilities are active, well, between israel and hamas, and in fact, russia is counting on them very much, and it expects that more countries will get involved in these actions, but from a military point of view, how can they really