the russians struck ukrainian energy facilities five times in the first year of the full-scale invasion, donetsk, dnipropetrovsk and kyiv regions were the most affected. last winter, ukrainians spent a total of five weeks without light and heat, i.e. 35 days in complete darkness. the ukrainian authorities do not publish official data on the extent of the destruction, but the united nations and the world bank have calculated that the russian federation has caused $10 billion in damage to our energy industry with its strikes. usa. not the most thermal power plants and thermal power plants were affected. their capacities were reduced by 68%. 42 out of 94 critical high-voltage transformers were damaged or destroyed. for its attacks on ukraine, russia used mostly air-launched cruise missiles, especially hasto-1 and hasto-2. and the defense forces of the south have already been warned. the aggressor country has not used these missiles for a long time, which means that it is trying to accumulate them for the next strikes. however, president of ukraine volodymyr

zelenskyi assures that ukraine is not only ready to defend ourselves against further russian attacks, but also to retaliate , our western partners will help us in this, so the usa will give us missiles and equipment for air defense systems, as well as avenger short-range air defense systems. the american patriot complex, the ai complex, additional anti-aircraft cheetah self-propelled guns and shells, we will receive them from germany. bulgaria and norway will also replenish our stockpile of missiles for anti-aircraft systems, while from spain we are receiving six more launchers for the hauk anti-aircraft missile systems, and lithuania already transferred sams installations to ukraine. our partners help us not only with weapons, but also with money. thus, canada will allocate 24.5 million dollars for the purchase of air defense equipment. the un is preparing to allocate 123 million dollars for vulnerable categories of the population of ukraine. in the autumn-winter period, these funds will help cover the costs of housing, electricity, clothing and heating. britain has already

allocated more than 12 million dollars to restore household electricity after the russian attacks. norway more than 106 million for the purchase of gas and electricity, the netherlands eur 30 million. sweden transferred more than 25 million euros to the energy support fund of ukraine. the us has already allocated 206 million dollars to support vulnerable segments of the population and is preparing to transfer almost 1.5 billion dollars for salaries and social benefits. renewal. on the map of air alarms, let's pay attention to it once again, i will announce chernihiv, sumy, poltava, kharkiv oblast , cherkasy oblast was added, as well as oleksandriysk hromad, kirovohrad oblast, traditionally, red on the air alarm map, luhansk oblast and crimea is temporarily occupied, the air force is refining missiles in the sumy oblast and moving in a western direction, friends. be careful,

be careful, pay attention to this information. we hope that at this hour you are still awake and listen to our calls, but for now we will tell you about the fact that ukraine and the united states of america have jointly created hybrid air defense systems. this allows launching modern anti-aircraft missiles of western caliber from modernized soviet launchers. new york writes about the joint program of the countries times. it was started at the end of last year, when official kyiv turned to the allies for help. according to the publication, the west could not provide ammunition for the outdated buk systems. therefore, ukrainian engineers decided to convert the launchers to use nato-caliber anti-aircraft missiles. all so-called hybrid pppo have been tested at military bases in the usa and will soon be put into service with the armed forces of ukraine. ivan timo is with us. military serviceman and

chairman of the board of reservists of the land forces. mr. ivan, welcome to the air. good morning good morning, mr. ivan, well, we just read about, so to speak, all kinds of hybrids, including ammunition. also, we can't help but recall this, this project, initiative, frankens, if i'm not mistaken , please tell me if we can already draw any preliminary conclusions from such a collaboration, how powerful and influential they are at the moment , well, it’s more likely not collaboration, it’s more like integration, and the integration of launchers and even aviation, well, it’s been a long time it has been happening almost since the beginning of the large-scale invasion, since when

our western allies and america began to supply us with their weapons in general as such, and because integrating missiles into launchers is just not... part of the work actually done, because it is necessary, if it is, for example, artillery or even the same aviation, also integrate cards, so-called shootings, take into account ballistics, these are completely different already, conventionally speaking, the tactical and technical characteristics become the same missiles, the same launchers installations or aviation, and it is very good that the actual integration , integration... of the weapons of the nato countries into the actual weapons or into the army of the ukrainian army in order to create such a transition period, when we still understand that over time the ukrainian army will completely transition

on nato standards and on weapons, nato standards, of course, that in this process you still need to use weapons, you need to fight and you need to...' collect, or relatively speaking, adjust certain types of weapons, or the same means, for example, radio electronic of combat, means of bearing, they must also be integrated, because the missile will not just take off, it needs to be guided, it needs to take into account a lot of factors, from weather to ballistics, of the specific projectile, and in fact it is very good and very important, because integration it just doesn't happen like that, cables or nuts have been replaced, in fact, this is already the work of engineers, this is the work of technicians, and this means that it is at the level of factories of nato countries or at the level of their same design institutes,

engineering and technical actually, miscalculations is happening, it's actually a very big and very tedious job, and it's very good that any, any way of launching missiles, any weapon, it's not idle or the equipment that can launch that weapon is not easy, the integration is happening, it's happening the actual study and improvement of types of weapons is a huge plus, but i will say that this is not know-how, it has been happening for a long time and it is also even, i will tell you that it depends on the level of international treaties, for example, that according to treaties there at one time between america , still the soviet union, when they were destroyed, nuclear missiles, there was a restriction on the production of nuclear missiles, there, operational level or there tactical, then launchers, for example

, someone destroyed, someone converted, someone made very universal, the americans followed the path of universal universality, in fact , all launchers in general. therefore, they have literally two or three, two or three types , whereas, for example, the soviet union considered each strike system, whether artillery or missile launch, as a separate type, and there the nomenclature, for example, was very large, but in essence objectives and the tasks performed were approximately the same as the purpose of the weapons that i launch, of these rockets, of course, after that long period and the situation developed: what if before the weapons were bipolar, because there were two large camps and everyone built up their weapons there in secrecy based on the calculation that it will destroy the weapons and equipment of its adversary , in fact, in ukraine, during the large-scale

invasion of the russians , in fact, weapons of american, soviet, american, european, ukrainian design were imposed on the ukrainian army. also appeared in us a lot of russian trophy weapons that were already released in russia, say after the collapse of the soviet union, and this is the whole symbiosis, it is actually being adapted for different nomenclature of weapons, it is being adapted to modern challenges and conditions of war, and this is very good, by the way, by the way, about pppo cherkashchyna, poltavashchyna, oleksandriysk hromad of kirovohrad region repulse. ugh, that's it, no one is flying anywhere, already, mr. ivan, more innovations, changes and what 's happening at the front, and one of the last statements, or rather an interview of the prime minister

of ukraine, published by the financial times, it made military experts and the military in general think about the fact that there is a shortage of ammunition, there is a shortage of gunpowder in the world. in ukraine, and in the whole world, we understand that we have to produce them here in ukraine, because in the world they have run out, all the warehouses are empty, and here it is worth noting that in fact the world turned out not to be ready for such a large-scale war, not only in ukraine, but also in israel in the 21st century, what are the ways out of these situations, do you see for yourself and is such a shortage felt at the front? you know, even the aggressor countries, the aggressor country, were not unprepared for the need for such a large number of shells, in particular, and here we can talk about many reasons, many factors, because at one time military

doctrines were being built, that is, already after the collapse of the soviet union, after the collapse of the iron curtain, that the wars that will take place in the future will be local, short-term, where battles will take place between professional military personnel and civilians or there will be no large-scale front lines, there will only be... a change of governments, relatively speaking, and that will be the end of it, terror, mass destruction and fronts have already become a thing of the past, it was believed that, even on this principle, russia attacked ukraine , attacked ukraine in the process of a large-scale invasion, if before that they waged a hybrid war in its main essence, then with a large-scale calculation it was still to capture the capital, there, the central cities of ukraine and change the government and so on, we all know this, then when started, full-scale

the war, of course, and the lack of ammunition and shells, by the way, i will tell you that weapons always do not determine everyone, in all wars, any, especially, the tasks that they set before themselves, that the ukrainian army and that russian, each of those armies, each, each is a task, or rather needs a huge number of because... a set of all types , all nomenclature, all samples, and this is also true, or the world turned out to be unprepared, well, in the 21st century , the world was preparing for, let's say , even peaceful space exploration, and not as a non-aggressive, aggressive war there, say on the european continent, because well, it's just a disease of dictators, and unfortunately, it , it caused this situation in the world, but on the other hand, i'm more than sure that it's not as bad as everyone tries

to make it out to be, in fact, that weapons manufacturers, actually, uh, weapons leaders are fine, somewhere from the first days of the war in ukraine , of course, they started making their calculations, and the work started even then, it’s just not public everywhere, because it’s the release of shells, which means to deposit funds in the budgets for expenses in their countries, and if for example, europe until now has pursued a policy of liberalism, then quickly change the vector, it means changing not just there , say, the allocation of funds for the manufacture of weapons, it means changing the vector of the policy of specific ruling parties, their programs, this is actually a complicated bureaucratic process, but they , it is happening, in any case... reformatting on, after all, on the current challenges of reality, it is happening, because, let's say

, extreme, even the arms forum in ukraine, well , near three different companies, concerns, and arms manufacturers who arrived to ukraine, something and says, of course, every country will in the public space at the slightest opportunity actually downplay the available reserves, because it is for the purpose of secrecy. and in order to prevent the enemy from assessing the real capabilities, on the other hand, the problem is felt in the whole world, even russia, which had seemingly inexhaustible reserves from the soviet union, and now its former not just satellites, in its brainchild, which they themselves formed, imported weapons themselves, now they are taking them from the same belarus, north korea. there's more there we know the russians even from africa, where they could

buy projectiles, of course, like the european ones, but if we take into account the second point, it is also extremely important that the european component of the actual conduct of the war is mainly point and strikes with high-precision weapons, high-precision shells, while the russians. are used to working on planes and for them accuracy is not so much important as mass, then the consumption of their bka was many times faster, and we recall, if even at the beginning. large-scale russians could in a day shoot, there were even peak days and 80,000 shells, now for them 15, they consider this a very, very good result for themselves, on the one hand it seems, it is 15,000, 20, and also take into account that the ukrainians also release approx .

now there are so many outfits somewhere, it seems like a lot, but if you consider that the front line is stretched for almost... then we understand that in fact, it is not, it is the density of fire, but it is not as great as you can imagine somewhere , so that it was a gathering on not on small ones, mr. ivan, these words that you you say, they are actually very important in order to calm the society at some points, and such a sober, cold approach, it is necessary, thank you for your comments, for being with us, ivan tymochko, a serviceman and the head of the council of reservists of the ground forces was on direct communication with the studio. and probably the biggest losses since the beginning of the year were suffered by the russians near avdiyivka, donetsk region, according to british intelligence. the enemy threw up to eight brigades there, but they still did not push back our fighters. for the past day of strength ukrainian defense forces repelled more than 10

enemy attacks here, the general staff reports. the assault of the occupiers and naku was unsuccessful. marian and mining directions. under bakhmut, the armed forces of ukraine did not allow the russians to recover the lost ground in the districts of klishchiivka and andriivka, as well as near verbovoy, in the zaporizhzhia region. at the same time, on the melitopol and bakhmut directions, the ukrainians continue to advance and inflict losses on the occupiers in terms of manpower and equipment. oleg kalashnikov, press service officer of the 26th artillery brigade named after roman da. now contact us directly. mr. oleg, good morning to you. congratulations good morning. mr. olezh, can we say that he is really good for your brigade and comrades. how was last night? at the front, every morning, if you are alive and well, is already good. well,

it was a difficult day. the enemy constantly keeps us under artillery pressure. is constantly trying to carry out artillery fire both on the northern and southern sides, of course on the flanks, he tried to counterattack us at klishchiivka and andriivka, but without success suffered and went back. mr. oleg, well, if you can clarify with what forces the enemy is trying to push back our defenders and defenders, well, we see today that the 83rd, the landing-control brigade has withdrawn from them for a trial somewhere for recovery, now we see that there is a deshiivka they are trying to work with us, this is 14,28, infantry, then they are reinforced by some units of the fourth brigade of the ak friend, this is where we will have kleschiivka, if we take it to where andriivka is, here

we can observe units of the 57th infantry brigade, yes paratroopers regiment plus, they strengthened this direction, threw several such fresh troops there, plus our unit, 13.07, is still involved here, as well as infantry brigades and is supported by ordinary artillery, and their 68th tank regiment is still working and has strength, that's so short. ugh, mr. olezh, i am not talking about what is happening at the front right now, i am talking about what was happening and the consequences. the security service of ukraine reported that a traitor who transferred to the side of the russian federation, and then from that side was restrained by the offensive of the armed forces of ukraine,

the counteroffensive near bakhmut, please tell me, these are the stories in your experience, how long. they happen, and why, why do they betray, what do those who have gone over to the side of the occupier go to, well, these are not rare stories, on the eastern front we have to admit that there are a lot of people, after all pro-russian, they were and remain and are, and i happened to meet them from time to time, i have the opinion that somewhere near them they intersect, civilians in general , but who... are waiting for the russian world, russian peace at home, i think that some people still have that atavism , atavism from the soviet union, when they... lived, some lived under the soviet union, however, which is very strange, some are for pro-russian peace precisely among those

people who practically did not find him, they were born when that union fell apart, but nevertheless, for some reason they gravitate to this world, to this eastern mordor, and it is somewhat strange, but i think that at one time, when these were the 90s of destruction, when the country will be restored after the soviet union, after all, we do not have there was not enough patriotic education, we did not have enough, exactly, ukrainian orientation in education, as in schools, as in institutions and as in society in general, and this is why it happens, and i really had to see and even catch civilian correctional officers who were near our positions, or even managed to penetrate our positions, and such before... quite a few, even when they were, for example, in bakhmut itself, when we were already withdrawing from bakhmut with battles, delivering humanitarian aid to the local population,

we happened to see these zhduns there too, some he even directly refused the ukrainian humanitarian, and people said that he was waiting for the russian peace, and there were those who, after all , helped them, and they killed some of them, but some still... still managed to avoid punishment. mr. leger, well, i hope that the sentences that the traitors receive will be such an inoculation against treason for others in the future, because they are indicative. and about the adjustment. mr. oleg, well, i am now more about the adjustment of artillery fire. please tell me what influence the weather is currently having? well, in particular on activity. well, if we take, let's say, yesterday, i was at our positions, of course, i talked with our

guys, such weather, especially when this wind, it interferes with the work of uavs, that is , they have there, their capacity there is 15-20 m per second, when they can work comfortably, before that, if the wind is strong, it will overcome the bullhorn. cannot focus the camera directly on the target to detect it, and such a blue wind leads to the loss of drones directly, so in such weather, which is so cloudy, rainy, there soon there will be snow, especially if it is windy, then of course the activity of aerial reconnaissance will decrease, although it cannot be said that it will completely stop, it will stop, but it will still be with... however, sometimes artillery fire is conducted not only with the help of bepal, there are

there are other means of reconnaissance, which also help to identify the enemy, and there is also just such a methodical shooting, when there are already planned targets, when some targets have already been cut down in advance, they still need to be worked out, the artillery of the sciondl works, if you take the enemy artillery for today, we can to say that it can carry out our positions, these are the first, the positions of the first line, they know that we are there, and in any weather they already according to the installations that they have in place, they still carry out a window damage, ugh, mr. oleg , we thank you very much for the insightful questions and the information you provide us and our viewers, thank you very much, oleg kalashnikov, press service officer of the 26th artillery brigade named after roman dashkevich. thank you and we are moving on, because russia has once again launched drones on territory of ukraine, drones flew from the south.

now the targets are maneuvering, having previously changed their course to the west. anti-aircraft fire was heard in the kherson, mykolaiv and khmelnytskyi regions, monitoring channels report. also about the activity of enemy tactical aviation in the south and east of our country. they talked about it just recently. and tonight it was loud again in the temporarily occupied crimea, local telegram channels reported that explosions rang out on the western coast of the peninsula, residents of yevpatoria tasak allegedly heard the hum of drones and work against air defense, it was especially loud near chornomorsk. the russians placed air defense systems and radar stations at the belbek airfield under occupied sevastopol. this is evidenced by satellite images. according to intelligence analysts, the occupiers have turned the belbek airfield into their military base. they said that

the panzer short-range air defense complex was placed there. c2, a radar to assist aircraft during landing, a radar detection system c300-400, as well as airles long-range detection. with us is natalya gumenyuk, head of the joint coordination press center of the defense forces of southern ukraine, captain of the first rank. ms. natalya, welcome to the broadcast. good morning. glory to ukraine. welcome a hero of glory, a hero of glory. we have more and more questions about belbek. but let's start with the traditional, unfortunately, yes, probably, question about a good night, which we had a good night, i say in quotation marks, ms. natalya, what is the information as of now, what was released from where, in what quantity, maybe you can already say that, yes according to the intensity of the sounding of air alarms, at night it was really alarming, the situation in general remains quite tense in our

responsibility, the enemy continues to use air as the main method of pressure in all directions, this is also the use of tactical aviation, and it is because of this that there were a lot of alarms in the kherson region, this is and the direction of unmanned aerial vehicles of the shachet type, which the enemy also launched taking into account part of the route that ran through the temporarily occupied territory, it is obvious... the enemy's study of anti-aircraft systems defense and the future paths of missiles, therefore the drones themselves were detected after they left the temporarily occupied territory of the kherson region, but in the mykolaiv region, as you correctly noticed, and the servants of our viewers did not fail, the pppo worked and two targets were destroyed, two shaheds were destroyed, we are talking

about what is appropriate in our area. there were no hits and the work was coordinated, but the number of targets was very low, only three shaheds were received through our area of ​​​​responsibility, we destroyed two, i think the third met the same fate just at the neighbors. ugh, mrs. natalya, we are talking now about what happened in our country and also in our country, but in the temporarily occupied crimea, and in particular there were almost explosions, as well as shootings, there is no official information about what happened there , maybe you are already ready to comment and can say what happened there? well, crimea is ukraine, and the same disturbing night happened there, as in the entire territory of ukraine, in fact, the response to the air alarm signal must be adequate and it is necessary to understand who is on what, on

whose side, therefore, it is clear that the occupiers are in a hurry to report the information that is beneficial to them, our general staff will report the true information, and they say about 36 unknown drones, it happens that week that it was shot down by 31 planes from our aviation, there they have i'm not good at math, i'm afraid, their eyes are too big in their fear, mrs. natalya, about the airfield . information from

about the belbek airfield, that they paint there, they paint beautifully, they paint airplanes, well, i understand, well, there is a certain question about the fact that on the one hand there are no painted shells, they are guarding, there are painted migs, what is going on there, mrs. natalya, well first of all, this is really a military airfield, so it is not surprising that an infrastructurally determined military base turns into an even more military base, in the sense of the russians, it is clear that they are maneuvering forces and means, and the placement of such powerful ones is absolutely justified, let me remind you, that sevastopol is slowly saying goodbye to the black sea fleet, it is moving from there, but not all the logistics that the fleet needs very much can be moved. it is obvious that she needs protection and the russians are trying to provide it. and this drawing of planes, well, it really works, well , everything works in them, the leader said, there must be...

correspondence, and correspondence can.