that the ukrainian authorities in unison declare a clear position, which will be based on the provisions of the constitution of ukraine. well, the kyiv international institute of sociology conducted a survey and research, and 81% of the surveyed citizens of ukraine supported the fact that elections should not be held during martial law, the actions of martial law, this is vivid, it very well illustrates the attitude of society, because we will understand that they... will not be able to vote, many people have now gone abroad, where are they, well, that is, many people who died, but they are not recorded, that they died, maybe they are on the electoral lists, there is no fact of death, we know that there are hundreds and thousands of people in mariupol who are not registered anywhere, that they died, or went missing, or were kidnapped to russia, well, that is it some kind of terra incognita, white spots regarding the voter register, it will have to be redone in any case, this voter register, in order for it to be verified and

admitted to the work of the central election commission, please, really, i need the state voter register reminds today a patient who is lying unconscious in the intensive care unit, and when someone says that it is enough to adopt a small law or a short government regulation and everything will work, it reminds me of the case of such a patient who is lying there without signs of breathing and so on in the intensive care unit. they want to apply a homeopathic pill to him, it doesn't work like that, the voter register will have to be resuscitated, and resuscitated with a very serious legislative approach, i think, a large-scale update of the data of this state voter register, because today we do not know where the ukrainian voters are, the cec itself will not know where to produce it, for which precincts to produce ballots, and in general, whether the voters were left alone.

precincts, this is also a big question, so i think that here we still have a very large-scale work to do after the end of martial law, i hope after the victory of ukraine, but this does not mean that as soon as the martial law ends, the election process immediately begins, no , it would be so wrong to think, i think, that the parliament should pass some kind of transitional law and provide for certain transitional periods in order to prepare for the elections. therefore, before the elections, because it does not happen all at once and not as quickly as we would like, you know, we already have the experience of dissolving the verkhovna rada, everyone called it, conscious people, an anti-constitutional action, but there was, there was such an argument then in well, president zelenskyi in particular, that the people want so, that's how we dissolve the council of the eighth convocation and announce early elections of the council of the ninth convocation, and it worked, well, we

remember this whole history, that's why there are fears, that certain people will want to do the same with presidential elections, because there is the will of the people, well, there are many circumstances that can be named, in your opinion, when, there is still some time, again, i am not saying that this is what president zelensky wants, but certain people who would like to hold elections and actually legitimize power for another five years, there for reconstruction, for war, what else will happen there, and what is the time for this, and again there are fears and well, this is more a question of the military - political, but still the impression that something can be achieved a conditional truce, in order to hold elections and then there will be uncertainty again, because what's next, well , it's hardly possible to hope for some kind of agreements and acceptable steps from the enemy? it is quite obvious to me that firstly, it cannot be done during martial law, and secondly, it is impossible to do immediately after the end of martial law, i think that according to the most optimistic forecasts, we can

talk about a period of six months, if no more, after the end of martial law, when it will really be possible to organize an election process, but for this i want to emphasize once again that for this, it will be necessary to do a lot of painstaking work on the part of the central government and the government and other related ministries and agencies, in order for the elections to be held in our country at a good quality level, and to hold elections anyway, and even more so during martial law. to call it their election does not mean that it will be an election in substance, and there is a huge danger, the danger is that many countries in asia, africa, latin america, which some call or countries young democracies, or countries that are somewhere on the border with totalitarianism, these same states will say, you are the countries of the western world, you oblige us to hold elections according to certain principles, and you allow ukraine to hold elections not according to the principle. that is, you forbid us to pick

our noses, and frankly speaking, i am not sure that after holding such elections in ukraine, we will continue to have them. in the general assembly of the united nations, 140 votes of un members supported independence and territorial integrity of ukraine. unfortunately, we may come to a situation where the ukrainian government is not recognized by the international community, or a huge part of it, and plus i think this is a serious argument, we also need to think about it, plus very briefly, but i would also like to say, well, of course we it doesn't matter what russia thinks about us, they even now call the ukrainian government the kyiv regime, but then they will have many arguments to use the same name. they will be allowed to go to other european institutions or wherever and say: look, they did not vote, they did not vote, it is not known how they counted the voters no, this is the prerogative of power, it is not clear who, the seizure of power, and that is, well, russia still influences someone, no matter how much we want it, but they still try to convey their voice to

the world, and sometimes they are even heard, so this too, i think, please, if possible , briefly respond to, yes, i absolutely agree with you, it is absolutely unimportant to us what russia thinks about it, she is in any case, whether there will be elections. or not, will consider that the kyiv junta or the kyiv government exists here, it will not recognize the government of ukraine, but what the international community will think about ukraine is more important to us, so we need to think ahead. thank you very much, mr. andriy, andriy magera was in touch with us, an expert on constitutional law, the center of political and legal reforms, we talked about early elections, well, not early, but there, those elections that should be held next, but well even next year, or when , but i hope they will not take place in violation of the constitution, let's put it this way, thank you very much, mr. andrii and i wish you a good evening, and now i will invite you to a conversation serhiy zgurets, let's talk about the situation at the front and around the front, serhiy zgurets, director of the defense agency, host of the military summaries of the day column. sergey, congratulations. i congratulate

you, vasyl, i congratulate our viewers. i will ask this question, yesterday i saw such an interesting nougat, based on the ukrainian buk anti-missile defense system, some designed designed thing that will not launch missiles for the buk, because we have few of them in ukraine, as i understand it, and foreign missiles that it is such, who designed it, how effective it can be in first of all, we will fight against enemy aircraft and enemy missiles, well, it must be effective, because this is one of the three projects that the ukrainian side and the american side are implementing in this direction , that is, hybrid systems that combine something with nato, something from the soviet, when, when we talk about the beechs, it is really planned to put c7 sparrow missiles on them, which have a range in the launch version, air-to-ground up to 20 km, and these missiles, which

were previously aviation missiles, will to be used from ukrainian buk systems, the new york times wrote that five launchers have already been modified there, and another 17 will be in line by the end of the year, out of a total of 60 buk systems, so in fact this indicates that the americans and ukrainians are now looking for such the optimal solution to strengthen our defense by using missiles, of which there are many. so, this is what concerns air defense systems, later in our column we will talk about what is happening on the front line through the eyes of our soldiers, and about avdiivka and about bakhmut, as well as about what now they actually do. e ukrainian private military companies, specifically ukrainian pmcs, because it turns out that there are such, more on that in a moment. now is such a time on the front that the enemy in

some areas is trying to take the initiative to his advantage and does not count on losses. this applies primarily to the kupinsky, and especially the avdiivskyi direction. where the enemy has intensified offensive operations since the beginning of the month, since october 10 the occupiers have lost almost 6,500 personnel and hundreds of armored vehicles, dozens of artillery because, in general, in the avdiiv direction , the enemy has now concentrated, as spokesmen of the armed forces of ukraine said, a group of up to 40,000 personnel. after significant losses, based on previous results. assaults, the enemy is now regrouping, raising technical personnel, and without a doubt, a new wave of these enemy assaults is expected in the coming days. the enemy is trying to surround our forces in avdiivka and cut off the logistical supply routes to

our garrison and the city. for this, attacks are carried out from the north, from krasnogohorivka in the direction of the steppe and in combination with attacks on avda. koksokhim from the south to the north. important logistical routes are, in particular, the route through orlivka, to it both from the north and from the steppe. about one. and this is such a dangerous vice, although there are other roads, not asphalt, but dirt. for the enemy, control over avdiivka is, in addition to a political gift for putin, which the military leadership of the aggressor so longs for, also has an essential military significance, because avdiivka is the gateway to occupied donetsk, which, despite the current situation, is still so logistically and military. a center for the enemy, from avdiyivka the movement to sloviansk-kramatorsk is opened, and therefore the enemy is now

in a hurry to ignore any losses, believing that the political and military gains from the capture of avdiyvka are worth any price. however, these plans of the enemy must be destroyed by the stability of our defense and the ability of the general staff to ensure the optimal use of both reserves and means of destruction in this area, because in the offensive it shows a much greater vulnerability than in the defense, which is precisely what the statistics of enemy losses demonstrate. now our defense forces continue, offensive actions taking into account the peculiarities of certain areas of the front and the situation just around avdiivka somewhat resembles a bahmud, which closes the enemy's advance and on slavyansk to kramatorsk, which caused the destruction of wagner's corps and thousands of other regular

russian troops , and the commander of the ground forces, oleksandr syrskyy , reported today that in the bakhmut district, the enemy has substantially strengthened its group and switched from defense to active actions. what exactly is happening there, we will now discuss with ours the next guest, we are joined by dmytro kuharchuk, the commander of the second assault battalion... of the third separate assault brigade of the armed forces of ukraine, mr. dmytro, i congratulate you, i am glad to see and hear you, i cannot hear you, now we are establishing a connection, and i will remind you, that oleksandr syrskyi reported today that the russians are trying to stop the advance of ukrainian troops and restore the lost position, they are now using amphibious units and storm groups from the stormz detachment and the enemy is supported by dense artillery fire and mortars, and

this is what is happening near bakhmut, we will talk with our guest, dmytro kukharchuk, the commander of the second assault battalion of the third separate assault brigade, joins us. mr. dmitry, i congratulate you, i am glad to see and hear you. congratulations, mutual. i would like to ask you what is happening right now in the area of ​​responsibility of your brigade, because on the one hand, the institute for the study of war says that there is an advance there from andriivka and beyond the railway, and commander syrskyi says that now the enemy is trying activates counter-attacking actions and again uses reserves to restore the lost position, what exactly is happening? well, in fact , both the institute for the study of war and commander syrsky are right, that is , progress is taking place at a slow pace, but it is still happening, meanwhile the enemy is superior. is trying to carry out counterattack actions, concentrates here a large, large number of personnel

, namely the landing forces, and you and i understand that the landing forces, their main task is exactly counterattack actions, that is why here this direction, as it was in principle the entire previous period of time, currently remains one of the most difficult, and the question is that we do not want, you know, to become defensive, yes, but i do not see the point in this. because i understand, for example, that success is possible only in the offensive, that is, there is no desire to give them some initiative, but on the other hand, there is an understanding that they are really trying to carry out counter-attacking actions here, so we are not losing territory here, we are moving forward, but together however, the number of enemy forces in this direction grows significantly, and those active actions that they try to carry out precisely in the counterattack, they also grow.

mr. dmitry, i listened in detail to the interview of your commander, andriy beletsy, who says that there are things where the enemy is now trying to have a certain, let's say, advantage over the battlefield, in particular, it is with the use of unmanned systems and fpv drones , what is happening right now, what are the countermeasures , how does it affect, well, the overall picture of the battle, well , look, let's talk, if we talk about this situation comprehensively, then, unfortunately, whether by luck or luck, although it is probably better to simply state here, we have the features of the first world war, the second world war and the war of the future, what we lack is precisely... the war of modernity is not enough here, but the question is really not in this, we are fighting trench warfare, but meanwhile, in fact, the russian-ukrainian war is being watched by the whole world today, and today, i think that no one has achieved such technological progress as both sides of the russian-ukrainian war, and the use of drones , it really is

became essential, and without the use of drones, this war cannot be imagined, as from our side. both for surveillance of strike drones as well as from the enemy, who uses and continues to use both tactical drones and drones of operational importance, garlans, ailerons, halls, supercams, fpv, drones, the only methods of combating them are anti-drone own rifles and reb means, which , well, both on the one hand and on the other hand, are being developed... well, both strike and observation drones, as well as anti-drone means. and, well, it, it complicates the process of fighting, actually, because both we and them, it is simply much more difficult to get to the battlefield itself, and to fight in the same way, because , if earlier it was only in the vast majority of artillery, today drones

are sometimes perceived by us and them as much more dangerous than artillery, although so far - it does not operate on such an industrial scale, but i have an assumption, given the way it is developing, that it will continue to operate, in general, on a gigantic scale. mr. dmytro, i see that we are slowly developing new tactics with using fpv drones, i saw that there are actually situations when our drones with fpv drones provide, relatively speaking, close interaction with assault infantry and actually destroy the enemy. drones and then assault infantry advance. how difficult is it to ensure such a clear interaction between drones and attack aircraft? well, look, interaction, i won’t tell you much about tactics, because i don’t want to reveal my tactics to the enemy, interaction, it’s the same as in this situation, in this example that you gave, so in principle, in general, it depends

solely on the extent to which the personnel carries out combat coordination, tries to learn military science, this applies not only to soldiers, it also applies to non-commissioned officers, officers, senior officers, since combat coordination must be at all levels, and on at all levels, starting with an ordinary soldier, commander, company platoon section, battalion, brigade and so on, there should be full understanding along this vertical and full feedback, from the bottom up, from the top down, in this case it is all possible, it all works in in this case, i can say for my brigade, it works great for us, the problem is that the means are sometimes not enough, yes, well, that is another issue, but we are working on it and trying, understanding that in a war with such a giant

as erefia will not be able to win just like that, we are trying to develop both technologically and by inventing various tactical elements , showing the flexibility of our own mind, because here without the wildebeest, without the flexibility of the mind, and using only the statute, we will win, we will win, it is almost unreal. sir dmytro, but in addition to coordination, the training of personnel is also of great importance in the third assault brigade, well, it demonstrates such unique examples when it simultaneously conducts combat operations and carries out training, there is a new addition that flows into the third assault brigade. how this process is carried out, it was possible to combine these things in combat operations and the formation of a new personnel reserve , exclusively by means of one's own initiative, since we understand that people are not eternal, and we understand, yes, that the way mobilization takes place how many questions there really are to tsk, to, well, you yourself understand, the large

number of corruption scandals that arose around this, and you understand that today, er, to my great conviction, the mobilization is taking place in an absolutely wrong way, you have to take everything into your own hands, in we employ both recruiting centers and training centers, and we don’t just let people go into battle, you know, i won’t give examples, well, i can give them in russian, yes, and meanwhile, we understand that each of our a person has a great value, in principle, every human life has a great value value, well, we value our people more than anything, above all, and we understand that it is just like that to release a person without equipping him with the necessary skills, without conducting basic military training, training. at the level of a company platoon detachment, not about not coordinating, not coordinating with equipment , coordinating between units, for example,

between tank units, artillery units, then there is no sense in this sense, in such a case there is no sense in fighting, because war, it well, the nature of war is always changes, we all understand this, and we need to improve our skills all the time, because we , well, you know, the war that was a year ago and the war that is today are two completely different wars, this must be understood, and i hope, yes, that everyone will hear me, and that everyone, all people at all levels, at all links and at all levels, will understand this and show the flexibility of their own minds and try to develop. mr. dmitry, i hope you heard us, thank you very much for your inclusion, for your professional comments, for what you and your colleagues are doing for our state, to our viewers. let me remind you that at filklen espresso there was dmytro kuharchuk, the commander of the second assault battalion of the third separate assault brigade, which is currently fighting near bakhmut, and then about the potential and capabilities

of private military companies, whether they exist in ukraine, yes, whether anything has changed at the beginning of the large-scale invasion opponent regarding the use of the potential of these companies, well, it has certainly changed, but very little, and this topic... i want to discuss in more detail with our next guest, andriy kepkalo is joining us, he is the founder and head of the private military company omega consulting group, mr. andriy, i greet you, i greet you, good evening, good evening , nice to see you, thank you for the invitation, i haven't seen you in years, yes, yes, but considering your position, i wanted you to tell , how the potential of private companies is currently being used in ukraine. military companies, specifically on the example of omega consulting group, because i know that there are both dark and bright sides, what exactly is happening, how is it now from the point of view

of interaction with our power structures? with force structures, there is interaction, but we currently conduct only military training for units on voluntary outposts, so to speak, but we do not currently have any other cooperation with the armed forces of ukraine. then let me remind you of one fact that you yourself made public about the fact that sometime in july-august of this year , the company omega consulting group had approximately 20,000 trained foreign volunteers and you offered them to some security forces of ukraine. reinforce our military group with your volunteers, what was it about, how did this story end?

this story ended with the fact that, firstly, we were refused, and secondly, let's put it this way, we were not directly, but slightly hinted at article 111 of the criminal code of ukraine, this is somehow treason, i hoped that there would be at least 200, or the 260th, but they hinted at 111 treason, and before that , i would like to note that there are a lot of people, they, and they call themselves military experts, they say that private military companies are prohibited in ukraine, how many times have i tried to ask people, even representatives of the ministry of defense of ukraine, i tried to ask people what law prohibits private military companies in our country, no one can answer me, and in this regard i

would also like to say that such a question is very urgent today we have, or ukraine is using, all the tools that it has today to stop... in some way an armed attack by the russian federation on our country, and to that, no one ever says no, what no one ever mentions is the law of ukraine about ensuring the participation of civilians in the defense of ukraine, because when they tell me that private military companies are prohibited in our country, due to the fact that we do not have them, i have a very big question about which law, but there is a parallel law. exactly, as i said, about ensuring the participation of civilians in the defense of ukraine. i would like to read to you article number one of this law: during

martial law, citizens. of ukraine, as well as foreigners and stateless persons who are legally present in the territory of ukraine, hereinafter civilians, civilians, i emphasize, can participate in repelling and deterring armed aggression of the russian federation and/or other states, including receiving firearms and ammunition for them, in accordance with the procedure and requirements established by the ministry of internal affairs of ukraine, article... i second, i won't take too much time, the use by civilians of firearms obtained in accordance with this law is carried out similarly to the use of weapons by military personnel, under the time of their execution of the tasks of cutting off the armed federation and so on and so forth, i have a question, why, if there is such a law, now i will tell you the date, march 3, 22,

why... we can't use, all the tools , which we have today, in order to stop the armed aggression of the russian federation against ukraine. i have a question for military experts who say that the military, private military companies, they are prohibited and we cannot use them. i have the same question for the military community experts mr. andriy, what does your experience show, because i know that you... worked there in a private company for the americans in iraq, yes, that is, you have substantial experience in communicating with other private companies, what would it give now for ukraine at the current stage in comparison with the existing structure of security and defense forces there? you know, one of the advantages that we could have, firstly, for example, i 'll give you the first example, is the increase of... our

military group, for example, in some specific direction, you see, i i have already told our representatives in the media and abroad several times that the military aid that is coming to ukraine today, it is possible and will come, maybe in connection with the conflict between israel and palestine, it will somehow decrease, and , if not, i am not mistaken, it has already decreased a little, but we will never be able to ask our foreign partners to help us with human resources, that is, equipment and weapons, it will come, but no one will ever give us people , we must rely only on our own

personal human resources, and when i came and said that i have 20. volunteers , it is written in the law of ukraine that they can be foreigners, if they have firearms on legal grounds, i did not understand a little why they told me that i am a traitor, and i went to other structures, and i was also told in other structures that i am a traitor, and our company is traitors and we were refused cooperation, since 2014 we have been trying to work with the ministry of defense of ukraine, with other military structures of ukraine, but to this day, we always have some problems, because our cooperation, it is not regulated by anything, and for this there is no need to look for some, i don't know, some laws to adopt, as we wanted 305, on military

consulting, there is no need, it is simply necessary... to give the limited liability company powers and control these powers, i have already said more than once that there are no private military companies in the world, in the whole world , deyure, de facto, maybe they are, but there are none, it is always llc, limited liability company, as it is in the americans, for example, in the british, in other countries, but there are no private military companies in any country in the world, and we have grasped this whole abbreviation and we want to adopt some laws, they will never be adopted, we it is necessary to act now, and not wait for the adoption of some laws. mr. andriy, i think we will return to this topic again, because it looks, well, relevant and resonant, thank you for the first inclusion, and i will remind our viewers that it was andriy kipkalo, the founder and

head of the private... omega company consulting group.