under ukrainian control, the so-called boyka towers in the black sea. every day and around the clock , the russians shell kherson and its surroundings. in the afternoon, they hit the shipping area, two townspeople were injured. a woman with explosive injuries and injuries was taken to the hospital, but a 68-year-old man died. despite such risks, life in the city continues and even those who previously moved away from danger are returning. from my colleagues from the tv studio of the ministry of defense. both khersomshchyna and the regional center itself continue to be in the zone of increased fire activity by the russians, but thanks to successes of the armed forces of ukraine, the nature of the shelling has changed. about 500 shells a day arrive in the kherson region, and of them, probably 20 percent are somewhere in kherson, now rocket attacks are more frequent than mortar attacks, because the enemy is pushed back a little further, and therefore he does not reach the city with mortars, but grad,

russian air force, there are various different types of tanks, anti-aircraft missiles, all of this continues to fly to kherson, arriving at civilian objects. despite the constant danger, people continue to return to the city, and kherson itself eliminates the consequences of enemy strikes, where possible, quickly. people still return, miss home. kherson continues to recover, voters work quickly, the city council reacts, the armed forces also provide a decent response. in return. residents are strongly advised to change their place of residence, primarily in coastal areas. evacuation takes place from the districts of fontonivka, from the micro-run of ostriv, i.e. from those districts that still remain very dangerous, evacuation takes place there, first of all, they are concerned with evacuation families with children, disabled people, similar privileged categories of people there. in some places, the townspeople get used to shelling and neglect safety rules. therefore, the servicemen urge,

when the air alarm signals are announced, to go to the shelter, or to observe other appropriate measures. of course, donbas remains the hottest part of the front. the russians continue offensive actions simultaneously in several eastern directions. to the north and south of bakhmut, enemy troops are trying to seize the initiative by conducting counterattacks, increased the use of kamikaze drones. our defenders destroy all plans and attempts of the enemy to seize our land. my colleague soldier ruslan smishchuk will tell how and under what conditions soldiers have to fight in the bahamian direction. his exclusive report on the work of sappers follows. these are us now in the seperk trenches, climbing, which we understood, a week ago,

a little less, these are military sappers, they usually work either in such places, or in the interpositional space, that is, in the middle between our trenches and the russian ones, this territory densely mined, there are anti-personnel and anti-tank mines and stretchers at every step, it is difficult to set up, it is always scary , that is, there is a fear that must be overcome and having neutralized the enemy's traps, the ukrainian sappers cover the assaulting units on the front line, they already set their anti-tank mines so that in the event of an attempt regain their position, the russians were in for a fiery surprise. she develops technique, she develops heavy technique, and just like that , everyone inside can be contused, 10 kg in the beginning, but she is effective. working in shifts on the front line sappers are a priority target for the russians, they are forced...

to be in the open area for quite a long time, and this increases the chances of being exposed, in case they are noticed, there must be enemy artillery all around, so ukrainian sappers on the battlefield are often real ninjas, invisible and deadly, they also watch with drones and also start to open fire a little so that we stick out less, choose moments and move forward, work, quickly go back to the... position, it is more difficult to get there when they fire or something. russians they diligently mine everything they can, say the military, especially a lot of stretches in places where battles took place and positions changed hands several times. we see that it is tied to a tree, the other end we see, muff, that there is some kind, that is, we pass, we will take it off. as we said.

there can be, always, there can be danger, that is, this mine, it can also be mined, there can be a trap mine, a surprise mine under it, military personnel say, such a trap on a small area of ​​​​the territory can be a few, in addition, the enemy remotely mines the roads that are controlled by the defense forces, they lower it onto the road, and if the car has driven there many times and everyone knows that the road is not mined, then if, then i use drones, they mine remotely, like this in this way, it is especially difficult to work during assaults and in repulsed positions ... when almost everything is under fire from the enemy, then special demining installations are used, make a road, detonate, demine the field, then the infantry can pass, but these men are not only brave, but even very much

resourceful and with a sense of humor, otherwise they say no way, one of such interesting creative moments is in the kharkiv direction, when we had to put a very large number of tems, then in order to put them, we just used bicycles. they loaded 10-12 tamakas on them and carried, big, two soldiers and , as they say, such a small herd, the sappers left and in just a few days they managed to mine, i leave with one thought that we need to get in touch, let's say so, and ruslan is waiting for me at home, from the eastern front smyshchuk, vadym raun and vitaly bilskyi, details, inter tv channel, single news marathon. ukraine produces. analogues of iranian shaheds per month, the minister of strategic industries oleksandr kamyshin announced. however, he refused to announce the name of the uav for reasons of security and the secrecy of the developments, according to him, the ukrainian defense industry started serial

production of kamikaze drones, thanks to the integration of private business with ukroboronprom, in the framework of which the state supports private manufacturers. ukrainian defense forces are looking for new means to combat enemy drones on the front lines, for these tasks the border guards received uav drone hunter, the main task of which is to catch russian reconnaissance drones zala orlan and others. this drone tracks and at the right moment fires a net to capture an enemy bird, and the intercepted drone delivers it to the operator, or simply drops it to the ground on a parachute. the border guards will talk about the technical advantages in person. now we are undergoing training to study, base, such

drone hunter, which will be used in the future on the border in the fight against russian drones, such as arlan, hall, such as the shaheds who carry this combat unit, we are taking courses on studying the software of this system, as well as its correctness and efficiency use, its main task, it fixes on its radar the targets that we track, find the target that is necessary, that is necessary for impressions. and in automatic mode, this drone rises into the sky, occupies its zone, which it protects, and carries out the protection of this zone with the help of nets, which he drops on this

drone, these nets block the working element of the enemy copter, namely the screws. uh, if they block, they don’t, of course, don’t spin, and at that moment he falls, also through nets, there may be parachutes, during which this parachute works, stops the enemy target and descends into a safe zone, the border villages of the sumy oblast suffer from constant shelling by the russians, people there have already adapted to such realities in life, although most have left. and not all, there are families with children who continue to live under shelling, who helps them and why they refuse to evacuate, further in the story. the police car is heading to the border, after the announcement of voluntary evacuation from the five-kilometer zone, the villages here were emptied.

who went to visit relatives, who went where? there are already three kilometers to the border. the first explosions were heard in the krasnopil community on the morning of february 2, 4, columns of racist equipment immediately moved, and after the deoccupation, the shelling of krasnopil region did not stop. however , not many residents left the village of mezanivka, even children. there are almost fifty left, good day, good day, what kind of children are these here, and what are your names? bohdan is five years old, elda is three, and the youngest danylov is only two, this large family, despite the danger, does not plan to leave the house, where they leave for us, the child an orphan, we have nowhere to go, i don't have anyone like that at all, children hide during explosions, we are shelled. they happen differently, of course, we hide in the cellar, we have a cellar for stoves installed on it, there are online

lessons for kindergarten children, policemen bring humanitarian aid and every time they start a conversation about evacuation. food, hygiene products, clothes, toys were handed over, and a preventive conversation was held with the families about moving to safer areas of the sumy region. for the humanitarian aid, thank you very much, at the moment it is very, very, very much needed. there are seven children in the panomarenko family. the two older ones are studying in sumy, they drive as much as possible, well, they drive, if this one, five with me, study online, we hide, he is a crypt, all the neighbors, we get together and we are there, this family seems to have been convinced to evacuate, they are leaving, and we are planning, well, simple. they are used to it here, i think, maybe when something settles down

, everything will be fine, but as long as russia throws shells at the border, it won't be fine, that's why the juvenile police and social workers are persuading parents to save their lives and their children. yuliya zaitseva, oleksandrun, interdetails, single news marathon. it took a year for power engineers to restore electricity in the largest suburb of kharkiv in the village of ruska lozova. settlement located 20 km from the border with russia. it was under russian occupation for three months, and then under constant enemy fire. now almost every house there is shelled and without electricity, locals say, it will be much easier for them to survive all the hardships of the war. neither the clatter of equipment, nor other loud sounds. the residents of this street are not annoyed, the energy workers were eagerly awaited here,

pensioner halyna similyuk can't even hold back tears. i am so grateful to people that they are doing it, i was waiting, watching, i went there the car, there, i stand by the window, i look and cry, when we will have light, i so want to take a shower, or in a basin, and turn on the tv. mrs. halyna lives almost in the russian vineyard. years old, she came here from the krasnodar region, but she calls herself ukrainian, she couldn’t even believe that russia attacked ukraine at first, they said that it was war, war, war, they said that it was war, war, and then, as soon as daylight there was no, and then on the third day they started boo-boo-boo, then we realized that it was not a joke, it was a war. months of occupation, the inhabitants of the village became hostages of russian soldiers, they don't even want to mention, they survived as best they could. under continuous shelling, what else did we have, what else did we have, we kept the economy and

before that we prepared, salted in jars, we had nutria, we had broilers before the war , and these supplies helped us. now the village is gradually being restored, after the russian invasion, more and more residents are returning to their homes. he even returns to the ruins and they say that it is easier for us here, because we are returning to our homes, even if they are destroyed we return roughly a quarter of the houses in the village became ruins after the rashist shelling, the rest were more or less damaged. those houses that have minor or moderate damage, they are restored, thanks to the work of the state program , people receive funds, thanks to the programs adopted by our dergachyv city council, funds are allocated and construction materials are purchased. with the return of electricity, reconstruction will move even faster - residents are sure. the first

street of the village was restored back in november on the 22nd. but it took a year to fully connect ruska lozova, because after the occupation there was nothing left of the network here. everything was broken, everything was gutted, supports were broken, wires were broken, electrical transmissions, er, everything was, er, mined, it was very, very damaged. in order to restore the electricity supply, the network had to be actually rebuilt, together with the transformer substations. for replacement. fully electric wires were replaced with insulated ones, about 700 low-voltage supports were also replaced with 10 high-voltage supports sq. in kharkiv oblast , 71 settlements are still without electricity, and almost half of them are in the so-called red zone, at a distance of 5 km

from the russian border. the enemy fires at this area almost every day. natalia didenko, svitlana dashkevich, vyacheslav dushka. details tv channel inter, marathon only news. the war in ukraine forced the european union to review the priorities of its defense capabilities. these days, eu defense ministers approved a review of the priorities for the development of defense capabilities to reflect the need for greater the number of conventional defenses and the tactics of combating drones. all this is based on a review and study of the experience of the ukrainian armed forces on the battlefield - reported by a pan-european news website specializing in eu politics. germany is preparing a new batch of military equipment for ukraine. in particular, it is known about the supply of leopard-1 tanks, according to the contract that the german company rein metal concluded with

the ukrainian government, the concern undertook to carry out repairs and modernization. 25 leopards, five armored repair and evacuation cars, as well as two training tanks. the delivery of the equipment is planned for next year, the order will be financed by the german government. it is also known that by the end of this year, official berlin will hand over two more airist air defense systems to ukraine, all in order to strengthen the protection of ukrainian cities and energy infrastructure from russian missiles. in general, germany is constantly increasing its military aid to ukraine. for example, german deputies plan to include additional funds in next year's budget. they will go in support of our army. tatyana logonova will tell in more detail. twice as much, not four, but 8 billion. the german coalition of governments

decided to allocate additional funds for military support of ukraine. the decision has already been agreed upon by the representatives of all the ruling parties, the remaining formality remains, it must be approved by the budget committee of the bundestag. this is expected to happen on thursday. german journalists were the first to report plans to double aid. subsequently, the information was confirmed personally by the minister of defense of the country, boris pistorius, in an interview with the german channel. it was his department that requested additional money from the government. this is a reaction to last year's experience. that the pledged funds were exhausted very quickly and we do not want to be in a situation where we have to ask the government for money again next year, at the same time, this is an important signal for ukraine, which continues its struggle, especially now, when the attention of part of the world is drawn to the events in in the middle east, this is a kind of message to ukrainians, we will not leave it without support,

germany is the main donor of military aid to ukraine in europe. in the world only the united states helps the scale more. according to the calculations of german experts, after the start of a full-scale war, kyiv received military aid in the amount of 17 billion euros from berlin. the germans provided leopard battle tanks of the first and second modifications, anti-aircraft missile complexes, state-of-the-art airist air defense systems, marder infantry fighting vehicles and cheetah anti-aircraft guns. kans constantly promises to help as much as necessary. the forced change of borders should no longer be a part of the european reality, its own aggression against ukraine, the russian leader decided to change this agreement, he started a war against another country to try to make its territory russian, we cannot allow this and we will support ukraine, putin must not win.

it is not yet known which weapons the planned billions will be used to purchase, but it can be predicted that they will focus on anti-aircraft and anti-missile defense systems. official kyiv also hopes to receive taurus long-range cruise missiles from the germans. however, chancellor scholz is still hesitant about them transfers tetyana logonovichlav frelov. details from the german bureau of the intermarathon tv channel only news. great britain will support and help ukraine as long as it is needed. it is about full and comprehensive support of kyiv in the fight against russian aggression. this was announced by the newly appointed minister of foreign affairs of the kingdom, david cameron. he made his first visit to ukraine in his new position. i met here with volodymyr zelsky, premier. minister denys shmigal and head of the ministry of foreign affairs dmytro kuleba. cameron too emphasized that if the kremlin hopes to wait for ukraine's support from the west and

thinks that the aid will stop, then this will not happen. being here in kyiv, i want to say that we will continue to support you morally, economically and diplomatically. but above all, what you need most is military support, which... you need not only this year and next year, but for as long as it takes. david cameron unexpectedly returned to the british government. on november 13 , it became known that he headed the ministry of foreign affairs. from 2010 to the 16th year, cameron was the prime minister of great britain. now one of the main tasks of the chief diplomat will be ukraine itself. so what to expect from the ex-prime minister who took britain out. from the european union, and what personnel changes are connected with - our british correspondent svitlana chernetska will tell. an absolute surprise. david cameron's return to

big politics surprised not only ordinary britons, but also mps. it is extremely rare when a former prime minister reappears in the government in a lower position. especially after seven years breaks david cameron, one of the most beloved british prime ministers. his prematurely after the brexit referendum, because he personally campaigned for britain to remain in the european union. it was cameron who was prime minister when russia invaded ukraine in 2014 and annexed crimea. he was one of the first to propose expelling russia from the g8 and preventing the world's richest countries from meeting. he also knows well what putin's assurances are worth. vladimir putin has said very clearly that he does not want a frozen conflict, he does not of a divided ukraine, but if that is the case, then russia must now take steps to fulfill everything

that was agreed: withdraw russian troops from ukraine, withdraw heavy weapons from ukraine and comply with all agreements, if this does not happen, then of course the european union , including britain, must maintain sanctions and pressure so that we do not have this kind of conflict on our continent. david cameron was a supporter of tougher sanctions against putin's henchmen and advocated the rapprochement of ukraine and the european union. he definitely has no political experience lend. he knows well how international relations work. on the international stage , we need a strong player, someone who will understand that we are in a state of cold war, that we are dangerously sliding towards a world war, frankly, because this one. in the middle east - this is another wake-up call on the international arena , which emphasizes that the west's ability to cope with all this is deteriorating, the very appointment

of an ex-prime minister is also not an easy task, unlike his successors, theresa may, and then boris johnson, cameron did not leave only the government, but also his parliamentary seat, and ministers can only be members of the parliament, the lower or upper house, so the ex-prime minister had to be made a lord urgently. the lifetime peerage was approved by his majesty the king, but even here everything is not simple, because traditionally ministers-lords have to report on their work to the house of lords, and this is not at all suitable for deputies from the house of commons. given the seriousness of the current international situation, it is particularly important that this house can effectively monitor the work of the foreign office, so i look forward to from the clerks of advice on possible options for strengthening the... on the work of the foreign office when a member of the other house takes over, i can assure the house of commons that i am fully aware of the need

for honorable members to be able to hold the government to account in this area, especially nowadays. lord cameron, as he will now be addressed, replaced as foreign secretary james cleverley, who now heads the home office , his predecessor... braverman and caused a major reshuffle in the government, because she called the metropolitan police biased against pro-palestinian protesters, saying that they organize hate marches, disregard the rules, and the police turn a blind eye to it. the release of braverman served as a reason to update the list of ministers in connection with the preparation for the general elections, which will take place next year. svitlana chernetska, yuriy romanyuk, details british bureau of inter tv channel, marathon one. he has been studying ukrainian politics for almost four decades and tells western students about ukraine, its history and struggle for its own

state. british... political scientist, senior researcher of the european council on international relations, professor of ukrainian studies, university college london, andrew wilson wrote the book: "ukrainians are an "unexpected nation". it already has five editions and does not lose the interest of readers. our correspondent in in london, olga zhydetska asked the author how the russian war changed and is changing europe, is the world tired of news about ukraine and what awaits us in the future? congratulations andrew, thank you give us some time, i want to talk to you about your book and about your research, that's right, i'm holding your book in my hands: ukrainians, history as a nation by essay, this already seems to be the fifth edition, and it was previously called ukrainians an unexpected nation. why do you consider ukrainians to be an unexpected nation? what will make your book interesting to a british, european or

american reader? my book is in english, it is for a western audience, the first edition sold very well, it came out in the 2000s, then many people were surprised, in particular, in ukraine itself, how quickly ukraine gained independence, although the following editions sold even better, especially after the orange revolution, another one after the maidan and this one, which was published that year, so we see an increase in interest not only in ukraine, but also in the voice of ukraine, that ukrainians themselves talk about their identity and their history, well, readers will be able to feel it through my understanding, the understanding of a briton. in your book, you described the various stages of the formation of the ukrainian nation, in your opinion, this process is now complete, what effect did the war have on him? yes, right now, what i tell my students, there is a great connection between the past and the present, you read.

in books that describe the processes of the 18th century, where historians and thinkers spread their ideas about the formation of a nation, and this process ends right before our eyes, and it is amazing, there is such a statement that they say putin created the ukrainian nation with his invasion, i think the meaning of it contribution is greatly exaggerated, because the war simply accelerated the process, which was already ongoing, why ukraine came to the stage where to which it is now up to 80-90% of the support of the government, the choice regarding foreign policy , which is the european identity, the level was high even before that, but there was not such a majority, because there was this sequence of powerful events after gaining independence, the war, the maidan and orange revolution, and war definitely completes the formation of a nation, what impact do you think russia's war against ukraine will have on the formation of other post-soviet nations, and

what impact will it have: on europe. first of all, i think we are seeing the end of the post-soviet era space, and peoples must decide whether to continue to exist together with russia, under the influence of the legacy of the ussr. ukraine is now dissociating itself from this quite quickly, as well as some other countries, because both the soft and hard power of russia are now greatly reduced, and we can already see that azerbaijan has taken advantage of this. after the war , ukraine will have the greatest influence in the western part of the post-soviet space. and it will be the most important player between the baltic sea and the black sea. i think we will see a change of regime in belarus, a probable reversal of policy in georgia, and moldova will be able to realize its european aspirations. the consequences for europe as a whole will also depend on how the war ends. ukraine may become part of the belt of heavily armed states, high military expenditures, large armies, as in poland, and the demands of european security policy

will be significant. as for ukraine and moldova, i think they will complete their path of joining the eu and nato, so we will see a completely different europe with completely different centers of political gravity, closer to the east. you have been studying mutual post-soviet republics for quite a long time time, do you think this war was inevitable? no, it wasn't, this war is putin's personal choice, which became possible thanks to the propaganda system that built it himself, especially after 2012, when he returned to the presidency in russia. the media coverage of the war that russians see on tv is an alternate reality, but in the sense of decision-making, responsibility, it's putin's decision, rooted in the past, it was a choice, but a strategically bad choice. when the invasion happened, we were all shocked for many reasons and one of them was it just doesn't make any sense. we can

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