it's 2 p.m. in ukraine and we bring to your attention a news release on the espresso tv channel in the studio of iryna koval. greetings to all viewers. four adults and one child were injured as a result of morning shelling in kherson. a three-year-old girl is in the hospital with neck and leg injuries, doctors assess her condition as average. women aged 47, 55 and 68 were also injured. they were hospitalized with shrapnel wounds. a 59-year-old man also suffered from shrapnel wounds, the head of the region oleksandr prokudin said. in the morning muscovites attacked dniprovskyi with artillery kherson district. damaged

high-rise buildings, i was lying down, i heard a boom, no balcony, no falcons, no one anywhere , a white-eyed woman was also under fire , an injured man went to the hospital on his own , the power went out in the village due to the impact, experts will start restoration, as soon as the security situation allows, year rages in odesa region, people are asked not to go out unnecessarily, more than 60 trees have been felled in the city, special equipment is working, there is currently no information about the victims, the city council notes. odesa was the most affected by the wind, izmailskyi and bilhorod-dnistrovskyi districts, in the morning, more than 18,000 houses in 47 settlements remain without electricity. energy workers are repairing high-voltage and transformer substations, dtk said. but due to difficult weather conditions...

new blackouts are possible in the region. i will remind you that yesterday the second level of danger was declared there due to strong storm winds. in kyiv, a man broke a window with a brick and broke into an administrative building. despite the fact that there were people in the room. the security guard tried to calm down the intruder, but he cut his hand. by a piece of glass, the metropolitan police reports. the offender was detained by law enforcement officers, he is a 39-year-old native of sumy oblast. he spent eight years of his life in prison because of a robbery attack, he faces up to five years of restriction of freedom. a minibus carrying ukrainians crashed in poland. two women and a child died in the accident. according to the local publication, the tragedy happened in the morning near the pit. in the lublin voivodeship. the bus

suddenly left the road and crashed into a tree. there were 10 passengers in the cabin, all from ukraine. doctors could not save two women and a six-year-old child, other victims were taken to the hospital. the causes of the fatal accident are still unknown. since november 6 , the poles have blocked the border with ukraine. as of this morning , about 2,900 trucks have accumulated at the three checkpoints of yagodin and rava ruska, the spokesman of the state border service of ukraine, andriy demchenko, said. my colleague natalka starepravo will tell what is currently happening on the ukrainian-polish border. traffic blocking for three trucks has been going on for the second week checkpoints. there were 1,100 trucks at the border crossing between dorogusk and yagodin. on grebene ravaruska - 500 and the most on korchova krykivets. 1200 trucks. mr. ivan,

the truck driver, finally found himself on the territory of ukraine on friday morning. he stayed on the polish border for five days. the man says: 30 trucks were passing through in an hour on sunday night. later, the polish police came and blocked the traffic, so only one truck was allowed through in one hour. it is good for some that we are not like that, our colleagues, others who are on other borders, there on berries, there, where else, there are guys standing in the field, there is no bathing, nothing to eat, we were here, there was a shower, let’s say, in the parking lot, you could make something to eat there, they brought food, well, the pole, mr. ivan admits, the ukrainian drivers tried to block the autobahn, although the polish law enforcement officers did not allow it, but they did not detain the military convoy, and after that they said that we would either go out on the terrace or drive along the road, well, what are

we we have the right to move on the autobahn, but they then they came, the police, there are guys in shields, there are guys who blocked it, then we will leave on the autobahn, this is one of the transporters from poland. and this is one of the carriers, i think this is a comrade, we all know, putin, yes, maybe a comrade of putin, and i think this is a paid promotion, because guys, for money , funds are there, they are not, it is not according to the idea, in contrast to other border crossing points, there is only one-sided traffic obstruction at kraków korchów, the polish transporter adam is also in the queue to leave ukraine, the man supplies humanitarian aid, in particular, in war zones. adam says frankly: the ukrainian government is to blame for the unprofitability of polish companies. polish carriers have been forced to compete with ukrainian drivers since the beginning of russia's full-scale war against ukraine.

all conditions of privilege have been created for you, for you ukrainians in poland, and you are not even a member of the european union. instead, ukrainians do not respond to us poles with mutual compliance. it looks like you're just drinking. block the border so you don't drink it all the way. because of the border blockade the carriers do not have time to deliver the products on time, the driver ivan assures, both individual enterprises and the entire ukrainian economy suffer losses, i have not yet delivered the goods, the tax must be paid for the employee , and the tax must be paid, everything must be paid for, and the funds are still in the account and there is no meanwhile, queues of downloads at the border are not decreasing. drivers choose alternative routes for themselves, as a result of which they form long queues in other directions as well, - says the spokeswoman of the lviv border detachment, oleksandra kuchkovska. the khyviny checkpoint operates normally, nothing prevents the movement

of trucks there, but precisely because of that, many drivers chose it in order to use it and cross the state border, and it was also formed there on the polish side. line, it is the largest, and as of today, it is 1,200 cargo vehicles. blockade participants have permission to picket until january 3, 2024. so, how long the border blockade will last and what consequences will burden ukraine, and its crisis period will show only time natalya stareprava, roman kovalyuk, espresso tv channel. the ministry of community development, territories and infrastructure reports that a headquarters has been created to help ukrainian drivers at the border. according to the agency, ukrainian drivers remain blocked at the border for 10 days. in the direction of yagodin, the queue stretched for more than 30 km, in

the direction of rava ruska - more than 10 km, in the direction of krakowiec - more than 16. the special headquarters will provide our people with food, drinking water, medicines and fuel. also, if necessary , the evacuation of drivers to ukraine will be facilitated. the armed forces of ukraine will try to cut off the logistical routes of the russian army. this is one of the main tasks of the ukrainian military in winter. this was reported by the spokesman of the ground forces command, volodymyr hityo. according to him, the ukrainian military will cause maximum damage to the occupiers, their supplies, so that they are hungry, cold, and have no desire to fight. now. ukrainian defenders successfully hunt artillery, infantry and enemy dugouts, so the enemy should expect surprises from the sky, fityo emphasized. i want to remind you about the fee

tv channel for the 27th separate rifle battalion, which destroys the russians in one of the eastern directions, for protection from enemy uavs, as well as for the continuous operation of starlink, timely charging of drones, tablets and other equipment, they need two portable anti-drone shields, two generators and two chargers. our goal is uah 5,000, thanks to you we have already collected more than 48,000. there is very little left, so remember that every donation is important, join our collection, you can see the details on the screen. we are military personnel the 27th separate rifle battalion, the 67th separate mechanized brigade , which carries out combat missions in the kupyansk-limansk direction, we need your help, in gathering two portable charging stations, two generators and anti-drone equipment, we will be grateful to everyone who will join this collection. glory to ukraine. well, that was the news at that

time, we will see you at 3:00 p.m., and then my colleagues lesya vakulyuk and andriy saichuk will continue the broadcast. dear friends, once again good day to you, once again we congratulate you. on the espresso tv channel, lesya vakulyuk, andriy saichuk, we will be working for you in this studio for the next three hours, er, we have a lot of interesting things for you, many interesting guests, with whom we will talk about what the whole of ukraine is talking about, not only ukraine, but also the world, to begin with, important information, information about our collection, which is ongoing, we are collecting for our scouts the 23rd separate rifle battalion of the armed forces of ukraine, which is currently in the hot donetsk direction, in the future, hunt for this one... with the qr codes you see in yours, but you definitely deduced that

it is necessary, i think that no, they were mistaken, a slightly different collection, sometimes not ours, sometimes ours, but from our colleagues, so for the 23rd separate rifle battalion of the armed forces of ukraine, we need to collect, collect 1900 hryvnias, throughout the entire ether you will see such a qr-code in the lower left corner, we collect drones for drones for scouts. this is a very, very important and necessary thing, because with the help of drones, they see where the enemy is and with the help of drones they sell their greetings to the enemy, unforgettable greetings, and i also remind you that you can youtube broadcast, find under, on the youtube channel of the tv channel, find our broadcast and under it there will be a description , and under the description all the necessary information will be indicated, according to which , using these details , it will actually be possible to transfer those funds that you do not mind in order to help our army, we will be grateful to you for this, and

our military will definitely be grateful for this, so please join the gathering, and now we are adding to our airwaves ivan stupak, a military expert and employee of the security service of ukraine in 2004-2015 . mr. ivan, welcome you yes, congratulations, congratulations studio, thank you very much for the invitation. mr. ivan, here is such interesting information from britain. british intelligence says that russia will return to service the soviet m55 aircraft in order to conduct reconnaissance over ukraine, how many such aircraft russia has and in what condition they are, and how well they actually conduct this reconnaissance. you caught me, i'll be honest, i'm not familiar with this type of aircraft, i'm not an aviation expert. industry, but if we take this question conceptually, we see that the russians

new models of equipment are needed, there are not enough new ones, more aviation is needed, and they find here some old soviet ones, maybe they were training planes, maybe they are somewhere in conservation, they are pulled again, and as an option, they will either train pilots who are now higher russian ones are released, because the pilots are also dying very actively, or they will be used already for purposes, well , we have to look not directly at the combat. let's talk a little about the fact that today this week, or rather the economist came out under the headline and the cover is dedicated to the danger that donald trump will be elected in the united states, this is such a telling cover, if we can show it, there is such a shadow in the form of trump's face falling on... the globe, and they think that the british, one of the most original publications in the world, in fact,

that the election of trump will be a real disaster for the western world , and this is the biggest threat, and now we are showing mike johnson, the new, actually, the speaker of the lower house of the us congress, there was an interesting information in newsweek that when mike johnson was elected, maybe sorry about that, too, what it turns out that he, his campaign was largely... financed, actually the election campaign was financed by a company registered in texas, supposedly for an american citizen, however, as it turned out , the actual owners of this company are three russians, including such an oligarch nikolaev is close to putin , to a close circle, and one of those who was already involved in the scandal with the financing of the spy butina, maybe you remember who maria butina is, this is the story, uh, they are trying to put everything in a pile, we know that johnson is one of

the biggest trumpists, and this whole strange story , how he now came to power in the congress itself, uh, does the american all-powerful counterintelligence and intelligence miss such things that the russians just press some necessary buttons under their noses and you, for some necessary pulling strings to be loyal or necessary, i am not accusing mike johnson of working for the russian federation now, but ca n't we see here a definite hand of moscow choosing who to bring. to the authorities in the united states, well, come on, well, okay moscow is moscow, but there is no need to make it into some kind of big demon , that they influence everything, that's all, that's just where they are out of touch, they all lead, manage, no, well, in reality, that doesn't happen either, maybe as an option , that this company was one of the sponsors, yes, there is this politician, or there is his political village, forces,

as they are called, maga, yes, america great again, these are the trumpists. maybe there is one of ten or hundreds of companies, maybe there was more funding, less, but also sponsors along with other companies, i am sure that the american counterintelligence is there, it works on this topic, it will check all this , there is an american politician, there is a mass media, which, you see, paid attention to it, and there will be certain there, well, not that showdowns, but they will check, i think if there will be some grounds for not knowing, or criminal prosecution. they will start, that is, it all works in america , but we must give credit, no matter how much we would like everything to be in the same hands there, yes, for biden to gain, for example, i know there is the senate, he said, there are urgently 40 billion hryvnias for ukraine, and everyone voted there, dollars, sorry, everyone voted, there is democracy, and unfortunately, on the one hand, it takes a long time to make

a decision there, and on the other hand, publicity, democracy, and we have to learn a lot from this, i think they will deal with it there themselves, nevertheless, the election of trump is a real danger, obviously, and how should we prepare for such a scenario, which in principle we have there are options on the table now, when more and more voices are already being heard authoritative voices and directly about the fact that stop yours already, as the wall street journal, it seems, recently wrote, and this publication, which they say stop this magical thinking about the defeat of russia. ugh, so look, okay, let's go. to understand, first of all, and it is very likely that it could be trump, we should not rule out this option , say, well, no, this is incredible, well, we should consider another option, and if he really can come to power, he really can, there may be such a situation when he will try to limit the supply of aid to ukraine, but the president - this is not a single person, this is not a dictatorial country, who makes a decision, there are many

safeguards that can prevent him from this, first of all, this is the military lobby, an extremely large military lobby, which has already been financed, by the way, here are these, 40, the 43 billion dollars that were allocated to ukraine from the united states did not go directly to ukraine, they went to the development of the american military industry, and even, let’s imagine such an option, that trump says, that’s it, we stop everything at there, the supply of ammunition, aid, how so, they created new jobs, they allocated a lot of money for the development of existing enterprises, for the creation of new ... enterprise for the purchase of metals, rare earth metals for the manufacture of shells, equipment, ammunition, and now it's all thrown in the trash, i'm sure that there a big lobby will try to counteract this and somehow, well, okay, maybe we will reduce the aid, but for sure, i am 100% sure that they will not take away our aid, this time, on the other hand, we have aid from the europeans, so it is not

permanent, it does not mean that they are for years will support, these are two, and the third most important thing, i am more than sure, is the development of our own military-industrial complex, this is our own ammunition, our own equipment, our own artillery, but first of all it must be hidden underground, yesterday's mass attack, yesterday's mass attack by the russian shaheds , there were alarms all night long, excessive confirmation that you have to do something yourself, dig, bite into the ground, place enterprises there and not depend on anyone, well, as much as possible, there remains... a problematic issue, for example, with the same mobilization, this is what is also in valery zaluzhnyi, that is, on the one hand, we see that there are problems with mobilization, it is not working well, on the other hand, we understand that we need to balance, you know, and availability, that is, growth in the economy as well, but now we are not i know, as far as i can see the situation now, we have, we have now

the situation actually with mobilization is connected with the existing system of mobilization, which now is certain. it may be more profitable for someone to be unemployed or not have official employment than, for example, to be officially employed, but fear that in this case, you are in all the bases and you can be mobilized at any moment , it is a really bad system, it is not only that it is in principle somewhat selective, as we see and understand, how in principle to strengthen this influx of fresh blood . speaking of motivated people to join the army, come on, let's figure it out, okay, of course, there are many, many problems, we don't even know, two hours of airtime is not enough to talk about everything, and what about the military airwaves, will they go there at all in such, well, little things, but important little things, well, there can be several of them days to talk about it, at first thought, what comes to my mind is sovietism , many soviet, such models of management, it is very

bad, it is when a decision is delayed by one person, but when, for example, lower-level military personnel there cannot make this or that decision independently, because you have to ask for permission from the top manager, he is somewhere, well, he is not with us. he went to a meeting somewhere, i don’t know, he will come back today, tomorrow, in a week, and the decision has not been made, that is, it is sovietism, should give opportunity to our military at lower levels there, to make decisions according to their competence, you were hired for this position, please, you are responsible, cope, get a medal, fail, we will check, why didn't cope, what mistakes were there, if there there was great grief there, then there will be, well, there will be punishment, well , we have to sort it out. to give the opportunity to make decisions independently, initiatives, this is on the one hand, on the other hand we see when bureaucratization, unfortunately, for example,

there, people's deputy, roman kostenko, he initiated a bill on simplifying the procedure for disposal, write-off, or rather, i apologize, of military property that was lost, destroyed, and in the first reading this bill was passed, but while there it is there for the second reading, and appeared, a new order appeared, mindigits, along with minas. of defense, and they say, says the people's deputy, that the issue has become more complicated several times, that is , there have been even more obstacles. my belief is to give an opportunity to people who still have a desire to serve, to go to those units according to the specialty in which they are specialized, if a person is an aitishnik, he understands, then he will be of little use as an artilleryman, he will be... more useful , for example, like the fron operator and vice versa, that is, things like this would seem simple, but it seems to me that they will ease the situation we currently have with

mobilization by a certain percentage. ah, petro rollo horbatenko, this is the commander of the assault battalion of the third separate assault brigade said that it is necessary call up the army, 18 and 20-year-olds, from 18 to 20 years old, not 50-year-old men, because 50-year-old men are already like grandfathers, maybe they come healthy to the army, but then, when their work in practice begins, yes so to speak, all the sores that they have already accumulated by this age are starting to come out , what do you think about such an offer from the commander of the stormtroopers, but look, it all depends on that, well, really, partly it is in service, on the other hand, it can provoke an even greater outflow of people from ukraine, we must for yourself there, well, this should be clarified at the highest levels, you correctly pointed out about the economy, yes, if a person is not officially employed now, yes, if he goes into hiding, it will have a greater impact on

the ukrainian economy, it is a lack of money, i will remind your viewers that half of our budget goes, that is what we receive, or rather inside ukraine, these are the taxes that you pay, i pay all all all your viewers, listeners, these are the taxes of companies, they go to the war, to finance the war , purchase. in ammunition, for our salary the military, and the more problems in the economy, the more problems start in the army, yes, money is not paid on time, the military is starting to take offense, i fight, i risk my life and health, and i am not paid, why are they not paid, and this is partly the problem, this issue must be approached comprehensively, and you can't say yes, you must definitely not touch it from 1850, well, it is complex and this... it must be solved by different social services. in your opinion, is there still an opportunity for ukraine to receive

some kind of weapon, sufficient weapon in order to turn the tide of the war, well, in the near future, in order for us to be able to, well, i don't know, disarm the russian army, to make some incredible breakthroughs, in theory there are such weapons, there are such and such weapons, it's atakamtse, it's tamagavka, well, the americans have a lot of things, but the question is... they don't give us anything, they don't want it, but now, at the beginning they didn't give it, they were afraid of escalation, now there is a problem, because you see, aid to ukraine is not financed, for 24 -th year of the presidential election of the united states of ukraine, united states of ukraine, i apologize, of the united states of america, and there they have their own problems, there are internal problems, they focus there, there is israel, so we have to rely on our ammunition, on our equipment, on our ammunition, and let's face it, i don't want to rush into in any case, but such an option is very likely, when we will be asked to stop this war, to do something, to leave, i don't know, what about initiatives, but

somehow. to get out of the situation, because i see, i personally communicated, for example, with the british this week and asked, what about your there, this is a person who is related to political circles, well, not at a high-high level by any means, and he says that i am asking how is ukraine for you now, well, come on, well , personally, teta-tet, tell me , well, how is it, he says, well, you are somewhere in the fifth, sixth place, you are no longer a priority, well, you are a little tired, we can even see it from the publication of the same world publications, that is, less and less news about ukraine is getting ... on the first column, this is the sad truth, the question is, let's suppose, let's suppose, okay, we we are not against it, but who said that the russians are going to stop, here, this is the right question, look, maybe the russians have a desire to take a break, well, not that a desire, i see that they really want a break, they want to continue , maybe not now, later, it’s a big question for me, okay, theoretically, let’s fantasize again

, some kind of... i don’t know, there’s a peace initiative on oh, for example, by analogy with zernovo initiatives, we didn’t sign anything with the russians , yes, we signed on one side ukraine, on the other side the un, the un there with by the russian federation, that is, there is no signature of a ukrainian official with a russian one on the same piece of paper, in principle, such a scenario can also happen, but the question of how to force, father , i have the same question, such a big question mark, to force the russians to comply with what they signed, because the russians signed it and the russians fulfilled it. these are three different russians in general, and one of them is sitting in europe, and a liberal, that is, how can they be forced to do this? the only option is a balance of power, a balancing of power so that the russians see that the ukrainians have the power there is, yes, that we are working hard and that the next invasion will be simply catastrophic for them, well, of course, it is sanctions not to remove them, it is an option, but there are more questions than answers, what is the state of our military

complex now, what are we can impress or frighten the russians, in other words, can we do something there, well, relatively speaking, do our own thing, i understand the question correctly, because if they don't give us tamahawks, let's do it, unfortunately not, let's be a pessimist here , that i try to be optimistic, but here is really pessimistic, for now , at this moment, at 2:28 p.m. sunday, we still do not have those volumes, those volumes , in order to oppose the russians. the russians also really have big problems with people and with the economy, they are not critical , but they are, they also need to rest somewhere, and depending on which of the parties will make the most of the time they will have that backlash will win, as i always say, the balance of power, if we have our own underground production, hundreds of missiles there

with a radius of 300 km per month, then in a year we will have there, well, there 1,200 ... with missiles or there 2,000 or there with something, yes there 3,000 missiles, then this will really balance the force and will not give the russians the opportunity to confidently plan new operations mr. ivan, and with regard to your opinion, for the second year we have approximately the same rhetoric with which we go to our allies and try to convince them, and what seems to me, i do not know, is not what it seems to me that primarily american, german, british and others, that this rhetoric... it doesn't work anymore, it no longer evokes either sympathy or understanding, this is the rhetoric that president zelensky said again recently, then his wife repeated that what if ukraine falls, then the war will come to you and they will go to you, i think that the baltic countries understand this, they do not believe in this, but nevertheless, poland is preparing for this, well, it’s simple, well, they don’t believe, i think

the germans, what will come to them now on tanks... even the 64 battered ones will come in donbas, putin will come now, well, why are we saying things that in reality, well , most likely, we will not be able to convince the western world, instead of what we see, for example, that the states are ready to fight for israel, again, because both biden and scholz are the same, and they say, for example , that this is part of our western world, that is democracy, we will fight for democracy, and instead we see that we are going to... represent ukraine, for example , the same fair, that is, a person with a strange background, a person without powers, and a person, well we know, we remember the stories when they did not want to meet with him even according to the protocol before the war, because they did not understand his status, in fact we say, no, no, he is not the head of the president's office, he is our vice- president in your system, well , no one voted for kamala harris , the americans voted, and for...