[000:00:00;00] of the famine, that's all the information, well, there will be more news now, you will hear it on our broadcast and my colleague, iryna koval, is already on standby, so literally now, meet iryna koval and all the most important things in this issue. in ukraine, 17:00 news time on the espresso tv channel in the studio of iryna koval. i welcome all the viewers and now to the most important events. two anti-aircraft defense systems were handed over to nasam by lithuania in november already on combat duty. this was announced by prime minister denys shmehal at a meeting with

his lithuanian counterpart ingrida. shimonita, he noted that in general, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, we have received over 1 billion euros in aid from our lithuanian partners. shmegal also said that lithuania plans to approve a three-year plan for military and other aid to ukraine. the prime minister also thanked for the comprehensive support already provided by the official vilnius, in particular for the financial assistance from the greninfrain initiative. this is extraordinary. an important moment in ensuring global food security, this is one of the clauses in the formula of peace, peace of president zelski, this is one of the steps on the way to our common victory, thank you for constructive cooperation for our work in terms of revitalization, cooperation between our countries, in terms of supporting ukraine, and of course in

terms of supporting us on the way to the european union on the way to nato. the general staff must develop new complex solutions regarding the mobilization and rotation of army personnel in ukraine. president volodymyr zelenskyy gave such a mandate to the military command during the meeting of the commander-in-chief. the head of state also listened to reports on the situation at the front by defense minister rustem umerov. head committee valery zaluzhny and chief of staff serhiy shaptala. russia keeps onyx and caliber high-precision missiles in occupied crimea. the last targets in ukraine are from the sea, air force spokesman yuriy ignat said. the enemy launches kh-101 kh-555 air missiles and daggers from various regions of russia. ignat reminded that muscovites produce about 100 pieces of lethal iron every month and have already

accumulated about 900 high-precision ones. long-range missiles. in the czech republic and slovakia, within the framework of the gift for putin initiative , €4,000 was collected in one week. they will buy for them blackhawk helicopter for the ukrainian intelligence headquarters. the total cost of this rotorcraft is about 4 m 3000 €. as soon as the required amount is collected, the black hawk will be delivered to ukrainian scouts. let me remind you that there is already one in the gur airfield. such a helicopter, it helps to carry out combat missions, missions to deliver military cargo and personnel, as well as conduct electronic warfare and evacuate the wounded. russia must withdraw its troops, equipment and personnel from the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. this is stated in the statement of the european union issued at a meeting of the board of governors of the international nuclear energy agency. the document emphasizes that the presence

of the military in zaporizhzhia. the as is unacceptable, and the eu will never recognize moscow's illegal attempts to take over another country's autonomous power plant. the european union also called for the immediate return of ukrainian personnel to the station, because the work of specialists who are not familiar with the peculiarities of the operation of this as poses a serious threat to it. meanwhile, protesters blocked the ukrainian-slovak border. trucks are passed in regular mode - informed the spokesman of the state border service andriy demchenko, although in this case there are still four hundred trucks in the queue. slovak carriers blocked ukrainian trucks alone on november 19 as a sign of solidarity with their polish colleagues. they are not satisfied that ukrainian carriers have

preferences in the european union. is ready to become a mediator in the negotiations between ukraine and russia, turkish foreign minister hakan fidan said. at the same time, fidan said that turkey provides political and strategic support for the territorial integrity of ukraine , including crimea. let me remind you that on march 29 of last year, negotiations between the ukrainian and russian delegations were held in istanbul, organized by the turkish side. the exchange operation has started. the first batch of palestinian prisoners was taken out of the ofer prison to be exchanged for israeli hostages. let me remind you that the four-day truce began today. signed between israel and the hamas group, brokered by qatar. this created the conditions for the release of dozens of hostages held by the palestinians fighters at the same time, the un hopes that during the truce it will be possible to send humanitarian

aid to the north of the gaza strip. a tanker with counterfeit cigarettes was detained on the border with romania at the krasnoilsk checkpoint. according to the documents provided by the driver, he allegedly drove to the border with an empty container, but they decided to inspect the car in depth with the help of a scanner. realizing that he would be exposed, the violator began to interfere with the pickers in every possible way, tore out electrical wires and assured that the machine was faulty. subsequently the scan confirmed that the tank was indeed filled with cigarette cases. all contraband was seized and handed over to law enforcement officers. due to the constant threat of russian shelling, schools in kharkiv region cannot work in full-time mode, so two underground schools are being built near kharkiv. the students will study directly underground, because

they managed to run to the shelter, and this is impossible. russian missiles reach the outskirts of the regional center in a matter of seconds. how the construction is progressing and when children will be able to study in them, see further in the story. little veronika went to the first grade this year, she saw her classmates twice at school, where she really liked it, she likes it because there they can go out and play with friends, her grandmother, mrs. victoria , says that veronika is very young now, she is alone at home they do not leave, so parents have to take them to work with them, and there is not enough communication with peers, the teacher, because communication with adults also socializes the child, helps him in life, there are usually parents, grandparents, there are relatives, yes, and of course the teacher should

communicate with children and help them get started, i think that success would be better than online. mathematics teacher svitlana completely agrees with parents, children on distance learning. live communication the teacher learned from us that an underground school is being built on the territory of the community and says that she would be happy if she herself taught in such a school. i wanted the children i work with to learn in a safe environment, that it was face-to-face learning, and that the quality of knowledge that we provide to make it higher. and this is already construction. first, they dug a boiler. we have some technical problems, but we will definitely show you once again the story about how underground schools are being built in kharkiv, and i want to remind you that the espresso tv channel

is asking you to join the urgent collection for a car for the first separate special purpose brigade named ivan bohun. the car is needed by the boar unit, the control and artillery reconnaissance battery, and our defenders are in the area. active hostilities, they recently conducted a successful one operation, but the enemy has completely destroyed their suv, so it is important to send them a new one as soon as possible, the car has already been found , but it still needs to be bought, all the details are now on the screen, so please join our collection, and we thank everyone who donates to the armed forces of ukraine, wait for the next

news release, already at 6 p.m. welcome to the espresso channel. our army restrains the enemy in the east, continues the pressure on the enemy's positions in the south and expands the bridgeheads on the left bank of the dnieper, however. the front line remains stable, and hostilities are extremely exhausting and require significant resources, for this our partners are currently forming or should form a new strategy of supporting ukraine for the winter period and beyond for a much longer period. this applies to arms supplies, joint defense-industrial projects and programs of economic and military assistance in various directions, and this week's regular meeting in the ramstein format was such, well, a partial response to the reflection of these needs and aspirations. russia is also preparing for a long confrontation, as they say with a collective one west the foreign intelligence service of ukraine, according to its head.

concluded that russia in its plans is focused on the global redistribution of the world and the war for the occupation of ukraine, this is like part of the russian plan, but the plans and the results are actually different things, and yet, even then, from this whole mosaic of visits, statements, announcements that were made this week, it is necessary to make such an integrated picture in order to have answers to the questions: what to prepare for, how in which direction the approaches of our partners are changing and what ukraine can count on and what we should do independently against the background of those systemic threats produced by the russian federation. we will talk about this with leading experts in the next edition of our military program, my name is serhiy sgurets, i am the director of the information and consulting company defense express, which, together with the espresso channel, aims to highlight the most relevant trends in the field of security, and now he is joining us. samus, the head of the analytical organization,

as well as the deputy director of the army, conversion and disarmament research center. mr. michael, welcome to the spresso channel, glad to see and hear. i congratulate you, mr. serhiy. there have been a lot of events this week, we will get to them, but i would like one way or another to make it appear that a certain point for statements and assessments is the situation on the front line, some time ago you said that certain successful actions by the armed forces were needed forces in order to have such a positive influence on our partners, can we say that the situation on the front line in certain directions, in particular there on the left bank of the dnieper or in terms of control over certain areas of the black sea, are those positive signals that can be correctly interpreted for our partners to understand the dynamics

of change. what is happening on the front line? well, in fact, i even noticed that in the statements and reports of the heads of the european union , representatives of individual countries, it is called, for example , the black sea direction, the left bank of the kherson region, as evidence that the ukrainian counteroffensive, as many believe, has not stopped , that the ukrainian armed forces, defense forces about... continue their active operations, and again this means that the situation at the front did not turn into some kind of stalemate and positional war not always and not on all, not on all sections of the front can characterize the current situation, so i think that indeed, the development of events that is now we can also see it on the left bank of the kherson region, although of course it is necessary to understand that it is very hard work. it is a very difficult task

to carry out such operations across the dnipro in winter, well, that is, it is actually on the verge of fantasy, what the ukrainian military is doing now, and in which it succeeds, because even if you look at the reports of the so-called russian warlords , propagandists, in reality the situation there is not easy for the russian troops, and they have not yet found that method, that, let's say, solution that could ensure neutralization of the threat on the left bank of the kherson region, and the left bank of the kherson region may just be the key to the successful development of events in the 24th year, we have already talked about the fact that the main task for russia in the 24th year will be stabilizing the front, transferring it to a positional format in the south and, at the same time... achieving success in the donbass

, that is, occupying the donetsk-luhansk region as much as possible, in order to reach the 25th year, when trump comes, it is possible to have such things on the table at the negotiations arguments, ukrainians and the ukrainian side of ukraine have absolutely opposite interests, it is to achieve success in the south and prevent the front from breaking through in donbas, so it is true that the front will freeze, i think that the front is just starting... its, its new warm-up, let's say so , and we will see that there are many active steps, on both sides , i think, mr. mykhailo, when we talk about the front, we understand that one way or another... it is connected with how our partners perceive our actions, and after that, of course, in some way they have to adjust their strategy, form some long-term approaches there, this week there were two visits by the secretary of defense of the united states, the minister of defense of germany visited kyiv, then there was an

online meeting in the rammstein format, and what are your assessments, are there any trends that were optimists and things that were alarming, what would you conclude in view of these visits and these large-scale events? well, germany continues to please, that is, the minister of defense of germany, who arrived in ukraine, he really showed interest in the implementation of further projects with ukraine, and such long-term ones, because his statements, for example, about the four iriste systems, are obviously meant, after all not instant delivery of these systems, we know that they are... actually produced from wheels and are sent to ukraine, because they were not in stock and are not, these are all new systems, and obviously, these are statements about actual assistance in the first half of the 24th year, as well as statements about the ammunition project, the same

million ammunition from the european of the union, and germany is, of course, one of the main players in this project, and it is obvious that the minister of defense of germany with his visit, personally, he demonstrated that germany will continue to work on the implementation of these, projects, these, areas of cooperation with ukraine, as for the minister defense of the united states, as well as his visit, is very, very important from the point of view of precisely signals, symbols, that against the background of turbulence in the congress, against the background of the discussion that the decision on aid to ukraine may be postponed. next year, and it is not known how the political schedules will be made, the minister of defense demonstrated, the secretary of defense of the united states demonstrated that the biden administration, it firmly stands on the positions of continuing to support ukraine and will do everything possible to ensure that ukraine is not left without business

aid in the 24th year, these are very important such signals and symbols, just at the end of the year , which demonstrate that we are entering the 24th year, not as russia would like, and it is obvious that the last month, for example , in the information space of the west , there were a lot of such, let's say, theses were spread that everything should be frozen , aid should be stopped, especially since the united states and europe are in such a state of flux, the visits of these two ministers, key ministers of the united states, germany demonstrate that and europe and the united states... continue to advocate for unconditional aid to ukraine, i think this is the most important such political signal, from a practical point of view, at ramstein all these issues were already discussed on a practical level, it is very important that the minister of defense of ukraine stated after the results , that all the directions of cooperation are moving into

a long-term format, coalitions are being created, there are now five of them in different directions, the last one was created precisely on this ramstan, it is a coalition of pppo and pro, headed by germany, just like france, which volunteered to lead a coalition of 20 countries, for quick solutions for the winter, in order to dramatically strengthen the ukrainian air defense system, and of course, these are long-term projects, as well as iriste, new nasams systems will also be produced, of course missiles to them, well, patriots too, because actually there are no new systems in the warehouses either, mr. mykhailo, when we talk about this coalition. defense, it seems that this topic was discussed earlier, it was said that ukraine should ensure the creation of an integrated air defense system, you told our viewers about it in some detail, what this new coalition adds to those previous initiatives, what changes there may be, what qualitative changes there may be for ukraine, by what means

it can be solved? i think that here, of course, we are talking about such an organizational , organizational improvement, that is , this is a cluster in which the countries that will work for their interests, let's say, focus on anti-aircraft anti-missile defense, will be able to do it in an organized manner. the leaders of germany and france, who will lead it and of course coordinate these efforts, i think, if we talk about the specifics, then it is possible that the ideas regarding the so-called leasing will be implemented, that is, the transfer of temporary, for temporary use of systems, well, that is, to strengthen, for example, protection. .. of ukraine for the winter period, simply transferring the same systems to sams or patriot or other short- range systems for temporary use would be very, very effective, i think. well, of course, the direction, if we

are talking about an integrated system, then we we constantly use concepts such as unit, battery, division, specifically of anti-aircraft missile systems, but we forget about an element such as radars, that is, radars by themselves, and they can, that is, they can act as separate, let's say, components, and these radars will precisely provide full coverage of the ukrainian territory with the subsequent transmission of information for targeting the means of destruction, but this does not mean that we should focus only on the radar, which are integrally integrated or organic parts of the complex, of course it is possible to place other radars that have , for example, e-e specification for small objects, small targets, of course we are talking about shaheds, other drones, they can have different ranges. we are talking, for example, there is a short tactical range of 40 km, and you can also place long-range radars

, which are in the air space, and this will really create an integrated system, when the whole indication will also be sent to anti-aircraft missile systems, and if we are talking about fast arrival of f16, f16, f-16 pilots, and control system, i mean global system within the framework of the state, the armed forces... the use of these aviation platforms must receive additional information, which of course can come from these additional radars, so i think this coalition can solve these issues, and we know that the french also have very good long-range and the germans, and other countries, and the netherlands have excellent radars for targeting, so i think that this coalition should really deal with, on the one hand, the rapid strengthening of the pppo system for the winter period, and on the other hand, really, go to the creation of an integrated pppo system, and when we we speak

about such different coalitions, do we mean that somewhere a window of opportunity will open for some joint defense-industrial projects, because in particular there was an address by the president on american fox television to american companies that we are ready to develop joint enterprises there, there is an appeal or a general framework document from the big seven, which foresees development there. defense cooperation projects, how ukraine can take advantage of this window of opportunity, what is needed for this, what are the prospects well, i think that the format of the first defense-industrial forum was quite successful, now on december 6-7, such an edition or variant, a version of this form will be held in the united states, that is, there will be a joint ukrainian-american defense-industrial forum, which will include representatives of ukraine and the top military and political leadership, representatives and, of course , the defense industry and american companies, at

which this very direction will be discussed, which you mentioned, that is, joint projects, of course, which will direct supplies for the rapid strengthening of the armed forces of ukraine and the defense forces will also be discussed, but on the other hand, there will obviously be joint projects, perhaps, first of all, projects for maintenance, for ensuring the repair of those samples of american weapons that will be transferred, but the following will be discussed first the steps can be , of course, the involvement of ukrainian capabilities , especially since ukraine is now, i am sure, one of the leaders, well, for example, in the production of drones, with a variety of various functions, ranges, directions, and so on, the reb system is currently developing very actively in ukraine, i am not sure that, for example, our western partners even have such experience of use, countermeasures. western systems of reba, so this experience is invaluable, i think, and it can be used in joint projects, you are the same

automated control systems, here ukraine also has a unique experience of using their application at the tactical operational level, so i think, just in such formats, and the defense-industrial forum is american, i think that it would be appropriate hold such a european defense-industrial forum, why not create such, well, hold such a... form with the european defense agency to invite representatives of the military and political leadership of eu countries and defense companies, all the more so that ukraine is currently working on approaching integration with the european union, i think it would be expedient from any point of view, both from a political point of view, and from an integration point of view, and of course from a defense-industrial point of view, including for the implementation of joint projects. but there is such a nuance here that it is actually european and american industry, it continues to live in market conditions, yes, that is, there are no such... some kind of rigid framework to do everything quickly, because market mechanisms, they look like democratic mechanisms, how, relatively speaking

, to speed up these processes and how ukraine has such things to solve those tasks that ukraine needs, well, maybe we need to announce tenders in separate directions, where we can then somehow get our partners to some kind of, well, normal competitive conditions for the peremoys there about bmp, there about sam complexes to remove the residual format of discussions, which one way or another are still equally present in view of our peculiarities? well , indeed, european, for example, the european defense industry, it generally lived in its own way. in the ephemeral world, several, for example, parallel competitive projects were implemented there, where the french competed with the british, although they are not members of the eu, but of course they actively participate in european defense, defense and industrial activities, or there the italians competed with the netherlands and so on, it was until february 24 and it continued for some time, but literally this week the european union adopted 22

new priorities in the defense industry, there are, in principle, adaptation to modern conditions is already underway, orientation is underway, joint projects, non-competitive among themselves within the framework of the european union and freely and of course aimed at urgent needs, and here in relation to marketability, when big money appears, well, for example, there is a pool of countries that are currently implementing a munitions project, of course, when several dozen are allocated there billions of euros, of course business is heading there and that's why... defense-industrial, so in fact , as the efforts of the european, european countries, with regard to investments in specific projects, i mean european projects, will also move there, business, defense- industrial companies will be effectively used, these projects will be carried out, although, on the other hand, of course, the role of ukraine here should be more active, why i

say, this format of the forums has shown itself well, but of course, i support you that after the forums, concrete movements and concrete decisions are needed on the part of ukraine , perhaps the ministry of defense should take the lead here, which should somehow orient european and american manufacturers in relation to the urgent needs that must be implemented, although in principle this is probably how it is, because the urgent needs, they are clear, they are... even if they are not announced within the framework of ramstein, they are implemented, as for joint projects, indeed, the ministry of defense should also be here to say what is needed for the armed forces forces, and of course the ministry of strategic industry should work more actively with our partners, because in fact the ministry of strategic industry should be a kind of driver of this process, because the ministry of defense can announce what they need, but engage

in just establishing contacts, establishing some kind of industrial contacts , of course the ministry of defense will not deal with this, it is not the same function. the ministry of strategy and industry should deal with this, and i hope that through these forums, it is possible that such a format will gradually be created, when more active involve western manufacturers in the implementation of such urgent projects for the armed forces of ukraine. you mentioned about the first forum that was held there, i think a month or two ago, and there were two initiatives that looked like that. so ambitious enough, it is first of all the creation of a certain financial direction that should ensure these projects, the creation of some conditions, private for foreign companies, favorable conditions for entering the ukrainian market, are there any advances in this direction, if you know of them, if not, then what should really be the case

attractive for foreign companies in ukraine to choose, in particular between... can be created in ukraine. how to create attractiveness for the ukrainian market? i think that the attractiveness of the ukrainian market now, of course, is determined by the fact that there is a much larger volume, the volume of this market here, than in the same poland, that is, we need much more. ammunition, armored vehicles, anti-aircraft missile systems and new solutions implemented by our western partners, that is, in principle, the attractiveness of the ukrainian market can be even higher than in poland, because here, for example, if a country declares to produce within the framework of ramstein, at the request of ukraine the ministry of defense of ukraine, a certain type of weapon, then

the government of