[000:00:00;00] from the soviet union, they simply go back to the middle ages to ivan the terrible, and this is also an absolutely obvious story that is, it seems important to me, if we compare these two countries, we can compare ourselves, but we often like to compare ourselves with poland, with the czech republic, there with slovakia, and maybe we need to compare ourselves with russia or belarus and see how far we are, huh, maybe we are not such losers. if you think from the point of view of historical development, what path we have taken, uprisings, revolutions, and all this is a huge success from the point of view from the point of view of the flight of state development, we resist and fight in the war, but look at the difficult social situation of the crisis, almost all former soviet republics,

possibly with the exception of the baltic states, are in a crisis. inter-ethnic conflicts, authoritarian rulers, everywhere, so from this point of view, i think that if we talk about this civilizational test, then for a nation that has experienced such disruption and such problems, which in fact, since the 20th century, the destruction of national statehood . the war of occupation, next to the civil war of the russians, which they led to the ukrainian and the reds with the whites on the territory of ukraine, for ukrainian bread, the destruction of the ukrainian people's republic, the death of zunr, then repressions, then famine , then the second world war, then a new famine, then the suppression of everything ukrainian, and that's the whole story, you can of course i can also tell the story of achievements, i can do it completely calmly, but we are talking about reality, reality was like that, and here we are, against this background of 1991, proclaiming

independence as it is. should have been, you what you immediately should have left switzerland, the same poles call themselves, they lived, even in a satellite, but in an independent state, with the memory of the independent state that existed before the 39th, ranks of those who will forever remain in the ranks, under with flags of the same colors as on the battlefield, tens of thousands of graves, in hundreds of cemeteries in big cities, in small villages, this is our lost generation. i really want to return to ukraine, but my mother says that it is dangerous, how to solve the demographic problem, and what awaits us in the future, the forecasts we have are either sad or very sad, i went to my first grade in poland, a lot of ukrainians who left

will never come back. what should the government do to convince these people to return? every day, every hour, every minute we receive a large amount of information. the most anticipated event of the year, what is actually happening at the front, what are the losses of personnel and equipment on the battlefield, how is our success evaluated by the international community and what are we lying about. moscow, from the stream of news coming from everywhere, we single out the most important ones. tweet is watching closely to see if there will be weapons for ukraine and what, and what are the russian occupiers whispering about behind the commanders' backs? news, summaries of the week - this is an overview of only important events, important, reliable events, this is analytics, fact-checking, professional comments. about this and much more in today's issue. about important things, in simple language, available to all

viewers. greetings, iryna koval is in the studio. these are the results of the week on the espresso tv channel. news summary of the week every saturday at 21:00 on espresso. greetings, this is the espresso tv channel. thank you for always choosing the ukrainian view of the world. my name is khrystyna yatskiv, and we will spend the next few hours together with you. we will talk about the most important events. today's talk about the main trends, of course, all the emphasis will be on the front line, extremely important things are happening there right now, and in the russian federation, in my opinion, no less important things are happening, especially when the occupiers announce some kind of mass drone attack aircrafts. at night and in the morning, today the ministry of defense of russia announced an attempt at a mass attack by a uav, a probable shooting down 24 drones over five regions of the russian

federation, one drone flew into a house. high-rise building in the city of tula, the occupiers also reported damage to power lines in the so-called dnr, at approximately 3:45 a.m. they announced the work of the pppo, the downing of nine bpps in the territory of the moscow, tula, kalutka, and bryansk regions. at 5:20 a.m. it is known about another alleged attack and the downing of 11 more drones over the same regions. the mayor of moscow sobyanin declares that an attempt was made this night to carry out a mass attack by drones, according to him, the drones flying to moscow were shot down in the area narofo-minsk and odentsovsky, in the odentsovsky city district. the vnukovo and domodedovo airports in moscow temporarily stopped accepting planes for departure. about this. wrote tas telegraph agency of the soviet union moscow. two passenger liners were in the waiting area of ​​vnukovo airport, three flights were delayed, domodedovo was delayed and one flight was delayed, and according to the russian publication astra, one of

the downed drones apparently hit an apartment on the 12th floor of a high-rise building in the city of tula. as always, they are firing at themselves. not i know what their problem is, but we are watching. we also follow what surprises the weather throws up in ukraine, it is getting worse in our country, and because of this deterioration of the weather, the headquarters for the elimination of the consequences of emergency situations on the roads will start working around the clock in the near future, the state agency for the restoration and development of infrastructure reports this. as well as the kyiv city military administration. in order to promptly respond to the situation, to prevent problems on the highways, begins its round-the-clock work this headquarters the authorities advise drivers not to travel at least long distances without an urgent need, and to consider the complexity of weather conditions when planning routes. and in the event of an emergency on the road,

ukrainians can call a 24-hour hotline. just in case, you can make a note somewhere. 067-460-80. once again, 0.67 46080, let's be ready for everything, and i really ask you not to forget that the weather probably has the worst effect not even on ukrainian roads, but rather on the situation at the front and our defenders regularly need support and help, the espresso tv channel regularly provides this help, and we will definitely tell you in more detail in the story what exactly the needs of our military are, we are already together with you. closed, but we cannot fail to mention at the beginning of our long conversation with you that at three checkpoints blocked by polish carriers , about 2,000 vehicles are waiting to enter ukraine , the ministry of

community development, territories and infrastructure reports. the department says that on saturday together with the association of international automobile companies carriers, distributed 2,500,000 liters of water, 1,200 lunches and the necessary medicines to drivers blocked at the border at the checkpoint, during normal times, up to 680 trucks passed through this point per day, now due to the blockade, several dozen per day, well, we understand, what a crazy traffic and congestion, well, actually, you know, a blockade , on the polish side of the border in a physical queue waiting... more than 800 trucks, regarding the points, korchowak rakivets, stara varuska, hrebenne, it is reported that the number of trucks in the physical queue on the polish side is 700 and 600 vehicles, respectively, and blocked drivers and carriers can

contact the support line using the contacts indicated in particular, please look for them on official pages, social networks, in particular, the website of the ministry of community development and infrastructure, this is exactly what they are reporting, yes, we have 14:10, and we will be ready to start our conversation very soon with taras zhovtenko, an expert on international security of the democratic initiatives foundation, as well as promised, we will start with the situation at the front, but let us remind you that together with you, dear viewers , we are volunteers, not only journalists, but also volunteers of the tv channel have already managed, you know, to very competently and specifically help... our military, i emphasize once again, that without your support, without your daily donations, this would not have been possible, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the activity of our volunteers has increased, although we have been engaged in this since 2014, espresso takes care of providing

the units of the armed forces of ukraine with the necessary equipment, vehicles, clothes, and as of november 2023, we have collected a total of over 17 million uah for our zahs . ... the other was donated to the armed forces by viewers and readers of espress. all thanks to the meetings published daily by journalists on the spresso tv channel and website. at the beginning of august, we announced a collection for the purchase of drones for our defenders. in less than three weeks, we managed to collect uah 1,300 first, we contact the brigades and find out the needs of the military. then we announce the collection on our airwaves, and the audience helps. who can how much. during this

time, with the help of our viewers and readers, we collected more than 17.5 million hryvnias. and, for example, they sent 23 cars to the front for our defenders. but we do not stop there and try to continue, support our defenders, thanks to you, our viewers and readers. i would like to thank you very much. on behalf of the boys, our defenders, and on behalf of our team, for that you join our meetings and help us meet the needs that are necessary to fight for our independent homeland. we thank all the people who contributed to our common cause, the cause of our victory, the victory of good over evil, who care about the fate of our nation, our state. the espresso team is open to cooperation with

foundations, companies and individuals to bring our victory closer. the war continues and volunteering is our joint work with you, which we have to do every day. it is very strange to be a civilian now and get tired we have no right to be tired. glory to ukraine, glory to the nation, death to the roads. ukraine, above all. host and volunteer iryna koval repeatedly opened a collection for the needs of the ukrainian military. after the full-scale invasion began, friends who went to the front began to contact me, my husband's brothers began to contact me and ask that drones are needed there, ammunition is needed, night vision devices are needed, medicine is needed, at first we even handed over first-aid kits and food , that was all... clothes, well, actually

speaking, at first it was some small sums , but then these sums became larger, of course, recently iryna koval was able to collect uah 4 million for the purchase of poseidon, but it was not possible to buy this device. as the volunteer says, other volunteers were supposed to join the agreement, but they refused to help at the last moment. poseidon is worth more than 10 million. therefore, for the collected 4 million , another equally important one was purchased. equipment, more than half of this sum of 4 million, it was 2,800 we spent on fpv drones and components for them. why they were fpv drones, the guys themselves asked us to buy them, because it really changes the course of the war altogether. these drones, in addition to what a person sees, a military man sees everything that is happening, on the battlefield he sees the enemy's equipment, he can even destroy it, that is, imagine.

here is such a small fpv drone that is launched, it may be relatively inexpensive, but it can destroy equipment that costs millions, that is, one drone, one tank, we understand that this is a huge loss for the enemy, so we decided to buy fpvdrones, this year volunteer and host of espresso iryna koval also continues her project i am nicholas, which was started in 2017, i am now collecting funds and looking for benefactors who , again, like every year, will join the campaign, i am nicholas, and give a miracle to a child dead hero or heroine. last year, the espressov team also prepared vitamin warming mixtures, until volunteer's day, colleagues willingly joined the common cause in the name of those who are currently at the front. an idea was born in the team, and we

usually support it, as they say. one idea one thing, especially since the guys need it now, there are many directions, there are places to send it, there are addressees who need it, such mixtures can be used as vitamin drinks or consumed with tea, in total, during the past winter, the editorial office of zmi produced 30 liters of mixtures. kateryna yarmalovych, the director of the tv channel, manages to gather the team for a good cause every time. we will open our so-called volunteer kitchen. last year we had a winter-spring season and this year we will also produce such vitamin mixtures or hot teas as we call them. and also send to our defenders to support their immunity and keep warm in the cold season. thanks to viewer donations and daily support, we managed to close more than 50 meetings. espresso tv channel expresses

its sincere thanks to everyone. we are approaching victory together. my dad is a hero, he is a gunsmith. war is often cold and scary. well, i believe in good people and that the war will end. thank you to our viewers for allowing us to help defenders, for doing this together with you, and now i feel like it's time to step up, firstly, because of the cold, and secondly, because of the extremely difficult circumstances, in fact on all areas of the front, we will continue to talk about the front, taras zhovtenko, expert on international security of the democratic initiatives foundation already since... in touch taras, i congratulate you, glory to ukraine. i congratulate you, glory to the heroes. i would like you and i to outline the main trends that are on the collision course at the beginning. we understand that, in principle,

the situation looks like an initiative on the part of our enemy, and an attempt to push through, all strengthening defense forces where they are older. and where they were constructed quite recently. at the same time, we understand that in some of our directions enemy success is not excluded, as now the start, in fact, of the winter campaign and the enemy, and do you see ours? well, in fact, strategically, we see that the russians are trying to use their advantages in logistics, which they have, purely from a geographical point of view. because we understand that one of the key directions of how we try to destroy the enemy's combat potential is to strike at the lines the provision of the russian military group along the entire length of the front, and here the russians have much more problems , first of all in the southern direction, where all their logistics, it was primarily closed

to supplies from the occupied ukrainian crimea, well, according to what the russians could import to the crimea to supply its troops on the mainland of southern ukraine. taking into account the fact that the russians are not doing very well with the crimea, regular divine, problems with the russian black sea fleet suddenly arise and so on, all this cannot but reflect on how, well, the russian troops feel in the southern direction, and the russians, realizing that they have problems in the south in this context, they try to use the geography of the eastern... direction, where there is a land border with russia, and where they have much more options to reconfigure their logistics, despite our systematic strikes on these supply lines, so we actually see that the russians are now trying to press where they can press, where they can accumulate a maximum of human resource, and maximum equipment, maximum

ammunition, well, it is clear that well, considering that during the winter period , the intensity of such close contact is dry. battles with the use of, well, if this angular units, it may decrease, primarily due to the fact that there will be difficulties for the use of heavy armored vehicles, the russians are trying, now, while they have such an opportunity, to achieve at least minimal success, primarily territorial ones, not counting losses, because we see that, for example, in the viivskyi direction they lose from 800 to 1000 per day, it happens even more, well, this is at least personnel, yes, and the russians are easy to calculate, and they understand that during the winter period this intensity of pain will decrease and during the winter months they will theoretically be able to find additional human resources , in order to make up for these losses, they can find additional equipment somewhere, ammunition, they can get it from someone else somewhere, and so on, in fact, the russians are trying to create, in the eastern direction,

such hot spots as possible for ukrainian defenders, to try to pull away our resources and our combat units. primarily from the zaporizhzhia direction, and it is clear that we additionally created another point of tension for the russians on the border of the kherson region, because previously the russians were forced, well, let's say, simply to transfer the resource that they have, which in fact is not enough, because their logistics, well, although it is not destroyed, but it is, in principle, quite seriously disrupted, so the resources they have, they were forced to scatter between east and south in order to, on the one hand, maintain the maximum pace of assault operations in the eastern direction and not to stagnate in the southern direction, so with the appearance and entrenchment of units of the armed forces of ukraine on the left bank of the kherson region, we created for them another third the point where they need to think now, how and where to look for a resource , in order to close this direction, because there we

have a very good way to the main logistics artery that connects the east and the south, russian logistics, there is an important route that allows the russians to use this land corridor to supply their troops in the southern direction, and in principle we have every chance to develop... success gradually on the left bank of the kherson region in order to block the russians, well if this artery and create even more additional problems for them to supply their southern group of troops, that is, in fact, we see that the russians are now going to abank, realizing that they need to before the onset of such serious weather conditions that would to some extent reduced the topic of military operations, and to get any result at any cost and try to recover before the next spring... offensive campaign, we, in this case, firstly, do not let them do it, secondly

, we do not give them the opportunity, well, let's say, to supply their troops on the battlefield in such a way that it is convenient for them to conduct these combat operations, assaults, now, not counting these losses, that is, if the russians begin to have problems with supplying the necessary amount and ammunition, including manpower, then it is clear that, well, let's put it this way, the russians will be forced, even against their will , to a certain extent either to adapt their tactics on the battlefield, or even to reduce the pace of their assaults, which they will now carry out there, i would like us a little clarified about the logistics, apparently the russians already realize that they are not all right with it, that is why the design began and , in my opinion, they have already begun even some more substantive preparatory work for an alternative railway line along the coast, in particular the sea of ​​azov. on the connection of the russian federation with our occupied crimea, this is actually not from a good

life, from the understanding that the defense forces can have the existing railway branch in principle, well, they can have it in their field of vision and they can have it in their field of reach. at the same time, the washington post cannot help but mention that, in recent days, it writes that there is a possibility that russian and chinese businessmen are secretly discussing plans to build a tunnel under... one, which should connect russia with the occupied crimea, which also indicates that the kerch bridge probably is not considered a reliable logistical artery, although, according to some military experts, about 30% of the entire occupation contingent in the south of our country is maintained on it, logistics is obviously not their strong point, even now, but they are already thinking about alternatives, which in your opinion there are real opportunities, both in time and in terms of resources, to build these alternative logistical routes, but you are absolutely right

that the russians are trying to respond to the problems that their forces create for them defense of ukraine, so in terms of strikes on the main russian supply routes, if we talk about the railway, alternative routes that they are building closer to the coast of the sea of ​​azov, it is clear that this is, let's say, a more realistic prospect from the point of view of time, that is , on the fact that laying a railway track requires much less time and resources than implementing this large-scale project together with the chinese, well, we will return to it separately, in fact, but, in fact, the russians cannot help but understand that in principle the striking means that we have, they allow us, well, let's say so, to keep under , well, i won't say that systematically and permanently, but then... when we need it under fire control, key and road and

railway logistics points the arteries that the russians use to supply their troops, there is one nuance here , we must understand that the maximum effectiveness of our strikes on these supply lines is not so much an opportunity to damage or destroy, for sure, in a certain area, the same railway carriage, which in principle is possible repair, well, conditionally in a week. yes, but we achieve the greatest effect when we destroy the cargo of military purpose that goes along these tracks, that is, then we get two in one, on the one hand, we create problems for the russians that are, in principle , purely physical, so on these supply lines, on the other hand, we destroy in this way the resource that was intended for the russian troops in the same south, well , about this underground tunnel under the kerch strait, it is actually a multi-year project, the yanas have already started to think about it shows that the defense of the crimean, this kerch bridge is not all right with them either, to put it mildly. well, here

you can simply wish the chinese partners more. to extract from the russians in the process of implementing this project, and on the other hand, we perfectly understand that the point of exit from this tunnel, its coordinates, they too, in principle, will be known to us, and for us there will probably not be any particular problem, simply block the russians in this tunnel, and let them imagine that they are in a bunker putin is somewhere over there, in valtai or somewhere else, and mr. taras, finally, the week is slowly coming to an end and we can talk about the results of high-ranking visits that took place in general to ukraine, just at the moment when the russians had another exacerbation of bplla. another air alarm, i think it adds unforgettable emotions to those who decide to visit ukraine, but even in a good sense for us, a return to reality, i would call it that, globally, less with how

you would evaluate these visits and can we to hope that the support of our partners remains constant, despite what we see on the political map, in europe in general, the european union and individual countries, certain changes are taking place, to which we must also respond, plus, pre-election fever, perhaps it will be said loudly, but as far as i am concerned, the fever is already in the same united states, where we still remain, with our help, for which we are waiting somewhat hostages. situation, and, actually, these visits, they really were, among other things, the reaction of our western partners to the difficult circumstances that they also have now, well, we have to talk about that too, objectively, yes, and they are connected with the election campaigns that are starting, or have even started, in certain countries of the west,

yes , who help us with weapons and provision of our troops, it is also connected, in principle , with the situation on the battlefield and with the way the public in the countries of the west of our partners and allies react to this situation, the way the opposition reacts to it politicians, there, we must not forget that all our allies are democracy, where, first of all, if very different points of view are discussed absolutely freely and openly, including on russian armed aggression against ukraine and how the countries of the west react to this aggression, how they help ukraine with weapons, finances and so on, very different opinions, very different scenarios are discussed, we should not, let's say, ourselves, be disappointed in this context, we should understand that this is part of this democratic discourse. on the other hand , the fact that western leaders even in spite of this difficult situation, come to kyiv, and not just come, but with very specific things, with very specific

results, shows that in fact... the leadership of our western allies is determined both politically and militarily to continue this maximum support, this is how we saw it in the delegation of the european union that came, mr. michel, really openly said that he expects a positive decision at the december joint event of the european union related to the start of negotiations on the accession of ukraine and moldova to the eu, we also saw these practical results practically... in the visit of the us minister of defense, mr. lloyd austin, to ukraine, and in the end, the minister of defense of the federal republic of germany also came with very specific proposals and with very specific ways of strengthening, including the air defense of our country, well , it just coincided perfectly here, mr.