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greetings, this is svoboda ranok, my name is kateryna nekrecha, and later in this issue we will talk about the following topics: russian forces are improving shahedis, i will repaint them. fell in black and used a material that absorbs the radar signal. is it possible to hide drones from ukrainian air defense in this way, and how often can russia carry out mass drone attacks, we spoke with the spokesperson of the ukrainian air force. in russia , the shelyapen tractor plant, where engines for military equipment are allegedly produced, is on fire. meanwhile, the russian authorities announce a drone attack on moscow, tula, smolensk and bryansk. ukrainian intelligence has unofficially stated that this is a response to a mass attack on

kyiv, what is the purpose of the attacks and what damage are they causing are they the country of the aggressor? due to bad weather , nearly hundreds of settlements in 10 regions remained without electricity in ukraine. in odesa, through khurdelytsa, three passenger buses drove into a ditch and a truck with grain overturned. entrance to kyiv is currently limited. children are sent to distance learning about the effects of bad weather and what areas to prepare for. every weekday morning from 9:00 a.m. we meet you here. to talk about the events in ukraine and the situation at the front. stay with us to stay updated. russian troops took up positions near the village ivanivka in kharkiv oblast, as well as advancing near liman pershy and senkivka. this is reported by analysts of the deepstate project. as for senkivka, russian forces are trying to gain a foothold there, so they say in deepstate. the american institute for the study of war also reports on the offensive of russian forces in the direction of kupiensk svatov kremina. there they say that the russian army has

a slight advance near pervomaiskyi, which is 24 km east of kupyansk. in the meantime, the ukrainian general staff declares unsuccessful assault actions by russian troops on kupyansk and lemsk directions. the russian ministry of defense also reports on repulsed attacks by the armed forces near senkivka and ivanovka. the russian pro-war telegram channel ridovka writes about the allegedly unsuccessful attacks of the armed forces near senkivka and the battles near torsky. russian forces advanced near krasnogohorivka, which is northeast of avdiyivka, as well as south of the city in the area of ​​the so-called promka, according to analysts of the institute for the study of war. at the same time, they do not confirm the information that the russian forces allegedly captured everything an industrial zone near the yasenuwata 2 railway station, which is south of the city. russian pro-war publications, rybar and ridovka, in particular, claimed full control over the rush the day before. the ukrainian general staff has not made statements about the lost positions near avdiyivka so far, they say that ukrainian forces

are holding the defense of avdiyivka. ukrainian military serviceman serhii volkov from avdiyivka joins our broadcast. mr. serhiy, i congratulate you, i would like to clarify with you here about the analytics of the american institute for the study of war, they do not confirm that promka was captured by russian forces there, you can tell, but russian bloggers write that the entire promka is already under their control, what is the real situation, please tell me. glory to ukraine, in fact, if you read russian newspapers and telegram channels during the last month, they make a lot of innuendos that they are there and already in avdiivka, their armed forces are there, and so on, and that they seized the factory there, and everything in principle captured, in fact the situation is difficult, the situation is difficult.

so indeed they have in some part there success and promotion, but it is still too early to talk about streak control there. they are definitely throwing a lot of forces and infantry to gain a foothold and continue to try to advance, not everything they do succeeds, because they are getting hammered by our defense forces, so it is too early to talk about the control of this part of our defense line, mr. serhiu, that is, did the russian forces partially go on the run? in part, we are waiting for the confirmation of the general staff, in fact, they are pressing from three sides, from the south to the north and went, roughly speaking, from the side

shine, from the front, yes, from the frontal part, and somewhere, somewhere, they get something, somewhere - as they wanted, but they throw great forces in order to, roughly speaking, confirm what they write there, their, yes the so-called propaganda media, in fact, there is no treason there, our defense forces can maneuver somewhere , that is, the success of the professional military and the command is not always, in the fact that, well, let's say, throw a large number of our people, in order to confirm something there , you can somewhere, well, let's say, trick, outwit, maneuver and so on further, with the help of accurate, precise raids

, including our drones, we see and control the situation. even if it seems to them that something is successfully moving there, it collapsed there for a while, can you start saying there, hat-thrower, that everything is there, we will beat everyone there now, we will kill everyone, although everything depends on many factors, including there and from, the presence of a bull, from weather conditions, from reserves, and so on. that is, their enemies have a similar, well, not similar, but more complicated situation, well more difficult than ours, let's say so , but we do the work, and you can see it in principle from our videos, how they

burn and how they burn, so it's definitely not a walk, it's definitely difficult... not in telegram -channels are much easier to write. that is, these advances are extremely difficult for the russian forces, and you can explain that promka is already the territory of avdiyivka, and what threats can be brought by the fact that the russian forces can take control of the entire industrial zone. look, well here, i will not go into details and details, that is, in general, the whole ukraine, defense forces are very important for ukraine, i can say so, yes, and for a large part of the donetsk region and in general , from many factors, it consists of both

military-strategic, and political, informational-psychological, and so on, this is to say about all of avdiivka and this whole direction, of course, whether i... any advance, any, any loss of position, it's not good, let's put it this way, but we do everything possible and impossible in order to fight back positions , to counterattack and prevent them from gaining a foothold, therefore well, there are no such moods, there are no self-indulgent ones, hard work, battles are going on, and of course , vdiyivka is very important for the whole of ukraine, and we must protect it and prevent the enemy from advancing, because this bastard will not stop at one position or at

to one or another populated place, we understand this better than anyone, that is why our task is to re-grind, re-burn as much as possible... everything we can, and everything we see, by what means, by what forces, whether they are currently increasing their presence, here is their number in technology and in manpower russian forces in order to surround avdiivka? well, they have everything in principle, classically, the only thing is that they are now trying not to force their infantry as far as possible, because in the last month, a very large number of armored vehicles, we caught fire and saw these columns and cemeteries, conditionally ... such scrap metal around avdiyivka

, that is why they are trying to use more infantry, which is simply advancing on foot, really somewhere closer, let's say to the position and at a distance from us, they are throwing this infantry away, they really have a large amount of artillery and they're trying to just wipe out, absolutely... this, despite the fact that they're there saying that they 're hitting the army there, they're just destroying, the cities and the city as a whole, and also they're doing it for with the help of aviation, that is, nothing is changing there globally, but tactically, well, tactically, they just try not to fall under our eyes, and use, let's say, less, less equipment, but more people. therefore, it complicates the task a little, but

we have to do it. i thank you sir i will also remind serhii, who joined in and told about the current situation, that the local authorities of avdiyivka reported that 1,336 civilians still remain in the city, and the evacuation from the city continues. serhiy volkov, a serviceman of the armed forces of ukraine, joined our broadcast. the fact that the russian forces began to paint drones of the shachet type black will complicate the work of fire mobile groups, the spokesman of the air force of ukraine, yuriy ignato, said on the air of the telethon. he says that this is not the first attempt by the russian military to increase the effectiveness of drones due to the reduction of the light reflection of their surface, but this time to cover the drones , the rf forces used carbon, which is an absorbing material for the radar signal, and in addition, it has a red color, which makes it difficult to visually detect such a body, in particular for fire groups , at the same time, says igna, this did not prevent the air force and air defense forces from shooting down most of the drones with which

the russian army massively attacked ukraine, ukraine on november 25. among them, in particular, as can be seen from the wreckage that appeared on social networks, were also painted in black shahedi. i would like to remind everyone that on the night of november 25, russian forces launched 75 attack drones over ukraine, 74 of them were shot down, most of these drones attacked kyiv itself. the spokesman of the air force of the armed forces of ukraine, yuriy ignat, joins our broadcast, i congratulate you, mr. yuriy, you have already stated that the russian forces are improving shaheda drones in this way, this painting in black, as far as it helps to avoid ukrainian pppo, well, we saw only otti photo, i myself saw only a photo, i did not have it in my hands, and i think specialists now they are investigating what is painted, what is carbon.

applied and so on, well, it is obvious that this was done, and how many such drones there were, there is also no information yet, finally , whether it was one, or there were several of them, in order to understand how much the enemy was already before this, they probably also take, well, test this or that technique, but under such conditions, uh, let's say that this is not some kind of first modernization, actually these, firans, as they wrote there, here, before the enemy also tried to improve them somewhat, adding to the fuselage, well, i mean the body of the aircraft, composite materials, those that have really less, radar reflection, so, that is, so that the radar signal, well, that we get from this drone, so that we see it less radar. well, that's all, in this way, the enemy, not only these drones are perfected, you can see that they are modernizing

the same lancets, plus they are also creating new shock weapons, such as the kup, which they have in service, the war, well, this no matter how it is wanted, and to whom, and no matter how it sounds, this such a training ground for testing the latest weapons in real combat, therefore the enemy will constantly do this, will constantly... improve the existing weapons, and improve them definitely, well, ukraine does the same, after all, we also test one or another sample in combat conditions equipment, even western weapons, the partners are looking at how effectively it will work and what needs to be improved in this or that way. mr. yuriy, how often can russia create such massive attacks by shaheds, as we observed on november 25, 80 drones on one city, could it become, for example, a daily or weekly practice there? well, it all depends on the extent to which they will receive components from western countries

through the same iran or through other countries, it depends on the direction. the production that they deployed on the territory of russia, of course, allows them to strengthen their capabilities, yes, the production of uavs, they can partially make in russia a certain number of components there, yes, well, the same fuselage, the same propeller is meant, the same ones there , combat unit and so further, well, another, other components. such that they cannot produce themselves, and whether there is a need, if it is possible to take from iran, iran takes from somewhere else, and in this way, to increase production at the expense of additional production capacities, there are different opinions, there is also taras, why i also note, that they can manufacture and maintain up to 1,000 power supplies, well, this is a serious challenge and we need to prepare for it

, you are now showing footage of night work, when more than 70 drones were shot down, you... see many systems that worked precisely such as the cheetah and other analogues of it, which are actually destroyed with explosive shells, drones, well, quite effectively , ukraine needs more such systems , mobile fire groups are blocked, accordingly, well, a serious percentage, let’s say , they are blocked, but this is not a panacea, as they say, we need these systems that destroy drones in automatic mode at night with the help of optical and visa and radar binding to the target, but actually the cheetahs do it very well, so we need more such systems, almost 40% launched by in ukraine, the mobile air defense fire groups destroyed the russian drones and shaheds, air force commander mykola olyschuk reported this, and is this already the result of the recruitment of new mobile groups, the fact that there are more of them, or not?

they are simply increasing, let's say, new units are being created, well, you can't just...' a group and send it to the field with a machine gun, that's right, you need to give that group a vehicle , that is, a pickup truck, preferably a high-terrain vehicle, because you need a group put, promptly, very quickly direct the route of shahed, that is, all the defense forces, the on-duty forces, watch the movement of shahed, he is moving, then he changes the route sharply to the left, to the right, the group must be directed, the radius of damage of the mobile vehicle is several kilometers, if it is an anti-aircraft missile there, well, up to four, yes , if it is a machine gun 1-2 km effective, effective radius. damage, so we have to understand that the mobility of these groups , they are not just called mobile , mobility depends, on their mobility, the result depends, therefore motor vehicles, secondly, weapons, of course, what strikes, these are anti-aircraft guns and large-caliber machine guns and everything else that helps to achieve that result, this is thermal imaging equipment, this is night, night vision devices, these are searchlights,

these are laser pointers, this is how it all works, a mobile fire group consists of two people, this and the driver, and the operator of the anti-aircraft gun, the anti-aircraft gunner, the gunner of the large-caliber machine gun, and actually all these people work on the rocket at the same time, they have very little time, such a very small, short period of time, well, somewhere there may be tens of seconds, in order to hit, in a shaft that moves along theirs the route, the group, why the result is achieved, and thanks to the experience and thanks to those gadgets, as i said, that is, the experience multiplied by the desire of the people and multiplied by the weapons that are additionally provided to these mobile fire groups, without them, well, well, it will be difficult, so we must, we must understand that it is mobile fire groups that play an important role today, they help us save scarce and vitally important for us anti-aircraft guided

missiles, with those missiles we must deter the russian aviation, if the russian aviation in will be in the air space and we will not be able to get it at high altitudes with the iris, nasams, patriot, s-300, book m1 complexes, then it will not be very good, we must understand that these complexes cover us today, from the air, from these, madam, i understand that you are probably tired of this question somewhere, but i still come across those comments that why can't you beat the shaheds somewhere in the field, why do they fly to the city, i just answered. i just answered: a mobile fire group, how many kilometers is two, well, how many are needed for the area of ​​ukraine to be 6000 km more, well, it is with the occupied. well, how many of them are needed, how many systems are needed, arist with 40 km, the radius of action of the launch facility, 40, how much is

one area to cover, how many such systems are needed, likewise, the patriot has more than 100, well, how many patriots we have, you understand perfectly , that kyiv or some other direction can be blocked, but no more, so the length of the border, the length of the border of the front line, i mean, belarus. russia, the occupied territory, crimea, the black sea, azov, well, azov is not berreba, man the black sea coast and transnistria, 2.5 km, that's all about the front line, you have to understand that there won't be so many systems, well, we won't find so many systems anywhere in the world to block such a king, that's why today the air force, anti-aircraft the defense, which is managed by the commander of the air forces, general mykola golychuk, is occupied... by defending ukraine in those directions determined by the higher military leadership, which includes troops, and e, the main directions, where necessary, and objects

critical infrastructure, strategic objects the state, this is the only way to protect it locally today, that is why the shaheds fly around our ppo means, unfortunately they have intelligence information and fly around and fly all the way to the western borders of the state, where they are already destroyed on the way to the cities, as they wanted. to take such a solid line and put it as in israel, so the iron dome and other systems have made a kind of actual cap over their state on ours in our version such, well , it is impossible, and even in israel, you see that with the mass launch of various means of air attack, everything one thing flew by yes. thank you, mr. yuriy, this will be a reminder to all ukrainians not to abuse security, if there is an air warning signal, then also... not to ignore it. thank you for joining, the spokesman of the air force of the armed forces of ukraine, yuriy ignat, was a guest of our broadcast. during a timed attack by drones on

the kyiv region, russian forces damaged main power lines near kyiv, due to which there were risks of blackouts. they have already been restored, and interruptions are also observed in the frontline regions due to constant russian shelling. for example, in zaporizhzhia, mykolaiv, kharkiv, sumy and kherson regions. however, no region as of now. does not require emergency shutdowns, so say the ministry of energy. earlier, the ministry of energy reported a shortage of electricity in the power grid, energy experts called on citizens to save electricity in the evening hours, but if necessary, the ministry says, ukraine can import electricity from neighboring european countries. in addition to shelling, the weather adds to the work of energy workers, due to strong wind and blizzards, almost 400 settlements across the country, this is the data as of sunday evening from the state emergency service. people in odesa, mykolaiv, kirovohrad, cherkasy and kyiv regions were left without electricity. this is, for example, an electric pylon in odesa region, but it could not withstand the wind and fell,

the failure of the equipment creates an additional load on the network, ukrenergo promises to start restoring power networks as soon as weather conditions allow. we will talk about the weather conditions and the storm that came to ukraine later on our broadcast, and in detail let's talk about it, what is the situation, while you are in our comments. can you write which ukrainian region you are from, what is your weather situation, and maybe you decided today not to work from home, to teach there, children study at home also in certain regions, on distance learning, today they were transferred early in order not to create load, also for example , in the kyiv region, in kyiv , people are urged not to leave in their own cars, so please write which region you are from and what your situation is, and now contact us, svetlana grynchuk, deputy minister of energy of ukraine. i congratulate you, ms. svetlana. thank you for joining. good morning. let's start with the weather. in connection with the weather conditions, what kind of damage has the energy

system of ukraine suffered, are there many populated areas without electricity, do the energy companies have time to cope with this? as of today, in the morning of 2019 , electricity was cut off in 2019 settlements due to bad weather, another 500 due to hostilities in the east of ukraine and. some technical glitches, however, are still ongoing restoration work where possible, however, we know that according to forecasts of weather forecasters, bad weather will continue, eh, for now , repair crews, wherever possible, are required to go out for repairs and carry out such repair and restoration work, at the same time, we understand that the bad weather continues and how quickly it will be possible to do it is not yet known, but works about works... are being carried out, are any emergency shutdowns needed now, are they possible planned, is there a load on the system due to the consequences bad weather?

today, generation up to... is enough to supply all consumers, and outages , they only happen where there are certain disruptions due to bad weather, where there are broken lines, where it is impossible to supply, let's say this electricity, however, in terms of generation, then the generation is sufficient, there is no deficit in the energy system, therefore the only problem is disruption of complications, complications of repairs and disruption of overhead lines, where they occurred due to bad weather, and it is clear that the repair of these overhead lines, ukrenergo recently reported a deficit in to the electricity system in ukraine, is it such a permanent problem or situational, and why does it arise, how to act in such cases, listen to specialists, and save electricity there, or what to do, it was such a one-time, one-time event, on

for two days, there was a shortage in the power supply, this was due to the fact that at the same time seven power units at our power plants were put into emergency repair, now the state inspectorate is clarifying the reasons for such a quick, as if simultaneous, emergency repair of these units, at the same time they returned to work literally in one or two days, and today we do not have a shortage of energy, when there is a shortage, we always have the opportunity to request an emergency... import of our partners, today the capacity between ukraine and neighboring countries with for the european union, 1.2 g is enough, we never even choose this, this volume, but in case of such an unplanned, let's say, emergency at power units, we can always count on imports from partner countries. ms. svitlana, what are the consequences?

russian attacks in recent days on the ukrainian energy industry, can we say that the energy industry was the target of the enemy? for now, we cannot say yes, yes, yes, of course, during the attacks , power lines were primarily damaged, three power lines of ukrainergo were damaged, precisely in kyiv, in the kyiv region, in kyiv, so there were threats that we we will not have time to restore and the evening peaks could have been disconnected, but this did not happen, our... quickly restored the operation of these lines, they were used, you understand that since last year we we already have a lot of experience in how to quickly respond to any damage, and our energy workers did a very good job this time, so there were no blackouts just because of the russian attacks, what problems are expected due to the bad weather that is approaching, including the capital, is it possible is it forecast?

well, first of all, it's of course on the... on the power lines, where there are, we have a large number of line breaks, we need to use a huge number of repair crews in order to quickly repair these lines, so of course in due to bad weather, power outages are possible, but we will try to restore very quickly where the situation allows , so that there are no long-term outages, it can be, except for short-term outages, and let's hope that the bad weather is all - it will end soon. and how difficult is it in the current conditions to restore the damaged energy infrastructure, is there a sufficient amount of necessary materials for this, has it been possible to establish their supply or possible production? difficult, but it is difficult for us there where it is, the security situation does not allow it, let's say in the front-line areas, our repair crews cannot always and not always

reach, to er, to the places where it is necessary to repair and restore, to restore electricity, but where it is possible, where it is safe the situation allows, our crews work continuously and every day restore a huge number of consumers where there were outages due to attacks, regarding a sufficient amount of equipment to carry out such repair work, in the period from since the beginning of the attacks last year, a huge energy equipment hub was created, through this hub we will receive, receive help from all our partners, the ministry of energy, together with partners , has developed a special platform where companies submit requests for the equipment they need for repairs, our partners in they themselves look for this equipment, buy it, transfer it, so this process is constantly happening here.