[000:00:00;00] in fact, the stormy winds that were almost all last week, it was kind of difficult to work with fpv drones, but we are adapting little by little, we will have to change some things in the technique, but some things will have to be reconfigured, i think it will somehow work, but winter is a time of the year when it is extremely difficult to conduct military operations , you know, in medieval europe it was once considered that it was very, very bad manners to fight in winter in general, and they stopped for the winter, but here we are, of course, this is europe, but not medieval , so we will continue. mr. mykola, i wanted to know about such a thing, how many flights can an fpv drone operator make on average per flight operation, on what does it depend, on the number of targets scouted, before that, on the number of fpv drones, on some other conditions, i.e. what are the average indicators for one operation, well

, within the power of such a trained person? look, one calculation is planned for 15, 10-15 drones, yes, 15 drones, the launch of 15 drones in one day, shift, or in one operation - this is such a good indicator, this is under the conditions, if the unit is secured, if there are enough drones, and all other restrictions are as follows, let's say material and they are overcome, 15 drones, this means that, speaking objectively, the effectiveness of the airfield, every third target, is destroyed, yes, this means , which sometimes happens, some drones do not reach there due to the effect of enemy reb, and some drones may not reach due to some other objective factors of influence, for example, weather conditions and the like, that is, the efficiency is basically the same as that of such, you know, praised

russian lancets, although, this thing is more expensive, the drone is not that expensive, so 15 launches per shift, that is, per working day, or per operation, is a normal indicator, and about stocks and supplies of drones, fpws or other drones, do you receive samples from ukroboronprom, from state structures, or as before, the main flow is actually into private companies, initiative groups of people, and your funds, which you collect at the expense of your own information activities? you know, something comes from the state, right? i did not hold the drones in the hands of the ukroboronprom production itself, yes, the production itself, as a rule, these are private initiative companies, in which sometimes the state buys, sometimes we buy on our own, i would say that most of the drones that we

have, we buy on our own by our own decision and a smaller part is sent to us by the state, there are certain hopes that this will change next year, because at least what i heard is that the state is very active in the direction of creating ukrainian production in us, somehow supporting them financially, or at least with orders, and to contract a sufficient number for the next year, well, so you understand, a sufficient number of iprons, this is quite a lot, for the brigade this is the average consumption per month. this is 1,000 drones, this is the average, we are not talking about the fact that it is necessary to have some first-line reserve and some strategic reserve there. when we talk about some qualitative changes in drones, information is already starting to appear that fpb drones are beginning to be used at night, which means that other means are emerging to

be able to provide combat operations at night, as in us with such drones, do you already use such drones, or are we still on our way to this, well, let me tell you this, in general, it is not very common to talk about the latest technologies in our country, but i can assure you that in terms of night , i will not say whether they are used or whether we plan to use them in the near future , but we are absolutely not far behind the russians, they have already used such a technique sometimes, although from what i have seen, yes, analyzing their videos, i can say , that these are one-time shares, yes, there is not much of it yet, it is worth understanding, that even having a drone, for example, from a television camera, well, in addition to the fact that it will cost a little more than the same one, but a daytime one, it will still have big problems with calculating the price, in the

structure of defeating the target, yes, the polytro itself... and damage, this is the last element of the fact that you need to get preliminary reconnaissance, and reconnaissance at night is quite such a complicated, complicated matter, and if you do not know when this technique is going there, then take off is simple, as they say on the phone, then it will be a very large expenditure of drones, but let's be honest i will answer in a few words, yes, we have night drones with both thermal imaging cameras and light-sensitive cameras, and they are used, very cool, in one of the conversations with our military, also from the mouth of the attack drones, this military said the phrase about the fact that fpv drones can actually slowly replace mortars when there is a shortage of ammunition, this phrase caused a lot of criticism there in the comments to our video,

how do you assess whether a significant number of drones can really, let's say, compensate for the lack of artillery or ammunition for those or other directions? ah, no, it can’t, it can’t replace it, i’ll say right away, it’s... slightly different means, here it is, let’s say, fpv drones are super effective, but still it’s a situational tool, yes, still a mortar will shoot in the snow, the mortar will shoot in the rain, the mortar will shoot in the fog, yes, of course the accuracy will decrease in bad weather conditions, but it will still be able to shoot, imagine a defense based solely on yog drones, so the enemy... it is enough to wait for some sufficiently dense fog, in which active drones will be ineffective, in general, to arrive on armored combat vehicles, where to roll out a line of defense, so of course you can’t, you know, war is a complicated thing, just like

our life in general, and there is no such panacea, there, let’s build a lot of tanks and go forward on tanks, or let's build a lot of conventional planes there and fly forward, there is no frontal stick and success is achieved: precisely in synergy between different types of troops, by different means, and of course, having normal tactics for their use, so no, drones instead of mortars. mr. mykola, how do you organize the training of drone operators, do you train them in-house, or do you have established contacts there with certain schools that really train personnel with high quality, and due to this, well, the training period is shortened, as established education? well, look. in general, the ability to use semi-drones, so to speak, to use, not to pilot, it consists of two components, the first is the physical skills of the pilot itself, that is, he must be able

to control the drone, and these basic skills are acquired by our pilots at the courses of various schools, well for example, we can say victoridrom, there is such a school, we cooperate and are very satisfied with the results, and at the exit of this school we have a person who understands the structure of the fpv drone, the configuration of the fpv drone and actually the piloting of the fpv drone. well, i'd say it's probably somewhere, as weird as it sounds, 20% of success. everything else is that material support, yes, those drones, that communication system, and probably the biggest part is the tactics of application. the material support itself is up to us, and teaching the tactics of application is also up to the person to teach tactics can only be used on the example of real combat conditions, you can of course tell something there, but how will this drone behave in the conditions of the enemy's operation, yes, you can even drive some specific ones,

turn on our ornielectronic warfare machine and say, well, it will be something like this, but how it will be in reality, the pilot learns only in real combat conditions, that is why such a pilot, who has previously been trained to pilot at a school, is taken to a position, flies, specific skills, how to deploy, how to disguise, how to display equipment, how to respond to what factors of influence, there to shelling , how to chase mobile equipment, how to hit, how to hit planned targets, stationary shelters and fortifications, all this is already learned on the spot. mr. mykola, thank you very much for your explanations, for what you do for our country, for our protection, and i will remind our viewers that this was mykola volokhov, the commander of the tera air reconnaissance unit as part of the third separate assault brigade, and i will emphasize once again that

you can support the unit on the company's website financially this unit with funds that will be directed to the purchase of fpv drones, which will then be used against our enemy quite effectively, there are many videos and our defenders demonstrate how effectively the manpower and equipment of the enemy are affected, and then we will talk about other aspects of the front and about the events surrounding the war, we will now be joined by viktor kevlyuk, a reserve colonel and an expert of the strategy center, mr. viktor, welcome to the espresso channel, nice to see and hear, good evening, mr. sergey, we spoke with our previous guest, in general about the situation near bakhmut, i would like you to give a more comprehensive assessment of everything that is currently happening on the front line, the general dynamics, and then mention in more detail about bakhmud, avdiivka and the south, those areas that are now well, they arouse the greatest interest among our viewers, and on the other hand, it is the most tense from

the point of view of hostilities, the situation at the front is not particularly dynamic today, if we talk about the events that took place during november, the following picture emerges: on kupinsky in the direction of the 25th and 138th brigades of the enemy , they have been unsuccessfully trying to advance to sinkivka for a month, they are unable to do anything, the regiment of the second motorized rifle division of the enemy is fighting in the district of may day and has an advance of about 2 km. in the area between orlyanka and yagidny, several of our strong points were captured by the 26th tank regiment of the 47th tank division, between raigorodka and novoyehorivka, on the contrary, our defense forces pushed back the enemy by half a kilometer. and to stabilize the situation in the

raigorodka district, the enemy threw 380 the motorized rifle regiment, in the berdyan direction, the units that arrived in ukraine from sakhalin island counterattacked in the staromarsky district and advanced somewhat in the balki hrushev district, in the tokmat district in the robotino district, our units of the operational-strategic grouping of tavria troops. advanced towards the trenches, pushing the enemy's 136th brigade from its position, and the enemy's 247th amphibious assault regiment was also forced to leave its positions at the height of 140 and completely retreated to verbove, where it took up new defensive positions in the settlement position, but it's a very small dynamic, you see, advancing by 200, 300, 500 m, then in

one direction, then in the other. in the direction of bakhm, the situation is more interesting, the enemy, having captured the city, created for himself such a salient, somewhere in the size of 24/13 km, and now we can observe the situation when, if the command of the operational-strategic grouping of khortyts forces strikes two blows in the direction of pokrovsky from the north and from in the afternoon, that is... a fairly significant enemy group will be surrounded, which is currently conducting combat operations in bakhmut, the enemy command this is aware of the situation, to the north of bakhmut, two airborne divisions of the enemy are trying to push our troops beyond the berkhiv reservoir, they have advanced from the same 200 to 500 m in a month, to the south the enemy

is trying after regrouping. to knock our troops out of positions in the area of ​​klishchiivka and andriivka, it turns out quite badly for him, because the heights are reliably held by units of the khortytsia group, and the enemy cannot do anything about it, but avdiivka is the most tense area, i understand that the enemy command is trying , under a christmas tree to his political leadership, to bear the fact of mastering this city, just in the past day, the enemy has carried out 14 attacks , almost in full force, they are trying to master avdiivka, the first army corps, the eight combined forces of the enemy, the second and the 41st armies, respectively, the enemy is attacking in in the direction of the novokalynovy, steppe, coke chemical... plant is trying to break through the eastern southern

outskirts of avdiyivka, to break into tonenko, pervomaiske, further south in the area of ​​marinka and novomykhailivka, two divisions of the enemy 20 and 1510, with the support of the 39th brigade of the 68th army corps from petropalovsk-kamchatsky, are conducting combat operations, trying to somehow facilitate the advance to the avdiivka district, but they also cannot achieve any results, so in short, the situation today is as follows , we are left with and a significant number of questions, i will start with the most relevant one, that this week actually began with inquiries or accusations from individual people's deputies that the general staff, relatively speaking, does not have a war plan for the next year, and i would like

to hear your assessments, what are the defense planning documents about, which do not exist, do they really exist, and the deputies never had access to them and will not have access to them... or about some political things that are directed, well, to false claims to the military leadership, what are your assessments? in my assessment, the qualifications of people's deputies who perform certain functions related to the problems of state defense are extremely low. the law on the defense of ukraine clearly defines that the state must have a plan for the defense of ukraine. this is the plan the president approved on february 22, 2000, on february 25, 2022, accordingly, all the documents required by law are in the state, and the fact that they do not know about it in the parliament, in particular in the committee on national security, defense and intelligence, is probably not a problem

the military, and the politicians, so attempts to somehow call the military to some kind of responsibility do not look good. and one more question about changing approaches to mobilization, because the president said last week that this week there will be a concept, whether it's finalized or presented, about optimization of approaches, which means such changes in approaches to mobilization, it is about expanding the quantitative base of potential mobilized people there or about some deeper things that can have a larger-scale impact on the situation on the front line. i think, once again, politicians are confused. confusing the process of staffing the defense forces with personnel and mobilization processes, which are pre-planned and comprehensively provided measures for the transfer of state authorities and the national economy to functioning in military conditions

time, no one said anything about it, so i think that an unclearly formed task will lead to an equally unclear execution of it. turn presentation of beds where you yourself know, mr. viktor, well, thank you for your such tough and direct comments, and i will remind our viewers that viktor kevlyuk, a reserve colonel and an expert of the center for defense strategies, was on the air. these were the main highlights of the military results of this day, and more international and economic news later on vasyl zima's broadcast. good evening, we are from ukraine. thank you, serhiy zhorets, these were the military results of the day, thank you to his guests, and then the news, about the most important thing for this hour, i will tell you in detail. two women were rescued from the rubble in turkey, they were hospitalized with serious injuries,

two more women received minor injuries. the russians dropped two fab-500 guided aerial bombs on one of the buildings of the toretsk mine, proce'. are forming in the national police, the workers were in the workshop where an enemy shell hit, industrial premises were also damaged by shelling, the wife of the head of the main department was officially fired intelligence services of ukraine poisoned kyryll budanov, representative of the agency andriy yusov in a comment to radio liberty confirmed the information that was spread in the mass media. mariana budanova is in the hospital, the course of treatment is coming to an end, the woman was diagnosed with damage by heavy metals, these substances are not used in everyday life or military affairs, so their presence may indicate a purposeful attempt to poison a specific person, the details were promised

to be made public later. new year's eve in the shevchenkivskyi district detention center. continued precautionary measure of detention of entrepreneur ihor kolomoiskyi. as an alternative , he set a bail of more than 3.5 billion hryvnias. the court also ordered to provide the necessary medical assistance to the businessman. during the meeting, a doctor from one of the private medical institutions in dnipro spoke about the presence of certain diseases and the need for treatment. a businessman, a military serviceman, and employees of the 1.1 tv channel wanted to take kolomoiskyi as bail, but they could not. a threat to language, some provisions of the law on the rights of national minorities, which are planned to be adopted in to the verkhovna rada, significantly impair the functioning of the ukrainian language in various spheres of public life. this was stated by the language ombudsman taras kremen. according to him , the government bill will significantly reduce the presence of the state language on television and

radio. it will also weaken the guarantees of the rights of representatives of national minorities to study in the state language in educational institutions. in addition , kremin considers the postponement of provisions for the russian language for five years as an inadequate safeguard against russification and calls for the draft law to be worked out even before consideration in the first reading. while the land in the east of ukraine is suffering from the attacks of russian barbarians, the land in the west is suffering from raiders, mitropolichu gardens in the very center of lviv near the st. george's cathedral are under the threat of illegal construction, see our story for more details. all residents of lviv and even tourists know about the residence of the greek-catholic metropolitans and the real architectural gem of the 15th century. st. george, the building that is next to us is the metropolitan chambers in which he actually lived

metropolitan andriy sheptytskyi served, and later the entire hierarchy of the ukrainian greek catholic church. this complex in the style of baroque and rococo was designed almost 300 years ago by the famous architects from lviv , bernard meretyn and clemens festinger. andriy shiptytsky, who was not only a metropolitan, but also a patron, lived in the wards and created an eight-grade classical gymnasium. generously sponsored ukrainian cultural and educational societies. on his initiative, the lviv national museum was established in 1905, and the ukrainian national museum in 1914 university in lviv. andrey sheptyts was a philanthropist and he owned large sums of money and invested in culture, in art, in people, in the church, from his somewhere such contributions grew patriarch yosif slipy. at the beginning of the last century, the lower part. whose gardens were freely accessible to local residents, and during the soviet regime , radar facilities were erected on this territory. during the soviet

era, towers were set up there, silencers were placed in them, which silenced the voice of america, radio liberty was there, well, all of them, all the networks, well, ukraine became independent, lviv joined unesco there, these towers were taken away. the lviv city council decided to return the gardens to the ukrainian greek catholic church under conditions. access for city residents, but it did not happen. the state service for special communications and information protection of ukraine decided to condemn this land with an area of ​​more than 2 hectares. we legitimately adopted a resolution at the session and gave this land to the church. and here, you know, how pelyp skonpel is suing the special forces, what is the right of the successor of all those who say no, this is our land. it is interesting that in 2020, when lviv. decided to return part of the lower metropolitan gardens to the greek catholic church, this area was free. there was no information in the land cadastre that it belonged to

the state intelligence service, says city council member ulyana pak. in fact, we identified this plot of land, registered it in the land cadastre, registered the right of ownership and, accordingly, took all adequate measures that should have been taken when this plot was to be transferred to the ownership of the curia of the archdiocese of the ukrainian greek catholic church, the courts in the case of a valuable plot in the center of lviv have been going on since 2020, and while the lawsuits were progressing through the courts, developers have already set their sights on this land - says lviv mayor andriy sadovy. then the builders start spinning, or maybe we are a bunch of crazy guys, this is the spiritual heart of lviv. the intention of the special forces to condemn the land, which no one claimed until 2020, is quite clear right now, during the war. land and real estate in the west

of ukraine have become substantially more expensive, and doing business while destroying cultural heritage and neglecting interests of the community is unacceptable, people's deputy mykola knyazhytsky insists. real estate in lviv is currently the most expensive in ukraine, apartments are the most expensive here, and for many people, the historical value of our city does not play any role, only business plays a role. i cannot say otherwise about what is happening in the city now, and it is absolutely shameful to use the war to actually destroy our historical heritage. it is interesting to take land from lviv residents and the ukrainian greek-catholic community churches, where the special forces decided at a time when many churches in ukraine still remain in the structure of the russian orthodox church and the moscow patriarchate, and these are not only churches, but also large plots of land. the situation looks somehow absurd. because, when it comes to the fact that the state cannot adequately ban the russian church and resolve the issue with its

property and with numerous objects and real estate and land plots, and at the same time, we now have a court, when the state actually wants to take historical and church lands from the ukrainian greek catholic church. the case about 2 hectares of valuable land in the center of lviv eventually reached the supreme court, and a month ago the officials of themis took the side of the state special forces, not the lviv community. we won the first instance and the appeal, the supreme court overturned this decision and ordered a new trial, and now we have received a negative decision, but the legal department is preparing an appeal. we turned to the state service of special communications and information protection of ukraine with an information request, asked to share future plans for the site metropolitan gardens, as well as to provide documents on ownership and extracts from the state hecadastre for notation, and we have not yet received a response from the department. and while the future

fate of the historic site remains unknown, it is already quite obvious what the state intelligence agency's intentions are with regard to another part of the local land. more than 8 acres in lysynychy, on the northern outskirts of lviv, are planned to be trivially built. this is stated in the draft amendments to the detailed plan of the territory. according to the document, a residential block of 47 sections will be built here. blysanichach, they had a big one the military part, they are currently reforming it and want to build housing there as well. so i have a question, the special service, this is a structure that works for the state, this is another construction office. during the preparation of this story for broadcast, it became known that nabu reported the suspicion to the head of the state intelligence service yury shchyguly and five other employees of the agency. during the purchase of equipment and software, they allegedly illegally took over uah 602 million. the government dismissed the goldfinch from his post, and rolled back

decisions made by the head of the service and judicial authorities in the case. metropolitan gardens are much more complicated. so now the community of lviv is facing a new round of litigation over the historical territory near the st. george's cathedral, which developers have already set their sights on. well , this is the problem we have with, well, not with metropolitan gardens, but with the desire of individual people to build wherever it is possible to build, for stupid money. i hope that the situation will still be resolved in favor of the city of lviv, its historical component, and of course, the ukrainian church, we are now talking about the greek-catholic ukrainian church and ukrainian history as well. iryna fedoriv is in touch with us, a journalist, public activist, we will talk about the reform of the civil service. everything seems to be very complicated. actually, mrs. iryna, she will tell us this very simply now. i congratulate you. congratulations. so, about the reform, i am now referring to your post on the social network, it was written out that our european partners

have been telling us for a long time to make it so that civil servants have a salary... of 70%, and a bonus of no more than 30, well bonuses are something that is negotiated, always, now we have a salary of a penny, the bonuses are sky-high, please tell me why it is important to change this, and in general, what other problems are associated with this in the very functioning of the civil service during the period, especially the martial law , please, well, you already correctly said that basically any bonus can be planned , and in our country it turns out that people receive pennies per salary, and the bonus can be uah 2000, and people simply do not understand what amount they can count on tomorrow and will depend on his manager, the manager, if they see loyalty pays money, if they don't see loyalty, they don't pay money, and if they don't pay the bonus for several months, then the person will simply be forced to resign, and that's why we don't have a public service that works the way it should to work, and people who are loyal to their leaders, so it was a clear demand of our

european partners that we normalize everything here. but what happened to us, we did not adopt the draft law that was supposed to be adopted, the budget stated that this is how we will pay 70% of the salary, 30% from the new year bonuses, but no one knows what the salary will be, and panic began in budgetary institutions, they began to draw new departments, new departments, for which, well, the more departments, the more departments, the more managers, which means that a person will have a managerial salary, well, this is not a reform, but a sham, because in fact, we will spend money inefficiently, because the salaries are inflated, and we clearly saw on the example of the plenary session of the supreme court that even some judges spoke out against such inflation of the salary painting, and i hope that the ministry of finance will in some way influence this, because by the end of the year they have to give some documents, a decision about what our salaries should be, and interestingly,