[000:02:13;00] what is going on with our information marathon on the espresso tv channel, and now we will visit the front a little, find out what the situation is now on the battlefields, denys nagorny, we are joined by major of the national guard, chief of staff of the artillery of the 4th rubizh brigade, mr. denys, good morning . good morning studio, good morning, dear viewers, it's nice to see you smiling, what is the situation at the front, what is happening in your direction now? the russians continue to conduct active assaults on the positions of the defense forces currently in place the moment in active defense, in particular , mobilized units, akhmativ units, and storm units are used,

trying to storm and close. to drink in our positions, we actively repulse these assaults, eh, the enemy bears up to 95% of losses , throwing, his own wounded, killed at will and retreats to the exit lines, but the enemy units are actively replenished, in particular from a number of convicts and a number of mobilized, i.e. active mobilization has begun in russia, and they are filling their own units with personnel. to continue assaults, uh, 60% of such units are untrained people without basic training, the so -called cannon fodder, and 40% are already being directly prepared by the russians for assault operations. the russians are actively, at the moment, using artillery and mortars, prowling through populated areas, trying to hinder our logistics, trying to kill those people

who have not left, who are free, who cannot leave, or who have remained in populated areas for certain reasons, that is, they are trying to wipe out populated areas from the face of the earth, especially, this is especially felt in the toretska district, in the area of ​​klishchiivka, borkhivka, spirny, and bilogorivka, the use of guided air bombs from tactical aviation also increased, their range of use decreased, and cassettes were added to them. aerial bombs and phosphorous incendiary munitions, which the russians actively use on landings, in order to cause at least some damage to our fighters. the peculiarities of the hostilities at the moment are the use of quadcopters and aircraft-type uavs, in particular, such mass use of these types of

unmanned aerial vehicles, feels... on klishchievts, berkhivts and spirn, i.e. in three directions, why and what is this connected with, it is due to the fact that their cost price is inexpensive, i.e. 40. dollars and their mass at the moment is very large at the enemy, i.e. they produce approx . up to 3-4x, if you take the direction, up to 3-4 drones per month, and they are also actively using such types of drones as orlan chiza to adjust artillery fire, to adjust the strikes of the same drones, such as fpv, and so on only for mining by quadcopters, that is to illuminate the area where it will be mined directly, er, for mining by quadrocopters access roads and

roads where logistics will be provided, for example, if you take the direction of our fourth brigade of the border, then it is also actively used in this situation web complexes, if you take it roughly, there are probably two stations, two or three short-range reb stations on 1 km of the front, which are connected with the same quadcopters, that is, er, this reb does not affect the action of the quadcopters themselves, and likewise , if roughly taken, then on 30-50 km of the front there is the same reb, wavaye at our, at our unmanned aviation, but already long-range, in particular, from a tactical point of view , at the moment, in the winter period, the enemy,

in winter it is generally a war of infantry and artillery, why, because it is much more difficult to fight with equipment, the driveways are blurred, we can see exactly what the weather is like, it is snowing, the wind is blowing, it is impossible or dangerous to use certain types of weapons, for example, what is this connected with, is it connected with ballistic conditions, with weather, with the same weather conditions, er, and with the same, with the amount of use of equipment, er, because in the army it has always been that 60-70% is wheeled equipment and 30% is tracked, and at the moment there is not so much tracked equipment and the enemy protects it, why does it protect it, because we are actively destroying it, and our active, our active counter-battery

fight continues, this is 70% of the total number of artillery fire missions, in 40% of cases, thanks to the counter-battery fight, the russian artillery is destroyed, this is achieved by the fact that they are samples of nato weapons, they are more more accurate than the soviet samples, because the soviet samples are more used for endurance and massiveness, the nato samples with the help of three to five ammunition already go for more accuracy, that is, for better performance of tasks, and 60%, in 60% it goes ... prohibiting the operation of a certain number of artillery systems so that they do not work on our positions. i also ask, mr. denys, whether it is true what some foreign media have written about, that the russians' use of a new generation

of these guys of radio-electronic warfare, somewhat reduced the effectiveness of precision projectiles like scalibor, do you notice that too, or is that really an exaggeration? in some cases this is a bit of an exaggeration, but, unfortunately, the russian reb does not stand still , just like our reb, the russians do have some influence on accuracy, but in general, in general, they do not have such a critical advantage, that is, how russian artillery was destroyed, and it continues to be destroyed and destroyed. as their technology was destroyed, so it continues to be destroyed, the technology itself just does not stand still, they are developing, we are developing, there is parity, i would say

how cluster munitions justify themselves, of course, especially, in this case, in this case, 70% of all assaults, why i before... said, that winter is a war of infantry and artillery, because here basically 70% of all assaults, even i would say already 80, fall on personnel. which goes without equipment, which goes like cannon fodder, yes, which is used as groups of diggers, and in this case the use of these ammunition is completely justifies itself, that is , the so-called infantry target is open, that is, infantry that is not in the trenches, and even if it is in the trenches, it is destroyed even before they dig in.

some positions to us, because we have all seen the negative consequences of trenches, trenches, in particular, as near avdiivka, and thanks to the fact that there are cluster munitions, such groups are detected even before they get to the positions, or directly as they have already entered the positions and are already being destroyed there, because if they are not destroyed, then in 99% of cases they will pile up and start to attack the positions of our troops, it sounds like advice to fight insects, to be honest, that 's how you listen, mr. denis, thank you for your work, which i think is extremely important and i think that what can i say here, good luck, we wish you a good, productive day , denys nagorny was with us, a major of the national guard, chief of staff of the artillery of the 4th rubizh brigade. you and i will now take a short break and then we will talk more about

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're coming back, and now we're going to talk to serhiy zgurets, a military expert and director of the defense express company, about the proposals. events at the front, first of all, mr. serhiy, good morning to you, sir, good morning, i greet you, i greet our viewers , first of all i would like to ask about today's night attack, shahedima, it was so combined, again, somehow and so and so they tried to enter from different areas, i understand, different routes, nevertheless, all drones, let me remind you that they were shot down , the ukrainian anti-aircraft forces reported this, 21 martyrs and two of the three missiles that attacked ukraine, that is, two days remain until the calendar winter, meanwhile the winter is already as if, so to speak, the snow has already come, that is, the cold has already come, and the russians, as i understand it, whether it is already the beginning or not, they are already attacking us, i think that the beginning was even earlier, indeed, the enemy

is actively using shahedi and according to these indicators , the beating of all shaheds for the past night is very high high, which actually surprised me, because we understand that most of the shahed are destroyed by these mobile groups that use manpads and machine guns, there are foreign systems, there are cheetahs, but we understand that now it has snowed and in particular the movement of these mobile brigades was significantly difficult, even if they were in certain designated areas, in any case, the weather significantly complicated their movement and work, but we can see that the groups worked extremely efficiently, which suggests that this element against defense, well is gaining more and more capacity, by the way, just yesterday there was also a tank of the supreme needle blower, where directions for strengthening air defense were discussed , it was said that foreign models are effective enough, but all the same we need to strengthen these mobile units and we see that they are working well enough effectively, but we

understand that apart from the use of shaheds, we do not currently see any objections to the enemy's use of long-range cruise missiles of the kha-101 type. we understand that a certain stock of around 800 missiles has been accumulated, as mentioned the main intelligence agency, and we probably do not rule out this threat, that at some stage the enemy will already combine its strike actions , combining both shahed and its kirlat missiles, but this direction of threats is also known to us, and i think that air defense will be ready for this , but we also understand that we are a big country and it will be simply impossible to provide a hundred percent guarantee of covering the mppo means for all objects. uh, there is also information so nice that another russian, uh, russian general died in ukraine. we are still waiting for

final confirmations. i don't know, mr. sergey, whether you also tried to verify this information that this is the commander of the 14th army corps of the russian federation, general. vladimir zavatsky, apparently died, was blown up by a mine, somewhere now in ukraine, well , we will wait for confirmation, the information is really good, and it adds, let's say, special indicators, an increase in the number of enemy losses, today the general staff there reported about 1140 russian russians destroyed, and we see that these indicators remain sufficient high, which on the one hand speaks of the effectiveness of the means of impression of our defense, and on the other hand of the intensity of hostilities and the fact that the enemy, who previously did not spare the personnel, directing them to a breakthrough in various areas of the front, in terms of the displacement of generals, then this

the situation is actually anomalous, because it means that, well, the control system is built in such a way that, on the one hand, it is possible to determine the enemy's locations, where the command posts are located, which are destroyed by yes ... systems, hymar or others, impression systems, or such things when russian generals blow up mines, but let's wait for confirmation, first of all, this political scandal , which erupted again, after the comments of maryana bezuglloya, deputy of the servants of the people and deputy head of the parliamentary committee on national security and defense, in particular one of the points, well, here is the main obstacle , let's say marina bzulyo to the military leadership, it seems that it has no plans for the next year, how would you comment on it, is it possible in principle not to have such plans and what did she have in general mean by these plans? eh, strategic plans for the armed forces are a conceptual document for the existence of the armed forces, it exists, is developed for a year, is approved

by the president, of course such plans exist, such strategic plans do not need to be submitted to the parliament, discussed in the parliament and proof of certain detailed things that conditionally speaking, well, it can be known to the parliaments, even with certain levels of admission, that is, it is a purely military plan that the president knows, let's say... which he himself already signs, that is, in fact, we can talk about that these accusations against the general staff or the general staff on the part of certain political forces, in particular , the arahamia started there, were then inexplicably joined by such repeated accusations, which , in my opinion, rather speaks of certain political aspects in this story than of concrete measures related to an effort to really improve the defense system or some other. or things that will really affect the front line, because now we are discussing this scandal, these statements

by politicians, and it distracts attention on the one hand, and on the other hand it creates it the opportunity to use these nuances to the enemy there and to our foreign partners in order to say that something is going wrong there, and one way or another it still has a negative effect on the general perception of what is happening in the management of the armed forces. in russia, putin signed a record, even by the standards of the ussr, only the military budget can be compared with the ussr , but i read that in principle almost all articles of social spending were cut by 10% for health care, there by 40% for science, in a word, everything literally global budget sequestration, everything in order to accumulate funds as much as possible for the next two years, and he is signed up to the 26th, it seems, of the year, well, really , when we are talking about the russian budget, really colossal expenses, starting from

next year, if i am not mistaken, in this year's budget was about 70 billion dollars, for the next year they plan about 120-150, that is, in fact, twice, it is about 39% of the total expenses of the russian federation, and they are collecting such rates of spending on defense, for defense needs. . support 24, 25, in the 26th years, that is, we can actually say that russia is militarizing as much as possible, all expenses, others are canceled, only the army, the need for defense and so on remain, this indicates that there are indeed risks of reproducing the defense potential of the russian federation, this means that, on the one hand, it is necessary to strengthen the sanctions, because the earning of funds takes place at the expense of hydrocarbons and other export routes, which the russian federation must cut as much as possible, so that this, against the background

of increasing defense costs, increases and the budget deficit as such, because it is also very colossal, so relatively speaking, this economic imbalance simply needs to be provided by our partners, and on the other hand, it is necessary to draw conclusions that our european partners, nato, the united states should provide now own approaches to ensuring our defense and reviewing our own positions on guaranteeing security in europe, because now there are many reports that hide the fact that, in fact , russia, having ensured this militarization over the last two or three years, will is capable of conducting hostilities there against individual nato countries, and in particular, representatives of lithuania, it seems, spoke yesterday, the minister of foreign affairs said that europe should react to this, because it seems that the europeans are waiting for certain cooperation in order to

really look at what russia poses a threat to all of europe. well, actually, by the way, this was announced yesterday in an interview with the russian media by the deputy minister of foreign affairs of the russian federation serhiy rryabkov, he said that russia is ready for war with nato countries. er, this is russian bravado, can they really hatch such plans, in your opinion, is russia finally ready for such a war, eh now russia uh, stopped because of ukraine, we see the colossal losses that ukraine has ensured in reducing the russian military potential, but russia has drawn conclusions, now we see that there is a combination of financial opportunities, and directing them to military needs and a change in internal ideology, when precisely, well, the fight against the collective action of nato becomes

the basis of infecting the russian country, this now what characterizes the orientations and goals of the russian federation, there is simply no other goal than war in russia right now , and this is precisely, in principle, i repeat, the challenge that european countries are currently not fully taking into account, in particular even because the fact that even their defense industry is developing slowly enough in comparison with the needs that will be necessary for the ukrainian army and the armed forces of the european states, but all the voices in europe in the states are saying that even if the war will acquire on a larger scale, there are all the possibilities to oppose it, and actually to end the existence of the russian federation as such a conditional super-country. we are very disappointed , of course, with the pace of arms deliveries, probably this year, particularly with europe's failure

to deliver on its plan to deliver millions upon millions of shells. and for the ukrainian army, and this is also not enough, you also said about this that we would like more than 1 million shells for they have a plan there to supply a million ammunition by march, but i still i really hope that the real threats will allow the americans and the europeans together to produce about 2 million projectiles per year, at least by the end of next year, these indicators are quite real, the greater the threat, the more the european leadership will put pressure on its enterprises, i think that production volumes should still be increased, as well as the production of other weapons systems, and ensuring the repair and maintenance of the equipment that is already used by the armed forces forces, well, on paper, i don't know, our allies, the european union, the united states, japan, i don't know there, australia, canada, well, they just have many times greater capabilities,

why then we can't now, well, i don't know.. . to get enough weapons so that once, so to speak, the next year becomes a turning point in another sense, about which, well , the same michael kaufman writes that in fact it can, next year we should be more restrained, not so optimistic , i think that next year we will need to ensure the defense and recovery system capabilities, i.e., this restoration of capabilities will also concern the preparation of our reserves, forces, and the acquisition of additional weapons and equipment from our levels in nato countries, in the united states, so i still expect that the next year, if we will say so, will be a year of defense, but a year of increasing capabilities, because both legitimate experts

and part of the expert environment of ukraine recognizes that now it is necessary to create... prerequisites that will ensure, in particular, changes in approaches to strategy from waging war, it is already happening, and on the other hand, to ensure, well, a regular systematic supply of those forces and means that are primarily needed for conducting first defensive and then offensive actions. well, thank you very much, mr. serhiy, serhiy zgorets, a military expert and director of the defense express company, was with us, and meanwhile , our second hour is coming to an end. today's informational marathon morning ether and ahead of us on our airwaves is the radio liberty project freedom mornings, and just now, traditionally at this hour exactly at 9:00, we are all in the country, honoring the memory of all those who died in this war, all those killed by the russians and the civilian population and ukrainian defenders

who continue to restrain russian aggression. on the frontlines, so let's remember everyone who died in this war with a moment of silence. let's honor with a moment of silence the memory of ukrainian military and civilian citizens of ukraine who died in the war that