the first meeting of the ukraine-nato council at the level of foreign ministers. officials approved an ambitious program for the coming year and whether words will turn into real actions. the situation at the front is worsening. where the russians became active. ukraine and poland have taken some measures to unblock the border, but thousands of trucks are still standing in line at the border. so about that and much more in today's issue. nato members have pledged to increase aid to ukraine without allowing war fatigue. results of the first meeting of the ukraine-nato council at the level of ministers of foreign affairs. putin may very well win

the war in ukraine. it was with this title that the publication in the economist magazine appeared. a foreign publication indicates that the head of the kremlin brought the entire political process in russia to a standstill, took the economy under strict control, produces more and more weapons and is ready to endure the mass deaths of russians for a long time, and with the beginning of 2024 , russia will have a stronger position to fight, - the article notes . what else - write the event. media the russian occupiers predictably intensified their shelling of ukraine the autumn-winter period, but this year they are mostly attacked by shaheds, as the defenders of the sky destroy enemy drones, exclusive material about the work of mobile air defense groups. greetings, iryna koval is in the studio and this is the news, the results of the week on the espresso tv channel. first, in history

, a ukraine-nato meeting took place this week at the level of ministers of foreign affairs. all because of the war started by russia. the meeting was productive, high-ranking officials of the alliance made some statements about ukraine on condition of anonymity. in particular, they mentioned ours commander-in-chief valery zaluzhnyi. one of the generals of the alliance emphasized that ukraine's partners do not impose a specific approach in waging war on the armed forces of ukraine, as they believe. that the armed forces more effectively determine planning independently, and the task of the allies is to support ukraine by providing the necessary weapons. and even nato knows that the hypotheses and assumptions of some ukrainian politicians that the leadership of the armed forces of ukraine does not have a plan to achieve military goals are incorrect, they are confident in the north atlantic alliance. the main message ukraine-nato meeting is strong. an independent

ukraine is vital for the stability of the euro-atlantic region. that is why nato promises our country a long-term support program. the ukrainian army has shown itself to be a powerful force and power on the battlefield. the only thing missing is equipment according to nato standards. therefore, it is necessary to work on it - nato secretary general jens stoltenberg is confident. however, in order to guarantee the security and defense capability of nato countries, as well as to continue providing assistance to ukraine at a sufficient level, it is necessary to create the euro-atlantic common space of the defense industry. this was stated at the meeting by the head of the ukrainian foreign ministry, dmytro kuleba. the minister of foreign affairs of germany, anna lena berbak, noted during her speech that attention to ukraine is disappearing from the public eye, and this is fatal. all the more so, realizing that russia continues shelling civilians. infrastructure. all those present

expressed their understanding that this winter, more than ever, it is necessary to strengthen the protection of the ukrainian sky. so, what will be done for this and what else was discussed at the meeting, let's look further. for the first time since the start of a full-scale russian war, the situation looks as if putin is winning, an article in the authoritative british magazine zeeconomist, published. of the week should be a cold shower for the western elites. after february 24, western politicians declared dozens of times about putin's strategic defeat and readiness to support ukraine as long as necessary. their confidence was based on the economic power of the west. for example, the combined gdp of the usa, europe and japan is several times higher than that of russia. but abstract gdp by itself does not turn into.

artillery shells, decoy missiles and other types of weapons, when russia transferred its economy to military rails, the west froze in indecision, the european military is close to exhaustion, the military industry did not work close to full capacity, in particular, instead of the promised million shells a year , the eu has so far managed to provide ukraine with only 3,000, while, if south korean intelligence is to be believed, the dictator of the dprk, kim jong-un, provided vladimir putin with just such number, one million shells for killing ukrainians. it was the increase in the production of weapons that became the key topic of the first. history of the ukraine nato council, which took place in brussels this week. according to information published by zelegram, the newly appointed british minister of foreign affairs, former prime minister david cameron, convinced his colleagues that the countries of the alliance should jointly increase the production of weapons

so that ukraine can defeat russia, stressing that the combined economic power of the alliance is 30 times greater than that of russia . weeks ago i was in ukraine and promised: we will do everything it is within our power for the ukrainians to be able to stop putin's terrible aggression, and today i am here to reach an agreement on this issue within the framework of nato. it is not known whether cameron's colleagues heard. ukrainian minister of foreign affairs, dmytro kuleba, said after the meeting that there are positive signals, and kyiv is satisfied with the council's results. however, there is an important detail: no agreements. did not record in writing the agreement not put on paper, but which was very clearly heard, in almost all speeches, about the need for the development of the defense-industrial complex, eu countries and

nato, as a whole mechanism, no country on its own, if it works only with its own, with its own defense industries, is not able to solve and satisfy the needs of ukraine or its own state in weapons and ammunition. due to the political turbulence in the usa, the eu seems to understand that their contribution to the defense support of ukraine should increase. despite the position of putin's few friends, the hungarian prime minister viktor orbán and the fat robert fico, other leaders promise to increase. support germany plans to double spending for weapons for ukraine up to 8 billion euros. the netherlands intends to provide 2 billion euros. romania has already opened a training center for ukrainian f-16 pilots. france promises to increase supplies of ammunition.

alliance members are sending even more air defense equipment and ammunition to ukraine. 20 nato members created an anti-aircraft coalition. defense, all this helps save the lives of ukrainians and sends a signal to russia that our support will not stop. the ambitious plan of the european union to go on next year production of one million shells per year. this is an optimistic scenario, the implementation of which can change the situation on the battlefield, but already in 2025. in the next year, ukraine will have to defend itself with the means that the west has today, the main thing is that the allies provide them in time. so the historic meeting is the first meeting of the ukraine-nato council, at the level of ministers of foreign affairs. it basically demonstrated that ukraine is getting closer to nato, and our head of the ministry of foreign affairs was on

a par with all the members of the alliance. so, let's talk about the results of the meeting with the people deputy, deputy head of the permanent delegation in the parliamentary assembly. nato solomiya bobrovskaya. mrs. solomia, i congratulate you. greetings, glory to ukraine. glory to heroes. and the memorandum based on the results of the ukraine-nato council meeting states that the alliance is developing a road map for ukraine's transition to full interoperability with nato. so i want to ask you, what is this compatibility and what exactly is it about? good question. in fact, you need to look at the document, unfortunately, i did not hold it in my hands, but first of all it was about the year the national program, which in fact we have every year since 2015, and they say that now there is a reduction of this article of the national program from 300 pages to about 10, that is, there is a compact document that goes on the main

reforms, in fact, which coincide on 70-80 %, with the road to the european union, but... and i was actually not so very optimistic after this ukraine council, nothing too special happened there, except that we heard the assurance that we will be with you as long as there is necessary. er about some common history of its destruction within the framework of the military-industrial complex and finally some such unification of interaction, well, of course , the rnp, but this is not an achievement, this is simply further technical work that ukraine must perform, but once again i want to emphasize that despite how long we will talk about implementation, technical conditions, legal conditions, interoperability at the operational level. for example, between troops, armed forces and so on, so on, still remains,

a decision that will depend entirely on the political, individual approach to of ukraine. accordingly, i would not quite welcome, once again, phrases that ukraine is the closest to nato ever, we are very close, but nevertheless, we are standing once again in front of closed doors, and until the washington summit takes place no... the invitation of ukraine to nato, this will all remain at the level of distant conversations and chatter, and our bilateral relations with countries, partners, friends, regarding the delivery of technical military assistance. mrs. solomi, well, about this program, which was approved for next year, it includes energy security, innovation and cooperation, but in addition ukraine again received recommendations for reforms. and jens stoltenberg said: all members of the alliance agree that

ukraine will become a member of nato, and now we need to discuss the way forward, reform efforts and how nato can support you in implementing these reforms, and i want to ask you what the first and most important thing we need to do, and what can we have difficulties with? you know, it seems to me that the first thing, the most important thing, we need to remember in first of all, that in reality nato is a military alliance, but first of all it is a political alliance, an umbrella, and until the rule of law becomes a priority for us and we clearly distinguish between our three branches of power and start moving in the direction of reforms not the military, not only without the security and defense sector, but in particular justice, and the economy, and there are certain humanitarian things that they demand, we are not always satisfied, they are also satisfied with the fact that there will be a separate

struggle, there and infrastructures, and so on, and so on, the energy sector, so far, we can go in circles for a very long time, and what i emphasize is that in fact the road to yesti, it is 70-80%, actually combines such things, reforms in the state, because few people want to have... dealing with the country as it really is, inside, which is , which is unstable, ungovernable, unreliable, and so on, that is, there is a front and a war, but nevertheless all the other institutions must work as a coordinated mechanism so that when we go in these alliances there were no such problems, remarks and such a huge problem for them, then we see a huge country with human resources, raw materials, and just... for them, it is quite scary because of the many internal problems,

including the post-colonial, soviet, and russian ones that we have left, so we have a lot of work to do, but once again i i would like these words of stolteng to be felt in the document, not only in words, and we already received an invitation at the washington summit, so then we will see that there really is some good and kind sign not only from the side of ukraine, which today is a human shield for the alliance, but also from the side of the alliance, which ready to go beyond the beams, make faster decisions and not be afraid to make history. mrs. solomina, well, at least stolteng, he sees the concrete steps of the ukrainian authorities in the fight against corruption decisions, and he said that it is ongoing, and what is in the process of implementation will be brought to an end, these are his words, and it is good that among the members of the alliance there is no feeling of this... fatigue when it comes to helping ukraine, and in contrast to the optimism of the nato secretary general,

alarm bells are increasingly appearing in the western media, in particular, during the last weeks, they write that for the first time since the beginning of the full-scale russian invasion of ukraine, there is a possibility that putin will win this war. foreign journalists talk about the tense situation in ukraine between the political and military leadership. skynews, with reference to the european commissioner for the budget, johannes gana, notes that the eu countries agreed on the european commission's proposal to provide ukraine with 50 billion euros in loans. and grants over the next four years. such a proposal is allegedly not contested by any from eu countries. meanwhile, the head of the ministry of foreign affairs of hungary, péter szijártó, at the osce meeting in north macedonia called for an end to the supply of weapons to ukraine. he complained about the flow of refugees and inflation. prior to that,

hungarian prime minister viktor orbán also stated that negotiations on ukraine's accession to the eu do not meet the interests of his country and therefore should not be put on the agenda. and while hungary is trying to confuse the european union, the president of the european commission, ursula funderlein, clearly stated that ukraine should be integrated into the defense eu programs to help meet its needs in the war against russian aggression. so what news was in focus. in western countries this week. let's see further. most of the funds that the united states allocates to help ukraine are used directly inside the country, providing significant cash infusions to american factories, because of the 68 billion dollars approved by the us congress, about 90% go to the americans,

the journalists of the washington post write about this. these funds are used for production. new weapons or replacements already provided from american stocks, that is, from the production of weapons and financing of ukraine, the americans remain in the profit, as it turned out, aren't the districts of congressmen who voted for the reduction or complete cancellation of aid to ukraine receiving the most money? ukraine is not ready to join the european union, and therefore it is not worth even starting negotiations on it at the december summit of the european union. this statement was made by the prime minister of hungary, viktor orbán, according to poliiko. at the same time, he also added that official budapest will not promise negotiations between ukraine and the eu, because it does not correspond to the interests of hungary. before that, he demands to freeze the entire political and financial process until european leaders agree to a complete review of support for kyiv. journalists

write that orbán's political games like this are causing headaches for eu leaders, although hungary makes up only 2% of the eu's population, orbán can hold the bloc hostage as his vote is needed for unanimity on major strategic decisions. some eu diplomats believe that it is viktor orban's pressure is connected with delaying the allocation of 13 billion euros from eu funds to hungary. and regarding the support of ukraine, the head of the hungarian foreign policy department said. we give money so that the ukrainian army wins on the battlefield, but it does not win, the european union believes that if we give more money, then they will win, but i am not at all sure of this, in my opinion, instead of war, a ceasefire is needed , and the money should not be allocated for war, but for a ceasefire and peace. a split between the military

and the political leadership of ukraine. the british edition zieconomist called the relationship between zelenskyi and zaluzhny simply terrible, for the first time about the differences in their views, the media started talking in the fall, due to the interview that general zalushnyi gave for the same british edition, then he declared that the war in ukraine had reached a dead end corner, after which zelsky publicly reprimanded the general for the headlines and warned zaluzhny to deal with military affairs, not politics. in addition, trust in the president fell to 32%. tim sometimes at general zaluz. increased to 70. journalists believe that if zelensky and zalushny met in the elections, zelensky would lose. at the same time, quarrels between ukrainian politicians and the military will only play into russia's hands, the publication concludes. mrs. solomia, so what do such publications in the western media testify to, because

all this gives the impression that the words and actions of the partners are somewhat different. and more and more often they talk about a misunderstanding between the ukrainian military and political leadership. in fact, our words and actions partners have diverged before and you know this delay with the supply of weapons, it has been going on, frankly, since the first days of the full-scale invasion, since last year on february 24, everyone was waiting for how ukraine would behave, then we have to prove for six months to a year why we need tanks, what do we need planes for, and what do we need... and so on, and so on, and we see that in fact, what is happening today at the front, a special activation in all directions, starting from kupyansk to the left bar of kherson, which are active in our defense and offensive actions, at a time when the partners were supposed to be most active, we see how much help there is, not little, but

in fact far from the kind that would solve today's issues on the battlefield, and very often we, politicians, diplomats ask at meetings of our colleagues, the next question is, do you give us enough so that we do not suffer, or so that we win, because there are many stories , for which we are responsible, this is definitely an internal political situation, and this is an absolutely destructive, demoralizing story between, political intervention in military command, leadership, quarrels, and i am very surprised and regretful that there is no courage and wisdom to come out, first of all to the commander-in-chief, together with the commander-in-chief to society, shake hands and leave everything behind closed doors, sort things out and direct all the efforts of the teams, to the war, because the front today is very difficult, plus we

have unpleasant corruption stories in the winter and in the rear, they also eat away at the society from the middle, but all this is seen by the partners and they understand that, well, this is the story, well, as much as they can be stable, why if we are on the 20th month of the war, such strange uh, strange external behavior inside the country is already starting, well, and the third, it seems to me that instead of us talking about a revolution, some potential maidan, like three , here it is precisely that intelligence should not produce such things and pass them on to the president and society, but to cut off any, various, especially public, and such twisting of the situation, which is not unsightly between the military, political leadership and military command, this is exactly what destabilizes and divides society very much, and i am already silent about those people who serve today and in the trenches, who are surprised by such a story about revolutions and all other things, because the task is to complete the task, to return home alive and rest in the warmth,

and do not engage in banking kiev with someone's choices and ratings. ms. solomia, i fully support you and thank you for this conversation, thank you. we were accompanied by solomiya bobrovska, people's deputy, deputy head of the permanent delegation to the nato parliamentary assembly. and we move. and another international one this week's meeting with obstacles, however , the minister of foreign affairs of russia sergey lavrov did get to the meeting of the organization for security and cooperation in europe, in north macedonia. bulgaria has banned the russian foreign minister from flying over its territory on the way to skopje. lavrov's plane made a stop in turkey and flew through greek airspace. they spoiled lavrov's mood even before the speech. as soon as the russian official was invited to speak, the delegates began to leave

the hall. but he, not betraying traditions, began his speech with accusations. lavov said that the kyiv regime conducted a punitive operation in donbas for eight years. in ukraine and the baltic states, a surge of nazi ideology. and complained that yes , even outside the queue, wants to open the door to the european union for the kyiv regime in an accelerated manner. there were also his statements and dissatisfaction with the policy regarding the ukrainian language in ukraine and accusations of the eu and the usa that they do not notice the abuse of the basic law of ukraine. lavrov's invitation to the summit caused a negative reaction. by some countries thus, the representatives of ukraine, lithuania, latvia, estonia and poland did not show up for the meeting at all. the next speaker after lavov, the norwegian minister of foreign affairs,

commented on his speech and called a number of theses deceptive. at that, the russian minister of foreign affairs simply left the meeting. and to the events at the front. it is extremely hot in the kupyansk direction. the russians are attacking with the aim of capturing sinkivka and entering the orlyanske, petropalivka road. the enemy will work in both directions in order to break through the defenses and reach kupyansk. also after the break the invaders became more active in the lyman direction, again starting offensive actions there. the invaders continue to attack north of bakhmut, using paratroopers and special forces. us to move forward. fierce battles continue for maryanka. in the zaporozhye direction, the enemy wants to regain lost positions. trying to restore

the lost position in the areas of work. and west of the willow tree. zaporizhzhia region. so , in fact, there are battles going on around the areas we liberated. a fierce duel continues on the left bank of the kherson region. the enemy is pulling up reserves and is doing everything to restrain the movement of the armed forces of ukraine. the price of defense in all directions is high. but our defenders are doing everything possible to drive the russians out of ukrainian land. russia has accumulated. by winter, approximately 900 missiles, but this is actually half as much as the muscovites had last year, at the same time - said yuriy ignat, the spokesman of the air force command of the armed forces of ukraine. according to him, last year alone more than 1,000 kalibr and x-555 cruise missiles were launched against critical infrastructure facilities. he added that the intensity of missile attacks

last heating season. was very high. ignat noted that there will be more drones this time. according to the air force, during the week the rashists launched more than seven dozen shaheds. more than 80% of them were destroyed by our air force. almost every night, these soldiers have to defend our skies from russian terror. the espresso film crew managed to communicate with such a unit that works in sumy oblast. on the very border with the russian federation and even see with your own eyes, how air defense works. talented warriors not only shoot down enemy drones, but also assemble some drones from their parts. artem lagutenko will tell you more. now a signal has been received about the flight of shohids across the border, we are going to be destroyed. this mobile air defense group

destroyed professional. of successive shaheds. in a year and a half of the war , people have already become more or less accustomed to working for the martyrs. the principle of operation is simple. the soldiers receive a message about the departure of the shaheds, they load the truck with ammunition and a machine gun, go to the firing position and hit the target in 15 minutes. this is our polymer. от отжавшийсь от русского друга плохого 12.7 machine gun kord, anti-aircraft, well , armed, that we have dshk anti-aircraft installation, fighters work in sumy oblast, the very border with the russian federation, the target is illuminated with powerful searchlights even on the approach, enough for such a distance as shahid flies, how well can

this k machine gun work, for how many kilometers, kilometers, skilful wars won trophies not only machine guns, from shot down shahed fighters are assembling their drones , for more than a year they have accumulated a lot of parts, little by little they have taken spare parts, this is how we collect parts to make our own birds, so that they do not perform our tasks, since, so to speak, we are not very rich people everyone, now the occupiers have become more active, we have to catch enemy birds of iranian origin almost every night, in order to effectively shoot the shaheds, these soldiers lack a car, so please go to the link you see now and support their collection, because these warriors defend our sky.

i wish everyone good health, we have been standing in defense of our country since the first days of a full-scale invasion, we lack an suv to cover the airspace, i am asking all concerned people to help us in this matter, glory to ukraine, glory to the heroes, artem lagutenko, oleksiy kutsuk from sumy region. for espresso. on november 29, the minister of infrastructure of poland, alvin gayathur , met with polish carriers blocking checkpoints on the border with ukraine and announced steps to partial lifting of the blockade. after negotiations with the minister, the head of the committee for the protection of carriers and employers of transport valdemar yashur noted that the carrier. will not

stop the protest at four