indomitability and do you personally consider yourself an indomitable hero? well, to be honest, it's very difficult to answer the question, do i consider myself an infamous person, because i think, well, just like that, i can say, i consider myself an average soldier and that's all, nothing more. well, let's put it this way, there is a bit of character in this, this is what we're going for, in principle, in principle, that's all, but what is unbreakable is, i understand for myself, that if a person is very, very difficult to break, morally, physically, so far everything is fine with me, in this respect, so that i am doing something right, one hundred percent, i wish you good health, it is very... you

need it, i wish you to survive this war, and i wish you to wait for your brothers from captivity, so that they also return to their relatives , it's very important and thank you for what you're doing, despite all the past that we've talked about, you're back in the military and you're defending us, thank you for that, thank you, thank you, finally, the traditional address to all the viewers, i i am sure that the audience watching my program knows a lot about ours the glorious soldiers who liberated mariupol , who were in honorable captivity, suddenly you do not know this, read, look, inquire, because hundreds of families are waiting for their defenders at home, and they are now in captivity in inhumane conditions, in terrible conditions, and you and i have no right not to know about them, and we cannot. forget them,

thank you, alexander, thank you, if you don't mind, i will, the only important thing in efi. this is the we ukraine channel and with you lyudmila dobrovolska and oleg panyuta. good evening, let's talk today let's talk about this. in ukraine, it will snow and sleet. another military winter has come. how will such weather affect the hostilities and what kind of winter is expected in the rear. despite all orban's antics, the eu countries unanimously agreed on a package of financial support for kyiv of 50 billion euros for the next four years. how else does europe support kyiv. for the second year in a row, ukrainians

are celebrating the christmas holidays in conditions of full-scale war. how will we celebrate this year and at whose expense are ukrainian cities putting up christmas trees. despite the difficult weather conditions, the zsu and muscovites continue ground attacks along the entire front line. avdiyivka remains one of the most difficult and important directions now. the invaders are storming it from six sides at the same time. covers controlled, they are pulled from the rzv, ours are dying, but standing. the russians are also advancing in the district of staromarskyi in donetsk region, it became more active in the bakhmutskyi direction, but in kupinskyi, where the president visited this week, after the enemy was repulsed, the number of attacks decreased somewhat. operational situation on the fronts by ludmila havryliuk. this is footage of the third separate battle assault brigade. guys just a few

meters from the rashists, our mortar calculation will work on the enemy group, then the attack aircraft will follow. brother, i shot there and worked a mine there, there was a group. heavy fighting engulfed the bakhmut direction. for the third week already, the russians are trying to regain their lost positions and are constantly attacking, the military says, the intensity of the battles is only increasing, from 10 to 20 and more than 20, this is daily, we have to repel their counterattacks. to date, they are trying to advance, this is in the northern and on the southern flank, however, all their counterattacks are really repulsed here, although they strengthened this direction with landing units, now due to bad weather, the russians are focusing on infantry and artillery, their small detachments of 8-10 men constantly, constantly storm our positions, there are such posts. bloody

clashes, positions change from hand to hand, this is a kind of see-saw, and during the day all this happens very dynamically and is not easy, a similar situation is also in the avdiyiv direction, now the third is going on here a massive wave of attack on our military. the situation is steadily difficult, because the enemy attacks every day, there are more battles at short and medium distances, every landing, every 100 m of land, is given a very heavy price. the 47th separate mechanized brigade is fighting in the north of avdiivka near koksokhim. the military says, the russians are trying with all their might to break through our defenses in order to advance. they do not manage to break through in the direction of the steppe, berdich, because our artillery covers them there and our infantry restrains them. toxochem - this is a real fortress, so to speak, so it will be extremely difficult to capture it, and our servicemen have taken up such a reliable

defense there. shooting battles and infantry skirmishes take place here several times a day, some are repulsed, others immediately follow them. the enemy is moving forward in groups somewhere nearby. up to 10 people, but suffers certain losses , runs away, then regroups somewhere, or sends another similar group, and then they leave again, unfortunately, the enemy has a lot of manpower, he does not protect it, the enemy has become more active in the last week and on in the melitopol direction, trying to counterattack our military in order to recapture the lost positions. eight times unsuccessfully tried to restore the lost position in the robotyny area, in the robotyny area, and also led unsuccessful assaults on the western recruitment, four attacks were repulsed there. the assault and attack in the kupinsky

direction do not stop, capturing the city of kupinsky is now the number one goal for the russians. over the past few days, 21 attacks have been carried out by our servicemen and the enemy is using aviation, despite the deterioration of weather conditions. the number of artillery shelling remains at a sufficiently high level, 521 shellings over the past day. president volodymyr zelenskyi also visited our positions in the kupinsky direction. the commanders who protect the peace on this kupivskyi direction. life in ukraine, i wish you victory, be strong, do not lose the initiative to defend kharkiv oblast, to defend kupyansk, to defend every one of our villages, every square

meter of our land. enemy aircraft and artillery are active in all directions, then leave the infantry, the military say, literally walk over the corpses of their fellow soldiers. they are trying... combining infantry, infantry, equipment, everything depends on the area, the front, where the assaults are taking place, it is not worth talking about any successes of the decisive ones, they throw their servicemen to certain death, so-called local assaults, now there are no across the entire area of ​​the front in a relatively calm place, heavy and bloody battles are everywhere, because the russians are trying with all their might to regain the initiative in their hands, but ours stood in the way... tans, brave warriors who are in extremely difficult conditions repel enemy attacks and, where possible, advance. lyudmila havryliuk, we are ukraine, marathon, edine news. that night, the russians caused a blackout at the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, and because they kept the fourth power unit in

a hot state, cutting off the power to the pumps that cool the core, led to a threat to radioactive safety. during the russian air attack, the last line was breached. power transmission of zaporizhzhya as, which fed the station from the ukrainian power system. all 20 diesel generators turned on automatically. ukrainian efforts specialists, already at 7 in the morning the as connection with the ukrainian power grid was restored. with each such blackout, the situation worsens. of course, this is a blow to equipment, each new launch of diesel generators. equipment, and in fact, well, this is what we always say, that the degradation at the station is constantly getting worse, and the more such blackouts there are, the more, in fact, the station will be bigger to the point where it will not be able

to perform its functions at all, in including the protection of nuclear material. at night, the russians attacked odeshchyna, launched shahedi and guided air missile kh-59 anti-aircraft defense shot down 10 enemy drones and one hit an infrastructural object, people were not injured, and the fire was quickly extinguished, and literally an hour ago they attacked mykolaiv oblast. meanwhile, it is snowing and sleeting in ukraine, another military winter has arrived, due to blizzards, freezing rain and a powerful storm , traffic had to be restricted for almost half a day. in the black sea, the elements raged with unprecedented force, washing away defensive structures and in the temporarily occupied crimea, a terrible cyclone with covered the inhabitants of almost all regions of our country with hortovyn. but first of all, it was felt at the front, in the trenches and dugouts. how will such weather affect the military operations and what kind of winter is expected in the rear? daryna dobrovolska,

about it. abundant snowfalls, gusty winds, rain and a super-powerful storm for ukraine. another military winter is already being felt at the front, primarily by our military, who are maintaining their defense despite the challenges of the weather. that pocket d2. a lot depends on night observation, thermal imagers, night lights should be with additional power, because batteries drain much faster, radio communication also depends on batteries that drain faster, weather changes also affect reconnaissance capabilities from the air, the operation of drones, household drones play a huge role on the front, the same mavics, unfortunately, such drones they are not... not protected from the wind, they are not protected from the moisture, the rains and snowfalls have turned the ground into skirmish lines in

the mud, the sticky and soft ground makes assaults on both sides difficult, the military says, and is becoming a heavy obstacle techniques, water and soil, respectively, constrains movements servicemen, but this is exactly what happens under the russian occupation troops, and the occupation technique of the vrashists is used less, accordingly, the ground is soft and not such a large number of attacks are organized together with the technique. when on the front line it is difficult to move on military equipment, it is not so easy for infantry to work as well, then the emphasis is on artillery. artillery duels, so-called, that is, counter-battery combat, will now prevail. well, now the weather is such that you can't drive heavy equipment. the situation at the front is more or less stabilizing already with the arrival of thawed frosts, when the soil becomes hard. the roads are becoming more passable, they freeze over, and where it was impossible to drive

even on snowdrifts, in principle, the road becomes accessible even for motor vehicles. weather changes also affect the health of our soldiers, who are forced to survive not only under enemy fire, but also in flooded, damp dugouts and trenches. this leads to people getting sick a lot, people being out for a certain amount of time... people need more time to rest, we need to do more, well most shifts personnel in positions. the winter will not be easy even in the rear cities, this was repeatedly emphasized by the higher military leadership of our country, the president and intelligence. the enemy's stockpile of missiles now amounts to about 900 units. such data gur. this is less than a year, so the russians are saving them and increasingly launching shaheds, but both types of weapons can be hindered by the weather, especially fog and. mist - says aviation expert valery romanenko. cruise missiles are highly accurate because they are proven

at the final stage, that is, they determine the target and at the final stage clarify the position of the target. and this system, it is optical or infrared. both do not work in fog or mist. as for the shaheds, the weather does not affect them in any way. the wind can knock you off course. if we talk about shelling deep into the country, today the weather is on our side , experts say, but when it becomes clear, the threat of missile shelling will emerge acutely, the russians themselves say about it, and they will be combined, that is, it will be ballistic, bed and unmanned aircraft, but compared to last year, thanks to deliveries western systems, our air defenses have become more powerful, and russian means of attack have not changed, so military analysts hope that the enemy will do less damage. regarding anti-aircraft. of defense, we created a system, a combined system

, a multi-level, echelon system , which includes both long-range complexes, such as the patriot there s300, yes, sumpte, the european analogue of the patriot, we received enough, well, not enough, but quite a significant number of complexes, asst and hock hok is an old complex, but before it. infinite ammo, an infinite number of rockets. and although all these means are not able to completely cover the sky over ukraine, there are much more of them than last winter. during this year, not only the weapons were strengthened, but also the experience of our military, which daily faces the challenges of russian terror and deftly overcomes them, darina dobrovelsky ukraine marathon, edyni news. the exchange of prisoners of war does not stop, they have become non-public and often take place not on the demarcation line, but simply on the battlefield - says the president. over the past six months

, ukraine managed to return about a hundred ours as of now, according to miintegration. almost 4,500 ukrainians are in russian captivity and most of them are military. i will say frankly, we exchange right on the battlefield, when we have 10 of them, their prisoners, and they have several of our guys and we exchange, it happens in different ways, that is, exchanges are not only global, but there are local ones, for all this orders from the commanders, they know what to do. well , despite orban's antics, a package of financial support for kyiv of 50 billion euros in loans and grants for the next four years, eu countries agreed unanimously, and that's not all. the governments of the eu countries are planning to review the bloc's long-term budget, and the central part of it should be support for ukraine itself.

president of the european commission ursula fonderlein also says that the eu's defense strategy should include ukraine. she emphasizes. military aid to kyiv is a strategic responsibility of the european union. so, the path from deep concern of europeans to strategic responsibility is 22 months of full-scale war. europe's new defense strategy is already here a need, not a topic for reflection. a new defense industry program is being launched in the eu, it was already presented this week. the war against ukraine demonstrates. that we need to produce more, both to meet the needs of ukraine and to ensure our own stimulation and defense. russia released 10 million projectiles per year, ukraine uses 10,000 drones per month. what europe is producing now is an unprecedented amount for the pre-war period and not enough for now - said the president in her speech. for example,

joint defense expenditures of all 27 countries amount to 200.70 million dollars, while russia alone allocates as many as 157 for the next year, and the question is not only in funds, in the ability to mass produce, this year the europeans will not have time to hand over even half of the promised million shells for ukraine, the expert explains , there are several reasons, but the main one is disarmament at the end of the 90s. there is a lack of people, production capacity, there in the 90s, at the end of the cold war, the latest modernizations, weapons ran out... so much so that they believed that there would be enough there until the middle of the century, when they would completely new types of weapons, and when russia attacked ukraine, it became clear that a lot of such classic weapons were needed. the second reason is the lack of a single arms market. for example, the netherlands and germany use the same type of howitzers, and

each country has its own ammunition for them, and they are not interchangeable, which is why the leaders propose to create a defense alliance for joint production. we need to make more, more missiles, ammunition of air defense systems and faster. and this is an obligation, an obligation to the ukrainian people, as well as to our citizens. by protecting ukraine, we are protecting ourselves. the european commission plans to present the budget for financing such a program at the beginning of next year. these are the four points that ursula funderlein has already voiced. means that will shape the market must be chosen. further, the rules of production grow. the third point is the integration of civil technologies and joint financing. what is important to us? the new strategy should include the needs of ukraine. our strategy can only be complete if it also takes into account needs of ukraine and its industrial possibilities. the first step to achieve this is to involve ukraine in the

industrial strategy consultation process. and what is this in practice, ukraine's support will also be a guarantee... in the future, our minister of strategic industry discussed this issue with his colleagues on the sidelines of the conference, but so far without details. if the rheinmetall plants will be here, it means such a strict guarantee that they will intervene if something, something happens, there is attention to ukraine, and the europeans will try to do everything to compensate for possible problems by the united states. but for the defense plan to work, the votes of all countries are needed, and this is a challenge, on the eve of an election year in europe. only the big ones, i mean, the same hungary can block, or slovakia. yes, these are small countries, but who will say, yes, we don't need it, that's what the consensus is, this is an increase in defense production, it can become such an impetus

for the reindustrialization of europe, what is happening now in the united states, europe also needs it . the goal is that the joint european defense potential should not be inferior to the united states the states, if they work at full capacity, at least the european elites, they understand that the russian... threat will not go anywhere and in the future of 5-10 years, another attempt by russia to start a european war is possible, they must be ready, they saw that now they are not are ready the plan will be discussed in advance at the eu summit in december, where all the leaders will be. olena chernyakova, we are ukraine marathon only news. ukrainian soldiers continue to be trained to work on patriot anti-aircraft missile systems, almost 100 soldiers have completed a two-month training educated in germany. additional patriot systems and boats for the convoy of sea grain carriers should strengthen the security of the black sea in odesa.

the occupiers systematically attack our port infrastructure and grain terms. we already have more than a hundred such damages. what losses has ukraine already suffered? how do we restore what was destroyed by russian missiles and how much money is needed for complete reconstruction. tsymbalenko's authorities were counting. with hundreds of drones, iskander, onyx, caliber missiles, the russians are hitting the port infrastructure of ukraine. especially intense the attacks began in the summer, the terror of the southern part of the russian federation began in july, as it had just left the grain agreement. these are warehouses, these are warehouses, these are warehouses for oil crops, grain terminals, these are port cranes, these are ships, even other equipment, and in general, about 3,000 tons of grain were destroyed. for five months, the

aggressor country purposefully destroyed our port infrastructure at least 24 times. 167 port infrastructure facilities and seven civilian ships were damaged and partially destroyed, more than 20 civilians were injured. the russians attacked the ports, reny and pivdenny, odesa, chornomorsk and mykolaiv. it is now impossible to accurately calculate the losses, but we are already talking about billions of dollars, and this is without taking into account the ports that are temporarily occupied, their condition is currently unclear. ukraine and partners are helping to restore the destroyed infrastructure under control. the european commission allocated 50 million euros for modernization and repairs. despite the war, ukraine continues to feed the world. you can count on the eu in these efforts. we continue to expand our ways of solidarity and will provide 50 million euros for repairs your port infrastructure. together we deliver ukrainian grain all over the world.

ursula fonderlein, president of the european commission. however , it is currently difficult to talk about the complete reconstruction of the destroyed building, says the administration of seaports of ukraine. and now, after the attacks, after the destruction, of course we go out and clean up there. we are restoring and continuing to work, those ports that are heavily shelled there, such as kherson, for example, the port now makes no sense, not to risk the lives of workers there or emergency personnel, so we are only fixing it so that the consequences are not such destructive, ukraine is systematically working to strengthen security in the region, from where agricultural products go to asian and african countries. recently, the number of downed enemy weapons in the southern region has been increasing, it already reaches somewhere around 70% , the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi said about the additional protection of the region and at the second grain

from ucrayn summit, there remains a real very specific number of systems and a very specific name. this request is there, i will tell you frankly, the answer is already positive, what exactly the partners will provide for the protection of the sky is still unknown. and but for the sea and that's for sure, boats escorting ships along the grain corridor. these boats, they can find sea mines, in fact, that is , they have such side view scanners . - the second is sabotage work, because the enemy can use saboteurs in order to, for example, block the activity of the ports, put mines there, there is another threat, now our main problem: this

the airspace over the black sea, in which russian aviation is still present, and it is this aviation that currently plays the biggest role in attempts to mine the waters of the black sea in our zone of responsibility, therefore, in principle, all these problems are solved comprehensively. this is what ukraine is working on together with its partners, because the complex is an increase in the number of anti-aircraft defense systems, boats for convoys and at the same time the strengthening of ukrainian aviation. the same expected f-16s, because these fighters will be able to drive away the russian patrolling over the black sea. vlada tsymbalenko, we are ukraine marathon, the only news. a bill introduced in the us

senate would give us law enforcement powers to quickly seize superyachts, planes, mansions, penthouses and other high-value assets from sanctioned russian war-sponsored oligarchs. and the most important thing in this document is a quick mechanism of administrative confiscation, so that the income from these assets is promptly transferred to the reconstruction of ukraine, and also, this bill is bipartisan, which shows that the senator understands the importance of supporting ukraine. they are used to living in new york penthouses, relaxing on luxury yachts in miami and dining in the most expensive restaurants near the white house. russian oligarchs - this word has become a common name even in the usa, but local legislators decided to put an end to the sweet life of kremlin cronies overseas. the other day, republicans and democrats introduced a bill that would allow faster seizure of private planes, superyachts and villas of pension millionaires from the russian federation, and transfer all income from this property to the restoration of ukraine. putin and his oligarch friends launder their dirty money by buying superyachts, precious works of art

and other expensive things. assets in countries where the law applies, we must close the haven for the wealth of these oligarchs and punish those who support putin. representatives of the russian elite, billionaires against whom the us treasury has already imposed sanctions, such as mykhailo fridman, petro aven, herman khan and oleksiy, may find themselves in the grips of the law kuzmichev. the entire quartet is among the founders of alfa group, one of the country's largest financial sponsors of the terrorist, or the rutenberg brothers or putin's close friend alisha. usmanov, the american legislators seem to be not against taking the loot from the kremlin scumbags, but they are in no hurry to share their wealth with the ukrainians. at the time of heated discussions regarding the aid package for ukraine and israel, it was not voted on again this week. this is an absolutely critical month for our place in the world, for supporting our critical partners and allies, winter is not is coming, winter is already here and we know it. that

putin is again trying to freeze the citizens of ukraine, the civilian population, relentlessly attacking the energy infrastructure of ukraine, a critical part of this support is direct budget assistance to the ukrainian government. the law on accelerating the confiscation of assets of the russian federation will in fact allow to remove all existing limits and take all illegal property from russians for the benefit of ukraine, regardless of the value - claim its creators. according to current legislation, the us treasury can transfer only assets to ukraine. confiscated for violation of russian sanctions, and there were already precedents. for the first time and for the last time, the usa confiscated almost 5 million dollars from the russian oligarch konstantin malofeev for supporting russian aggression, but this amount is only a drop in the sea of ​​laundered fortunes of the russian rich. regardless of whether we succeed or not, in terms of achieving this agreement, the funding of ukraine must be for the sake of democracy and for the sake of the western world.

putin thinks he can lose. on the battlefield in ukraine, the battlefield on which he is trying to win, this is the battleground on capitol hill and democrats and republicans must come together to prevent this from happening, congress has a lot of work to do, it's true, we have to get the job done this time, instead of playing politics, the stakes are too high high over the past few months, the us senate has repeatedly made proposals to confiscate russian assets, including sovereign ones, i.e. those that belong to russia itself. the state, but no such bill has been voted yet, will they support this one, we'll see soon, legislators have less than a month to put it to a vote before the christmas holidays, from new york, yurii gulama, ukraine marathon, single news. 24 russian soldiers died and 11 more are still alive in the hospital of temporarily occupied simferopol, all of them were poisoned by two ukrainians