two members of this negotiating group, one democrat, one republican, separately told journalists that the failure of yesterday's vote was already a fact of history, which means that it is necessary to talk further, they both said that it is necessary to look for some kind of compromise option, that is, that they will look for him, in principle, i have no doubt that they will continue these negotiations, but whether they will... find him is another question, because the closer to the elections, the more such internal political politicking will be introduced in everything that is done in congress, and in this case, the republicans, they want to please their constituents, who have been against it for years, they say that illegal immigrants are taking away your jobs, and we're going to fight them, actually, actually , it is very unfortunate that aid

to the allies and ukraine and israel , who are at war, aid to taiwan, another ally who is under threat of war, is subject to the condition that this aid will be if certain domestic political, ideological needs, but in this case the republican one, then the question arises, why then are the democrats opposed to this, they do not want to limit the flow of illegal migrants... well, i understand that we are talking primarily about illegals or their voters in favor of migrants had the right to illegally enter the territory of the contiguous states of america, or questions about something else, why it is not possible to go to this station, or simply here, in principle, it is not necessary to go on a leash, as they say, from those people who ask for money for arrangement the border and the access system, in fact, the money for arranging the border, they were invested in this project proposed by the white house, there is almost 14 billion dollars, the same amount as

for the aid to israel, to strengthen the border guard, precisely for that , in order to reduce the number of illegal immigrants who enter the country illegally, not through border crossing points. the majority of electoral democrats are in favor of the fact that if a person has already entered the united states and wants to ask for asylum, or wants to ask refugee status, that this person should be eligible to have their application processed if they're... deserving of that status to be granted, if they're not, well then that person should be deported, and the republicans are insisting that practically, that everyone, everyone who illegally crosses the border, so that they have no right at all, to actually ask for refugee status, to ask, to ask for asylum, and this is the main disagreement, in fact, on strengthening border protection and on increasing the number of border protection and to increase

the number of immigration judges, to increase the overall budget of the border patrol , a lot of money was allocated in this project, but the republicans are not demanding this, but changes to the immigration law, and i hope that some compromise will be, will be eventually found, because it is terrible what is being done and both parties can understand it, it is especially unfortunate, as senator schumer said that the party that ronald reagan once led is de facto, it is helping putin today with its actions, it is necessary to look for compromise, mr. igor, i literally want to ask a question for a moment, but are there any forces, i don’t know, party sponsors, some large corporations, some powerful public organizations, who could say that listen, wait, these are national interests,

let’s influence as much as possible, this should be decided, then you will find out these issues with borders, with tolerance, america will not disappear or die from this, but here democracy in europe can die now, please, who can press, except for biden, on the republicans , i think the biggest pressure can be dealt with by the voters, but if the citizens of the united states are watching us, i simply urge you to write to your senators and the house of representatives so that they immediately consider this bill and immediately approve it, unfortunately, although the ukrainian diaspora in the united states is large, it is not is not organized in the sense that it does not know how to lobby for the interests of ukraine in the congress, unfortunately, this is a fact, and as for party sponsors, well, i think that they have an influence on the parties, although they never won't talk about it publicly, so i would really like to ... hope that if the senators

do find a compromise, both parties should probably make concessions to each other, because if each of them insists on something, it won't be this , thank you very much for finding time and joining our broadcast, ihor eisenberg, a professor at new york university, was in touch with us, we will also wait until the 15th, and work is needed, of course, first of all, ukrainian diplomacy, ukrainian community abroad, and parliamentary diplomacy, well, everyone who has access and influence should work, because these are now key decisions for the coming year, and now about key events at the front, we will talk with serhiy zgurets, director of the defense express agency, host of the military summaries column . greetings, vasyl , i congratulate our viewers, although the vote on aid to ukraine was not held yesterday, it was supported, but the united states of america allocated a new package of military aid to ukraine, which we will receive from what is known, indeed, a new package was announced yesterday of military aid, the cost of 175 million

dollars, this is the 52nd package, and it essentially resembles the previous package, that is, in fact, there are air missiles that we will use from air defense complexes, there are ammunition. there are anti-tank complexes, i.e. everything that is currently needed on the battlefield, and in fact, these weapons are in the stocks of the ministry of defense and will be transferred quickly, and by the way, the balance for such weapons is about 4.8 billion dollars, which are still in the balance , which can be transferred to ukraine for such an amount, so i think that at such rates for another quarter such weapons will be enough for us, and further on in our military column we will continue to... talk about weapons, namely about weapons projects between the usa and ukraine, in view of the negotiations taking place in washington, about what is happening around avdiyivka, through the eyes of our military, and about purely ukrainian developments to protect our equipment and positions from enemy drones, more on that in a moment.

so, today the day was spent under the slogan of both the supply of arms and the expansion of arms cooperation between sa and ukraine, because now in washington on december 7, exactly, the second day, the final day of such a conference of government officials and gunsmiths from the usa and ukraine, which was attended by more than 350 representatives of various defense companies of the ukrainian states, as well as government officials from both sides. the purpose of this event was precisely... to find ways to accelerate the production of weapons for the defense forces of ukraine with the help of the united states, what is known so far? well, the creation of an intergovernmental commission has been announced, which will provide support to ukraine and other partners who will enter into arms

agreements also, the us state department decided to send an adviser to the ukrainian minister of technology and industry, who will help attract foreign investment for the weapons project. and, of course, it will help in the fight against corruption. as we can see, this is not on the agenda. and the defense-industrial cooperation with the usa, at the new stage, is considered through the prism of the licensed production of certain types of weapons in ukraine with observance of technologies and control over technologies, this remains a sensitive topic. creating common enterprises in ukraine and near ukraine and implementation of certain joint ukrainian projects. companies, among specific examples, it is precisely the fact that the white house informed the ukrainian side that the technical documentation for the start of production of some projects according to the frankens projects has already been transferred to the ukrainian side. let me remind you that these are urgent

projects of combining soviet air defense platforms with western missiles, in which there are a lot of reserves, in particular, this applies to the same, for example, buk complexes, to which the missiles are running out, and there is a solution such that allow the use of western missiles on the buk complexes, and as it was said that the parallel production of these systems in ukraine and the usa will speed up their deployment and allow ukraine to make a significant contribution to the support of its air defense systems. and each of these projects is really important for ukraine when we talk about anti-aircraft defense. defense, but another interesting detail is that it was at this event that it also became known that the ministry of defense of ukraine appealed to the united states regarding the expansion of samples the weapons that the defense forces need, this was reported by the re reuters agency, relying on its sources, and there is a list of weapons that

we know, these are abrams, ammunition, artillery systems, f-16 fighters, long- range systems and so on, but there are also new ones samples that were not mentioned before, first of all, this is the thaad anti-missile defense system in this list, this is actually an anti-missile system from the company. we have a video of this system and this complex is suitable for the destruction of ballistic missiles at ranges of up to 200 km, this is an important technological thing, which can really help ukraine to strengthen air defense and anti-missile defense. also, new aircraft appeared on the wish lists of the ukrainian side, these are fa-18 aircraft, superperornet, these are such... powerful aircraft, twin-engine engines, which are much stronger, from the point of view of using

the list of weapons, than the f16s, and by the way, about these planes it was said that at one time, if i'm not mistaken, australia was ready to give us about 40 such planes, so we see that this continues, also mentioned about ukraine's desire to receive apache and blackhawk helicopters, to receive american military transports and globmaster ec-130, as well as a list of new unmanned systems. of course, this list, from the point of view of ukraine , looks quite logical, because it is aimed at strengthening anti-missile defense, strengthening our offensive capabilities to strengthen airspace control. however, for now , the entire application from the side of kyiv is perceived as desirable, and we do not know the reaction. from the american side, so we will wait for the details, but for now it is too late

it is important that the united states approve a package of military aid to ukraine for the next year in the amount of 61 billion dollars, which is currently held hostage by the internal political electoral struggle between republicans and democrats in the united states, although i am sure that this decision will be unblocked and passed , because off for the countries of europe, nato, and for the american units, in the same european, on the european tvd, without a stable defense of ukraine against the aggression of russia , they will become, well, too powerful, and that's why assistance to ukraine looks quite logical for such a strategy of the united states, in particular in the european theater of military operations. and further to the front line, where our defense forces at a distance of 85 km are holding back the russian onslaught, according to the general staff, there were

more than 90 clashes in the past day, this is a significant figure, although each clash is actually different from the others, but in any case these indicators are quite large, and 34 enemy attacks were successfully repelled by the defense forces in the avdiyiv direction, where the enemy does not stop trying to sharpen this settlement, now we will try to establish contact with our guest, whose military unit is currently operating just in the avdiivka direction, and if this is successful, then we will learn the details of what is happening now in the vicinity of avdiivka, the preliminary information is the preliminary information is that the enemy continues offensive actions from several directions, while one of the directions is just north of the settlement of the steppe, but

there was information that the ukrainian military also carried out counterattacks, which pushed the enemy away from the steppe, at the same time the enemy is trying to move there to the north along the railway, trying to expand the area of ​​coverage of avdiyivka itself, in the enemy's attempts to advance on the spur, where he pushed partially on... the defense, there is actually no further advance, and now the enemy, still carries out such offensive actions, using both armored vehicles and aviation, in order to try to put pressure on our positions, and now we will probably learn more details about what is happening around avdiivka, before us a serviceman of the armed forces of ukraine, andriy shyshuk with the call sign sever, joins the military unit. who is currently participating in hostilities in the avdiivka area. mr. andriy, i congratulate you, i am glad to see and hear you on the

espresso channel. glory to ukraine. i congratulate you, glory to the heroes. you and i had an extreme conversation about a week ago, and here is a request to tell our viewers what has changed this week, what is happening around avdiivka in different directions. look, let me tell you about the direction, more south this time, on this one direction now, the enemy is using an assault ... we, in small groups of infantry, it's somewhere up to five people, somewhere in this - in such a number, are approaching as close as possible, using dense fire, someone is trying to crawl or run from

the flank to the position, well, they don’t have much success , so, well, that is, the next group that goes, goes almost, approaches the position as close as possible to get as close as possible and start close fire contact, and at the same time, i ’m saying that someone from the flank has, well, tries to crawl or run or somehow enter. that is, in fact, we are talking about the fact that the tactics of the assault groups, where, relatively speaking, a distracting role is probably played by storms and so on, and flank attacks are carried out by probably more prepared units, by the way, the enemy used such tactics in the combat operations near bakhmut? well, not quite like that, look, i was also

comparing a little for myself, now i will tell you my impression, in front of bakhmud there, well, i say, near bakhmut, in front, there really were many convicts, and they had there are one or two managers who managed a little, with, well, let's say yes, from the stretcher, there, small ones, there literally there, a dozen meters, there maybe 20, that is, so that he could lead his people by voice, and, well, actually there, these prisoners, they climbed and climbed, yes, wave wave behind the wave , there is such a thing, until i watched them go wave after wave, they can, well, one group goes there, 200 m away, will it go left or right, there or 100 m away, the group is different, well, the difference is all yes, there is, we know that when

wagner, well, managed to recruit many convicts, and they had this consumable, we will say yes, this ee bio garbage of ee ee russian this ee countries were liquidated simply, well , if i understood that they didn’t need him either and they were throwing him here, then there was such a moment when, as far as i know, uh, wagner was stopped давать вребовать prisoners and they began to engage in recruitment directly - the armed forces of the russian federation and these storm teams that appeared now, especially in the donetsk region, well, in other directions too, this is exactly what the remaining prisoners, who were not recruited by wagner, they сейчас здесь, but as far as i know, these stormzets are already ending too, in principle, there were already quite

different ones here in the direction of avdiivka, i saw there among the prisoners and on the video, quite different nationalities there, even i heard that in a certain moment somewhere there a month ago, maybe more , there were prisoners here, several arabs, well, that is, different ones, and well, this shows that even if stormzt is a little bit, receding into the past, it is there, but not in such a number, they have already left, different ones mobilized... and mercenaries from other regions, and what is happening now with the use of non-human forces, conditionally speaking, but here are the techniques, because aviation, kamikaze drones, there was a phrase that apparently even shaheds are used on this part of the front, do you agree with the truth or is this a certain exaggeration, i can’t

tell you, neither positively nor negatively , i don’t own it, i want to say that once again, that now, these groups, small groups of infantry, which they are trying to get as close as possible, they are doing it with more, let’s say, frenzy, maybe they are affected by the frost there, maybe there is more vodka for them they start to give or something, but well, that is , they lose their three-eighth-two-hundred years again, and anyway they can go there several times a day and try to come in and get as close as possible under fire, and eh , well, i will say that i see people here, who even walk there far from order, they don’t even run, they walk there without armor there, that is, in open coats and so on, and well, i understand that they are already feeling as if,

anyway, yes, something will happen to them now there, maybe they are really drinking something there, well, that's it, and i would like to ask about fortification, because the president of ukraine said that it is necessary to strengthen the fortification in all directions, he also mentioned... the avdiiv, maryan direction, is it possible to do this in these conditions of hostilities, or is it actually that tasks for other units that should now be engaged in fortification behind your backs? look, i have already said, i repeat myself more than once, it should be handled by separate units, that is, engineering units, not combat, not assault, especially there, no no some sappers are not there, tanks are not there. this should be done by separate engineering units because they finally paid attention to it, it is very good, but as for the conditions, conditions, in the conditions of hostilities, let's say, it should be done

constantly, i also said that, but now the conditions are winter and already , well, the frost has gone, and we understand that the ground is already, well, to the extreme, to the extreme , the top layer of the soil there, it has already frozen and will continue to freeze, that is, it will be more difficult now, because we delayed it, not us, but let's say so , those who are responsible for it, and well it must be done, i will say this, now there must be a stop, since we cannot dig much, well , it still needs to be done, but a stop is needed, it must be done on reinforced concrete structures, there were good examples of these armored caps like this, almost as tall, but they are not they must be placed somewhere at checkpoints, on the roads, they must be dug in almost completely. in the ground and you bring a trench to them and then sprinkle earth on top, and unfortunately i have not seen a single armored cap that would be sprinkled

with earth on top, although this by itself has to understand everything, and here are these armored reinforced concrete armored caps, armored structures, up to the point that these should be small rooms, let's say, such a dugout, cast from reinforced concrete, which can be put in a pit. there will be an entrance , it will have an upper floor, sprinkle it with earth, and it will be a kind of dugout, this is not enough, and now as, well, as for the winter season, it can be done and must be done, because again, from experience, i am very saw a lot under the bachmut and in other places, just when there is a trench, there is some kind of pit, and a machine of pine forest has been unloaded there, there are logs. and these logs remained there, they remained with the enemy, because no one, well, when it comes down to it, no one there will drag these logs, but well

, they were simply cut out and reported that they had made a line of defense, and such piles, we left a lot to the enemy, a few more words, i can say that he likes to dig very much, well, the earth, it’s directly his, they... like to do it, well, it must have turned out so hysterically, well, that is, they where, where not see some land they start biting her, digging and so on , well, god forbid that they do this, but on their own land, mr. andrii, thank you very much for the inclusion, for your professional comments, let me remind you that it was andrii shishuk, last name sever, military, part of which is currently participating in hostilities in the avdiyivka zone, and further to another topic, to the fact that our campaigns create a system of weapons of equipment that protect our armored objects and positions from enemy fpv drones, and now we are joined yuriy

momot, deputy general director piranni tech company, mr. yuri, welcome to espresso channel, glad to see and hear. good evening, several times in a row, we have tried to get you to tell our viewers about the model, the weapon, which has already been tested and is designed to protect our armored objects or positions from enemy fpv drones, i am talking about the piranha avd 360, please tell us , what it can do within the permissible limits, what value it has on the battlefield. to date, we are testing it on all available military equipment, trying to determine the locations... fixing the place of installation in order for this system to work, today it is modernized, it does not

look like this anymore, but we have agreed that we will not, well, in the version that will be installed on the equipment , that is, it is modular, it works, today we are testing these devices in various military units, and we are still trying to determine the criteria that are necessary for it to be easily mounted and easily removed when necessary, that is, it actually happened on any armored object, or there is an art system that is mobile and protects this object from enemy fpv drones, and the question arises, what is the degree of protection from the point of view of the guarantee of cover from these enemy evpi drones, can there be any, well general ones indicators to say, well

, general indicators, let’s say... so at the moment we have achieved a distance of 500 m in the guaranteed radius and today we confirm these characteristics for it in different divisions, that is, it should work in russia, it should work there on different equipment , that is, not only there on cars , for today, it is actually tanks, and armored personnel carriers, and the issue of mounting in order not to change the structure or add any parts there, and to protect as much as possible, a means of impact, fragments there, are there other arrivals that may be there, not really,

but can we say that this system is such, well, relatively speaking, with an open architecture, when the enemy suddenly changes these ranges, there are frequencies on which the enemy ffrons will work, you will be able to quickly reconfigure your system to these as well ranges our facilities were protected, look, there's a car that uh, for today uh, shown there in that picture, it actually covers all the main ranges that are used by drones. on this system, we simply do it modularly and can add, there are two or three units, four units, in fact, it can work on one antenna, which is here, that is, the system, to date, new frequencies have appeared, we just added a module . mr. yuriy, and the minister of digital transformation, yuriy fedorov, who

for the first time, let's say, well, i created an ad for your product, then everything else was written, i said that it was being prepared for mass production, that is, as i understand it, mass production will be after you all check all these nuances now and you will already have such, well, a complete understanding of what the sample should be in its perfect form, that's how i understand it, of course, that is, the military representatives were at the enterprise, looked at the design documentation, decided to what extent we can produce, given the means, what kind of documentation we have there is more, let's go certification, we receive the technical conditions that must be agreed there according to the current legislation, that is, we first conduct everything in parallel with tests on different vehicles and in different units and in different environments, documentation is prepared in parallel, military representatives

conduct and make their expert opinions on possibilities of serial production of these means. mr. yulia, thank you very much for these explanations, we didn't say anything superfluous, but we said that there is a potential for our objects to really be protected from enemy drones, and my partner was yuriy momot, he is the deputy general director of piraniya tech, which develops and creates these tools that are needed on the battlefield. these were the main results today. day, more international and economic news, then on vasyl zimi's big broadcast. good evening, we are from ukraine. thank you to serhiy zgorets, thank you to his guests, it was a big one, it was the military results of the day on the big air, and i am with you for the next hour, we are starting it, on us.