they cannot predict everything, because cyber security and technology in general is a constant, to stay in place, you have to run very fast, and both parties are engaged in this, but after all, such huge and extremely complex systems as the systems of mobile operators, they have there are many small cracks, not yet exposed vulnerabilities, and therefore such a long, systematic, costly work, it still ... still gives results, although, for example, pro-ukrainian hackers achieved greater results in 2022 . and i am very brief, now one thing question, and then a little broader, another question, if you compare this dos-attack with the invasion of the army, then what could be compared with what today, i understand that you probably do not know the parameters of this attack, maybe you know, i don't know, so i won't, i won't say, but i think you can estimate, just like the military can roughly estimate for the consequences. we, what

we invaded and what we shot at, and a professional soldier will always understand that it was not from a pistol, that the troops with pistols did not enter, let's say this, if compared with the military aggression, with which it is possible to compare the attack that happened today, and i may risk an incorrect comparison, but the first thing that comes to my mind from your unexpected question is probably the taking of dapa to the donetsk airport or bakhmut. that is, it is long and expensive to prepare, and to take some population center that is not very key, but painful for us, that is, every loss is a nuisance, painful and so on for us, but globally nothing has moved, yes there are some, and we are not talking about a didos attack, a didos attack is not very serious. and

it is treated very quickly, but the fact that the core of the kyivstar system went down is actually serious, but we have other operators, we have a system of traditional internet access that works properly, and so it is that some atms do not work, some terminals do not work, but due to the fact that they base data transfer on one operator, and there you can't just switch sim quickly. this is not done quickly, it is stationary connection of the corresponding terminals to the mobile networks of one operator, and this, well, i think, at least very quickly, it is several days to reset, but most likely it may be a few weeks, but i really hope that kyivstar will resume work today, well, they are already writing about the fact that mobile kyivstar has allegedly started working, at least in kyiv, here i am reading, but here is important information, which is also for me, by the way, because i use one of these vodafone operators. lifecell warns subscribers about

possible problems, according to the operators, now their work is stable, but there may be some difficulties with replenishing the account, activation of new subscribers, operation of the site, as well as the application. well, i think that today lifecell and vodafone subscribers have become incredibly many, and we literally have a minute and a half, but i can't help but ask what our people should prepare for, because there could be attacks, let's say on the energy network before, well, i have i mean attacks on the network, just like hacker attacks on the banking system, but we don't need anything here. you know, and to keep silent, to say that everything will be fine, and then we saw the butch, everything may not be fine, therefore, in order to understand how people can protect themselves from it or how to act, what to do, well, if it is possible in general, of course, i am here , we will not obsess about the extended comments, but approximately at least to understand the situation, it is enough to know that it can happen, this is the biggest, and accordingly prepare plan b, plan c and so on, it is clear that there someone has thought of a second seven for... this is the reason, yes, wi-fi points

to understand how you can contact, warn, well all relatives know that interruptions are possible, so all this is not fatal, it is you temporarily and so on, that is, more here the psychological aspect, in fact, the technological aspect, i think that this issue will be resolved today, to prepare, just to know, to plan for yourself, and not to rely on one person, not to put all your eggs in one. basket, as they say, so everyone will decide the value and it will be individually, and i think that all the other mobile operators there and the owners of terminals, networks, etc., will take this experience into account and next time there will be some backup channels ready there supply, well, traffic, i will ask one more thing at the end the question is about the fan, but you can buy, let’s say, a satellite phone, well , for example, for yourself and for the person you want to call, it is available, the price

is approx. someone may have a situation, you know, but a person thinks, i will need a connection in any case, and for whom it is extremely critical, yes. satellite communication services are available, i'm afraid i can't say exactly, but we're talking about $100 a month subscription fee and plus devices, they're also quite expensive, and there can to be additional in dollars there for minutes , i.e. for ordinary people it is not justifiably expensive, but for business, i think that a responsible business will take care of just phones for its users for mobile satellite. internet, you know, well , such a small box, the same starlink, for example, helps a lot, but again, for whom it is very super critical and who has the appropriate funds. thank you very much for the detailed answers, i think we will return to this topic, konstantin corson

an expert on cyber security was with us, we talked about today's attack, i believe most importantly that our companies and state enterprises that provide services. in various spheres, they will be ready for this, they will consult with partners from abroad, maybe, well, that is, we are at war, in this war there are various attacks, they must be repelled, think that we will repel everything and it will not matter to us it will happen, it doesn’t happen like that, but we have to fight and attack the enemy, we will also talk about that today, the enemy was also attacked, and now we will talk about the events at the front with serhiy zgurets, director of the defense express agency, host of the military summaries of the day column, serhiy, congratulations, congratulations to you, vasyl, congratulations to our viewers, today, you know, understanding, of course, that all victories at the front are successful. blood, but still it is certain, not certain, great joy, the armed forces of ukraine were able to recapture terekon, well, in fact , it is called in the vicinity of horlivka, how important is this story and an important, important, important site where the ukrainian flag was raised, yes indeed, today it became known about

reflection of the terekon near horlivka, it is northwest of horlivka, the terekon there is 200 m high, it actually provides an improvement. reconnaissance opportunities for our scouts, the military, who will control the territory from this section, in general, this is an advance towards horlivka, in general , about 250 meters, these are such tactical achievements, but on the day of the ground forces, this is good news, which is what he actually said today president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi. and later in our column we will talk about zelenskyi's visit to of the united states, about certain aspects of this visit and about the war plans for the 24th. year and about the front line in conversations with our military and why ukraine is now asking not only for f-16 fighters, but for other models of the f-18 type , and there is even talk of gripen. more on that in a moment. in light of the working visit of the president

of ukraine to the united states, which is currently underway, i will tell about some. attention to detail in the defense-industrial and military-political spheres. so, during this visit, volodymyr zelenskyi met with the heads of eight of leading american companies, including baysystem, northern groomman, reid, technologiy, locked martin, general dynamics, and in fact, among other things, it was proposed to create such a kind of defense hub in europe, more precisely in ukraine, as far as i'm concerned, that's the word hub. in this sense, it is still such a real integration between the capacities of american and ukrainian companies to obtain specific results in the form of modernized military systems of weapons and equipment. it was said that our state is ready to implement such an idea very quickly

make necessary decisions, simplify bureaucratic procedures and make appropriate orders. it is not yet known what exactly the reaction from these defense companies will be. because, relatively speaking, the budget of these companies , to be honest, is even bigger than the budget of the whole of ukraine, and it is clear that such a vision of these monsters will be extremely important for the formation of such a real strategy of interaction with the ukrainian defense industry, although some companies, in particular as system has already said that they are ready to deploy production, in particular, guns on the territory of ukraine, and there are other examples when this frankinsam project with... the creation of new types of weapons in cooperation with our companies and the modernization of air defense systems, it is actually already working. and then , in the same way, against the background of the visit of the president of ukraine to the usa , a publication appeared in the new york times, in which it is said that ukraine and the usa should

develop a new plan of action for the next year. however, the development of such a new strategy is for ukraine and russia. war, on which the military of the united states and ukraine are still working needs some reconciliation, because in short, given this post, it says what the us position now looks like. so conservative, because they propose that ukraine should first of all pay more attention to the defense of its territories, at the same time it will be necessary to strengthen entrenchment, continue the supply of weapons to ukraine and prepare forces for the next hostilities, but already for the 25th year, and ukraine, they say, emphasizes more active actions with increased attacks on the ... field from the air using long-range missiles, as an example

active actions of ukraine for strikes on crimea, on ammunition depots, on enemy logistics, and as the new york times writes, the ukrainian military is looking for creative ways to bring russia off balance. as usual, the publication does not refer to specific officials, so it is not possible to clearly say whether there are such strategies or not, but i will say that these are strategies. active defense does not contradict each other, and it is quite likely that such a reality will await the armed forces next year, does not at all remove the task of exhausting the enemy using all possible means of impression, the main thing is that such means are in sufficient quantity, also from the important information that the commander of the us ground forces in europe will be responsible for the preparation of further plans from the american side. stofer cavoli and also the united states are sending

a three-star american general to kyiv, who will be in kyiv and will also be involved in the formation of such a new war strategy, which should be worked out by january 24th, and then individual elements should be worked out during the staff games in released in germany. regarding the staff games, i will say that in fact i teach the attack on the rooster before. there were as many as eight such staff games, where various scenarios were worked out, and it was decided that ukraine should still advance, not having an advantage in the air and not even having an advantage in quantitative composition in those areas where counter-offensive actions are carried out, so that in any - in any case, when we talk about such an agreed position of the ukrainian and american military, then first of all i will say that conclusions and summaries should be drawn from it. from the hostilities in the 23rd year, both the ukrainian

side and the american side, and now we are approaching the contact line, about what is happening on the front line, and now the general intensity of hostilities along the entire front is extremely active, the two commanders and the command of khortets and tavria, oleksandr syrskyi and oleksandr tarnavskyi , during these two days do... there were several such information messages, where they said that the enemy intensified actions in the entire area, trying to press on our defense oleksandr syrskyi, commenting on the situation there in the entire area from kupinsk to bakhmut, said that the losses of the enemy are eight times greater than the losses of the ukrainian forces, but despite this, the occupiers are betting primarily on human resources. and now we will talk about what is happening in certain areas. of the front, with our guest , kyrylo sazonov,

a military serviceman of the armed forces of ukraine, special unit thunder, mr. kyrylo, i congratulate you, glad to see and hear, mutually, mutually very glad to see you, i know that your unit operates in different directions, the situation everywhere is extremely difficult and difficult, especially there in the last days and weeks, what can i tell the audience now, first of all in the direction of bakhmut , which you probably know by now, well, enough detail, we from bakhmut recently left from the north of bakhmut, that is, that is, where the most brutal, fierce battles north of bakhmut are currently taking place, these are bohdanivka and hryhorivka, i know these two settlements very well, although from them there is not much left, there are piles of bricks and even the boy has them mocked in bohdanivka, showed me a pile of bricks, said that this is our store, we will go there someday. this is the enemy advancing in the direction of chasor, this is a dominant height near

bakhmut to the north of it, and those who control it can fire at bakhmut, and they want to prevent the encirclement of their bakhmut group, their group. there are other brigades operating to the south, the third assault brigade was working there, now it has gone on rotation for staffing, and was replaced by other guys, i don’t remember now which one would have replaced them, they are also very fierce there battles, on klishchivka, on andrivka, that is, it is constant shelling, that is, the enemy is trying to prevent the encirclement of bakhmut, to prevent fire control on... over supplies, over logistics in bakhmut, that is, very fierce, no less fierce situation, no less difficult, situation where the thunder 41 brigade is working now, this is the kupyan direction , battles are going on there, the enemy is trying to enter kupinsk in a nodal manner, attacks, well, offensives, offensive attempts, attempts to attack our positions

are constant, our guys are working very hard and very hard on defense. .. drill it with a battery the management of artillery calculations and intelligence brigade work very well on the logistics of the enemy, that is, they do not allow reinforcements to arrive, they do not allow equipment to be supplied, bc to be supplied , they are knocked out along the way, this is every day, every night, guys and intelligence and art work, but the enemy has concentrated on kupyansk direction , there are very, very powerful forces both in terms of equipment and in terms of personnel, and probably on... here this is a question rather for the general staff, but according to the feeling that there is the greatest concentration of aviation here, it also affects our logistics, that is, this direction , it seems to me, for the enemy kupiansky is very principled. mr. kyrylo, today the minister of defense, the commander of the ground forces, the chief, valery zaluzhnyi

, visited certain areas of the front, identified certain needs of our units and... talked about the need for more drones and more attention to fortification, that's how these things in the areas where you are now, with drones from our side, and from the enemy, and fortification, are we finally doing it, we are doing fortification, we are actually doing fortification, because it is a matter of your life, it is always done, and now on we focused on this, again, i cannot claim the position of the general staff to voice any, but it seems to me... that in the winter we go into such a tough defense, when there is an opportunity, when there is some, weak weakness of the enemy somewhere, then we will inflict strikes, strikes where possible , as for drones, what can be said in a phrase, there are not enough drones, ask a child in

ukraine, dear, they will tell you, there is always a shortage of drones, we really need them as much as possible , as many drones as possible more... skilled drone operators, this is often forgotten, but a drone operator is a very , very qualified person with very specific training, you don’t need to study there for 5 years, but you still need to study, that is, you can’t learn from the street in two days, and we don’t have many schools of good drone operators, that’s also it is necessary, and of course this is war, it is so voracious that, of course, we always need more, more mines, more shells. well, drones are a new word in this war, this is a factor that decides very, very much, that is, a drone that costs several tens of thousands, neutralizes armored vehicles, can neutralize a tank that costs several million, drones demolish a dugout that is more than, well, only a direct hit can cover it, that is, drones are

such a key one of the key factors of this war, no less than aviation, and drones are needed as much as possible. mr. kirill, the last question , just one minute, i would like to hear what you and your colleagues think about the issue of mobilization and demobilization, because it first appeared in the information space, and now it has somehow disappeared over the last week, what do your colleagues say , my position, the position of my brothers and everyone who i thought about it a bit and i see the situation from the front and the style, definitely the... mobilization format that was, it exhausted itself, this is the soviet format, recruiting takes place, this is what works, recruiting, zov tried it, the third assault unit tried it , now the charter will try, the brigade of the national guard, and now the ministry of defense is connecting companies that deal with hr, companies that deal with, well

, they hire workers to work for the army, it works, recruiting directly by the brigade, so that you can see which brigade you go to, which in them... retation, who is the commander, who serves there, what is the relationship with the fighters, and what kind of position you will take, what military specialty do you have, it is stupid to become an assault fighter, that is, recruiting a direct brigade, it is cool, and the third assault fighter showed that there are those who want to, people go as volunteers, and there is no need to catch anyone somewhere in sports clubs, mr. kyrylo, thank you very much for... your professional comments for what you do for our country, and i will remind our viewers that kyrylo sezonu, a serviceman of the armed forces , was on eteriso of ukraine, this special unit rome, and then we will talk about weapons and rearmament, about our plans, intentions and opportunities, i already said at the beginning that the president is in the united

states, he was supposed to have meetings with representatives of a number of powerful american defense industrial companies, and before therefore, the ministry of defense, or rather ukraine, asked the united states to provide a much wider list of weapons, which includes new types of aircraft, transport aircraft, anti-missile defense systems, helicopters and so on, and the question arises whether all this together such a window of opportunity that ukraine can take advantage of, we will talk about this further, we are joined by oleksandr los, former head of the antonov concern, doctor of technical sciences, captain of the armed forces of ukraine. mr. oleksandr, i congratulate you, i am glad to see and hear you. dear serhiy verovych, i wish you good health. good evening, first of all i would like to ask you about our appeal to the united states, where the reuters agency mentions

the ff18 aircraft, which we want to have as well as the f-16. the question arises whether they have finally changed approach to the ukrainian side, what is behind such a proposal, your vision of this situation? i am commenting in this way that everything that you and i have been talking about on the air and behind the scenes since the beginning of the war, about the fact that ukraine is now in a state where we do not have to choose the future form of the ukrainian air force, but we in that situation, when you have to take what you can take, and i will remind you that the issue of f-18s was discussed as early as 17, 2017. in the circles of the air force of ukraine and at the diplomatic level, that's why the question is not new, indeed f-18 aircraft, they are comparable in terms of combat capabilities to f-16.

at present, the f-18 aircraft are of the first generation, that is , from a to c versions, they are available in australia, some were bought by canada, some are in spain, and all of them are armed with finland, so it is quite large. some aircraft that can also be involved in the air force of ukraine. then the question arises, if we are talking about the f-18, why are we not talking about the f-15 in different versions, and now we will ask to show the letter that was sent to the management of the company booing from the minister of defense, who was in the 19th year, where the ukrainian side asked to ensure the transfer of f-15. those in different versions and also mentioned the training aircraft t7, which is currently used

by the united states air force, as such, well, an important piece of equipment that can even replace the f-16, which is possible, given the situation where the president of the united states is, is fixing contacts with american companies, to return to this project, which opens up certain opportunities for ours as well enterprise attached to the aviation sector. serhii yehorovych, on behalf of the aviators of ukraine, i bow to you, thank you once again for raising this issue, speak definitely and unequivocally, high-ranking officials of ukraine now need to be told about this again by the united states of america. it doesn't matter what the names were there, you really showed the signature of the minister of defense of ukraine under that letter. and the question of t7 and the future of the fighter, which will be called. probably f7 based on it btw which is a small copy the same f-18 with unique beautiful aerodynamics. f-18, let me remind you, is

primarily a carrier-based aircraft for the united states marine corps and naval forces. therefore, this aircraft from the beginning is designed for landing on, i mean the f-18 for landing on an aircraft carrier, has a special very specific aerodynamics that provides it. ultra-high angles of attack, and here is t7 just from the essentially copied company sub with an aerodynamic layout from the f-18 aircraft, that is, it is a descendant of a reduced copy of a single-engine replica of the f-18 aircraft and inherited all its outstanding characteristics, i was just starting from that, knowing this, i proposed, i was the first, probably in the world, to contact boeing through the working channels that please come , help ukraine, we want to join this program, because i will remind you of the program of 350 training aircraft, speaking of the future fighter

versions, so i just like it and... as an economist, as a businessman, i approach the fact that it is necessary to join a large-scale programs, not, on unfortunately, to other programs of our neighbors, i will not specifically name which ones, which there are up to 50 aircraft in the world, that is, just t7, f7 is a future mass aircraft, and we must join this program, what concerns the f15 and x, let me remind you, is its extreme version, the freshest, most perfect to date. then this is the plane that is still trying to catch up with even the su-57 in terms of its combat characteristics, i am not saying that the f15, of course, is a fourth-generation plane, it is not inconspicuous, but all those ideas, its two-seater layout, since it is a flying command post for and for future, so-called loyal inductees, and just a command post for controlling other aircraft, that is , such a concept is data-centric, a network -centric war, it is just implemented already

on lithics. 15 and x, and the same characteristics can be imitated by the t7 aircraft and the future f7 fighter, so it is clear that the ukrainian society, the ukrainian government should continue this work, which was started back in the 18th year, and involve ukraine in the t7 program and involve the country's most advanced air superiority aircraft must be the f-15, because... let me remind you, this is just a replacement for the su-27 and a competitor to the su-35, which is currently the most massive attack on ukraine. and i would also like to sharpen one question on why: a modern fighter is not so much wings, it is primarily engines, and when they talk about some national projects there, for example, south korea, turkey, india, they are all based on planes, sorry, on motors, general

electric or praten witni. ditto f-18, t7, turkish hour jet, south korean the fa-50, the south korean stealth copy of the f-18, called the kf-21, is all the gf-404 engine sitting on the same t7, when we talk about the future fighter, the turkish kaan stealth fighter, it's the same gf110 engine, which stands on the f15th x, on the f-16 and all the same. all have to apply to the united states of america for permission to use these engines on national or us fighter jets, so without military-technical cooperation with the united states of america, especially in a valuable industry, anyway won't do and i have extreme questions about the grypins, because again we do not mention the f-15, but the subject of the grypins appeared again in the information field. it seems that sab is ready

to offer good ones there. programs related to the localization of production, but how logical is this path for us? well, first of all , the general electric f404 engine is also localized on the gripen with the help of volvo in sweden, that is, it is still not a sovereign national project. the second thing is that i, i didn't want to say this, but as far as we've touched on, the mass, understand that for... in order for the program to be of such , such a class, a program for the future, for the future, because if you are already based on someone's fighter jet, then it is no less than a quarter of a century, you will live with him first of all in the accounting records, the program should be economically feasible, as the swedes themselves claim, unfortunately, today this program is on the verge of closure, because it was not economically feasible, i came back again

, i will emphasize again why and ... some was precisely t7, because this plane should become the most massive training, combat, light fighter, therefore, these factors should be taken into account, that is, availability, military-technical cooperation, economy. mr. oleksandr, thank you very much for your professional comments , i hope that our authorities have heard these important conclusions, i would like to remind our viewers that my colleague was oleksandr los, doctor of technical... sciences, ex-head of the antonov concern, an officer of the armed forces of ukraine, who currently takes care of promising directions for the development of the ukrainian army. these were the main ones today's military highlights, and more international and economic news from my colleagues, so stay tuned to espresso.