greetings, time of news on espresso tv channel. there is an air alert throughout the country, so we are working from shelters, i also advise you to stay in shelters if possible and not to neglect safety. all but one, ukrainian defenders destroyed 41 enemy mines during the night, the majority of them. this was reported by the air force over odeshchyna. there they noticed that the russians started attacking us with drones since 7 p.m. the previous day. the launches were carried out in waves from three directions from the temporarily occupied crimea and primorsko-akhtarsk. a total of 42 were released strike drones. the occupiers also fired six s-300 anti-aircraft guided missiles in the direction of southern ukraine. one person died as a result. enemy attack of mirolyubivka in

the kherson region. around midnight, the occupiers hit the village with an s-300 rocket. an elderly woman was found under the rubble of a private house. it was not possible to save her. in the village , private houses, a school, a church and a partially destroyed building of the local dispensary were also damaged, the head of the region oleksandr prokudin said. also, throughout the night and morning , the russians shelled kherson and the suburbs, searched through residential areas. private and apartment buildings were damaged. rescuers had to put out fires in several places. the elderly woman needed medical help, but she refused hospitalization. what does he say? they can't live in my house and we immediately ran. we immediately ran, helped to get the woman out. there was no cellar to hide in, it was filled up. and

then stronger, stronger everything pours down, at first it was a little slow, then mother-in-law and mother-in-law, and husband and child, i don't know how we became alive. 11 people were injured, three among them - children, five wounded had to be examined about the consequences of the enemy attack on odesa region, the state emergency service said. debris of the downed shaheds destroyed the dormitory, and as a result of the russian terrorist attack, another 11 buildings were damaged ... two vehicles were destroyed. at the site of the hits, rescuers set up a mobile heating station, psychologists, emergency services work with residents there, and the red cross delivers food and warm things to people. i will remind you that the day before, a 42-year-old man died in odesa, who was injured by enemy shelling on the night of december 13. he has it again the heart stopped in the hospital. they actually used what they always do during. such attacks

and the landscape of the area in order to complicate the work of mobile fire groups, and actually, given the massiveness of the attack, it was aimed at a certain exhaustion of the air defense system, and again the proximity to the borders of romania and moldova was used. there was preliminary information that one of the fraudsters even flew to the territory of a neighboring state, we are talking about romanians, so far this is not official information, not confirmed and the fact that they marched along the border, well, this is a traditional, as i have already said, tactic of the enemy, so it really happened. one civilian was injured during the day by the russians in donetsk region. this happened during the shelling of avdiivka. the head of the region ihor moroz told about it. the occupiers also damaged two houses in the village of vesely gay of the kurakhiv community and shelled the private sector of kurakhiv itself. at the same time, there is destruction of housing. in

the chasvoyar community and in the serebryanka village of the siver community. ukraine received about 900 million from the international currency fund. this is already the third tranche within the framework of the enhanced financing mechanism program. this was reported in the press service of the ukrainian ministry of finance. in this way, ukraine has already attracted about 4.5 billion us dollars out of the 15 billion provided by the program. 100 million. the funds will help to timely finance priority expenditures of the state budget and ensure macroeconomic stability in the conditions of martial law. new sanctions against hamas were introduced by the united states and great britain. the united states treasury department said the restrictions are aimed at eight officials who promote the terrorist organization's interests abroad and help manage its finances.

hamas still relies on a network of high-ranking officials and affiliates to support its military, according to brian nelson, the us treasury's undersecretary for terrorism. activity in the gas strip. endure and recover. representatives of the government, the public sector, business, as well as international partners discussed the prospects for the development of the ukrainian energy sector, how ukraine entered the heating season and what decisions and actions will help create a sustainable energy system. let's see further in our story. resilience and recovery. energy issues. of ukraine's security gathered ukrainian, european and american specialists around him, they talked not only about development, but also about endurance at every level, personal, regional and national. taking into account the experience of last winter, they also discussed the provision of plan b.

it is about creating, well, in fact , a parallel power system, which, in the event that the main one will be able to pick up powering critical infrastructure, i.e. water supply, heat supply, hospitals, schools, these are the basic things that provide life in communities, life in cities, and this will allow us to be sure that the plans of the enemy will not be realized. this year, ukraine's energy system is holding up even in spite of the difficult recovery, but when it cannot cope with its own forces , emergency aid is brought in from neighboring countries. she, of course, helps out, but her prices are not fixed, the provision is not guaranteed. therefore , experts emphasize regulatory changes, to open commercial imports. to create such a regulatory framework inside ukraine that commercial imports from europe would come to us. ukrenergo has done the technical task of opening this import, 1700 mw, this is the amount that

would absolutely be enough to cover our needs today, the needs of our energy system of ukrainian consumers, but due to economic reasons, this import is not coming. the ministry of energy assures. that they prepared for the heating season, added power to the system, restored units at thermal and hydroelectric power stations, repaired a number of nuclear power units, however experts have repeatedly said that the sector will not be restored so much as they will try to build anew. we will not restore everything that was in the same way in the same form. the restoration process is already the same as the process of building a new one. power system, we will need to add so much generation, this is 1.9, we have already added a gigawatt to the power system, we have repaired the required number of different types of generation, blocks of different types of generation in order to cover this and that

demand. so, despite all the challenges and the northern neighbors, the ukrainian energy sector is holding on and even taking steps forward, in particular, it was completely completed on november 28. the process of synchronizing the energy system of ukraine and the european union. we have been going for this for six years, but there is still a lot of important work ahead: commercial synchronization, decarbonization, full recovery and investment attraction. prime minister of hungary viktor orban believes that there is no reason to start negotiations with ukraine on joining the eu. according to the hungarian prime minister, ukraine has not fulfilled its obligations. for the beginning of the changes, so currently there are allegedly no reasons to make such a decision. today , he announced this before the start of the european council, which should take place over two days in brussels. the espresso tv channel, together with

the public organization baza ua, are collecting funds for atvs to transport the wounded and other needs of the 93rd separate mechanized brigade of the armed forces of ukraine kholodny yar. in super heavy. conditions, the ukrainian military is winning every day, without leaving wounded comrades on the battlefield, with atvs evacuation will be faster and easier, and therefore the chances of saving the wounded will be greater. in general , our goal is uah 800,000, thanks to you we have already crossed the uah 350,000 mark. i am sure that in a week we will be able to close this collection. you can see all the details on your screens now, so pull out your phones, scan and donate. for now, i have all the news for this hour, i remind you that the air alert continues and i advise everyone to stay in places where it is safe and not to ignore the air alert, take care, we have another victory to meet.

glory to ukraine, this is the verdict program, my name is serhii rudenko, i congratulate everyone and wish everyone good health in the future. for two hours we talk about ukraine, about the world, about the war, about our victory. today in ukraine, in our program. over fifty victims, at night the occupiers once again terrorized the capital with ballistics, the consequences of a missile attack on kyiv. a bold offensive plan or a conservative approach. ukraine and the usa are developing a new war strategy for 2024. what is the difference in angle? the limit of cynicism, the russian central committee announced about conducting elections in the occupied territories.

what is the kremlin trying to achieve in this way? we will talk about this and other things during the next hour with our guests, people's deputy of ukraine andriy masadchuk, political scientist serhiy taran and diplomat oleksandr khara. in the second part of our program, which will start in an hour, there will be political scientists, including volodymyr tsybulko, andrii smolii and vitaliy kulyk. however, before starting our big conversation, i suggest watching a video of the consequences of a missile strike, or rather, remnants of russian missiles that fell on the ukrainian capital today. ukrainian air defense shot down all 10 ballistic missiles that the occupiers launched at kyiv, and, unfortunately, there are... victims, in particular, the administration of the capital's

military-civilian administration says that 53 people, including children, were injured. let's watch the video. we were just sleeping, so it’s a good thing that we were still covered with a blanket, because if we hadn’t been covered with a blanket, the glass would have been right up to... us , then they poured everything out completely , you see, it’s all in ha, the whole house is in glass, no windows, the blow was such that the screen burst, you see it cracked, telling us the russians brought it for the new year, because we celebrate the new year, it sounded. an explosion, we jumped out into the corridor and i was taken to the entrance yard, i woke up

, the door was shaking and locked, i couldn’t open it, i called the ministry of emergency situations for help from the balcony, and they helped me, thank god, i took my backpack, i was nervous, i was thrown back, i don’t remember how i got up , immediately ran after the splashes and took those things there, as the shock wave hit, then... it all went to the helm, because the windows were blown out, blown out, look, they blew out the windows like that heavy, it was a ballistic missile package, it took everything, look, look what is being done, look, it, everything, these are such heavy consequences, ballistics, a ballistic strike on the ukrainian capital, it was the most powerful, the most powerful strike in recent times by ballistic missiles , friends, for those who are currently watching us on youtube. please like this video and subscribe to our youtube page, those

who watch us on facebook please do the same, like and subscribe to our page. in addition, we conduct survey, today we ask you this, did you have problems with communication yesterday and today? yeah, no, it's pretty simple on youtube, if you're watching us on tv, pick up your smartphones, vote too, i hope one of the... mobile operators has already restored their connection and you can tell for sure if did you stay connected or did you still have no connection problems if you had connection problems call 0800 211 381 no 0800 211 382 all calls to these numbers are free, well, since we we see that the russian federation... is not only launching missile attacks on the ukrainian capital and other cities, including ballistic

missiles. yesterday, in the morning of december 12, hackers carried out a large-scale attack on the kyivstar mobile communications operator. there was no connection in this mobile network for two days. kyivstar was connected to the savings bank's atms, and people could not withdraw money, and the payment... terminals also did not work, those that were also tied to the systems located in the savings bank, the sbu stated that which immediately investigates cases. under several articles of the criminal code, including sabotage, treason and encroachment on territorial integrity and inviolability, the russian hacker group sontsepok took responsibility for the breach of the kyiv star system, but the sbu notes that the cybercriminals are a unit

of the general directorate of the armed forces forces of the russian federation. i hope we will hear now from the spokesperson of the security service of ukraine. cyber ​​specialists of the security service of ukraine and specialists of kyivstari interact with others government agencies, continue the work to restore the network after yesterday's hacker attack. in the digital infrastructure of kyivstaro, critical damages were inflicted, therefore, the restoration of all services in compliance with the necessary protocols without... security takes time. the security service of ukraine continues to document the russian cyberattack on the civilian infrastructure of ukraine as another war crime by the rashists. well, this is a group of sun drinkers who took responsibility for the cyber attack on kyivstar and posted on telegram channels of the russian federation, which are located in the territory of the russian federation

that they are responsible for the cyber attack and they say that they ... er allegedly destroyed 10,000 operator computers and more than 4,000 servers, well, you see, the security service of ukraine says that this does not correspond to reality and does not correspond to reality, in particular those screenshots that this hacker group made public in telegram channels, eh, that is, judging by the message of our special services, hackers of the main intelligence agency are engaged in this. of the ministry of defense of the russian federation, and it's just a sundae the storefront behind which the hackers who allowed themselves to destroy the servers hid, did they get into the software of the mobile operator kyivstar, well, at the same time , we know that on the same day, when

the communication in the mobile operator kyivstar was interrupted, there was an attack on monobank, and... earlier, if you recall, with the beginning of the war, russian hackers quite actively attacked the servers of state authorities in ukraine, and not only that, because the site of the espresso tv channel was also subject to hacker attacks, i remember very well how in in february and march of the 22nd year, we reported best efforts to our resources that we have. on espresso, so that they refrain from the attacks that were inflicted on us by russian hackers, these were didos attacks, which could in principle put the site down, or, for example, find access to the site and write some message there on behalf of the espresso tv channel

or on behalf of journalists espresso tv channel, but our system withstood these abuses. and we see that hackers, who are now starting a new phase, russia's war against ukraine, they are being led into a separate element of hybrid warfare, cyberwar, cyberwar, which will obviously be directed at banks, at mobile operators, at those enterprises of critical infrastructure, where also... maybe there are some other uh loopholes where hackers can get into, so be very careful with mobile operators, with the banking system, because the russians, as they say, quite a lot of people who understand

how to hack these or other servers have been employed, and some of these hackers, by the way, who work for the main... intelligence departments of the ministry of defense of the russian federation are those people which at one time they were caught in some kind of abuse on how they stole money from the cards, and some of them are wanted by the federal bureau of investigation of the united states of america, and many foreign special services are also shooting at these hackers, but they were simply offered, that you work with us, no one... will touch you, so i urge you once again, be careful with smartphones, with cards linked to smartphones and with the data that is in your smartphones, because it is... now the subject of close attention of the russian special services and russian hackers. well, kyivstar has already

announced that after the full restoration of the network, we promise to prepare compensation for all subscribers and corporate clients who could not use kyivstar services. as i said at the beginning of our program, the last week marked. the fact that the russian occupiers are striking kyiv with ballistic missiles, 10 ballistic missiles were fired in the direction of the ukrainian capital this night, probably from the bryansk region, fortunately ukrainian air defense shot down all 10 missiles, however, there is destruction in the capital and more than 50 people are injured. we have a report from our journalist dmytro. didori, who visited the site of the fall of the fragments of rockets that were shot down by ukrainian air defenses. let's look at the plot of dmytro didora. around

3:00 a.m., the russians launch 10 ballistic missiles at the capital. all enemy targets are shot down by our anti-aircraft defense, but fragments of downed missiles fall on the yard of a residential building. all the windows were broken , the cars were gutted and burned , and the huge gap from falling debris is only part of the consequences of the russian attack on kyiv, the resident of this house oleksandr did not have time to understand what had happened, he immediately ran to save his son and two cats. here on the second floor of the bed, it was muffled, it’s good that i covered myself, i only had one nose, i looked out, a fragment pierced my nose, i’m like that, here something interferes with the eye, even this. emergency services were on the scene in a matter of minutes, they immediately provided the necessary first aid, the husband says that

the apartment was completely destroyed, they only managed to take out valuables, but most importantly , they managed to save their lives, to friends, to acquaintances now, where are we, we will be somewhere , now we will not be defeated, i believe in the victory of the armed forces of ukraine, we will not be defeated by the fuck, even if not everyone will be scared for sure. the residents of the damaged building will be temporarily sheltered in a shelter, located in the nearest school, with rescuers and medics on duty. volunteers of the red cross deployed points to beat the victims. to date, people have turned to us for such help. it was heating, it was providing first aid, first aid is currently about 20 people somewhere, but our statistics are still being clarified. we also distributed a lot of tea and hot drinks. utility workers put the yard of the house in order, gutted cars will be taken away, the hole from the explosion will be buried, the police will record the damaged property from the words of the people, then the work will be done by

the city's expert commission, which will determine whether the supporting structures of the house are damaged, then they will conduct an examination of the house in order to to know whether it needs to be repaired capitally, non-capitally, or how to repair it, the residents who moved to the temporary site for the school will be under guard, eh... this is the second attack by russians with ballistic missiles on the capital since the beginning of the week, the air defense forces again managed to shoot down all the targets, but even the fragments of the enemy missiles caused significant damage to people. dmytro didora, oleksandr burlevich, espresso tv channel. the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine reported that on the night of december 13 , kyiv was attacked by s-400 anti-aircraft missiles and iskander cruise missiles, i will quote the report of our agent headquarters, 10

missiles, s-400 anti-aircraft missiles and cruise missiles iskander missiles were launched in in the direction of kyiv, the forces and means of air defense of ukraine destroyed all the missiles that were flying towards kyiv. about the situation that consists of real and cyber war, now we will talk with our guest, this is political scientist serhii taran. mr. sergey, i congratulate you and thank you for joining our broadcast. i congratulate you. we see, mr. serhiy, how over the last month the russians have been actively using ballistic missiles to attack the ukrainian capital. well, that is, these weapons, ballistic missiles. it is a weapon of terrorists, because they launch it and it is not known where it goes missiles are flying, since no one can calculate the ballistic trajectory

, can we talk about the fact that... russia is starting a new stage of terror, or is continuing a new stage of terror against ukraine, because ballistic missiles are the weapons that, in principle, are in the hands of such people , which are not the people who launch these missiles, are turned into weapons of mass destruction, and we see the consequences even from the fragments of these ballistic... rockets in kyiv, we are now reaping the results of this. please tell me what the answer should be in your opinion ukraine to this terror, i.e., should we make retaliatory strikes on which objects it can fly, and can these retaliatory strikes stop putin? well, this is not

russia anymore. has ballistic weapons and it is not the first time that it has hit kyiv with ballistic missiles, now , of course, it is hitting more, and this is becoming such a systemic story, so far these missiles have been shot down, thanks to the support of our allies, we have modern, anti-aircraft defense complexes , who beat them down, and we see that they were all beaten up at night, but for russia it is now becoming the priority is indeed mass terror, not only by some groups there or from... the armed forces of ukraine, but rather mass terror of the entire country. this is now becoming the main strategy of putin, because he realized that in no other way can he at least try to influence public opinion in ukraine, on the indomitability of ukrainians, so it will continue, and all the more so because he has a stockpile of missiles c300 and well and c-400 is quite large, so it will continue to be so, as we saw tonight, together with that we

literally. but the other day we heard an announcement from the government of germany, that a new german air defense system will be deployed in kyiv, well, in ukraine, which can actually fight such ballistics, and just today, norway announced that it will help us with slightly different, but also very effective, air defense systems , and this is all that ukraine can do now, is to have a reliable air defense system, which we need to talk about with our international partners. of course, you have to fight back. i am not a military strategist to give recipes to our armed forces of ukraine, but if you evaluate the political impact of those effects, the effect that occurs after the strikes of ukraine on military facilities, i emphasize, on military facilities on the territory of russia, then it is at least definitely better than nothing, because russia , in general, it is such a strange country, the russians are very bad, well, in general. they don't

react to violence in any way, they don't care about it somehow, but when there is violence of some kind, even in the form of exploding military warehouses nearby, or there are strikes on military units nearby territory of russia, when this happens, at least there is a much greater chance to reach the heads of strange russians who still support putin, therefore, from the political side, of course, such strikes would be correct, but from the military side, of course , military experts, who and military strategists who... the armed forces of ukraine. just a few days ago, mr. serhiu, the bonsky institute that researches militarization, the rating of militarization in the world, has such a global index of militarization, that they concluded that over the past 16 years, leadership in the militarization of israel.

conceded to ukraine, i don't know, in fact , whether it's true or not, but at least there are such data that ukraine is now the most militarized country in europe, and we have overcome these steps from the 18th to the first in literally a year, at least that's what they say germans, are you a supporter of ukraine becoming more and more militarized? are you still a supporter of the fact that ukraine should be under the umbrella of a militarized bloc that will to solve some of the problems that we are now solving independently with russia, and this and that, come on, you already mentioned poland, let's mention it again, here's how poland is doing, they are members of nato, and quite active ones, their generals is in the leadership of the north atlantic alliance, but...