there were a lot of them then, it was a native home, the city was not small without it either, it was warm, everything was the same, after all , there was an enterprise that gave, the village lived at the expense of this enterprise, so it is a native home. after the shelling in may 2022 , they decided to stop the plant, director yuriy ksynenko says. completely... they extinguished the batteries, they are cold, it is very bad, but it is not critical, there is technology, there is an understanding of how to get out of this preservation, so we did everything right in terms of technology. on december 8 , the avdiiv coke plant was evacuated the last 12 employees of the plant, who ensured its preservation. we took out all the products that were at the enterprise. we

took it to, well, to our metinvest enterprise, and we also tried to sell it to other enterprises, but at the moment there are no products on the territory of khz. according to ktsenenko, it will be possible to assess the consequences of the destruction and the prospects for resumption of work only after the cessation of hostilities. currently , it is already known that there are no surviving buildings on the territory of the plant. in october of this year. the russians intensified their offensive actions on avdiivka the general staff's announcement stated that the cities, surrounding villages, and the coke-chemical plant had become a target for capture by the russians. active infantry attacks and increased the number of artillery fire. used to support infantry and armored vehicles and aviation. one of the reasons for such activation is the attempt to capture. at least some

settlements or buildings before the onset of severe cold, well, wintering in villages, cities, well, in buildings such as koksokhim, even in destroyed ones, is much easier than in the field. in the donetsk regional public administration reported that at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the russians completely or partially destroyed five industrial plants. in particular , the ilyich and azovstal plants in mariupol. a large part of the region's enterprises was also damaged. machine-building enterprises practically do not carry out production activities. damaged coal mining enterprises. as a result of the irf war , the metallurgical industry in ukraine completely ceased to exist. julia magdalis, vladyslav okolov, mykhailo mural, ivan kozh, social news. and we return to the conclusion. press conference of the president, there

was our daria kinsho, she is ready to tell the details. so dasha, i congratulate you, tell me what else volodymyr zelensky was asked about? greetings slava, just recently the big press conference of the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi ended, about a hundred media , about 200 people, representatives of zmi came here to this hall. in order to ask questions that concern society, they asked about mobilization and relations with commander-in-chief valery zaluzhny, as well as relations with international partners, financial assistance, there is the production of own weapons, and here is our question, my question was, in particular, about relations with valery zaluzhny, because the last few months have been active.

the issue of the conflict between the president and zaluzhny is being discussed, and to my question the president answered that he has a working relationship with valery zaluzhny, and that he does not comment on posts on facebook, as he does not have time for it, please give more details, let's listen to the direct speech, my employees the relationship is assumed, he must answer the result for the result on the battlefield as a commander. together with the general staff, there are many issues there, there is also the commander of tavria , who, well, was in charge of the operational command, we need strong steps and results, i am waiting for a decision from them regarding mobilization, i am waiting for a decision from them so that we help the people at the front, i am waiting for very specific things on the battlefield, the strategy is clear. we have an understanding

of our actions, i want to see the details, i think it is fair, because when there are details, then there is an answer. president volodymyr zelenskyi also commented on the new plan mobilization plan, he said that now the ministry of defense is working on this plan, and in the course of discussing the issue of mobilization changes, the military proposed to call up about 500 thousand people additionally, according to the president, mobilization in this way will cost an additional 500 billion for the country, please in more detail directly, i have not yet seen demobilization there, although i believe that this is the number one issue, and as for finances, between us, mobilization

in this format will cost ukraine an additional 500 billion hryvnias, so i, as president of ukraine, as a person who gives a lot... of his time to find one or another financial support for ukraine. i would like an understanding from the prime minister, from the minister of finance, and where does the money come from? ugh. the president also said that russia won't have a single victory on the battlefield this year, because it never managed to reach the administrative borders of donbass. today we are talking about the defeat, we are not talking about the defeat of ukraine today, i am asking for a direct speech, what should i think about the defeats, i know everything that concerns the battlefield, but no result

russia has not achieved this year, i am not characterizing the last year, the 22nd, i am talking about the 23rd year, as far as financial aid is concerned... we are working very hard on this, i am sure that the united states of america will not betray us, and that what we have agreed upon by the united states will be carried out, in full. as for the european union, well , there were big stakes, everyone played at big stakes, we achieved one victory in relation to the european union, in relation to 50 billion, i am sure, we have already achieved all this, the question is now of some appropriate time, the first half 1.5 billion, i think they will this week, also, as we have already heard, the president spoke about financial

support from the united states and he said that the first funds should arrive already this week. dasha, here i am... i see that a lot of foreign mass media were present in the hall , tell me what the foreigners were actually interested in, what did they ask the president? apparently, the connection has disappeared, we will try to contact our correspondent again, but i will remind you that it was our daria kinsha, she told about the final press conference of the president, which... literally 20 minutes ago i would like to remind you that commander-in-chief valery zaluzhnyi also commented on the issue of mobilization, which the president spoke about during the press conference yesterday. i quote further: with regard to mobilization issues, it is not necessary to strengthen it, but to return it to those limits, to those

frameworks that worked before, because now it is, let's say, the problem of those guys who are fighting at the front, their someone has to replace them, someone has to help them, - said zaluzhny. well, this winter , ukraine will receive several more new systems of patriot air defense, president volodymyr zelenskyi said during a press conference. let me remind you that ukraine received its first patriots in april from the united states, germany and the netherlands. what else does the ukrainian military destroy enemy equipment on the ground, in the sky and in the air, at sea, and what weapons from partners help the most on the battlefield? see further. this is a british tank challenger. the first 14 units of the ukrainian armed forces were commissioned this spring, the ministry of defense of the united kingdom reported on its website. this tank is a sniper grind among tanks. the world record set on this

tank is more than 5 km t-55 will break. and the german leopard tank. ukrainian fighters received the first 14 samples from polish partners in the spring of this year. according to data on the website of the ministry of defense of poland. here. the schedule was prepared by slovo i dilo at the beginning of the year. here is an approximate list of weapons that the western partners promised to provide us. these are weapons, in particular, from the usa, the united kingdom, canada, sweden, latvia, estonia, lithuania, france and others. how much equipment do we have? the results received during the year are not disclosed, answered the question of the public spokesman of the ministry of defense hilarion pavlyuk. foreign governments periodically report on shipments. according to the resource's calculations, word and deed, as of july, leopards of hope. about 60s. another 10 were provided by denmark, the netherlands and germany at the beginning of autumn. according to

the co-founder of portaluyt roman pohorily, tanks and bmps received from partners this year have become one of the most useful types of weapons on the battlefield for the ukrainian military. among other things, roman singled out bmp bradley the exact number of the us ministry of defense was not made public, but in the summer on the eve of the nato summit, they promised to provide another 32. the combat work of these machines was shown the other day in... in the 47th brigade. bradleys, which we see now near avdiivka , with the fighters of the 47th brigade, they work very effectively, destroy the enemy and prevent them from advancing there in the steppe area of ​​the same, effective weapons that help our fighters directly on the battlefield, in the front line, to protect our country and not let the enemy go further. it. video of american work of ballistic missiles to the tataks was announced by commander-in-chief valery zaluzhnyi in his telegram

this fall. on the one hand, those missiles are capable of a distance of only 160 km, but nevertheless, we managed to hit at least three military units flying in the temporarily occupied territories. as a result, the enemy suffered significant destruction of its aviation equipment, in particular attack helicopters. this is how the paatriot anti-aircraft missile complex works. ukraine received the first patriots this spring. also , the ukrainian air defense system was strengthened by other installations from western partners, in particular sampti, nasamsy, arst, etc. according to the deputy director of the ukrainian company for the production of equipment rep. anatoly khrapchynskyi, along with the enemy's attempts to test ukrainian anti-aircraft defense, approaches to air countermeasures are also changing. russians, we see how we first have western models that can powerfully

respond to cruise missiles, then we have an increasing number of mobile groups that oppose the martyrs. the united states provided military aid to ukraine in the amount of more than 40 billion dollars, the pentagon website reported in the summer. other partners have provided the armed forces of ukraine with another $27 billion in military aid, the report says. ukraine needs more technical support, in particular air defense installations, tanks. and shells, says roman pohorily. darya sydorenko, ivan gorbunov, public news. and we return to our correspondent daria kinsha, who was at volodymyr zelenskyi's press conference. so dasha, you obviously didn't hear my question, so i'll repeat it now. many foreign media were seen at the press conference. tell me, what exactly interested foreign journalists? yes, slava, among me already. about a hundred people present spoke to the media, half of them were foreign

media representatives, they, in particular, asked about issues that concerned them directly, or specifically international politics, in particular, questions were raised about the situation between ukraine and poland, which happened on the border, there were also questions about the conflict in palestine regarding... the conflict in the gas sector, and, well, and, in particular, they asked about what is happening inside the country and, as i said, about the financial assistance of the united states that ukraine expects ? thank you, colleague, darya kinsha about the final press conference of the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi. the european union agreed to the 12th package of sanctions against russia, which included 140 physical sanctions. persons connected with the russian army and the defense sphere. it extended the ban

on the transit of dual -use goods and technologies, introduced tighter control over russian oil prices and prevented the circumvention of sanctions. the new package also includes restrictions on the trade in diamonds. what effect will this have on russia? olena bliznyakova will tell. it's belgian antwerp. the city whose stock exchange accounts for about 80% of the world trade in diamonds. products are of russian origin, according to the antwerp world diamond center. at the same time, the situation should change after the introduction of the 12th package of sanctions by the european union. already from january 1, 2000. on the 24th , a ban on the direct or indirect import, purchase or transfer of diamonds from russia comes into effect. the total annual volume of diamond trade is 4 billion dollars. as if the amount seemed small in relation to the total volume exports that exist today, but

this is enough... segment, the executive director of the economic discussion club oleg panzyn says that in 2022-23, russia earned more than 600 billion dollars from the export of its own products, primarily the income was brought by energy sources, restrictions on trade diamonds will affect the sector of the market that deals with luxury goods, and it is sensitive to such fluctuations. the main market that consumed diamonds was the european market, 70% of russian diamonds were sold through the diamond exchange. marpeni, and 30% directly went to india, where they were processed into diamonds, against the sanctions in this field was belgium, precisely through the antwerp stock exchange with its 500-year history. the spokesman of the antwerp world diamond center, tom ness, said that the restrictions, which would only apply in europe, would not make sense. if you impose sanctions only in

europe, it will not change anything, because these diamonds will simply go to other trading platforms. you have the same thesis. expressed last year's prime minister. subsequently, decroo said: they want to displace russian diamonds origin from the market and the best way to do this is with a full tracking system. the head of the diamond market research company eden gollan says: significant restrictions will be felt by the market in march. the loophole is that diamonds that undergo a so-called major transformation are considered a product of the country where it took place. thus, russian raw materials, which were polished in india and then exported to the usa, weigh more. the new provision says that even if they have been processed in third countries, they are still will be considered russian diamonds. the spokesman of the russian president, dmytro piskov, said that they were ready to introduce restrictions in the field and already have mechanisms to bypass sanctions. if piskov says it doesn't work, it means it actually does. the most important is

the strengthening of sanctions in the field of technology, as well as the limitation of oil prices. it is also worth noting that under sanctions. more than 140 individuals and legal entities were caught. political scientist volodymyr fesenko, in his turn, says: economic sanctions covered at least 80% of russian sectors, from those where they were possible to introduce and now it is primarily about their strengthening. you should not count on the fact that any of the packages will collapse the russian economy, because it can have a significant impact, except for a sharp drop in oil prices. sanctions did not collapse either the iranian economy or the economy of north korea. sanctions are not aimed at... collapsing the russian economy, the point is to gradually weaken it, exactly gradually, step by step, it is like, well, you can say so, a sanctions boa constrictor that gradually tightens, along with the fact that if sanctions was not, he says fesenko, the economic potential of russia would be one and a half times higher. olena bliznyakova,

society, news. putin announced that he is running for president again, changes. to the constitution allowed him to run for office at least twice more, that is, to rule russia until 2036. after the march vote, he will become president for the fifth time. only the self-proclaimed president of belarus, oleksandr lukashenko, did not leave the presidential chair in europe longer than him. during putin's third term. russia occupied crimea and began an invasion of donbas during the fourth, he started a full-scale war with ukraine. how are people in russia preparing for the re-election of putin and how will the vote be held in the occupied ukrainian territories? olena kurenkova knows. our boys did not and will not leave their front there. so don't leave us. at different times, i had different opinions on this matter, but i understand, now it is no different.

i will run for president of russia. so vladimir putin decided to go to the meeting with persuasion and still bog down in the presidential elections in russia, which scheduled for march next year. putin needs to demonstrate to his own elite that he is in control of the situation, he needs to publicly demonstrate support from his own population, when his russian public or non-public elite see the publications, they see the publications of the ratings based on the election results, they cannot in the public space not... how to oppose putin. ian garner, a historian and researcher of russian propaganda, says that the elections in russia are, as it were, another coronation of the king, which only in form is similar to elections, so that demonstrate the connection between the kremlin. and common people. i think we need to move away from the word choice when we talk about this election, because russians don't choose. and i don't think very many russians at all

are still under the false impression that they are making a choice, at least in the sense of a meaningful democratic choice. the institute for the study of war suggests that putin will avoid the topic of the war against ukraine, where russia has suffered more than 300,000 casualties and there have been no significant breakthroughs recently. however, it is worth going back to the video we saw on beginning, where putin in... for the first time talks about running for the march elections and paying attention to who is advocating his candidacy. in 2023, he will be elected president not just by the so-called russian military, although in fact, in this context, it is not even the russian military, it is militants, er, but those who are called heroes in russia. competitors is a strange word in the context of russian elections, and still none of the candidates has been officially approved by the russian central committee. anton oksantyuk, an expert of the ukrainian prism. is glad to draw attention first of all to the communist party and its two likely candidates, its head gennadiy zyuganov, as well as mykola kharitonov, a member of the russian state duma. kharitonov, he is considered such

a rather weak figure, even compared to the already old or zyuganov. accordingly, if a decision is made to nominate his candidacy, it will confirm my theory and , in general, that the kremlin's strategy in these elections will be based on it. purely on the need to maintain the maximum rating for putin. there are among the self-nominated two bright figures: ihor girke strilkov, an ex-leader of the so-called dpr militants, who is currently in the moscow pre-trial detention center for extremism. if there is a verdict in his case, he will not be able to run for office. and hryhoriy yavlinskyi, the former head of the yabluko opposition party. he advocated peace negotiations between russia and ukraine and the west. i certainly assume that the kremlin wants to use it as such. the so-called spoiler candidate from the liberal opposition, or, and this is the most important, the most dangerous, trying to promote his candidacy as

a possible negotiator on the part of russia in the west. people in the occupied territories of ukraine will also vote in the russian presidential elections this time. the relevant resolution was adopted by the central election commission of russia. holding elections in these territories is a violation of a number of international norms. first, the very fact of violation of the un charter and illegal occupation. on the territory of another state, and this is also coercion of citizenship, because they hold these elections, as it were, among the citizens of the russian federation, who forcibly , in violation of international norms, received so so-called russian citizenship. olga skrypnyk says that in the so-called newly occupied territories of ukraine, the russians are conducting a policy of coercion to vote, these are raids by fsb representatives, when they are looking for people from the so-called black list, activists, bloggers, journalists, family members of armed forces servicemen, or those who cooperate. or cooperated with the security service of ukraine or other ukrainian authorities in the occupied south such as kherson or zaporizhzhia regions, then people are often deported

to simferopol, still on the territory of occupied crimea. antono xantyuk notes, that the russians do not plan to publish lists of polling stations with the locations of the respective election commissions, and there will be no information about the members of the election commission yet. if the kremlin decides to hold elections in these occupied territories, it is clear that... this will mean a lack of even a theoretical readiness on the part of moscow to discuss the return of this part of ukraine, or, to a certain extent , diplomatically. russia held preliminary elections in the occupied territories in the fall. then the council of europe declared that these were fictitious the elections are invalid according to international law, according to its official website. us secretary of state anthony blinken said that washington will never recognize their results. olena kurenkova, oleksandr bramskyi, social news. oleksiy goncharenko, a people's deputy from the european solidarity faction, found out about the maid at home. he wrote about this in his telegram channel. he also published a document of the national police stating

that they had opened criminal proceedings regarding violation of privacy . koncharenko wrote that the device found november 26. in his home in odesa , the internet did not work, so an employee of an alleged internet company came to set it up, but instead of repairing it , he installed a wiretapping device. the company itself told the people's deputy that they did not send the master to him. i would like to remind you that on december 17, the sbu opened a criminal proceeding based on the discovery of a listening device in the premises where commander-in-chief valery zaluzhnyi could later work. in a comment to rbc ukraine, he confirmed this information and said that he was supposed to work in the premises on december 18. the impact on the cargo took away most lives in the kharkiv region. now, on october 5, 59 people died there, five more were injured. the village lost an eighth of its inhabitants.

dmytro hrybinyk saw how these people recover after the attack. my father bought my mother a phone, we went to the villages, took a picture in the car in their, this is their last photo in general. portraits of her parents, anatoly and olga, 17-year-old resident of thunderstorm darina panteleva, hung up in the house after their death. my father and mother love me very much, sometimes they love me, sometimes they hate me, sometimes i even have a father i could not go to bed without my mother, so that my mother was not around. were in a local cafe with their fellow villagers when the russian military hit it with an iskander m missile on october 5. 59 people were killed, this was the most mass casualty as a result of a missile strike in kharkiv oblast, the beginning of a full-scale invasion. he took the lives of one-eighth of the residents of the de-occupied storm. 14 children lost their parents. well, i started to think more, do more, because before this type i

didn't really do anything at all. everything is like mom, mom, but now i'm cleaning there, i'm cooking, i'm giving it to her 15-year-old brother dmitry and ten-year-old sister anastasia were taken into custody by their grandfather valery. i don't know, at that moment i could have taken care of myself, well, my whole psyche collapsed, i still don't work. i leave the pension and the economy where we are concerned that when a russian rocket flew in during a thunderstorm, people in a local cafe remembered compatriot andrii kozyr. he was a military volunteer, died in the battles that year, and on october 5 he was reburied in the village, his son, daughter and wife andrii also died at the wake. investigators identified the bodies of all 59 victims in a week, a third of them

using dna said serhiy bolvinov, head of the investigative department of the national police of the kharkiv region. we assembled one man's body from 20 parts. the brothers from thunder volodymyr and dmytro mamoniv are suspected of directing the rocket at the cafe - the spokesman of the security service of ukraine , artem dykhtyarenko, reported. according to investigators, during the occupation of the village, they sided with the russians and received positions in the occupation law enforcement agencies for this. on the eve of the release of the storm, both fled to russia, but continued. collect information for the russians, this is what the representative of russia said about the attack on the cafe at a meeting of the un security council. the funeral of one of the high-ranking ukrainian nationalists was held there at the time of the attack. and there were many accomplices of the nazis. the youngest person to die in groza was 8 years old, his name was ivan kozyr. the boy was buried on the same day as his father, grandfather and aunt.

tamara korg - one of the five survivors of the cafe, remembers that at the wake, little ivan was sitting opposite, he was holding candies in one hand, someone treated him to a ball with candies, and with the other hand he was eating delicious borscht ate, this, this child is still standing with me before the voice the office of the united nations high commissioner for human rights has published its findings on the lightning strike in a report. the office of the high commissioner has good reason to believe that there were no military personnel or any other legitimate military purpose at the memorial lunch in the cafe following the funeral held in the cemetery outside the village. 59 dead were civilians who did not take part in hostilities. next year, they plan to build a cafe next to the destroyed one.

a place of memory for the dead, well, that's how it is the population, as people, as relatives, this will be discussed with them, and it will be, well, how it will be in the first place, they will tell what they, how they want to see it, has been in office since december 1, she replaced oleksandr nechvolod, the old man who died in the cafe. dmytro grebinyk and anton kalita, social news. kharkiv. our daria also visited georgia. zolbin, she was preparing a special report for the public website and is ready to tell what the atmosphere is like in the village now. dasha, i congratulate you, actually, you said, i know what is wrong with people in in georgia, and what do they tell you about the shelling that happened then? congratulations, glory, in fact, despite the fact that already...