we have to finish with you already, because we have limited airtime, but we were glad to hear and see you: valery romanenko, aviation expert, leading researcher of the state aviation museum was in touch with us, antin and i are telling you today , our viewers, goodbye, on monday we will meet in the same studio and wish you a peaceful, peaceful christmas holidays, see you soon. it's 5 p.m. in ukraine and a news release on the spresso tv channel, in the studio of iryna koval, is coming to your attention, greetings to all viewers. soon they will be in ukrainian skies, the netherlands begins the preparation of the first 18. f-16 aircraft for

ukraine. this was announced by president volodymyr zelenskyi. he said that during the telephone conversation he thanked dutch prime minister mark rutte for such a decision. the ukrainian leader also thanked the netherlands for actively supporting the start of negotiations on ukraine's accession to the eu and emphasized the importance of providing our country with long-term eu aid in the amount of 50 billion euros as soon as possible. god loves the trinity. at noon , the defense forces eliminated three russian su-34 fighters in the southern direction. this was reported by air force commander mykola oleschuk. from these bombers, the occupiers launched guided aerial bombs on the southern regions of ukraine. the wasteland of guided aerial bombs , which they considered to be remote, that is, the planes did not approach the e. zone of damage

of air defense, but did damage by sending these guided aerial bombs, today they received a strong signal that this distance is 50-60 km, from which of which they let kaba not be so safe for them anymore. ukraine returned the bodies of another 66 fallen defenders this was announced in the coordination headquarters for the treatment of prisoners of war. repatriated ones. and the remains will be transported to state specialized institutions, where they will be handed over to representatives of law enforcement agencies and forensic medical experts to identify the victims. and finally, in ukraine, a 12-year-old boy was returned home from russia. this was reported by ukrainian shoemaker dmytro lubinets. the child spent 18 months under occupation in the luhansk region with his father. and four more months on

territory of the russian federation, the boy's mother is a military servicewoman, so she could not take the child on her own, and finally the family met at home. 10 demining vehicles and 100 pickup trucks. the republic of korea handed over equipment for ukrainian rescuers, the ministry of internal affairs reported. the machines will be handed over to pyrotechnic units for safe inspection and demining of de-occupied settlements. japan has approved a record defense budget to counter china and north korea, reports reuters. it is about 54 billion 250 million dollars. the budget envisages an increase of approximately 17% compared to the previous year's expenditure. a significant part of the funds will be allocated for strengthening the cyber potential, as well as for financing the construction of anti-missile warships. defense with

combat systems. in addition, it became known that japan lifted the ban and will send patriot missiles to the united states. this will help the pentagon to continue supplying ukraine by replacing stocks. the assassination of pmk leader wagner yevgeny prigozhin was prepared for two months and was approved by putin. likely, this was handled by the secretary of the security service of russia, nikolay patrushev. this is written by the wall street journal with reference to representatives of western intelligence and a former russian intelligence officer. it is noted that patrushev has long emphasized to putin that moscow's alleged dependence on wagner's pmk in ukraine leads to too much political and military influence of prigozhin. and this, in turn, became an increasing threat to the kremlin. main network. hamas tunnels in the gaza strip were destroyed

by the israeli military, the tsahal press service. it is said that top hamas officials hid in this network of tunnels during. to israel on october 7. the tunnel was connected to the houses, offices and apartments of senior hamas officials. the israeli military has scanned the tunnels and obtained intelligence from them in recent days. christmas tree under the ground and decorated coffee shops among battered houses this year in kharkiv , the new year's mood is more palpable than last year. like the residents of the front line. holiday lights and decorated christmas trees react to their city, we look further in our plot. this is what kharkiv's main square looks like today, where the new year's town was set up every year. due to shelling in the front-line city, the main christmas tree was hidden

underground. there is always a queue of people wanting to take a picture near her. tatyana came here with her daughter to cheer her up and herself. residents somehow want a better life and that everything in life was fun. last year, only one platform was decorated, but this year festive lights can be found at several central metro stations at once. olesya and her girlfriends decided to visit all of them and started with main christmas tree i really like it, the christmas trees are bright, i think everyone likes them, both parents and children, well, they are very bright, very noticeable, so i like them very much. above ground this year in the city. there were also decorations that were not there last year. cafes, pharmacies and shops on the central street are lit with new year's lights. girls hunt for free photo zones. it was not like that in that year, this year it was more bi, well, more locations appeared, and in general people

began to treat the holiday somehow differently, that is, they came to their senses more. there are a lot of especially on sumy, there is a good location there with bags, but there now... these decorations appear literally next to houses damaged by enemy attacks in the center of the city, cleaning lady oksana shares, such a festive outfit makes children very happy and that's good, but adults don't have enough of a festive mood, the woman even thinks the new year's decor is superfluous, it's not so nice, honestly, but why, what do we have anyway. this is the situation in the country, our boys are over there, and there is grief here, but it is snowing among the girls who came to take holiday photos, because she admits, forces himself to lift his spirits, but it

is very difficult, a little new year's mood appears, but still not the same, a little not so new year's. my mood, my dad is at war, so it's a bit difficult, and i'm trying to cheer myself up a little, but it doesn't matter, however, festive locations and new year's mood can mostly be found only in the city center. from kharkiv for espresso tv channel. tourists and representatives celebrate the winter solstice near the famous stonehenge. some religions arranged ritual chants, entertainment and celebration in the british game of wilcher, marking the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere. a pagan religious order of druids originating in kelska britannia. stonehenge is believed to have been a center

of spiritualism more than 2,000 years ago. so even today it attracts people as a special place where ancient traditions can be revived. a separate brigade of artillery reconnaissance black forest needs repair of special vehicles. a faulty car at the front can cost health or even life. when performing combat tasks, transport is important function, but quickly fails and requires timely repair. people hold on, but technology cannot. we are asking you to join the collection of uah 100,000 in order to return the special vehicles to working condition and continue the adjustment work. artillery fire. it remains to collect only about 30,000 hryvnias. our defenders are waiting for a christmas present. you can pay using the details you see on the screen now. such were the news at that time. we will see you at

18:00. well, as always, you can do more read on our website espresso.tv, a summary of the main things in social networks. and of course, watch us on youtube. welcome to the espresso channel. today, in our military program, we will talk about new technologies that are being developed to protect our soldiers. the first block deals with how to deal with fpv drones, which are a progressive threat on the battlefield, and now it is in ukraine that new countermeasures are being developed, which are not yet available in any army in the world. this, by the way, confirms it. conclusions of the military and experts from the usa and europe, what exactly cool and new things are being done in

ukraine, we will talk about it as much as possible. and the second part of the program will be devoted to technologies and solutions for protecting our soldiers from enemy bullets and debris, mines and projectiles. how can we ensure that our soldiers are equipped with the best body armor, what are the possibilities and limitations? about all this in a conversation with the manager.' our leading domestic enterprises. my name is serhiy sguryts, i am the director of the information and consulting company defense express, which is jointly with kanal espresso now seeks to highlight the most relevant trends in the life of our armed forces and the defense-industrial complex. and now we are joined by yaroslav kalinin, the director of the infozakhist nvc company. in my opinion, this is one of the most technological ukrainian research and production companies currently operating in the country. radio-technical intelligence, and has recently been moving in the direction of radio-electronic warfare, including

combating unmanned systems of various purposes. mr. yaroslav, i welcome you to the spresso channel, glad to see and hear if you you see me good day, i see, i hear. you just came back from washington just a few days ago, there is such an international symposium ioc 2023, which, you understand, is such a top level for... companies, government officials, entrepreneurs who want their armies and their states, well , to have an advantage in digital segment. you had a report there, which was devoted to the development and trends of the use of fpv drones in the ukrainian-russian war, and after your speech you were actually greeted with such loud applause, and i would like , of course, first to ask what the... was of interest to our american and european colleagues, but first, in more detail about

the event itself, why it is so important and why the presence of ukrainian enterprises and companies was important there? well, the pro-event is a very thematic, well, thematic event, which is primarily dedicated to radio-electronic intelligence, radio-technical intelligence, radio-electronic warfare, that is, all companies. world, primarily western, who are engaged in this direction, they present their novelties, tell stories and have the opportunity to communicate with the ultimate by consumers from the united states , from nato countries, so this event is, well, well, in fact , such a key annual summary of the development of the industry, well, and then we can move on to your speech, because i think that it is not for nothing that the europeans, the americans welcomed your speech

, what are the trends in the use of fpv drones in the ukrainian-russian war, you talked about what are the directions of countermeasures, here are the general things that can be told to our viewers, well, without unnecessary details, which can be harmful, well, actually, i did not reveal some for our consumer, of course, on average, some new things for a ukrainian, for us fpv is something everyday, already understood, and what i actually did, i talked about the tactics of use, in general, about this type of weaponry in general, because currently western countries, well, in my opinion... from that communication with specialized companies, users, i saw that they do not perceive

it at all as a type of weaponry, as something that should be paid attention to, that is, there is still a classic doctrine there, if a drone, it should be there the wingspan is at least 10 m, otherwise it is not considered a drone, and fpv is such a small toy, well , they are like something frivolous, i showed the scale that... this technology has now acquired and showed the progression from the point of view of radio-electronic intelligence and radio-electronic warfare especially in the context of the fact that this is actually a security challenge for western countries, because for those present it was such a novelty that, in principle, it is possible to assemble a tool that our enemy is becoming more and more skillful in terms of protection and immunity every day to the slave, collect him from the goods

ready-made from aliexpress, or from somewhere else, and after that apply this tool against. infrastructure of the same advanced countries, and they, due to the fact that there is a lag in technology, are, in fact, currently quite vulnerable to this very technology, from the context of terrorist attacks, this is what caused such a fragile interest in this topic, because many underestimated the danger, well, in other words, we can actually say that in reality they have not yet adapted the experience of the ukrainian... russian war to their own reality and believe that this war is happening somewhere far away, and the technological trends that we have do not affect them, it's a little strange to me actually, but apart from what you said about epivdrones, you, as i understand it, outlined the directions of countering these types of weapons, taking into account the competences of your

company, which also relate to radio- technical intelligence and from recent means of reb, that's what you said, which for... due to trends , your company's solutions are the most effective and rational in the fight against this cimidron ? well, in order not to disclose our capabilities, i explained it from the side of the frep facilities, which are in the russian federation, and i did not spread so much about our new products, but i showed that in general both the russians and... we already have a deeper understanding of the problems of fpv and suppression in general communication channels of drones, which are used on unknown frequencies, on non-standard solutions, and this, well, on specific examples, gave, let's say, food for

thought for others, as representatives of the commercial industrial sector. because they don't have ready-made solutions for such, let's say yes, security challenges, such a thing as cop not rap is something that exists only in us and in russians, and western industrial companies have not demonstrated anything in this direction effectively, effectively, i repeat, effectively, at least at this exhibition, that's why i showed the solution in general by the russians and briefly outlined individual solutions that are created in our startups, including the one that is created in our company. and were there no proposals or wishes from american or european representatives after this event companies, to take advantage of your experience, your developments, in order to start some joint initiatives there to create already

countermeasures against semi-drones already on european or american ones. capacity were there such offers or inflows to such offers? well, in fact, last week in washington, too, such a global event was held between the industries of the united states and the industries of ukraine, and it was precisely the exhibition as a continuation of this event that made it possible to talk more objectively about the things that we started talking about localization, about building up. capacity and capabilities, because we are talking about tens of thousands of means that need to be supplied to our army now, and in order for such means to be produced, there is the same problem as with shells, that western production and industrial capacities are not ready for such

volumes product containers, plus the price tag does not correspond to the realities of application, etc. etc., so it was a very fruitful series of meetings, which, i hope, will soon be publicly illuminated, the results of which will soon be publicly illuminated. but one way or another the results of the infozakhist company in the fight against drones are already indirectly known, first of all there were publications where it was claimed that the work of your company forced the russians to abandon certain... types of drones, because your countermeasures were sufficiently effective, can it be outlined in general terms , well , the direction of countermeasures, approaches to countermeasures, so that, well... not to say too much, you who are already trying to spin me into providing this type of information, look, there are unique

developments that exist, communicating with representatives of other large companies, i understand that these developments are only in ukraine, not only in our company, in other ukrainian companies, their efficiency and in general. the course of how to solve this problem, up to this moment, it may have been somewhere in some theoretical works, scientific, and not a lot of practical content, and for that, we are now, if six months ago in bonn, in germany, in the west, we talked about some , about some parity of approaches, then we are now saying that ukrainian companies, ah, maybe not so much, let's say this... are mature, but already have the know-how and the technologies and approaches that are currently lacking in the world leaders, and

we can already actually implement our experience and approaches, both from a commercial point of view and from a practical point of view on the battlefield, that is why this is such a very sensitive topic, and publicity here will only play into the hands of the enemy at the moment, well, i don't know then. the question is whether it is possible to talk about the fact that the development algorithms, approaches that work against a certain type of drones that russia no longer uses, that it can be spread, spread also to counter the lancets there, there hall, shahedam, are these algorithms unique, adaptive in order to, or rather in order to use them against other samples of drones that are in the russian federation, each system, it is unique, but... this is the very class of tasks that began to be resolved from our side, and we recently saw, witnessed that the russians are also trying

to do it somehow, well, in a simple approach, it was not used on the battlefield, that is, when they said some cybernetic operations, they usually draw a picture, it sits there some operator for laptop, and it's clear from the look on his face that he doesn't understand what he forgot on the battlefield. but if we, and we are now, we in ukraine, and unfortunately, the russians, have a practical application and an understanding of what can be obtained from this, and the approach itself shows that it is possible to continue to look for similar approaches, well, i am trying to be so abstract to describe, without going into details, but the battlefield and the synergy of certain disciplines, ah... radio electronic warfare, cyber attack, radio electronic intelligence, it received a practical implementation precisely in our army and unfortunately, in the army of our enemy. you

literally, well, a month ago tested , probably still testing the development of pluton, which is aimed at providing our military with the ability to know where russian drones appear. what are the types of these drones, and i wanted to ask if , in theory, this direction of detection and recognition in the same complex could be supplemented with an element of reb, so that our military would have such a unique tool: they arrived, opened it, turned on the button and the device itself determines what drones are around and they are suppressed there by by certain parameters, how far is it a fantasy, how far is it possible to realize it, and we are in this direction. we are working, we are currently working on making the detection provided by this complex, expanding the list of drones that we can detect, the main

military drones are already on this list, but we are expanding with novelties that appear on our battlefield , and active work is underway on, let's say, the rebbe component, the active component, which will allow active obstruction. and target drones that are approaching, and make it simpler and available complex, which will pose an untargetable obstacle, here the main issue is that we are trying to immediately go into the scalability of production, because in order to produce at least 1000 systems per month, and the needs are again 10-20 00, this is a separate challenge, with. there must be quality and at the same time there must be independence from suppliers from china, for example, we are trying to implement all these three parameters and we

expect them already in january. attitude of own product, which will allow to cover this urgent need and start to scale this product and massively to produce, in conjunction with large western companies, announcements will be made in january. and is it possible to say that this rep will be really, let's say, selective, narrowly directed, so as not to create problems for other means of communication of our subordination there to our drone, or will it really be so, well, it will differ from... decisions on the reb , which are implemented on conventionally speaking, on the same chinese generators there, noise-like generators, of course we are going to ensure electromagnetic compatibility on the battlefield, so that the slave does not become a problem for ourselves, and of course we are trying to concentrate the output power as much as possible on the target obstacle, our experience in detecting and

, let's say... other operations, just comes in handy to form this, but since our the company did not have experience in radio electronic warfare until the 22nd year, we need to build certain technologies from scratch, we do not have time to build from scratch, so we are going to have these technologies, there should be a dialogue with large western companies, such as these. .. technologies have in availability, plus they go and there is a dialogue about transferring these technological capabilities so that we can organize the release of this equipment here in ukraine, this is a very serious step forward both for our industrial market and for closing the needs that are in army at the moment, because without it we will either have a means that is completely

unfounded. inexpensive or inefficient, ah, and one that we cannot replicate in our own manufacturing facilities. now there is a comprehensive dialogue, it started at the initiative of the ministry of strategy and technology, ah, with several very by large companies, i can't announce what it is at the moment, but they have been engaged in this for a long time and professionally, and they have become interested in the problems, the challenge that we now have on the battlefield, and everyone is trying to offer ... everyone who can, a solution , which we can, the condition that was very important for me was that we could produce a sufficient number here in ukraine at our own production facilities and further adapt, because the rap changes, the communication channels of fpv drones change every day, and we have to be ready to change our compliance facilities to challenges, that is, in fact, i will clarify for...

myself, that is, the role of the state ministry of technology in this process of scaling up production is still significant, that is, you are not breaking through this wall of production expansion on your own, but there is such a triangle of interaction between your company , ministry of technology and foreign partners ? the ministry of strategy and industry gives a rather strong signal to the big business of the united states, for example, or other countries, and according to this signal, that... it is possible to work with certain companies, that they are close, they support, they will contribute to this process in every possible way to reduce bureaucratic overlays, the dialogue began , that is, thanks to the fact that the ministry of strategy and industry stood by , presented the need, presented its readiness, a dialogue began with a number of very large companies, which i

could not build individually with them, with individual companies. relations for the last three years , for example, here we managed to break through this, let's say, wall, and i would like to, well, this is really good news, because they say that there is systemic interaction and there are finally prospects for three specific projects that are desperately needed for the armed forces, and how exactly is the ministry of defense responding to this need to expand the direction of rtr, reb, are they currently such active players who are really uh... responding to the new opportunities that your company can provide through order increases and such other? well, at least it was announced last month, there was a good event, organized jointly by the ministry of defense and the ministry of strategy and industry, at which the vector for capacity building was announced, just like that, and to be honest, not quite.