faith that ukraine will be an independent, cathedral state, that we will become a full-fledged european country, faith that this land will be the best for our children and for our future. stepan barna has been in the war for 21 months, he dreams most of all to return home, he says, his relatives are waiting for him here, and at the same time there is a lot to do. over the consequences of the war, which must be eliminated. unknown objects flooded the russian city of belgorod, as the russian ministry of foreign affairs commented on the situation. why hungary will not extradite

the suspect in the murder of amina akoeva. congratulations all viewers of espresso. jaana eva melnyk and the news team summarize today's news. the occupiers shelled selidove in donetsk region. one woman died, six more people were injured, the city's military administration reported. all the injured are now in the hospital. the russians damaged 38 private houses in the power line. the type of weapons from which the muscovites were armed is established by experts. occupants killed a man in chernihiv region, russians shelled semenivka during the day, vyacheslav, head of the military administration of the region , said chows a 32-year-old local resident came under enemy fire. he died in the city, more than 30 houses and civil infrastructure were also damaged. the russians also attacked the dnipropetrovsk region around nikopol, striking early with drones and artillery. a man and

a woman, a high-rise building, a utility company, an administrative building, two dozen private houses and cars were also damaged, the military administration of the region informs. shells hit two power lines and gas pipelines. in myrivska hromada, after hit caused a fire on an agricultural farm, and in the dnipro, fragments of a downed rocket caused destruction on the territory of one of the enterprises. cars and buses were also damaged. anger and people can be converted into donations after shelling. espresso tv channel continues the collection to help the military. artillerymen, who will later go to defend our country in the east, need a pickup truck to quickly and efficiently perform combat tasks. unfortunately, at the front, these cars often turn into scrap and are a kind of waste. therefore, we ask you not to be indifferent and join the collection. our goal is one pickup truck for uah 25,000. we already have

175 in our account. every hryvnia is important, your donation is a contribution to victory. you can see all the details on the screen. arrest with the alternative of depositing bail of more than 400,000 hryvnias. the pechersk district court of the capital chose such a preventive measure against a businessman from lviv who tried to bribe an official of the dbr. according to the state bureau of investigation , figuranta companies won tenders for ministry of defense procurement of military clothing for more than 15 billion hryvnias, but many contracts remained unfulfilled, and some did not implement them in full or at inflated prices. previously, the amount of damages is estimated at more than a billion hryvnias. based on this fact, the bureau initiated criminal proceedings, and the businessman offered a bribe for facilitating the return of property seized from companies under his control during the investigation. hungary

refused to extradite russian igor redkin to ukraine. he is suspected of murdering dobrovolitsa aminekuyeva, deputy head of the national police andriy nebetov said. he noted that the reason for refusing extradition, there was allegedly a war in ukraine. the escape of the suspect from the investigation was also confirmed by former people's deputy ihor mosiychuk, whose assistant okueva worked. according to him, redkin managed to leave ukraine. in the first days of the full-scale invasion of russia, let me remind you, the car of amina okueva okueva and her husband adam osmayev was shot in 2017 near the village of hlyvakha in the kyiv region. as a result of the attack, osmaev was injured, and okuyeva died. already 108 people have been injured, and the 14th, apparently, died as a result of an unknown object hitting belgorod. the middle is difficult

four children were injured and are in intensive care, reports the russian shoemaker bilova. everyone was just in the center, where new year's events continue and the regional leadership works. mrs. hits and fires, these are all new year's and festive lights, they were brought to the russian city by the defense forces of ukraine. this was confirmed to the public by a source in the special services. they clarified that they hit military facilities, and this is a response to the russian attacks on ukraine on december 29. and the representative of the moscow ministry of foreign affairs , zakharova, said that velyka was involved in the attack britain. belgorod media recorded the hits in several places at once. the streets of the city were surrounded by heavy smoke, many cars burned, and telegram channels published videos of people running in panic at the sound of air alarms. the ambassadors of united 24 congratulated ukrainians on christmas holidays,

with lines from the world-famous philanthropist. in this way, they wanted to demonstrate solidarity with the citizens of our country, which is already the second year. consecutive holidays are celebrated in conditions of full-scale war. chedrick, chedrick, chedryvochka, a swallow flew in. she started tweeting to herself. call the owner. come out, come out, master, look at the coop. there the sheep frolicked, and the goats had a meeting. you will have a measure of money without money. over 300 children from poltava spent several weeks making toys for ukrainian

defenders. the little one understands well why they are celebrating today and how difficult it is for our soldiers, that's why they started making such gifts. anna morosova will tell you more. there are a lot of such wreaths, charms that directly protect the premises also, you see, here are such wooden products that the children painted with their own hands, angels, gingerbread, socks, postcards and a bunch of other gifts are waiting to be sent, all this will go to the ukrainian defenders, as new year's gifts from the children of poltava, we have had them for a long time there are brigades with which we are friends. volunteers who often go there to see our boys and girls, they give us orders, and they know what we need at the moment, because these packages will not only contain new year's decorations, gifts, but also tea, medicine, is

warm socks, this is only part of the 400 crafts that children made in december, some did it at home with their parents, some went to workshops, one of them painted toy dragons, a symbol of 2024 , i think, somehow create some fabulous dinosaur, or a dragon, so that it would remind them of their childhood, how good it was then. the girls compare our warriors to dragons, who guard their territories in the same way, both in the sky and on earth. we have a year of the green dragon, and i wanted to paint it. green, i wished them that they rather they returned home and had a good christmas with their family. children were not limited in their creative ideas, but the main condition was words of congratulations. i really appreciate their work and i want

the war to end soon and they all come back. it was very nice and peaceful here in ukraine. i have a lot of acquaintances, military people, i am sure that they will like a particular one. so bright, unusual, not as we are used to, something that attracts attention and reminds a little of the native home and warms the soul. products will be sold in the bakhmut, kherson and kharkiv directions, so that new year every soldier received his gift. anna morozova, bohdan proskurov, from poltava for espresso tv channel. and i want to end this day with the news of an amazing salvation. in smila, cherkasy region, a dog was pulled out from under the rubble of a new house, the dog stayed there for a day, and this is what people's emotions were: alive, survived, where is the owner, the dog is coming out,

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the saturday political club, khrystyna yatskiv and vitaly portnikov, will be on the air, with the results of 2023 and the prospects for 2024. this is exactly how our program today will look, we will talk about the results of the 23rd and about expectations for the year 2024, of course, let's start with the most important for us, the military. situation, it is probably worth starting, you know , with such a joke somewhere, i don’t know who exactly is the author of this joke, but i saw it for the first time among the residents of kazakhstan, who welcomed the russians at the beginning of the 23rd year from by the advancing ukrainians, and we must understand that indeed the 23rd year was marked by certain expectations in the military sense, both in our society and in our western partners, in our military-political... leadership - this is not an insult but rather plans, one would like to believe, in any case, now we

are where we are, and several extremely important points, purely in the military picture of this year, also have and deserve attention. mr. vitaly, what in your opinion was the main thing, a possible counterattack, was crowned with not quite what the majority expected, with the understanding that we are harnessing for a long time, with sobriety, there are no ukrainians either, or i don't know, to a greater extent with open questions? well, it seems to me that 2023 , khrystyna, was the year of realism, huh, and this is the most important thing, by and large, all these trends that we are talking about, and which became obvious in 2023, were already clear in 2022, nothing new from the point of view vision of our analysis did not actually happen, it’s just that in 2022 no one... wanted to talk and think about it, the famous article of generals zaluzhnyi

and zabrodskyi, who demonstrated in principle what this war would look like, she spoke about the war for a long time, about a long-term process and absolutely did not mean that any one offensive, even a successful one, could end this war. i want to remind you what western politicians were saying also in 2022. not to take our all these comments in 2023, they said that they are supplying ukraine with weapons, that they are helping ukraine, so that ukraine can liberate as much of its land as possible, and in this strong position enter into negotiations with the russian federation, language. then it was not about the fact that ukraine can free everything. there were also discussions about whether

crimea should be liberated at all. the ukrainian political leadership has always said that the liberation of crimea is our priority. in the west, many politicians said that any threat to crimea could cause an escalation of the conflict, hinting at a nuclear strike. and they said that it is enough for crimea to remain. under the attack of the ukrainian armed forces, or was under such a serious attack blow, that this will force the president of the russian federation, vladimir putin, to agree to negotiations, so that... in any case, in western political and military circles, this topic was all the time, and it was spoken by both president biden and general milli, and european leaders, they saw as the result of 20203 precisely the negotiations between ukraine and russia, so when we use

the word victory, i would say that it is generally very imprudent to use the word victory. applied to any reality, and then when you begin to ask a person, what is a victory for you, it turns out that you drive yourself into a dead end, because many of our compatriots, if you asked him what a victory would mean for him in the 22nd year, he would answer that this is the return of ukraine to the territorial borders of ukraine. let's say so, before the borders of 1991, but again, such a victory was not seen in the west, for the west, the victory was that the ukrainian army would somehow be able to really advance the russian positions and force russia to hold negotiations on the end of the war, which would open up some new opportunities for ukraine that

no one knew, a peaceful existence, european euro-atlantic integration, an end to the loss of lives, etc., etc., now it seems to me that realism consists in the fact that we begin to understand that no military ukraine's successes, whatever they may be, do not lead to any negotiation process that the president of the russian federation, vladimir putin, who first relies on the enormous support of his own countrymen precisely when he is waging this war, 75% of russians want to see him as the president of russia, absolutely confident in the correctness of his course, these are triumphant results for a politician who is on... for him there is no such thing as negotiations, for him there is war as a necessity, and even more so when we are talking about this pre-election period , the pre-election period in the russian federation itself, when you have to look strong, confident, when the number of ukrainians killed, it only

increases your rating, and the presidential election campaign in 2024 in the united states, which also recognized... intentions the russian leadership to drag out this war, at least until the results of this american election, to see who will still win it, and that's why i didn't understand anything about this back in 2022, but when you see the real picture, it's obvious that what military the decision does not lead to a political one, to put it simply, and everyone around does not want to notice this, because they comfort themselves with some absolutely unreal... expectations and desires, and now we are still, i believe, in a more or less realistic world, because, first of all, we realize that no matter what the actions of the ukrainian armed forces are, at the end of the year there was a message that a new offensive in 2024 is also possible, they will not lead to the end of the war, ukrainians should generally stop hoping for an end to the war

through negotiations , because russia does not want to negotiate with them, and even more so. it is absolutely incomprehensible why russia should negotiate with ukraine, if the ukrainian armed forces are gaining, uh, some success there, they are cutting the corridor, russia lived somehow without a corridor, overland to crimea, russia lived without crimea until 2014 and nothing happened to it, russia certainly lived without the devastated lands of donbas and southern ukraine, and if we realize with you that on the territory. nothing will happen to the russian federation, the russian federation has the opportunity to experiment with ukrainian lands and with us, as much as it needs in order to finally destabilize the situation, if we hope for negotiations. why am i saying this because we can discuss with you the question of the ukrainian offensive in the categories of defeat or victory of our favorite

categories. yes, although in fact the front actually froze in november 2022. year, not the 23rd, since november 2022 we have a completely static situation at the front from the point of view of strategy, so individual settlements are changing hands, our enemies are achieving something, we are achieving something, even gains like this are important the history of attempts to gain a foothold on the opposite bank of the dnieper, opposite kherson, this is all a fact, as well as the russian actions in avdiivka and maryanka, this also a fact, but... anyway, the territory as such is completely preserved in a static form, and the only difference was that the russians built defensive structures there on the territory they control, and we began to... submit, but the following question arises : why should we think that if the results of the offensive were what we wanted to see in

the west, and we understand what the results are, the exit to melitopol and the cutting of the corridor, this would mean some kind of end to the war and the desire of the russians to end it, oh this it was never clear to me, and it is unclear now and by and large i am still in a situation where i believe that there is no solution to this war, that we just have to come to terms with it and think about how to end this war without russia, the russians will also look for options , but those who are completely satisfied, when they come to the conclusion that they can stop without negotiations, we will understand that, uh, here is a good example, by the way , this year, the grain agreement, it operated with the participation of russia, we... were transporting grain, ugh, at some fine moment, russia got out of this model, quite an interesting model, because russia and ukraine did not agree with each other, they did not

negotiate with each other , a model was involved in which the un secretary general antonio gutierrez and the president of the republic of turkey recep tayyip erdogan acted as mediators and the agreement was signed with the turkish side with the un, respectively the russian side and the ukrainian side, acted like this before. moment, until russia, which in principle i have this impression, wanted to withdraw from this agreement on the very day when it signed it, decided that it turns out as a result, it turned out that we can transport grain in a limited manner and without russian permission, that the corridor works one way or another, albeit not on such a scale, we will see what happens in the spring and summer, but it turns out that russian consent is not required for this. here it is the same, is it possible to end... the war without russia, i believe that it is possible, for that a whole complex of political and military-technical actions is needed, and not only from the side of ukraine, of course, not only from

the side of ukraine, ukraine in general is not a subject obvious of this process, it is the object of this process, because ukraine by itself without the help of the west, i think here, we understand this perfectly, would not have lasted a few months against the russian onslaught, we simply did not have the equipment, military equipment, we just don't have the money because our economy is failing. and the west must realize that if it perceives this struggle between ukraine and russia as part of the global confrontation between democracy and dictatorships, which nentzipolosi once spoke about, then either it agrees with the fact that that the territory of the russian federation is one way or another increasing at the expense of ukrainian regions, well, there is no such gray solution here, you see that we tried to stay in this gray zone. for many decades, and most of our compatriots with you were absolutely fine with this gray zone. in general, i think that this is such

an example of suicidal national idiocy that can enter all textbooks of political history, because by and large, as you understand, it has always been clear to everyone that the security situation is the main thing situation for any. and many countries that were part of the soviet zone of influence or the soviet union itself realized the fact that it was necessary to look for some guarantees for security, this was clear back in the 90s, in the year 97, when poland, the czech republic, hungary, and later slovakia joined nato, these countries did not have any major problems with russia, i remember. i was there when the decision was made on the first expansion of nato, if you think that someone had such serious anti-russian tendencies, you are wrong,

all this did not exist in russia itself, if i i'm not mistaken, at that time there were no bright anti-nazi sentiments, at least public of course, of course, well, she was against expansion, against expansion, this was the clear position of president boris yeltsin. i well remember that the deputy prime minister of the government of the russian federation, mr. sirov, who came at the head of the russian delegation to the nato summit at the time, gathered journalists to talk to them at the phone booth in the press center of the e-e forum , because he did not want to enter even the meeting hall, did not want to hold any official events in protest against expansion of the alliance, but it was all very calm, then russia... signed these fundamental acts with nato, uh, eh, which created the russia-nato council, and again , i repeat, in poland itself, in the czech republic,

in hungary there was... no reason to think about such security, from our point of view, there were more reasons, let's say, in slovenia, which wanted to join nato in the first place, which was not accepted then, because they were worried about the general situation in the former yugoslavia, but the peoples of these countries simply remembered what russia was, knew, and so this is an extension. happened, those who made it, they got to the nat, got their security system, let's look at another, another, but, sorry, but we also knew what russia is, why the same experience is even more short-lived for them, than we have in some places, but the effects are so different, we did not know anything , what russia is like, ukrainians in 1994, three years before this fundamental act of russia-nato, before the ukraine-nato charter signed by leonid kuchma in madrid,

voted for kuchma , it was... the first term: kuchva came to power with slogans restoration of relations with the russian federation, one of the most important moments of his first term as president was the state visit to kyiv by boris yeltsin, who signed this famous big agreement, which did not guarantee us anything, and who set as a condition for his move and for signing this big agreement, as you know, since the creation of the agreement regarding the presence of the black sea fleet in crimea, so that no one knew anything, the majority of our compatriots with you adhered to absolutely obvious pro-russian views, which are not going anywhere went back to 2014, and many believed in 2019 that it was possible to come to an agreement with russia, and the majority of our population opposed nato. i will tell you more, who do you think the ukrainians supported in the conflict between serbia and croatia? serbia, of course, serbia, of course, whom the ukrainians supported in the conflict. between

moldova and transnistria? transnistria, even politically, we supported whom our ukrainian radicals voted for, we did not vote, but fought in transnistria and in the caucasus, and that, well, in the caucasus , it seems to me that they already fought for georgia, but here transnistria fought for ukraine, people from ukraine fought for transnistria, and we had this multi-vector foreign policy, changes began in relation to... when nato appeared in our national security strategy, which , it was later removed from there, so to say that we understood, no, i’m sorry, we inherited a country of pro-russian citizens, and we don’t need to somehow keep it quiet, when in latvia, lithuania, estonia and the western lands of ukraine did not vote or voted against gorbachev's referendum on sovereignty

union, the vast majority of ukrainians support it. in the summer of 1991, ukraine was the main union republic on which moscow relied in an effort to create this new union. actually, when i asked this question, i meant that the majority of ukrainians in one way or another are victims of russia and the soviet union during at least the 20th century, right? it is necessary to perceive oneself as a victim, as a victim of russia. there was no such feeling, and this is one point, another point is very important that... i wanted to tell you about the opposite side, this is also an interesting moment, there is the opposite side, belarus, relatively speaking , well, yes, calm down, kazakhstan nazarbayev, well , what was kazakhstan then, who were ready to join the csto, this is also probably to a certain extent the sphere of security, you ask , if i do not consider myself a victim of russia, then lukashenko certainly does not, and nazarbayev did not consider himself a victim of russia, they considered russia to be there... with

which one should have friendly relations, but at the same time they were ready to enter the russian security sphere , i am not even talking about nations, but about the elites, that is, the belarusian elite, about the lukashenka and kazakhstan elites, they believed that they should turn to moscow for this guarantee of security for themselves, by the way, this worked, as you know, in 2020 for lukashenka, ugh, and in 2022 for the kazakh elite, where is tokayev... everyone is with nazarbayev, but it’s still the same, you know, the same eggs only in profile, it’s the same elite, so it turned out that russia is even ready to send troops there, when it comes to kazakhstan, only to save this elite from some rules, but this, if you like, and that a nuclear umbrella when we talk about nato, and a nuclear umbrella when we talk about the csto or the shanghai cooperation organization, where you can somehow

appeal to china that... the countries of central asia are very active, huh.