the lion's share of this money will settle on military american enterprises, the lion 's share of this money will go to the salaries of people, americans who work there, and that's how they pull, they didn't approve aid to ukraine before the new year, i really hope, but no, i'll say to another, i am sure that after the new year they will unblock this aid after all, because they understand where the evil is, and this evil is in russia, i am only commenting and now... and i have questions from everyone, i am very in short, what is actually the distance through the berlin strait between the usa and russia is 13 km , so, on the one hand, it is far, if across the atlantic, and if the east is not very far, well, it is just a word, i remember this phrase, what americans do, they go through many options , then they do the right thing, i hope that this time it will be the same, please, sasha, yura, questions about european integration, well, especially for business, for small and medium-sized enterprises, and for many consumers, the situation is difficult.

turned out to be blocking the polish, romanian, hungarian border, i.e. in the european union, well , the ukrainian economic side reacted sluggishly to the problems, the dialogue was indeed taking place, but our state continued to lose enormous funds due to the blocking of the border, at the same time, receiving these funds from european partners, here business is questioning european integration, perhaps it is communicating. with investors, with entrepreneurs, that it is necessary to step towards the eu, but not to forget precisely the position of ukraine, ukrainian business, it is necessary to defend some of our rights, and not cancel the european transport visa-free system, which ukraine has long ihla, i have a question for you , you know, there is another question here, the question is that if we talk about the issues you have raised now, europeans think about themselves, we are not yet in the european union, we are still did not come but we

are integrating, we are integrating there, but we are primarily the european union thinking about the european union and that is why in europe they are more on the side of poland in this matter, the only thing that pleases me is that the government has changed in poland and that this new government of the prime minister minister donald tusk now will make every effort to change this situation. donald tusk, by the way, why did this happen because there was poor communication between the polish government and brussels. the polish government was accused of lying. the central government in brussels, there was no such understanding between them, as a result of which the situation you are talking about, now donald tusk has come to power, and i really hope that this communication between poland and brussels will change for the first time, and if it changes, it will change, and it seems to me that a certain european standard should be observed here the legislation into which we have already integrated, i am talking about visa-free transport, we cannot return the old soviet legislation, these permits, because it will essentially undermine the basis of the economy. to which we are going

together with the eu, that's right, ms. natalie, please, uh, you mentioned the change of government in poland, well , in general, such a political change, and it's no secret, many people said that this situation with a blockade at the border, that this is not an economic matter, but a political one, well, what do you think, will something change in this regard in connection with the arrival, well of a new political force, because it is no secret that even in poland there are very... so to speak, opinions and sympathies are divided, and such an aggravation is definitely happening, how will it affect ukraine, natalka, i am sure that it will change, do you know why, one of the first countries where the new polish foreign minister, radosław sikorski, arrived, ukraine, god forbid, so i think that everything will change now, we will find these points of contact, and we will find ways out of this situation, into which we fell, sometimes through. through themselves

myself, because of our own mistakes, and sometimes because of, well, some kind of wrong attitude on the part of our neighbors, i think that we will solve these mistakes, but the new government has already come to fulfill its duties, the situation has not changed fundamentally yet, well, i , not at all, i won’t, i don’t know how to change this situation at all, purely practically, i don’t know, so i can’t answer this question, but i really hope that it will change, well, i just and, i'll just say briefly, under somoga, that really. a lot of things change in a short time relations with the west, which have not happened for decades, so this is probably a very painful disease of growth, well, but i believe that we will once again manage to survive it, and now we will not talk about the disease of growth, but about the fight against a sick state, which is the russian federation, about the situation at the front, how it changed during the year and key moments that may have had a positive or negative effect on the course of events, what we expected last year and what we have at the front? most importantly, at the beginning of the 24th, let's

see. on the battlefield, 2023 was the year for of ukraine. a year of hopes, successes and losses. in january, they talked about the fact that ukraine should not lose in the war with russia. the us and partners supported us in creating an offensive group of 12 brigades for 60,000 soldiers, which was supposed to be the basis for breaking through the enemy's defenses in the south of the country. but the preparations were slow, the armaments were also arriving, and after the defeats in 2022, russia began to build fortifications. and mine captured territories along the entire contact line, especially densely in the south. also, since january, the army the russian federation switched from defense to offensive actions on the line from kupyansk to ugledar. this was the second battle for the east, where the enemy sought to push ukrainian troops out of donbas. this

hostile plan collapsed with the epic annihilation of the russian forces at ugledar in february. however , the enemy concentrated on capturing bakhmut, where he used it for the first time. wagnerites and tactics of meat assaults. this rush lasted until may. the enemy paid a colossal price for the ruins of bakhmut. the political and military leadership of ukraine considered the defense of bakhmut exhausting it is expedient, despite the advice from the us, to concentrate all forces and opportunities on conducting a concentrated offensive in the south. according to the plan , the two breakthrough corps were supposed to break through enemy-occupied territories in the donetsk and zaporizhzhia regions. and go to the azov coast, or at least to tokmak. since may, the armed forces of ukraine have shaken the enemy's defenses in several directions, from velika novosilka to vasylivka. the active offensive in the south began on june 4. however, the maneuver doctrine, on which our

partners relied too optimistically when modeling offensive actions on in the south, it did not work in the conditions of extensive enemy fortifications, extensive minefields, and the active operation of anti-tank weapons. drones and helicopters, while the offensive took place without dominance in the air and without an advantage in manpower, and the concentration of forces for a breakthrough was simply impossible due to the transparency of the battlefield, thanks to reconnaissance drones and the rapid use of enemy means of destruction, so the newly formed brigades gained experience in combat operations in there were conditions under which no nato army would launch such an offensive losses, given the harsh reality, the leadership of the armed forces decided to switch to the tactics of advancing in small groups with demining and artillery support. instead of expectations for a rapid advance of almost 100 km, from summer to autumn, the advance in the south in the robotyny area was up to 12 km.

there will be no deep breakthrough - valery zaluzhnyi wrote in a well-known article in the economist. the war has become a war of attrition, because defense prevails over offense. as in the first world. after the war , ukraine and russia reached a level of technological development that puts us in a hopeless situation. in order to to get out of this impasse, we need to invent something fundamentally new, as the chinese once invented gunpowder, - noted zaluzhny. on land, the results of the offensive campaign of the armed forces and the defense forces, despite the self-sacrifice, dedication and courage of our soldiers, in 2023 turned out to be less than expected, but the enemy suffered significant losses. according to us intelligence, out of 360,000 invaders who invaded ukraine, russia lost 315,000 people on the battlefield. also, the ref lost 2/3 of its tanks and a third of the number of other armored vehicles. now russia

trying to recover what was lost. and since october, since the attacks on avdiivka, it has again intensified combat operations along the entire front line using its main advantage - live. strength the tactics of the wagnerites became the tactics of the russian army. so now the enemy is making a third attempt to replay the results of the fighting for donbas. these attempts of the enemy break down the resilience of our defenses, but again and again, we need weapons, equipment and ammunition. well, that's how serhii briefly explained how this year passed, well, mainly at the front. serhii, i would i asked you so. can it be said that the actual status quo has actually been preserved, or were the advances in one direction and the other still significant? well, first of all, i would like to start with what we talked about diplomacy, about the transformation of zelenskyi, but we understand that all these things are related to how bravely our defense is holding up on the

front line, because now that we are recording there holiday program, some young men, men and women basically sit in the trenches for two years and... now carry the main the burden of what now affects our present and our future, so we have to remember what difficult conditions we actually exist in now and what will happen to our state, so in any case... the question of the situation on the front line is decisive, which will affect everything, on the economy, on diplomacy, on our feeling and so on. now, when we talk about what happened on the front line this year, we really had high expectations for the counter-offensive, the expectations for the counter-offensive, really, they were heated, because everyone knew where we were going to advance, what we had to gain, what we had to get to the sea of ​​azov coast, how we would cut this transport corridor, and everything would seem to be fine, especially against the background of the statements of our officials that we can even in ... to buy coffee in crimea, of course, it affected expectations , perhaps such informational support was

needed at the first stage, when our population was, shall we say, surprised by the russian attack, but when the reality was understood, we think that everything although this is an excessive expectation, they played a certain game a hard joke with our population, and now we are returning a little to our real land, indeed, the enemy has become much stronger this year, because... the front has shrunk, it has become, relatively speaking, not 200 km there, but 800 km there, the number the number of enemy forces on our territory has almost doubled, that is , in fact they have dug themselves into the ground, they have provided themselves with equipment and weapons, and in fact they are now both on the offensive and in the defense, using their advantages primarily in the number of personnel. it is much more difficult for us to fight them now, and we understand that now we have serious challenges, if we were expecting access to... the coast of the sea of ​​azov, we have not succeeded so far, and this means that now we have such

a significant year of expectations of changes and transformation , first of all it is about the fact that we have to reformat the defense , provide the fortifications that were finally mentioned, we have to form reserves, we have to train our soldiers not only to fight, we have to finally train the commanders as well, because one of our problems is something that is not always our brigades, commanders are ready to carry out large-scale actions, therefore... this is a new experience, we have not yet learned to attack, we have learned to defend well, but we are only just beginning to learn to attack, so relatively speaking, we have such serious challenges with which no army of the world has encountered, this also applies to preparation, offensive operation, and support and so on, that is, the next year will be extremely difficult, important, and in any case we really hope for foreign aid, why i asked yuri about that's the question because it's impossible now... to plan our actions for next year without knowing clearly what assets and forces you'll have at your disposal over the next year, and that's

the challenge now facing our military leaders when the americans ask what you have a strategy for victory, a strategy for fighting, but what is the strategy for the americans as to how we will be secured, whether we will have enough planes there, whether we will have enough ammunition, whether we will have enough guns and everything else, that's just what what will provide us with a certain understanding of how we will fight next year, but whatever... in any case, we understand that the population, and all of you and i, and our military are really determined to ensure victory, no matter how difficult the conditions may be, so we think that the next year will be difficult, but it will be another step towards our victory. evgeny, please, do you have any questions? at the end of the year, you already told serhiy about it, there were fears about the future prospects of supplying western weapons to ukraine, at least in the volumes that there were earlier, which were at the beginning of, say , this... year 2023, but if we talk about ukraine, did ukraine manage

to increase its own production capacity this year, it is clear that we need certain weapons of the western model, certain weapons and equipment that we cannot currently produce, but is there anything to praise the ukrainian state in this sense and the ukrainian defense-industrial complex, well, in fact, weapons will be an important component that will ensure the situation on the front line, we really have significant supplies. american weapons, european weapons, but during this time certain positive changes have really taken place with our defense industry, although at internal meetings everyone says that now our defense industry can supply the ukrainian army with a maximum of 8/10%. this suggests that, in fact , the potential of needs is much greater than what our defense industry can do, although before the war we had directions where we could develop the technology manufacturing process, that is, armored vehicles and radar. and guided missiles, and there were even projects connected with the missile program , with the ammunition program, these two programs,

the creation of missile weapons and the creation of ammunition, they are now a priority, in fact, there are now people for this, partly there is money, and now these processes are taking place, i hope that in the next next year we will have more of our own ammunition than we had before, there are also changes with drones, because we see that this potential is related to the role of the mindigit in the processes, it gave a positive ... push to start manufacturing , in particular fpv drones, but here a strange question arises, why is the ministry of digital transformation engaged in this, and not the ministry of defense, now it is a paradoxical situation that... the ministry of defense does not have money for the purchase of drones, but the ministry of digital transformation has such money, now the ministry of digital affairs will be the leader in these processes, in particular, as well as for some reason with fortifications, that is, in fact, that the role of the ministry of defense should be strengthened and from the point of view that there should be integrated efforts, but the ministry of defense is good enough communicates with foreign partners, now

we have projects related to the transfer and localization of foreign production. arms in ukraine, we know there are agreements with german companies, with british companies, with french companies, about the creation of enterprises either in ukraine or in the countries bordering ukraine, in order to ensure the rapid repair of the equipment that is supplied to ukraine and or previously supplied, so there are changes from the point of view of weapons, but next year's needs will still be colossal and so far the main challenge against the background of all types of weapons is, first of all, ammunition, because we understand that we need... well, at least 2000 ammunition per month, not european companies, not american ones, so far i cannot provide this amount, so it is that is a serious challenge for our actions next year. oleksandr, please, serhiy, but is it possible to increase this production potential at the expense of domestic investments, at the expense of the creation of ukrainian enterprises, ukrainian companies, are there investments, are there

people, is there a desire for business and is there permission authorities, let's talk. well, in fact, what is the problem here, we are trying to transfer market mechanisms to the conditions of war, in conditions of war, first of all , directive methods of building enterprises are more effective, why is there a lack of ammunition from the americans, europeans, because they are trying to ensure expansion through market mechanisms production and that is why they usually do not have time to do it, in ukraine there are also so far these variations with the fact that we will create joint enterprises. what will we create there, share shares and so on, this is still a long-term process, if we understand that we lack ammunition, that there is no gunpowder, and the pace of ammunition production depends on this, then i think that the directive decision in the conditions of war looks more rational, and i really hope that the challenges of the war will still force our leadership to be

faster and play less with market mechanisms, thank you, uh, well, thank you sergey, so... we will believe that already on the 24th of the year news from the front will be better, again, they will be better when there are many factors will work when many who did not do something will do, who did, will do better, who did evil, will sit behind bars and not spoil our way to victory, as they say, and will not work against the ukrainian army, the ukrainian people and the ukrainian state, then obviously the successes will be completely different, there is absolutely nothing to blame the ukrainian army, but many who join this war with that... or other reasons can certainly be blamed, we hope that the negative factors will be removed and, relatively speaking, to interfere with the army no one will, but all those who helped and should have helped will help. well, now, now i will present the plot of my colleague, who was not with me in the studio during this year, he was in different places of ukraine, but most importantly, we saw him when he was either on

the front line, or near the front line, or where it's hot, where to fly in, where in fact... it's buzzing and roaring, real war, our military correspondent, war correspondent, artem lagutenko, in his material, obviously, the most memorable moments, the most painful, the most memorable moments of this year, the shooting of civilians, the destruction of critical infrastructure, the so-called carpet bombing of front-line cities and the kidnapping of ukrainian children, the terrible war unleashed by the russians in ukraine, nothing but a real genocide. this is the window, well, here, everything is here, here i have a problem, here i want to eat at this bershch with colic. these scary shots were taken in december 2022 in the newly deoccupied kherson. the rioters congratulated the residents of the city on christmas with mortar fire, killing seven people in one moment. the first espresso film crew

ended up at the scene of the tragedy after the shelling. i only. there was nails and everything was showered with glass, there was a strong explosion, very strong, very, not like hell, i'm talking, it was all in my ears, i just went away a little. espress correspondents visited all areas of the front and saw with their own eyes how the russians are destroying ukrainian identity, from museums and monuments to educational institutions. schools and kindergartens were destroyed in... in every settlement near the front where our film crews visited during these two years. here at this place there used to be an orihiv school. humanitarian aid was distributed here to civilians. the russians dropped as many as four aerial bombs here. this toy was found on the ruins of the third school in the city of orihiv - a symbol of russkavamir, which is approaching ukraine. according to the ministry of education

, the occupiers destroyed or damaged 1,500 ukrainian educational institutions. that is, this school was shot several times like this? well , at first there were two flights from one place to another . aha. and then some six months later. oh , this is a pit, and what the rashists cannot destroy immediately, they mine. alexander - a professional sapper who, in the de-occupied part of the kherson region, showed us the true scale of mines in the ukrainian land. muscovites mined literally every square meter before retreating. it was not like during the conduct of hostilities, to restrain a potential enemy there or to secure oneself there, so that something did not happen there. when leaving here, they mined everything, starting with the dog houses. ending with the detonation of all lines of power transmission towers and the installation of mines on almost the entire infrastructure. ukraine is already recognized as the most mined country in the world.

their goal is to make sure that no one lives on this territory. this was the plot of my colleague artem lagutenko, a war correspondent of the espresso tv channel. greetings artem. greetings vasyl. greetings to our viewers. thanks to which you actually saw the war on our airwaves, as they say, live on... full height and dmytro didora is also with us, our correspondent, congratulations, dmytro, congratulations, vasyl, who was in the de-occupied territories, who was in that place, where the water went after the breakthrough of the kakhovka hydroelectric plant, which also helped you feel and see where most of us do not it was, but we were able to experience it and understand it to a greater extent. we will start with the story that we just saw in our story from you, artem, i would like to ask you about something, i want your impressions, your emotions. your understanding of war, which you have seen and felt with your own eyes. you know, vasyl, this is a very difficult question, because before the recording i

was asked to tell the most vivid impressions from the war, and i cannot say so, because the entire war, the entire front is simply a parallel universe, it is a completely different reality, and there life perceived in a completely different way, what we see on the front. in front of me, our esteemed colleague, mr. serhiy, gave a comprehensive analysis of the counteroffensive that took place in the summer of 23, we had the opportunity to go and follow the tracks of this counteroffensive to see what was happening there, so there in zaporizhzhia and in the south of the donetsk region, i understood , that i have to delete from... my dictionary the phrase "when we win" and after the victory, because there i realized how catastrophic and serious

the problem is at the front. such counterattacks, which in there were us, in the 22nd year, when we managed to break the front in the kharkiv region and go 100 kilometers forward in a couple of days to kupyansk, this is no longer the case. it will be, because the enemy learns very well, unfortunately, including ours , during the counteroffensive, our military faced the fact that the russians paid off as cool on our territory, and we had the opportunity to see it too, we were traveling from a large novosilky to the south to the village of neskuchne, which was deoccupied in june. and we just saw solid, mined fields, houses, all strewn with corpses of soldiers, burned equipment, we realized how

difficult this counteroffensive is and how very, very bad everything is, but as an example for our viewers, for understanding, in the village of novodarivka, zaporizhzhia region, more precisely in what is left of the village, there is only one house . now, and this village was also deoccupied in the course of the counteroffensive, in this two-powder house made of bricks , a russian sniper was sitting, and he made a dugout in the floor inside the house, lined it with concrete, and it was simply impossible to get him out of there, and this is how the russians are fighting now, and i, frankly, i have no idea how we're going to win back these lands in... you way. you told me now about the counteroffensive, about this, about these positions that our troops passed somewhere, and about what is still ahead, where the enemy

continues his fortifications. ah, i know that... you have been to others, to other areas of the front, but we were just talking about your impressions of this silver forestry, which, well, for many people, they understand that there is hell, but how real is this hell , i want you to tell this story, and generally, well adding to this, the daily life of soldiers in such and such a mode, i will say this, well, a certain hell, yes, it is hell in such a mode, how to describe it, how to give our viewers the opportunity to experience and feel it... through your words, because it is very important, if the audience, all ukrainians, do not feel this, well, there will be no help from the front, which we count on, which one, which we want to shout about, you know, vasyl, this is a very interesting moment, we talk a lot about what the government does not do or does for our military, we very often do we criticize and correctly do certain actions of our state. but the military has

a completely different vision of the situation. here, for example, the scandal with eggs for 17 hryvnias. in january of the 23rd year, zareklo of the week made an excellent investigation, finding out that the ministry of defense buys food for the military at three roads. then, in june of the same year , the state government confirmed this purchase and this scandal was resolved. again, at that moment we were on the front line with our military, and the military ask me, artem, is it true, i say that, they say, it is true that in odessa men are now sunbathing on the beaches and swimming while we are at war here, i understand that this is the essence of how they see what is happening behind the scenes, now

that... when we have been actively discussing the president's behavior during the press conference in recent weeks, the military they are not dissatisfied with what he said to maryan and valera, they are dissatisfied with why the journalists did not ask the president about fpivi drones, and them, he is sorry, he promised a million, yes he promised, but the military is outraged, why is society moving away from the eyelashes. why a very large part of people do not identify themselves now more with the war, why do they think that the war is a problem of the state, and they are much more traumatized by the video with queues of cars in bukovel than the stories that the ministry of defense did not fulfill a certain number of contracts there, and this is a problem, thank you, unfortunately, there is not much

time to discuss, although we talked with you and... we can talk here for hours, but i know and believe that next year you will continue to be there and build this much-needed bridge between the war and the rear, between the front and the rear, because without it, well, without it, you can't talk about victory, victory - this is the logic and logic of certain necessary actions. and dmytro didora, he left literally on the same day when the kokhov hydroelectric station was blown up, he left, the next day he left for the place. events, and thanks to him, ukrainians were also able to see and understand what was happening there. he was still there later, but now let's watch the material, and then we will discuss this and other important topics. footage of the kakhovskaya hessian railway, destroyed by the russians, went viral all over the world. 18 billion cubic meters of water in...

leaked from the reservoir, huge areas were exposed areas that were previously under water, according to the ministry of defense of ukraine, 32 people died, another 39 went missing. how many people died in the territories occupied by the russians is still unknown. on the day of the disaster , volunteers, doctors, rescuers, and journalists went to kherson. the place of gathering of evacuated people and animals in kherson became the shipping area, flooded houses, streets and entire neighborhoods, cars, tons of oil products, garbage dumps, cattle burial grounds ended up in the water. the entire south felt the consequences of the kakhovskaya gs explosion, from dnipropetrovsk to...