x-22 also happened in kharkiv oblast, the ones he used at various points in ukraine, you remember this, the house in dnipro, this is also kremenchuk krai, the shopping center, this is actually kryvyi rih, i will be wrong now, but - in my opinion, we are talking about this particular missile, which is very difficult to shoot down, in my opinion, it was not shot down at all during the entire period of the war, because it has certain peculiarities, it is not, again , to shoot down a fly on the fly, it is much more difficult , is much more difficult, and we must always remember that all those rockets that go astray are not just advantages. western air defense systems, such as nasams, iriste, patriot, tzampti, this is also the great skill of our specialists who shoot all this down, and then it arrives in kryvyi rih, and the problem there now is that heating, electricity, heating, so water supply, there are serious problems with this, but what i heard today is that the representatives of the city government and the district village administration, the city military administration, say that they are now trying to correct the situation. and now i will finally

say, look, they are flying to us rockets, the enemy is firing mortars, destroying substations, utility companies, infrastructural, profile enterprises, and yet our specialists are restoring it, and there is a maximum of 24 hours, somewhere people still get it, look at russia, i don’t know what they have there is a lot going on, fountains are beating in the middle of the city, people are without light, without heat, without water, and putin is sitting and saying, i am giving the order to restore, as if you know, he told ingodim. it's just about the level of our specialists and our people who care, they don't care in russia, well, it will freeze there another 100 russians, what is the difference , there is no difference, for us there is a difference, that is why we are talking about it, now i am bringing to the conversation serhiy zgurets, the director of the defense express agency, the host of the military summaries of the day column, serhiy, congratulations, please, to you word, i congratulate you, vasyl, i congratulate our viewers, today in our military column we will talk about how the belarusian regiment of the name defends ukraine as part of the armed forces.

kalinovsky, what a continuation of the statements about the production of a million drones for our defense forces and about a million shells from european union, when will they finally be? more on that in a moment. today , at a press conference in estonia, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyi said that ukraine needs projectiles and we need to put pressure on the western leaders who have pledged to provide them. it is said, let me remind you about 1 million shells of caliber 155 mm, which the eu countries promised to deliver to ukraine by the end of march. however, the european commissioner for the internal market and services, thierry breton , still believes that the eu defense industry can achieve a certain goal, even if it is will become a delay.

as he told the political publication, the delay will be only one or two months with the supply of these ammunitions, this news seems to be optimistic, but only time will test the truth of the words of the european official, because so far the eu countries have supplied ukraine with about 400,000 shells as promised. at the same time, our military has said more than once that they are forced to save ammunition, the minimum need for... for limited parity for ukraine is, according to experts of the british institute of russia, about 200 thousands of projectiles per month, and now this indicator is less than what the russian federation currently uses, while, according to the main intelligence department of the ministry of defense of ukraine, our enemy, russia, in general reached the production indicators of 2 million ammunition per year in ... of 122 and

152 mm calibers, general vadym skybytskyi, deputy head of the main intelligence department of the ministry of defense of ukraine, announced this today. regarding the production of ammunition for ukraine, in this matter, according to the general, everything depends on our partners the defense industry of european countries is increasing its capabilities, but this is not happening immediately - said skibytskyi. also deputy head. kagur reported that today the ground component of the russian federation, which is involved in the war against ukraine, is 462 thousand people who are on the territory of ukraine and are conducting combat operations. to this number must be added 35,000 national guards, which ensures the occupation regime in the rear. also, the main intelligence agency believes that as a minimum. before the elections

putin in march 24, russia does not plan to intensify mobilization measures, because the current methods of mobilization. allow the enemy to conduct rotations and form reserve units, which are introduced into ukraine as necessary, so in order to deprive the enemy of the advantage in the number of manpower, ukraine, of course , must have the appropriate potential and artillery, and a sufficient amount of ammunition and other means of impression, in order to implement active defense a strategy of war of attrition before creating the prerequisites for our combat formats. including with preparation for counteroffensive and offensive actions. and now we know that the front line with the enemy is about 850 km long and is maintained by the professionalism, strength and courage of our

brigades and regiments of the armed forces of ukraine. together with them, this difficult mission is carried out by military units formed from volunteers, in particular from volunteers from the republic. who are also members of the armed forces as part of the kastus kalynovskyi regiment, and now the commander of this regiment denis prokhorov joins us, mr. denis, i congratulate you, i am glad see and hear good evening. your regiment was formed in march of the 22nd year from belarusian volunteers, the soldiers of the regiment take part in active actions at the very beginning of a large-scale war with the russian aggressor, and i would still like you to tell us in more detail... to our viewers about your military unit , what battles did the soldiers of your regiment go through, because i know that the sections were all extremely difficult, and what tasks does the regiment perform now? yes, indeed, our unit was formed two

years ago, at the very beginning, and at first this there were battles for the kyiv region, the village of bucha and... and in principle, our boys went on to every hot direction, so to speak, it was the direction of bakhmut, the most difficult and the longest, probably the direction, it was bakhmutsky, where the boys from the volota battalion not only held the defense there for about six months, if i'm not mistaken, the zaporizhia region as well. the guys took part in mykolaiv there, our guys also took part in the assault actions, now it ’s more the direction of the kharkiv region, i won’t say where exactly, because i can’t really reveal everything,

and now i say, this is the kharkiv region, so guys, yes, yes, are there any peculiarities in the training, equipment, and deployment of your battalions compared there with regular brigades or battalions of the armed forces of ukraine or the national guard of ukraine? we are trying, well, in principle, we have come to the point that our educational process is organized and formed on the basis of nato, the so-called nato standards. the fact is that we have someone to look up to, and this is the azov school. who moves, we have experience in cooperation with force instructors special operations, which also help us, and now we have our own training program where everything is set up, in

principle, i would say that according to nato standards, the boys already feel in the training process where they are going, what is expected of them already... require some certain qualities, that is, it is not like something like we take someone there, we can there, and we try to squeeze something out of there, we are already trying to educate the boys professionally, before sending them to the front, equipment, i would add , equipment in principle the boys have the opportunity to receive through our people and volunteers who provide us with all this, all this equipment, that is, we do not have such a direct shortage, a shortage of some, i don’t know, there is a platoon carrier or some equipment,

and when we talk about the recruiting model itself, on on your website, on the website of the regiment , there is a list of professional specialties that are needed there by... the units there now need paramedics, sappers, signalmen, does this form of interaction with potential fighters really ensure safety. the regiment's need for personnel, in principle yes, at the stage when the fighters are already going through the educational process, they have the opportunity to choose a profession in which they can continue to serve in combat units, but we also have our own wishes, so to speak. what we lack are uav operators, now

this direction is very, let's say, developed, so we also require the guys to have certain knowledge in this direction, and we make lists of what we already need accordingly, and we try to somehow send the guys to appropriate professions to courses so that they would be... professional fighters, or not only belarusians serve in kalinovsky's regiment, now we have a formed foreign group, the western battalion, which consists mainly of specialist, already specialist foreigners who participated in various, so to speak, armies before that, they already... have experience, so they have a separate, uh, educational program

, and they are, in principle, part of the composition of kostas klinovskyi’s regiment, and by the way, they have already shown themselves as professional specialist fighters in the direction of the same in the kharkiv region, i.e. actually now the regiment will expand because you had two battalions, there was a volet and lytvyn battalion, and now we have something... one group to lead, which i also think will increase in the number of personnel, yes, yes, there is a plan for this, and in principle, the guys are filling the ranks of our unit, but how to ensure the safety of the families of those fighters who are currently fighting in ukraine, but whose relatives remained in belarus, how do you do it, first of all, it is carried out... it is necessary to talk about what security is, what is information

security, how to behave with parents, for example, to communicate less, or to communicate through separate additional devices that cannot get into the hands of the chekists, and this is just very safe and, unfortunately, rare communication with your in-laws. this is the minimum we invest so that people do not disclose their personal data, we also do not take , in the first steps, in principle, we don't take any data there, so that they don't go anywhere in principle, but you also have to understand that the guys who go here, they have already heard more than once of situations where there are kgb officers there. such, so to speak, do not give peace to the families of the boyars of the regiment

kolinovsky, so they are already at the stage when they leave here, they have to close these issues and have to say that ah, well, that is , they themselves are already in a certain way, they are preparing their in-laws for this, but how do ordinary people behave in belarus itself ... to russia's war against ukraine, because what is happening inside the belarusian people, because there is very little information about it, on the surface it is that belarus transferred ammunition to russia there, repaired russian equipment there, on the territory belarusians are there where are the training grounds of the russian military, what do ordinary belarusians think about our war? indeed, the vast majority of belarusian society does not support what... is happening on the part of russia, eh, but it must be understood as the agenda of the belarusians as well,

because in fact belarus is an occupied country, it is such a hybrid occupation, which in principle few people talk about, and few people understand what it is, because in fact there is supposedly someone there, alas, someone is in charge, but it is not clear who it is and how it is and in general, where it all goes, so the belarusians in general, they feel... that all this gives certain negative feedback from the actions of this lukashenko himself. because in principle the belarusian nation is beginning to be compared to lukashenka, but i want to say that far from everyone, the vast majority of the belarusian people, belarusian society does not support what lukashenko's government is doing, and here the question arises , why is no one there doing something? the answer is that this is an occupied country, which

, unfortunately, is controlled so tightly by lukashenka's government that the words "glory to ukraine " or "donat" are armed forces. of ukraine, they can come home and put a person in prison for a long time. unfortunately, this is the truth. but, at the same time, i would like to say that people are ready to start actions for the liberation of belarus as well, because in fact everyone understood the summons, and i think that the ukrainian side also understood the summons, which is dangerous. the north is not very relevant for ukraine and something will have to be done about it, well, we know that in fact, that belarus is such a country with such a good historical experience of partisan warfare, should ukraine help the revival there such a partisan movement in belarus to such things as strikes on russian planes,

do you remember the story when a drone was used to destroy this a50 ... russian plane, which then disappeared from the territory of belarus, is this appropriate or is this direction , in particular, could take over, well, in particular your regiment, in addition to the functions it currently performs, or is it still a matter of other structures, other bodies? these are very relevant matters, in fact, but here one must understand that people can very much impersonate themselves by doing so eh... so to speak, to put ourselves behind bars before the time we need, of course, the support of ukraine in the issues of the liberation of belarus will be very important to us, i have already said more than once, i will say it again, that the liberation of belarus, in our opinion, is it is not only

a question of koslusz kolinovskyi's regiment, it is a question of veliky kolak, where there is and... i see it this way, we see it this way, where there is, accordingly , the ukrainian side, without the help of ukraine , in reality, unfortunately, we will not be able to achieve much, so yes, we hope for help from the ukrainian side, but at the same time we we understand that ukraine now has many of its own issues that need to be resolved, and this is the slogan of our unit, we are liberating belarus through the liberation of ukraine, we are 100% aware of this as a unit, the belarusians are also aware of this, and my message will always be, so that people don't pretend before the time is right, and mr. dyn, the last question in

our conversation is your forecast for the duration of the war in ukraine, and... the russian federation, and what does the format or image of the future victory look like for you personally? look, i really don't like prowar to say in the format of forecasts, because it's not , it's not weather that can be predicted, yes, it's not a cyclone that's coming, a war, it depends on many, many factors and... and i, when it all started, i said this the phrase that at least it will last in my opinion, at least five years, two have already passed, now we see a tendency of a little freezing of such and such ala the ato zone, something like that the front is already emerging, but the density and power of assault actions and

losses, and in general the amount. techniques and in general the power of these actions, well, it is not at all as it was in the ato, therefore it is inappropriate, probably to compare here equally, but still i will say that, in my opinion, from the ukrainian side , it is necessary to educate active youth already now and educate, you know, already by example - to which it is not necessary to be very far from leaving, i mean, for example, not on... some, i don't know, stories of the cossack movement, because not everyone in principle understands cossacks and so on, but we just have to remember with you that was basically yesterday, almost yesterday, it was... two years ago, and we have somehow to educate active youth on the basis of these examples , that it was here, here it was, two years ago, it

was bucha, it was kyiv, it was mariupol, and it continues, and we have to somehow invest this understanding in active youth with you, that the war continues, it continues permanently , unfortunately, and as long as you and i, ukraine and all... those who stand in defense of ukraine, we will not do it ourselves, it will not end by itself, we must realize this, so , i think it will last for how long, i don't know, minimum, probably three years, but we need, i will add once again, but we need you and i to remember this and prepare. and trained active youth, this is my opinion. mr. denys, thank you very much for the inclusion, for what you and your comrades are doing in the war for ukraine and belarus, and let me remind you that it was the commander

of the kastos kolinovsky regiment, denys prokhorov. this regiment, let me remind you, was formed in march of the 22nd year from belarusian volunteers, and the soldiers of the regiment take an active part in the battles for ukraine from the very beginning of this new full-scale war. with the aggressor, then we will move on to another topic, to the technological topic, because on the battlefield now we need not only ammunition, which we talked about at the beginning, but of course we also need drones, fp drones, everyone knows about this, we all remember that the leadership there, the ministry of technology and the president promised about that the defense forces will receive at least 1 million fpv drones this year, how is the process going now, is there an acceleration or any problems? and what kind of training is needed, because now the reality and demands are on the battlefield, they dictate new conditions, today it is no longer necessary even that it was yesterday, because the enemy somehow

adapts, and the enemy tries to counteract our efforts in some way, then the question arises, how exactly should the ukrainian side act. now we know that we actually have around 200 companies that produce fpv drones of all kinds. the main purpose is enterprises that are proactive, which assemble these drones from components that are currently purchased in china, now the question is that it is necessary to create new combat parts for these fp-drones, because usually the teams themselves and the military themselves are already setting up these explosive elements in positions to ensure the destruction of the enemy of these explosive devices. there is a different number of different types , sometimes it is difficult to distinguish that each device needs its own attention, its own preparation, and so on, so that

in fact, on the one hand, there is a need to increase the number of drones manufactured, on the other hand, to ensure a certain unification of certain components, which on the one hand speed up the production of these fpv drones, and on the other hand ensure, well, their efficiency use because apart from quantity. and reliability is also important, we know various examples, in particular, i had a conversation with the military there, they say that there are certain suppliers when, relatively speaking, the battery is weak, and this drone does not fly to the distance that was previously calculated there, despite the fact that all the measurements of the battery capacity were made there, it seems that everything should be ok, but on the battlefield, there is no improvement there and changes in real combat actions, this drone does not justify itself, that's what we are talking about now... we are talking and now our guest joins us, this vadym yunyk is the president of the association of drone manufacturers technological forces of ukraine. mr.

vadim, i congratulate you, i am glad to see and hear you. yes, good evening. now you are in contact with various manufacturers, your association is basically a structure that actually confirms contacts with various structures and companies, which is currently happening in the course of implementation. of this idea and the task of producing 1 million drones, is there any acceleration, are there any problems, what exactly is happening in this area? well, i think that lately, even from the moment when we talked with you, almost nothing has changed, what's more , we simply see the situation that on the part of the state there is a kind of pause, maybe some changes are taking place there, where the state is trying to somehow improve. processes, but for manufacturers there is also simply no clear understanding and a clear task on the part of the state, what exactly needs to be done, so now i have the feeling of some kind of pause, which is standing still where...

the state, well, actually confirmed my expectations, because i also talked to several developers, they say that the plans have been announced, in theory we need to purchase components now, but it is not known with whom to conclude contracts, who will transfer the money, who will be the head or the ministry of finance, and i think that this pause, well, in principle , it should be put, well, relatively speaking, instead of a pause there were certain productive actions, but what do you say? about what's happening on the battlefield right now, because there are a lot of reports that the enemy is getting fpv drones with night vision, then the posts started saying that there seem to be options samples with machine vision, which allow the operator to actually rely on the capabilities of the semi-drone itself on the final flight path, and this allows, relatively speaking, to increase the efficiency of the drone despite the low

quality there. operator, what in our direction is being done in these areas, do we have night skies, or are we also moving in the direction of machine vision? well , we have been developing both in one and the other direction for a long time, and i know that there are a sufficient number of very successful tests for night drones and with artificial intelligence, yes machine zor, what do you say, the only thing is that all these directions are quite difficult to implement, and... especially what concerns fiwi, you yourself understand that one of the tasks in half is to make it relatively inexpensive , all technological solutions, they sometimes happen and significantly affect these drones, so the task here, it is so very difficult, is to make it modern, if what corresponds to the front, and to make it relatively inexpensive, so that such a solution can be mass-produced, and then

i will ask about more about... these samples in communication with the military sometimes heard about that they have to order drones only from proven suppliers, because sometimes there are situations when drones come that do not actually fly, do not fly as far as they are supposed to fly, and there are certain structural design errors in the creation of this drone, such things to prevent, at the level of your association, is there any quality control required, what can be done to reduce such cases or at all? there was no, well, first of all, it’s simple, i think that the manufacturer himself should be interested simply in receiving quality information from the front, and here probably even more of a human factor, because, for example, in our campaigns, we have a very strong contact with the front, we always, if something happens, we ask for

information to be given to us very quickly, first of all this information is interesting precisely when it concerns some bad scenarios, because it gives us the opportunity to make some constructive changes to the drone, and secondly, i simply think that such information should be somehow analyzed and, well, you know, as always, it regulates the market, yes , that is, when there is some seller is not very honest, some manufacturer is not very honest, so he should just stop buying these drones from him, but i would like to ask... do you supply weapons to specific military units, because i know that now the military units have the opportunity to independently purchase individual samples of weapons technology there, and whether you, relatively speaking, respond to the requests of various military units, we do so and so, that is, we have a military unit with which we have already established relations, we directly we cooperate with them, well and just as easily we cooperate through the ministry of digital transformation and all

relevant bodies. who are buying, well then, if we take your defense and technical company freedom, here is your bar for increasing the volume of drone production, what is it for this year compared to last year? well, we have approximately, it is very difficult to say, we will increase our production capacity by about 10, 10 times this year, this is our plan, at least we want to. and now you are also waiting for a decision with whom to sign a contract. who will provide payment and you only after that will you start ordering components? well, roughly speaking, but if you say it more broadly, you understand, that is , i personally as a producer expect the state to be a manager for us, that is, it should not be a regulator, even where it prohibits or allows something, it should be...