about corruption in ukraine, and at the highest, unfortunately, level, and at the middle and lower levels, it is very important for americans to understand that their taxpayers' money is not pickled in ukraine. but there is another purpose of this visit: the americans, like all our other western allies, want to see ukrainian society and the ukrainian state healthy, with strong institutions of power, with a powerful economy that is able to ... and restore and increase the pace growth, and the basement of this economy is being laid together today with our allies. i watched mr. kubrakov's press release following the meeting with pritzker and the american delegation and ukrainian business, it looks very positive, and i hope that despite all the difficulties we have with the ukrainian authorities, we will still be able to build the right strategy as relations with our allies,

as well as the reconstruction of ukraine in the future, because without an economically powerful ukraine, it will not have the opportunity to win this war and secure success after victory. now i want to ask about our internal political moments, first of all, the law on mobilization, you are a person who worked in the government, and you understand well, in principle, how documents go there, between whom, between offices, how they are then sent to the council, returned, what happens to them next. when should we expect an agreed draft law, and in your opinion, as an active serviceman, as a former minister, what is the main reason, well , they refused to mobilize the third group of disabilities, they refused, conditionally speaking, to mobilize transport now there for a few more moments, but where can this stone be stumbles, who or what someone is afraid to take responsibility for, especially since the mobilization is ongoing, it is not that something so new will appear suddenly and completely unexpectedly and everything will change in an instant. well, you know,

unfortunately, i have a very bad opinion about this situation, i am 99% convinced that someone at the highest levels of power is deliberately torpedoing the mobilization of the armed forces of ukraine. at first, it is created by other people's hands through all kinds of botofers and everything else, which, let's say, joining the armed forces of ukraine is a tragedy. that this is some other army defends ukraine, and this is separate from the state and society. then a complete game of imitation begins, because if the government, the supreme commander-in-chief, in the parliament had a really strong desire to improve the current existing mobilization rules by means of a new law, it could be done quickly within a few days at the most. and we see that this process is simply thrown away. with

the wrong coverage of the media, the society, the uproar of people, and in the end, instead of a quick solution, we have the same half-measures as it was with the moscow priests, regarding them expulsion from ukraine, and unfortunately, with many other processes that are taking place in the state in this direction, so i really hope that the government officials and the bank will come to their senses, stop these games with war and with the army, calmly explain to people that mobilization is necessary, but it does not affect everyone, it affects only a few percent of the male population of ukraine, who, as of today, are needed to protect our statehood and each of us, and after that calmly, professionally, without wild scenes in shopping centers, at bus stops and in other public places to call to the army those who... the army needs full stop, then

the issue of their training, their equipping with modern ukrainian weapons, made not in press releases and speeches of officials, but what is at the front, and the task of defeating the enemy, actually everything is very simple, if there is a desire, and i do not see this desire, thank you very much for joining, thank you for your comments. volodymyr mylyan was with us, ex-minister of infrastructure of ukraine and a serviceman of the armed forces. well, now let's go into more detail to talk about the situation at the front, in fact, which needs trained and professional people in order to really win this victory on the battlefield. serhiy sgortsem, the program, this is the military summary of the week. i congratulate sergey. i congratulate you vasyl, i congratulate our viewers, today we will really talk about what is happening on the front line, about the historic signing of the agreement with great britain, because what happened today in kyiv is a really important stage. expansion of cooperation with

the g7 countries, and actually about the missile strike of the united states and great britain yemen by the houthis, who carry out, well , terrorist acts in black. sea, more on that in a moment. already yesterday, serhiy, various sources gave such cautious forecasts, anxiety that the enemy could launch a massive missile attack on the territory of our state, and here i was lying, waiting for information about mature bombers and fighters to appear, but here it appeared information that other fighters took off. or in another part of the world, somewhere on the rawiya peninsula , the bombing of the country of yemen began, against certain settlements of this country and ports, which there is, and somehow this whole story happened so suddenly, in fact, what caused it , first of all, how can you assess the consequences

of this, what was this operation called, alert prosperity, in my opinion, really, it was not quite unexpectedly, because actually. the yemenis were warned that measures would be taken that would, in fact, make impossible the terrorist actions carried out by the houthis in the black sea when they tried to obstruct civilian and military shipping there, or rather they carried out strikes on warships there with the use of their ballistic missiles, they carried out, tried to carry out strikes on israel, and in fact this in... action on the part of the united states and britain, it actually became, we hope, a point that can well significantly, to weaken the capabilities of the houthis, because there were indeed strikes using cruise missiles,

tomahawk missiles were used for this, 19 aircraft were used there, both british and american, submarines, aircraft carriers were used, that is, in general, this really such a powerful blow to... on this group, but here is the other side of the coin, it is striking that indeed britain, the united states have a powerful potential to destroy the enemy, but on the other hand , the enemy has long-range drones, there are ballistic missiles , which have a range of more than 200 km there, which threaten israel there and american ships in the sea, that is, in fact, this pool. states in the axis of evil there , iran, which actually provides the supply of certain types of weapons to the khusids, shows that in fact this potential of these enemy countries, well, we have to destroy what is actually happening, and

on the other hand, when we mention ukraine and say where are our ballistic missiles, where are our destruction systems, where are our long-range drones, there is a certain dissonance, because linguistically speaking there... a certain terrorist group has such a significant list of weapons, and we have not failed to create similar systems during this time, which is actually another impetus to really expand real cooperation with our western partners and create real opportunities for to repel there is a russian bulk, well, very revealing , in general, for such countries, in particular, as north korea, which also has access to the sea, and an aircraft carrier group with f-22 fighters or those that were there in, well, i read about.. . missiles there with these basic tamahawks, which have a significant range there from 2 to 300 km, and actually this component in the armament of the american army now remains

the most effective force in order, relatively speaking, to deprive any enemy of the opportunity to resist, well indeed, the lion is in the desert for a long time he can't sleep because it's just his hygiene. gnaw, so of course it is worth waking up sometimes and letting out a lion's roar to the whole savannah so that everyone runs away, well, actually this is what we demonstrated yesterday and the united states of america and its partners from great britain, we will monitor the consequences of this story , to be honest, there was a feeling that a new war would start on the arabian peninsula, well, there was also the problem that the houthis were blocking the exit from the arabian sea to the red sea, through the gulf of aden, and here at once of course, there are also economic things. in fact, 15% of the trade between europe and asia takes place in that gulf, it is a very important transport hub, the truth is that neither the americans nor the british will allow it there, so that they would have the opportunity to block these transports there,

but on the other hand, against the background of this, we would like, let's say, such more active help from our partners to strengthen our defense capabilities, and just today's visit... of british prime minister ree shunock exactly, well, in my opinion, it is still a positive step, because in fact, well , the first agreement was signed there with the g7 countries, which... defines security guarantees, although the word guarantee is enough now that we perceive it cautiously after the budapest memorandum there , but really the agreement is designed for 10 years, it provides for nine sections in various different directions of cooperation, provides for the prescribed funding for each year, and in fact, it even provides for the actions that britain will take there in the event of a russian attack there. federation, although in fact, russian aggression is already ongoing, and then the question arises as to what exactly

is covered in these guarantees, well, it is assumed that, in particular , certain countries that have signed this agreement should gather for consultations within 24 hours and make a decision on supporting ukraine in all fields with the supply of weapons and so on, but i think that the very essence of this agreement is already important in that it already provides directions for cooperation, provides... there is an allocation of funds, and it also gives the opportunity to use the potential of great britain for strengthening of our defense-industrial complex and obtaining those samples of weapons that we desperately need. well, let's now talk about the missile strikes that took place on the territory of ukraine and what the enemy can count on from its reserves now. so, the last missile attack, 14, 24 klatkh missiles 27 ballistic, including the production of china by the democratic people's republic of korea. korea, indicates that iran is preparing to provide its ballistic missiles, how to protect yourself, or perhaps how to do so,

so that these ballistic missiles did not go anywhere , did not reach, or did not fly, indeed, on january 8 , the russian federation carried out another missile attack on ukraine, the difference of this attack from previous mass attacks was that a significant number, primarily of ballistic missiles, was used, there are 25 different ballistic missiles. there type, starting with daggers, ending with s-300, s400 missiles, and with these missiles, the russians hit those cities and objects where there are no powerful complexes, such as patriot and sampti, which well can repel these ballistic attacks of the enemy, and in fact all 24 missiles were, 25 ballistic missiles were not shot down in principle, although some of them did not reach at all, because they fell there in various cities, in particular , there are fragments of the x missile -32, which is currently assembled and

studied by our specialists, fell in a clear field, by the way, this x32 was also manufactured in the fourth quarter of last year, well, when we talk about the rest of the missiles that were used there, cruise missiles, indeed, they were all shot down , but one more feature attacks not so much on january 8, but as a second number, it is that... indeed, fragments of missiles were found, which are actually identified as missiles from north korea, most likely, this is a missile under the index k-23, which is such a copy of the russian iskander, but has a slightly longer range of up to 600 km, and just now the representatives of our prosecutor's office were talking about the fact that there is indeed confirmation that this is... a north korean missile, in fact we can talk about the fact that it is already being formed military-industrial hub,

where, relatively speaking, there are north korea, russia, iran and china, which is also involved in the supply of certain components, this axis of evil is now starting to form such new serious challenges, because the appearance of ballistic missiles from north korea, then the risk of the appearance of iranian missiles indicates that this is now on the agenda. . ukraine needs to strengthen its air defense system, we have already talked about this many times, we saw a meeting of the nato council with the participation of the minister of foreign affairs of ukraine, where it was said that there will be quick steps to strengthen our air defense, i think this topic also came up in the conversation with the prime minister of great britain, but now we are mainly focused only on getting more patriot air defense systems, if possible. but there are other proposals, in particular, the possibility of receiving from

the united states these ballistic missile defense systems, in particular thaad or igzhis systems, that is, in fact, it is necessary to expand the list of models that are capable of fighting the enemy's ballistic missiles at a much greater range than what can do patriot, i think that this topic will be raised from the ukrainian side, we understand that there is understanding from the side of our partners. the question is that these complexes are found, they are in principle, and financial conditions are created so that ukraine can either purchase such complexes or take, well, at a certain time, use them in the format of lease or other solutions. well, here it is not that it is a positive moment, but such a logical consequence of two years of war that in the end, a hot war in ukraine, that in the end two alliances were formed, yes, there is an army of evil, russia, iran, north korea, he does not know where does china belong here, well, in any case , yes, no, no, no, not for, not for, not from our

side, now there is china, there is ukraine, and that western coalition, which can obviously be called the ramshtai coalition, which includes 50 countries, yes. well, it is, and here we want a final victory, of course, but on the other hand , a victory in ukraine, or forcing the enemy to retreat from our territory, is possible, it can also be considered a victory if the enemy retreats, is unable, or does not have it motivation to continue this war, and then obviously the cold one will start after all war, the second cold war, which there is every chance will not turn into a hot war, well actually i think we still have a hot war going on and it really has the risks of uh... escalating, because if we take into account the statements there by sweden, which indicates that we understand the challenges, that there may be a war and are preparing for war with the russian federation, we are talking about the transformation in nato countries, we are talking about the statements of the minister of defense of germany pistoris , who also calls for more active rearming of their army there, but everything it really creates further risks, because

now we see that this situation is connected with... the russian federation, it can theoretically go beyond the borders of ukraine, and in particular the same times magazine, when it described the risks of this year, it also talked about the possibility the expansion and destabilization of such zones around the world, and right now the situation related to the same yeoman is also one of the elements of this destabilization, how it will affect our interests, well, in any case, we understand that, well, it is important so that in... the attention of the united states is not unfocused, but with a view to political statements from the united states are still waiting for the provision of aid efforts in the package of 61 billion us dollars, as well as the actual actions of other partners, in particular great britain, which we talked about earlier, where the package of military aid will amount to 3.2

billion dollars for two years, on the 24th on the 25th, that is, in fact, it is more than britain. in the 22nd and 23rd years, so that in any case there is a clear understanding that powerful countries still remain on our side, this precisely creates the prerequisites for the preparation of our active defensive operations, well, first of all, in the perspective of offensive combat operations. well, indeed, putin’s activity at the front, these three months or how long he was there, this offensive or counteroffensive, of course, the main goal was to destabilize the situation in ukraine, shake the population, such informational and psychological operations, cause panic, dissatisfaction, stir up society, he somehow succeeded in this , but in principle we see that the situation will stabilize with this, well , plus to protect ourselves from the supply of weapons to ukraine, it will, we believe, also help ukraine, well, i think that if it became known now that, relatively speaking, trump, and, for example, well, i understand that russia is betting on him, i am not saying that trump is pro-russian, it is that in russia they are betting on him , i remember that the elderly zherinovsky treated everyone there

with champagne in his mind when trump won the previous elections, but if, let's say, he now saw that his bets on certain politicians were losing, maybe he would there would be no motivation to continue the war, well, except for some of his deviant ideas, but for now it is as it is, and here it is important to hold on, well, it is important to hold on where our soldiers are now holding on to their native ukrainian land, trying to stop the enemy's advance, and if possible, move forward. avdiyivka , three months have passed since the active account of the beginning of the active offensive of the russians, what results can be summed up, or is it still too early to sum up the results? well, in fact, we can’t talk about avdiivka here, because in fact, this is how it was in january, may of last year, before the capture of bakhmut there, or the ruins of bakhmut, it was an offensive the actions of the enemy, then somewhere from june, july, august, september, these are offensive actions from the ukrainian side, when the most

active actions took place in the south, at that time the enemy tried to somehow shake the situation there in... in the area of ​​kupyansk there in lyman , where the russian troops tried to operate, and already starting somewhere on october 9, when the attacks on avdiivka began, that was the second, in fact, this is the third such attack of the russian army on the entire line of contact, and in these three months, starting from october 9, if we there, if we look carefully at the map, where the line of hostilities passes, then in fact there will be significant changes. did not happen, we can state that there, well, the enemy came out on what was left of the wreckage of maryanka, and when we talk about the avdians. then we see that our brigades hold this settlement, in fact, from the north to the south, the enemy is unable to get

closer to the pincers that he dreamed of there, in order to make it impossible to supply our garrison, the avdiivka will be obtained, there were destroyed about 13,000 enemies, about 400 samples of armored vehicles and we do not see that, in fact , the further advance on ardiivka does not cause any particular optimism of the enemy there, no, no, the reality does not cause , in the same way, when we talk about kupyansk, where another attack began there in october, so that all the activity is taking place around there, well, several settlements, in the vicinity of the same sinkivka, where the enemy goes to this settlement, which is already destroyed, his units there are mechanized and the manpower is destroyed, they retreat and again try to raise reserves there. now it is hardly possible to say that the enemy's offensive has completely stopped, because in fact we are only at such a certain stage, where the enemy, although there is less intensity

of hostilities there, but now the enemy's forces are again accumulating in certain directions, and this not the components related to kupyansk, avdiivka, bakhmut, maryanka, we can expect that after a certain time the enemy will also, well, start active hostilities again. it is important here that the enemy... well, mobilization in ukraine, how many people are being recruited into the army, are being prepared and sent to the fronts, it’s a secret , yes, that’s why i don’t know about it and won’t talk about it, but it became known that up to 10 thousand new arrivals were formed in the mariupol region before enemy activities, they are sent to the fronts, in the same time, new groups are forming, how effective are these groups, if we are talking about the southeast of donetsk region, the southeast of ukraine, well... well, actually here, if we are talking about the number of enemy forces, yesterday there was a statement from the deputy head of the main intelligence department vadim

skibitskyi, who spoke about the fact that 462 occupiers are received on the territory of ukraine, who are there in temporarily occupied territories, and by the way, this is slightly more than in december, when it was said about 430 thousand. that is, in fact, this hidden mobilization, as skibitskyi said, allows the enemy, well, actually to maintain the intensity of hostilities that is currently taking place on the front line, and the main forces are now concentrated precisely in the kupyansk limank zone, around 100,000, the bakhmut zone 80,000 , avdiivka - 40 00 and further, relatively speaking, when we... moved there, moving to the south, then, in principle , up to 2,000 personnel were spread out in different areas.

the quality of the personnel is, in principle, now, well, it is higher than after the main blows were inflicted on the russian army, but we understand that now, relatively speaking, due to the number of the enemy will try to continue to carry out this pressure tactic along the entire line front, and most importantly for... now that we have the appropriate number of means of impression on our side artillery, which, in my opinion, will allow , in principle, to minimize this temporary numerical advantage of the enemy, we have literally two minutes, i will also ask about the krynks, we spoke today with the representative of the kherson regional military administration, he says that the marines really succeed, well, there are such there are other units, but we are talking about the marines, first of all to hold the bridgehead, even expand it somewhat and actively destroy enemy equipment, well, we were talking about... 100% of the equipment that was there, which is gone, like you will you appreciate the battles in the pits? well, actually, according to us, this is one of the most difficult

directions, because now, relatively speaking, there are marines, border guards, special operations forces, according to various estimates, there are from 300 to 600 of our military, who are primarily under cover of ours. .. artillery from the right bank of the dnieper, it is covered by the active work of our fpv drones, the means of reb, and in fact the enemy uses the assault actions of his russian paratroopers there to knock out our marines, it does not succeed, and when any equipment of the enemy is used, then it is really destroyed by artillery in the airspace, if you see the extreme pictures that are around the same wings. who can see, almost, well, graveyards of russian military equipment, so in any case , this deputy, the commander of the russian landing forces, who is responsible

for the direction, even died there. of armored vehicles , just the colonel, who is actually a friend of this teplinsky, who himself went there to extract the btr-82, which was destroyed by the ukrainian, seems to be either artillery or buckets and already died there, so relatively speaking , the cover of these marines of ours is quite effective, but it must be understood that what we do next with this mission of our military on this part of the front, we must understand... that in any case military expediency should come first, and not some political decisions that can, well, sometimes overly dominate military logic. thank you very much, sergey. serhiy zgurets, director of the defense express agency, and these were the military results of the week. yes, congratulations vasyl and thanks to our viewers, so hopefully next week there will be more good news about the actions of our units on

the front lines and more enemies destroyed. thank you very much sergey, and now i have a plot for your attention, which actually continues, continues the military theme, development that helps to destroy the enemy, ukrainian kamikaze drones are produced by volunteers from lviv, drones are made depending on the requests and needs of our military, how are such such home-made iron birds have advantages, that's it, the fpv drone from the april charity fund works for enemy purposes, volunteers started making shock birds in september 2023, they developed the prototype themselves, says the initiator of the production, yuriy tanasiychuk. we bought the basic versions of the drones, we took them apart, we built an internal architecture for ourselves, which is called knowledge, how everything interacts. what

materials are made of, kamikaze volunteer drones are equipped with powerful engines, a stable frame and quality controllers for control, so homemade devices are better serves our military than expensive factory-made drones, explains yuriy tenasiychuk. that is, we have drones with a size of 8, 9, 10 inches under normal conditions, our drones will fly at least 10 km, they will take an average working weight of one and a half... it can be three, we also did tests for 5 kg. the cost of a home-made fpv drone is from $500 to $700. ukrainians, entrepreneurs and territorial communities will willingly donate funds. components: volunteers buy from abroad, and some spare parts are printed in the workshop on 3d printers. the maximum that we can do it ourselves, we try to do it ourselves, that is, we have cutting frames from carbon,

creation. individual elements are printed on 3d printers, these are various tails, racks, fastening elements, engineer andriy assembles the drone in less than two hours, ready birds are always tested by volunteers. once a week , volunteers of the april charitable foundation teach those willing to assemble drones. first of all, there is a need to protect the country. the more people can do it, the more people there are, the more agile we are, and it is very important that in the case of mobilization, the workshop or production stopped, that is why many of our drones are made by girls, since november 2023 , benefactors have made more than a hundred drones, they say that this saved the ministry of defense at least 2 million hryvnias. the kmikat drones will earn enemy losses

all over. front lines in kherson, zaporizhzhya, bakhmut, lumansk and other directions. if you want to increase the number of good russians and destroyed enemy equipment, join the collection for parts, ukrainian birds. you can now see the details on the screen. kateryna oliynyk, oleg palyamar, espresso tv channel. good evening, we are from ukraine. and we continue the great work. the second hour is ahead, a lot of interesting things await you. economic results of the week with oleksandr. will tell you in more detail what happened there on the arabian peninsula in the yemen region, the weather from natalka didenko, what it will be like this weekend, a lot of interesting, a lot of important things, but we will start with the news, i will briefly tell you about the most important things. a 28-year-old man died as a result of an air strike on avdiivka. the russians dropped a guided aerial bomb on the city.