i am talking about peaceful cities now, but about the advancement of the ukrainian army, and about the fact that we need to convince our partners that we should start not with what can be done, but with what we need first of all, these complexes air defense i'm not talking about the fact that in september of the 23rd year, the united states, weapons... the army's anti -drone drone complex with a laser system, and we would n't mind having such complexes either, so they are only one battalion so far armed, this is the newest complex, but at least within the framework, let's say, testing such weapons, or within the framework of joint promotion of laser anti-drone programs, because these are joint actions.

the united states is leading with the british, and on the same september 23rd, britain simultaneously tested a laser anti-drone system, and this is what i'm talking about, that we need to make a hyper-leap in the field of creating the use of the latest technology in war, this is where the biggest, so to speak, our our opportunities, the biggest, the biggest challenge for us to... protect the country, the third challenge is, actually, the opportunities military-technical cooperation with foreign countries and the creation of the latest such weapons systems, the fourth challenge is , strictly speaking, the mobilization of the domestic defense-industrial complex and the transfer of the center. attraction to the domestic defense industry, so that we

produce weapons and at least cover up to 30% of the army's needs independently, and finally the fourth challenge is the latest technologies, this is what i was talking about now, that we need to make a hyper leap and go to, if it is about air defense, then this is already the use of laser systems, if we are talking about damage, then the use of electromagnetic weapons was developed in our country before the large-scale invasion of electromages. weapons, well, of course, weapons for this are weapons based on new physical principles, along with rebov's, let's say, modern systems, these five challenges of challenges are key for us for the 24th year, while the fifth challenge, it is, so to speak, directed into the future to ensure a successful confrontation with the enemy russia when, well, war is a state. so to speak, or it

will be in this form when ukraine is cleaned our territory from the enemy at a level, well , at some level at which we can, or it will be frozen, it is also impossible, cannot be rejected, because we are now critically dependent on western partners, and in the end the authorities will be forced, and the ukrainian society will... be forced to accept the position that will be dictated, because, because, in fact, we cannot now ensure by our own forces a complete, complete confrontation with the enemy, therefore, the 24th year actually becomes a key year for us, year of competition of technologies and logistics and abilities of our society. this, let

's, if we can move on to, i really, i have a question, there are actually five areas, yes, that is, three of them are about mobilization in one form or another, because it's mobilization of people, mobilization of industry, mobilization of science, these are actually three directions that are related to ukraine, and two directions - this is actually cooperation, interaction, guarantee with this is an international vector, that is, in fact two... component international three actually ukrainian mobilization in various manifestations, as it were you placed these weighting coefficients, which , conditionally speaking, they are certainly not all equal in terms of priorities, which is of the greatest importance for, conditionally speaking, the construction of our defense system, for development, which factors are secondary here, which are primary, that's how these these directions could be divided by weight categories, yes, i...

understand that this is an extremely important point, if we were to speak in general, and if such a war and the danger of a new offensive had not been launched now, i would of course say , that... the most important is the third challenge, they are actually placed according to their hierarchical weight, and the third challenge is the ability to mobilize our own defense-industrial complex, why, because then we will not be dependent so much, for example, missile topics, we can provide more than 90%, and now there is also a drone topic, well, more than 50, because there are still micro-electro components. and so on and so forth, but everything that is collected in ukraine over 50 is already ukrainian, and there cannot even be any doubt, because very few countries in the world today can, well, can

to bring about a situation when they will fully provide for themselves, and i put... in the first place, in the first place in this form, in the general form, in the first place i would put the ukrainian, ukrainian defense industry in the first place, because the experience of other countries, well, for example, turkey didn't have any, four, four decades ago, it didn't have any industry at all, but now, i mean the defense industry, but today. precisely on the day when the houthis were attacked, turkey announced the completion of the tests of two missiles, air-to-air, the latest missiles, i think that she deliberately did this today to demonstrate that she is independent in the sense of weapons, although in fact

she depends on many programs from the united states of america, there are programs of airplanes, helicopters and so on, but drones and ... certain missiles, it is able to produce them independently and is able to present them independently, supply them for armament in the army, but let's return to the weight, to the weight of these, let's say categories to the weight directly in these weapons and these items, the first by weight we will recognize... aid, and certainly that american aid , as of the end of the 23rd year, it accounted for about 45% of all the aid of all western, and not only western, all partners, so 45% will not be able

to be covered by europe together with even japan, south korea, and australia, which are also helps us a little. and that is why we look at the prospects, the prospects today, well, they are, i would say, not easy. we hope that in the 24th year we will receive such and such $61 billion, or at least a fraction of this planned aid, but i am not sure that the situation will not change from approaching presidential ones. elections, of course, if trump is neutralized , now 44% are ready to vote for trump, but trump, his position is shaking while the pro-ukrainian candidate, nikki haley, is gradually gaining points and opportunities, and

of course we very much hope for that, and by the way, we also hope that the congressional republicans have already announced their victory program. ukraine, and ukraine, and there are three powerful points, one of which is to provide the weapons that are needed, the second is to take russian assets and use them for reconstruction of ukraine, and the third is to strengthen sanctions against russia, and actually speaking, this is a very powerful program if it will work, because it is not clear, now the situation is not completely clear, it will be more with... clear, more powerful, if really nikki haley will be the first republican number one. i am forced to interrupt you now, we will now switch to the advertising information block and then we will talk about how

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we continue our program about war and weapons, my interlocutor, my colleague, is valentin. drak, director of the army conversion and armaments research center, a military analyst and writer, and mr. valentine, would like us to continue to focus first on what we can realistically do in one year, because actually, when we talk about missile projects, there's the drone projects, the rebi directions, the munitions field, yes it needs such concentration, and maybe you can make some progress here, but all the technological... things, they usually stretch in time, so what do we have, well

is guaranteed to be achieved from our power structures from our industry or to have, and what can be, let’s say, well, it’s a second-order task, well, in order to go to some numbers and to some very specific things, we have to indicate what conditions for these should be: the first condition is the physical protection of enterprises. to concentrate production , i will not, we all, well, to some extent know, yes , what happened on december 29 and the second of january, and we know certain consequences of this, and this should be a certain lesson for us in two ways: one, one, this is the physical protection of enterprises, this is a lot to hide underground or to disperse, it has already been partially done, but as we can see, not completely, and this ... is a problem, strictly speaking, the administration of the defense industry, and the second -

it is to prevent the leakage of data, which is why the actual attack on the munitions enterprises, actually on the 29th and the second, yes, for this, it is necessary to drastically reduce the number of people who can have access to information, and here i cannot help but mention that the missile enterprises. all, absolutely all, flagships, yes, not adjacent, but flagships, there are four of them, they appealed to the authorities in the summer for help and, in particular, to get rid of them. pressure from das , the state audit service of ukraine, but, but until november, neither the government, nor the president's office, nor the security service, could help these enterprises, and therefore they were attacked, because there was a leak, a certain leak of information, in that including from this dasu, there from other structures, so these things must be ensured

so that this does not happen, and that the government's reaction to the protection of enterprises. it was instantaneous, and not during, let's say, nothing for almost six months did, it was during, well, such a war, yes , when it was deployed, and now to the numbers , what is the potential, if you actually direct all efforts, all possible efforts, resource and willpower efforts to ensure, well at least a huge number of drones can be provided at least. in order for them to partially, of course, perform the functions of artillery and allow them to hold out, well, for a certain time, this is the only way we can consider, we can consider the possibility of hitting enterprises and airfields, enemy control points, in that including not only in the occupied territories,

including in the territory of russia, to transfer our weapons, our... 10,000 medium-range drones and more than 1,000 drones with a range of 100 km are planned, this is a pretty good arsenal for constantly tickling the nerves , we will tell the enemy in their logistics centers and control points , as well as at defense industry enterprises, and finally, the main thing. it's a rocket program, well, how far you can go with a rocket program, it's hard for me to say right now, because i don't know the progress of this the actual program, and maybe it’s a good thing that i don’t know the details, but the experience is actually ukrainian and the experience of other countries, well, let’s say, the neptune missile complex

, a missile program was launched from this complex only at the beginning of the 16th year, yes, already. in the 20th year, it was accepted into service in the summer. in fact, a powerful missile kit was made in 3.5 years. this means that its modification can be much faster, and we believe that it has already begun since may 22, a new missile program has begun, in fact, so we can predict that at the end somewhere or inside the 24th we will have already. several hundred of the latest missiles that can be used as surface-to-surface missiles , as well as, i hope, there will be missile complexes, air-to-ground, cruise missiles, air-to-ground, besides , i personally have high hopes for joint work with turkey, which will be able to be used akinshi, the newest

drone that can carry a cruise missile. with a range of 250 km, it's a much cheaper drone than the american one, but quite a powerful weapon, and things like that, well, of course, i would in general, i would talk about radical things, let's say, a few days ago , pakistan's new missile was tested, yes, yes, a fairly powerful missile, and we could count on buying through third countries. of course, not direct import from pakistan, but through third countries to buy such missiles and everything else like this, by the way, well, russia does it directly from iran and north korea, but for us the situation is a little more complicated, but not

impossible , it can be carried out in different ways, we know that there are three... ways of getting weapons into ukraine - this ukrainian weapons, this is military-technical cooperation, and this is procurement, so there are different, different ways, but since we are now focused on our own defense complex, we can really count on the number of drones that will allow, well, actually to maintain the battlefield without the maximum load. artillery, because we know that now russia has five times more artillery ammunition and can use it more, but fpv drones can perform certain functions, well, about 30, 40% of the functions artillery to perform, this is one point, the second point is ammunition, it is quite possible

to agree with general havrylyuk, who at the end of the 23rd year noted that ukraine is quite capable of producing ammunition in the difference, so to speak, between, well, let's say a million american ammunition, a million of european and... munitions, so that approximately 400,000 artillery and tank ammunition during the year were produced either by ukrainian enterprises or jointly with partners, well, this is a difficult but achievable goal, in principle, an achievable goal, if of course, count not only 155mm, but also soviet caliber, of course, here i will show about... all artillery and tank ammunition, well, this is how it looks, these capabilities look like, and of course,

the capabilities, the capabilities of the reb, become a separate challenge, because reb, radio electronic warfare is becoming now, well, one of the key points and overcoming the radio electronic warfare of the enemy's radio electronic means and, in fact, building up one's own means, well, that's roughly, that's roughly the view of the most important programs, of course, i'm not here i am talking about the scaling of the production of self-propelled artillery installations, we even managed to reach the level of france, as the french increased production from two to six caesars, and in ukraine they have now increased production from two to six bohdans, and this is the same... it inspires hope , and not only that , that is, that different systems will be produced, by the way, these are systems that have never

been produced in ukraine, i mean anti-aircraft missile complexes that the ministry of defense wants to purchase now of ukrainian production, and self-propelled artillery installations, and the same drones and light armored vehicles, this has never been produced in ukraine, ukraine... has created about a dozen of the newest armed weapons schools, these are really great prospects for the future. mr. valentin, thank you very much for the inclusion , for your explanations , what is happening with our defense forces, what are the risks and challenges for ukraine, they are laid out on the website of the center for the study of army conversion and disarmament, there will be another one, literally after our broadcast one job involves combat-related challenges. on near east mr. valentin, thank you very much for the inclusion, i would like to remind our viewers that this was valentin badrak, the center, director of the center for the study of the army, conversion and disarmament. and the main conclusion after this conversation

is that we are indeed entering the phase of a war of attrition with the enemy, but this does not mean that this is such a certain stalemate variant of hostilities. now we will have some time to strengthen our defense capabilities through cooperation with partners, through our own defense industry, but it is very important that... there are more actions in this direction than the words that describe these challenges, stay tuned to the channel, there will be many more interesting things to come. hello, we need your help in finding this one. boy, his name is dmytro mazanov. he is 17 years old and went missing in svitlodarsk, donetsk region. the guy was last contacted in june 2023

and since then nothing is known about him. so i ask you to look especially carefully into dmitry's face. if you recognize him or know where he may be, do not delay and immediately call the magnolia child tracing hotline at 11630. you can also write to the chatbot. search for children in telegram. we really hope that everything is fine with dmytro mazanov and that it will be possible to find him. but unfortunately, it is possible that, like many children from the temporarily occupied territories, the boy could have been taken out or deported to russia. however, even in such difficult situations, we do not lose hope and do everything possible to find the child. in particular, we use the method of searching for information. in short, the osint investigation is a search and analysis of information available in open sources, for example, in the media, on forums, sites, in messengers, and, of course, in social networks. yes, it was with the help of autumn specialists in the children's search service

that we managed to find out very important information about the missing sisters sasha and nastya liponovy. the girls disappeared in mariupol in the first days of the full-scale invasion, and for a long time nothing was known about their fate. we suspected that sasha and nastya were no longer in ukraine and ended up in russia. and this version was confirmed in the process investigation. we managed to find out that the girls are really in russia. before the war , the sisters studied at the same school. from the boarding schools of mariupol, after a full-scale invasion they ended up in donetsk, here is a photo from social networks, in which sasha and nastya are actually in temporarily occupied donetsk. this is most likely the spring of 2022. and already in the summer of 2022, they were taken to nizhny novgorod. again, there is a matching photo on social media, and here the sisters are still together. however, after that, joint

photos of sasha and nastya did not appear anymore. we found out that sasha liponova lives in the city of lukhovitsa, moscow region, and on september 1 , 2022, she even entered a local technical school. and here, for example, is a photo of sasha with a diploma for an award in a poetry contest, here the girl is reading poems in one of the city squares. there is also information that sasha lives in a foster family or in a local hostel. as for her sister nastya, thanks to the autumn search, we learned that she most likely lives in the city of kasli, in the chelyabinsk region. and here, for example, is her photo, which nastya posted on may 30, 2023 of the year on his page in the social network. and this photo was published earlier, namely on july 24, 2022. of course, everything we learned about the girls we immediately passed on to the police, but until this information is officially confirmed, sasha and nastya are considered

missing. and the most important thing is that the received information inspires hope that the girls are alive, healthy, and everything is fine with them. currently, we do not know under what circumstances sasha and nastya lipunova ended up in russia and whether they became direct victims of deportation. in general, there is deportation of children component of the crime of genocide, so i want to note that if you personally know about any crime against a child, in particular about abduction or deportation, do not remain indifferent and immediately report it to... the police, or report it to our website stopcrimeua, do you can even do it anonymously. and the very end, please go to the website of the children's tracing service. all these boys and girls are missing, so if you recognize any of them, please inform us on the hotline at the short number 11630. calls from all mobile operators in ukraine is free. we've created a resource

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