i was selected in a competition where 40 or 50 people participated, and there was a whole process that lasted several months, and i won this competition and was appointed in august of the 20th year, that is, four years ago, just like that the competition must pass this time as well, have you had cases when the president called you on a mobile phone, no, not on a mobile phone, and the phone must be official or not, there is an official phone, but... but my communication with the president , it took place, as a rule, within the framework of some meetings or something away, either in the president's office, or as part of rate meetings or other formats, but not through a mobile phone and not through the office phone of the special forces, well, to be honest, i doubt that these special forces are so active currently in use. they mentioned the president, and he

said the words that, in principle, are correct, it is necessary to move, build, increase, spread, as they say, to strengthen this energy security, the president said that one gigawatt of gas maneuverable generation will be built , and then there was a statement, well, it is given by the president. yes, there is a mandate and there are people who have to implement it, then there was a statement by the minister of energy, he said that we already have 400 mw, and you said in an interview that we have since then plus 60 mw, that is, we understand the difference, but realistically, well, how much is 460, and what needs to be done in order for this, this is the president's order for one gigawatt, you said that we lost half of what was last winter, well, at least plus one. why is it not done, or what is it for?

do you need to do it? well , first of all, how much new decentralized generation has actually been built, not generators near ticket shops, nor ecoflos bought by ukrainians, to which the ministry of energy has nothing to do, but new generation that will work in the power system up to, i emphasize up to 60m, not 60 even, but up to 60 mwt, and what is it just to paint a picture? of new generation has been put into operation today, connected to the power system, up to 60 megawatts have been put into operation, and about half, these are two small power plants, let's say so, and one of them was connected, these are small, of low power, and one of them was connected. to

the grid since a year and a half in general, i.e. at this pace, if we continue in this spirit, we will need, i don’t know, a decade to replace the one destroyed by russian missiles with the generation that was lost this year, but we were also losing generation and in 22, 23 years, well, that is, grease, and coal-fired thermal power plants, thermal power plants that work on... on gas, basically it is of this kind stations, accordingly, what needs to be done is to stop trying in a centralized way by the state to build decentralized generation, what is decentralized generation, it is when instead of one coal-fired power station with a capacity of 100 mw, you have 100 small power plants with a capacity of 10, conditionally, i say now conditionally, it means. concentration,

this is the same principle that our soldiers use on the battlefield, dispersion, no one tries to accumulate 100 tanks, 200 armored fighting vehicles and 400 people in in one place, on one platform, however, it is the same in energy, energy is under fire from the enemy, under fire from the enemy, accordingly it must be dispersed, in order to do this it is necessary to attract private capital, not to try to build with the help of state companies hundreds of small power plants, giving them a simple command, you need to build 100 megawatts, you need to build 300 , you need to build 200, go and do it, and how you do it, no one is interested, of course, you need to create conditions for private capital to start massively investing in the new ukrainian generation, this is definitely a task facing the ministry... of energy as

the ministry specialized in this field, and it is, strictly speaking, responsible for the score on the scoreboard on december 31, 2024. we will see this score on the scoreboard, so far this score is not very impressive, and what worries me the most is an obvious attempt to embellish reality from there from the rostrum of the parliament or in public space, talking about hundreds of megawatts of new generation, no hundreds of megawatts there is no new decentralized generation, as far as i understand, up to this figure they are trying to complete the restoration of broken thermal power plants. even in soviet times, some generators, diesel generators, which are installed in the regions, at boiler houses, at small pumping stations, but this is not generation, these are power sources, after the outages began, they

do not work on the power system, well, in daily mode, therefore, we are talking only about those power plants that will essentially replace the coal-fired power plants and thermal power plants that were destroyed by the enemy. and, unfortunately, we have several dozen of them, these power plants have work on what, on different types of fuel on gas, uh, of course, this is such a traditional fuel for modern heat generation, but i’ll just ask right away, i heard a statement in the government, in my opinion it was a whip, but i ’m afraid to lie, i just mentioned that this year we plan to run on gas from our own production, i'll just prove that if we expand. these dozens of power plants, then buy gas, again the price of this gas, and all this will later be included in the price, when a private investor will do it, he already knows what the price of electricity today on the market, on the wholesale market, is not for the population, it has nothing to do with the tariffs for the population, it has to do with the prices for business, so today there is

a price for business, there is a price for gas, and accordingly today burning gas in modern gas turbines reciprocating power plants can sell electricity from this gas at a profit. ugh. and private business, by the way, is very actively ready to invest in these things. and we at ukrenergo have been engaged in creating conditions for private business in recent months, so that private business invested in the new ukrainian generation. in particular, what did we do with the energy regulator from the ncp? liberalization of prices on this wholesale market is for business and it is long-term. contracts that ukrenergo concludes with investors for 5 years, purchasing the service from these future power plants, from the 25th to the 30th year. in this way, the investor clearly understands how to pay off his project. he has a firm contract with a large

state-owned company, with an energy system operator, and he can bring this contract to the bank, take a loan and invest, get a profit on your investment, repay the loan and receive accordingly. such contracts have now been concluded for 600 mw, well, according to the results, i will not ask about works, because again, we will not give companies one year, this is a realistic term, one year for the deployment of new electricity production systems, as well as energy storage systems, these are battery systems, so-called battery storage, which are also very necessary for the energy system for balancing. but only two auctions of ukrenergo for these services yielded 600 mw of applicants to build, which will start to be built now, is a private business, but in the sector we still see much more modest results, and i

think that the bet should still be placed on private business, because how much to build has been known for a long time, even in at the beginning of the 23rd year, we talked about the need to build decentralized generation, we talked about it by the way. a lot in the press, too, but then a different vision of the development of energy was brought to the london conference on recovery, some kind of gigantomania, where it was necessary to build, to invest 400 billion euros, to build 300 gw of new capacity, well, western investors looked at it, they said, sorry, these plans are unrealistic, you are talking about some space, fantasies, we are business people, and we invest money in real projects, not in someone's dream. there are dreams and so on and we lost time, in any case , here we are now finishing, as they say, we will get as close as possible to the people who will either be warm or cold this winter, here we need to prepare, i understand that in to any

by the way, we are going through this winter, plus or minus some tens or hundreds of megawatts will be added to what is there now, here you already said about this year, that is, it is clear that we will restore traditions on traditional generation, what... how do you advise people , well, it's so easy to prepare, so what to buy at home, you can buy a large diesel generator at the sbb, i think that if there is not. a sharp increase in the intensity of russian shelling, that is, we cannot say that they will not occur at all, but it is important that there will not be a sharp increase in intensity, that they will not be three or five times larger and more frequent, and we will have such a situation that in the warm periods of winter, conditionally +2, there, well, up to -5, you said somewhere 0, -1, there will be blackouts or minimal, or they will not be at all in the cold periods of winter. -5 -7, especially -10, minus15, the consumption will increase so much that it will not be physically possible to collect

enough generation to cover it, ugh, and then there may be blackouts, what scale will they be, well, this is a guess on the coffee grounds, but you can to say that there may be a shortage similar to some kind of summer deficit, ugh, that is, it is not july or august, it depends a lot again. how many power plants will be restored, what will be the import of electricity, because in july we also did not use imports, unfortunately, at full capacity, we did not import everything that we could have imported, unfortunately, because of the price, but, well, that too a question to the leaders of the industry, how to ensure the complete filling of imports in winter, and i want to say by the way that and remind that the poles, the polish prime minister, in particular, proposed for... read polish power plants to work in ukraine in the winter, and it seems to me that this

project needs to be seriously engaged in order for us to get several hundred megawatts from the use of the imported power, which ukrenergo provides there, but which , unfortunately, is not used, in we have less than a minute, i can't help but ask this question, do you already have an understanding of what you will do next in life, i have a private business, i don't know, write a book, go traveling, there, support the armed forces the forces of ukraine, as you like, i can definitely say that i will be in ukraine, i can definitely say that i will be in ukraine, we have supported the armed forces in ukrenergo, and we have supported them by more than 350 million over the past year and a half , and of course, due to my already much more modest capabilities, i will also do this, but i would like to work... in one or more of the following areas, this is

investment attraction, this is european integration, because we are essentially in the 22nd year brought ukrenergo to the electric energy eu, and i believe that this the experience can be replicated throughout the country, that is the transformation of our energy system, that is the development of this new decentralized generation, it will essentially mean a new ukrainian energy system, more... cleaner, more resistant to russian attacks, in what format will i implement myself in these three areas, time will tell, i think the next weeks, months, but i would definitely like to work in these areas, and as of today i don't see a big request for this from the public sector, so for now i will. to be outside it, thank you very much, there are many questions, maybe not the last conversation, because

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8 billion for weapons for ukraine. trump took offense at zelenskyi and talked about the destroyed thousand-year-old cities. in ukraine, the victory plan is without specifics, the president's visit to the usa is the most important thing: russia threatens nuclear weapons strikes, scares ukraine's partners and changes the nuclear strategy, how the eu and nato reacted and whether putin is really ready to press the red button: don't miss it. shaheds and kenzhals flew to the mass missile and drone attack on ukraine, how the defenders of the sky fought back and what were the consequences of the enemy's aggression. people's deputy dmytrouk, who illegally fled ukraine, was detained in london, when to wait for extradition, whether it will be possible to detain others who escaped. well, let me add that the prosecutor general's office is already preparing documents for the extradition of the fugitive deputy, whether the new taxes will spur inflation and why international partners do not really believe in the growth of the ukrainian economy, did they really limit the mobilization age of men to 50 plus , and the ministry of internal affairs said how many ukrainians went missing during the war. can the enemy surround our troops in the coal mine, experts say

one thing, and the soldiers of the 72nd brigade, who defend the city, another and which american bombs we can turn into winged ones. rockets, serhiy from goretia is talking about it, also a cold shower in hamburg. kyiv dynamo started in the europa league, although it showed an equal game with the opponent, lost the roman mulation, which they said after the game. we will talk about this and other things for the next hour and 44 minutes. my name is vasyl zima, this is the velikiy eter program on the espresso tv channel. we begin with a conversation with serhiy zgurets, director of the defense express agency and host of the military summaries of the day column. serhii, please give me the floor. greetings vasyl, greetings to our viewers, today in our column we will really talk about packages of american military aid, what is new and important, about putin's next nuclear threats, why this is no longer surprising, and about the situation on the front line in a conversation by the deputy commander of the achilles attack drone battalion, which operates in the kharkiv direction. more on that in a moment.

so, today it became known about two powerful and interesting packages of military aid from the united states, each of these packages has its highlights and interesting components. i'll start with what was announced, the first package for $375 million, this is a package under the presidential withdrawal program, that is, the opportunity to get equipment and components immediately from the arsenals of the department of... of the united states, that is, this and weapons that can be transferred to ukraine quickly. so this package for 375 million includes air-to-ground ammunition, which i will return to later. ammunition for highmars, of course ammunition for artillery, such as btr117, which are already used by the armed forces quite effectively, this video

shows just that, 190 of such batteries have been transferred, also rockets for peterkatou, javelin, that is , everything that is desperately needed on the front line and increases the mobilization and mobility of our mechanized brigades, but in this package it just attracted attention. this is the first point: ammunition, air, ground, because previously such ammunition was not transmitted absolutely accurately, and there was a discussion among experts, whether it is actually a missile hgm-158 for the f-16, or another sample, these are exactly the same gliding bombs agm- 154, it seems that the difference is only one digit, but conceptually these are different types of weapons, and the us president himself made it clear. joe biden, who said that in order to strengthen ukraine's long-range strike capabilities, i decided, the president said, to transfer

long-range munitions to ukraine joint stand of weapons, that is, after all, ajm 154. and here we need some explanations, is it really a long-range weapon and what exactly will be transferred to ukraine? indeed, this is not really a cruise missile, but such an inconspicuous high-precision one. a gliding bomb, which from a height of 8 km, if it is dropped from an f-16 aircraft, can destroy targets at a distance of 130 km, seems like a lot, but we understand that our pilots do not gain a height of 8 km now due to the need to evade russian anti-aircraft defense and from lower heights there from a height there conventionally speaking there up to a kilometer and below, such a gliding bomb can cover a maximum distance of... 20, 30, 40 km, that is, relatively speaking, the range is somewhat poor here, let’s say, well, an exaggerated interpretation in the assessment of the capabilities of this weapon, but there is one interesting

nuance, it turns out that this gliding bomb a bomb can really be a rocket if a jet engine is fitted to it, and such tests were carried out and not exclusively, which, relatively speaking, is the use of a modification of this planning bomb. the launch of the missile can be carried out by ukraine itself, and then such a planning bomb can fly at a distance of 500 km. stock such planning bombs in the united states in the range of 3 thousand units, and it is not excluded that this is just the prospect of increasing capabilities due to the refinement of this planning bomb into a missile, perhaps it will allow the americans to walk between the raindrops as they wish, so that there is no accusations of excessive... strengthening ukrainian capabilities to transfer these planar bombs, which will be converted into missiles. we hope that may be the case, but there is still a conceptual second

military aid package that has been announced by almost 8 billion dollars. that's a really, really big package, but really, it's money that could have been burned given that the fiscal year in the united states ends on october 1st. and these 5.4 billion, which were in the presidential authority, regarding the possibility of transferring weapons, they could burn, and they were extended for the next period of time. we do not know how these 5.4 billion packages will be filled, but the positive thing is that in any case this money will not burn, these opportunities will not burn, and it really is such a good signal for our european partners and for ourselves, let's say , the united states, that... america will continue to support ukraine in the war with the russian federation, and what is interesting, by the way, about these aid packages that were announced

today, it mentions for the first time the wording that these weapons are transferred with the aim of ukraine winning on the battlefield. previously , such packages were sent with a mention that they were urgent needs to repel russian aggression. these 8 billion also include initiatives that concern, in particular, the transfer of a new patriot battery, which should be repaired, modernized and transferred to ukraine, this is a long-standing desire of the ukrainian side, an increase in the number of pilots for the f-16, which the united states should train 18 pilots next year, and of course , transfer of the appropriate number of rockets to petro complexes, to other samples. in air defense systems due to contracts that will be implemented by the american defense industry in the amount of 2.4 billion, which are also included in this general package for 8

billions to so, in any case, i repeat, it is an extremely important signal in order to conclude that the united states will continue to support ukraine in the fight against the russian federation, at this time russia itself is once again beginning to scare the americans and european partners by changing of its nuclear doctrine. you know, there was a meeting with putin yesterday, where it was said that the so-called list of threats and conditions when russia can use... nuclear weapons has been expanded, that is, in fact, if carried out, relatively speaking, an attack on the russian federation using not only strategic, but also tactical aviation using cruise missiles, drones, even if it is carried out by a non- nuclear country in an alliance with a nuclear country, then this will be perceived as a prerequisite for the possibility of russia using nuclear weapons , here is such a clear hint that

our partners should limit aid. in ukraine and stressing that at any moment, in fact, russia can use tactical nuclear weapons, but we know that these the threats were made precisely during the stay of our delegation in washington, where it is about the provision of packages and military aid and the adoption of a decision on the possible cancellation of the ban on the use of russian weapons for strikes deep into russian territory, this is one of the elements of such... intimidation aimed at europeans and our american partners, but we know that there have already been so many of these measures and means in russia that actually everyone understands that this is just, let's say, such an ideological and political step, which in fact has no relation to reality, and the ukrainian drones that destroyed russian airfields there, destroyed russian bases, arsenals, missile attack warning systems, they will continue to fulfill their function, mission, because

it is skeru. primarily to reduce the russian offensive potential, and this is included in the strategy of our war with the russian federation. and then we will talk about what is happening on the front line, where skills and stability and technologies are important, and now we are joined by oles malyarevich, deputy battalion commander unmanned air systems achilles of the 92nd separately. assault brigade named after koshovoi taman ivan seryak. mr. olesya, i congratulate you, i am glad to see and hear you. mutually, i wish health, glory to ukraine. glory to the heroes. i would like you to describe as little as possible the situation that is happening in those areas of the front where both your brigade and your unit are defending, because i know that it is so universal, and it is not only in one area that it is fighting the enemy . what can we

tell our viewers now? our unit now works in three directions, these are hlyboka lybka, vovchansk and kupyansk, most of them, of course, now in kubinsk, where it is really hot now, we were transferred there a couple of weeks ago, at first they did not talk about it, it was prohibited, now it is already the information is public, we are working very actively there, and our task is to prevent the enemy from passing to the left bank of the oskil river in the kruglyakivka area, you can see it. on the deep state maps, every day there are assaults from the side of the occupier, at the moment, from night to now, the battle continues, i will say frankly, i have never seen such a massive armored attack that is happening today, 51 pieces of equipment were thrown by the enemy today in order to storm our positions, at the moment the enemy is partially defeated, the battle is ongoing, there are no territorial successes, more information will of course be officially from

i'm ready published through their spokesmen in the press, i.e. right now there is an assault on the roundhouse by almost fifty russian tanks and armored vehicles, and your fighters just, well, with the help of fpv drones and other means, the impression is holding back this, this, such an iron rush the enemy's battle continues at night and at night , the equipment has gone, everyone is working in positions, several units, several brigades are all together, so we are there alone with each other, well, our unit is one of the ones there, this rush is happening, what is the load on those operators who are now, well, on on in the area of ​​the roundhouse, how many sorties do they have to make, what means of impression do they use, well, first of all, i will say that regardless of the situation in the area, our units are always from those places where they work