with russia, what forces, equipment and skills do we need for our future victories, my name is sergey zgurets, i am the director of the defense express company, which, together with the espresso channel, strives to cover the most relevant events in the life of the armed forces and our country. my interlocutor today is retired lieutenant colonel mykola salamakha, a person who knows everything about tanks, has considerable experience in the training of tankers and has unparalleled authority in the military and expert environment. mykola, i congratulate you. glory to ukraine. glory to the heroes. let's start with the first and seemingly simple question. five months of war with a powerful enemy is already over and can we talk about that? that the active phase of the war with russia actually destroyed the myths that the time of tanks has already passed and that now, on the contrary, a completely different trend is taking place, that our experience shows that all countries will now engage in the opposite the development of tanks in one form or another means that absolutely all countries will be eng

you still have time sergey zgurets military expert you fens express was in touch with us in a moment wait for the release of fresh news well, right now a moment of silence with all those who died in the russian-russian war against ukraine for our soldiers defenders for the civilian population for our dear compatriots, let's remember a moment of silence over espresso, then we will return to the live broadcast, we will honor the memory of the ukrainian military and peaceful citizens of ukraine who died in the war that was unleashed by russia with a moment of silence events, the most important events, events that are happening right now and affect our lives, of course, the news feed reports on them, but not enough is known about what is happening, you need to understand antin borkovsky and invitations, experts soberly assess the events, analyze them, modeling our near future, every saturday at 1:00 p.m. with a repeat at 10:00 p.m. -th studio, an event with anton borkovskii, nayspresso , so that ukrainians don't think about, so that they don't talk, the first place still comes out, war,

missile understanding that we will also say yes that is the benefit of the magazine thank you sergey zgurets with us now traditional moment of silence

sergey , thank you very much. we will definitely talk about it. serhiy zguretshost of the wine summary of the day column and the director of defense express, was with us and commented on everything that we asked of him, and in a minute we will return to the air again and continue

zgurets. let's start after all, because today we didn't even have a... sergey, it is better then to address this question itself. how do you assess the last day there in the donbas, and these attempts of the russian army to take the uglehir tpp, why is it such an important nodal point for the russian offensive? well, how do you assess the capabilities of the russians at the moment? that we see a lot of information from e , including the american institute for the study of war in the south. so now we will talk about this too, but what is really in the direction of the front lines in the donetsk region where also, the enemy is trying to gain an advantage in advancing and, in fact, he wants to do this, what can be done from the air, how are events developing there, how can we summarize the results of the week and what is the situation as of today, if we are talking about the general dynamics, then this week shows that the capabilities of the russian army to carry out offensive actions have not been increased, they still use the main artillery and aviation to carry