, now we will talk with er. Excuse me , please, kateryna lemchenko is in touch with us is Dnipropetrovsk Region ms. Kateryna i congratulate you glory to ukraine glory to the heroes first of all, i will start with the latest enemy attack on Dnipropetrovsk Region, what happened this night, the enemy hit nikopol region, nikopol was killed , hey, the guy well, today i read that he is the son of a volunteer pavlo muravskyi there are also people wounded and please tell us more about us, these enemy attacks, and then we will talk about other moments, please. Today they attacked, as always, with heavy artillery. But unfortunately today there are many victims, one person died, this is a boy, he just turned 18 years old, and in fact it is terrible because the boy could live and live and his life was just beginning and in this way he died because of an attack just on the house and three more people a 21yearold man was injured, he is hospitalized now somewhere, his condition is more or less stable, but he has shrapnel wounds and, well, there are quite serious injuries, and two more men, they are not hospitalized there, just shrapnel wounds and they sent them to be treated at home and the marganets Community Also suffered from russian shelling today. Well, there were no victims there, at least for that. Thank you, but in general, we are just used to talking about the fact that the people of nikopol were shelled today, and it is like the norm in our country, but in reality, how do we see that this is can also bear the death of people, as today , unfortunately, because it is a heavy loss when people die in general , but when it is also added to the pain when it comes to small children, as well as young men on whom to really live and live pavlo muravskyi unfortunately was killed by the enemy, another victim of putins regime, again, very unfortunately, you said about the wounded who are providing help, i just read about the fact that in the dnipro, guys are now rescuing someone who was wounded in Donetsk Region in the city of pokrovsk, which the enemy hit twice with iskander missiles and died there and in my opinion, seven people, we left about that number, and 80 more than 80 people were wounded, so in dnipro, the guys who were wounded in pokrovsk are not saved by the doctors who are fighting for his life. Well, here i want to ask just about the fact that dnipro remains a medical hub for the front line of donetsk and zaporizhzhia, we understand that people can and do save there, because this is both experience and opportunities, as far as today dnipro is equipped with everything to provide this help, first of all for well, for the people who were injured, and we also understand that the soldiers also receive help there, especially if there are certain difficult cases, because we are very close to the front, bordering the Donetsk Region. We are equipped quite well, and in principle, as of now , i know that everything is enough and the situation is quite good. Well, but here it is impossible to say that everything is fine, because it can definitely be better, and there will always be something missing, and something can always be added. In order for something to be done better, there are some resources, but in principle , in the current state, well, the situation is normal now with all the provisions there. I would like to ask another question. A mosquito flew into the studio. I would like to ask another question about what . Minutes, one minute, very briefly, the consequences of the explosion of the kakhovskaya hpp for part of the Dnipropetrovsk Region are significant problems that are causing the most critical problems associated with it today, how can they be solved, the most critical situation is now all in the same nikopol, there in marganka, because there is no centralized water supply in marganka yet unfortunately, the water points and wells are working, from which they are also collecting water now, but people are forced to walk, well, we can all see what the weather is like there , more or less, today is better than the past days it was very, very hot and people were forced to get technical Drinking Water there, just go there several times a day so that they would have enough to wash and drink, if we talk about nikopol, it is a little better there because 1 3 of the city is now provided with centralized water supply, but it does not finish above the third floor, so people live there on the first and second floors, there is also the third. They have water from the tap. And those who live higher up, very often the water simply does not reach because of the pressure there, and people still have to walk to these places where they give you water and suffer the same way as before unfortunately , well, but everyone who is working on this now promises that the situation will be stabilized after a while, but also these shellings that are happening they also interfere with this a lot, so it is difficult to say when exactly something will stabilize. Thank you very much for joining in and telling us more. Kateryna nemchenko was in touch with us. May 20, 2020 in 2018, the president of ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi said that he does not appoint important positions of his godfathers and only based on their professional qualities. Here is the news that instead of this mp aristov, who went to the maldives to burn his belly, natalya laktionova, who is the sister of zelenskyis secretary, became a deputy. Obviously and not the godfather, but definitely. I think that professional qualities were not decisive here. Well, god be with him. God be with him. Lets now talk more about the front and the events directly related to the war. Director serhiy sgorets the defense express agency is in touch with us serhii congratulations i congratulate you vasyl i congratulate our viewers how are you not what you think your information is uh this will again not be the final version your your version did it really work in russian there all well they detonated the eyes of a pyrotechnician in your earrings, or Something Like that, it could be that it flew to them, how do you interpret it . Well, in fact, to conclude what exactly caused it, i think i should do it prematurely, but what is important is that this enterprise, this russian zagorskoptical mechanical plant , produced a significant amount of Defense Products these are targeting systems, thermal imagers there, and optics. That is, this is what the enemy actually used at the frontline level to create his new types of weapons. The explosion was powerful. We saw all the consequences. The factory there was evacuated, so in any case, this means that the possibility of manufacturing some of Defense Products at the factory, well, it has now been stopped, and this is actually good news, and further on in our military column, we will talk about the events on the fronts through the eyes of our military , about the practice and experience of combat operations, and about new drones for the Ukrainian Army, i will start about this in a moment with the fact that a meeting of the Supreme Commander inchief was held today in a narrow format, the maximum attention was focused on preparing for offensive operations, an analysis of the Current Situation of providing the troops with everything necessary actions continues to be in the center of attention of the western mass media, which actually reflect and influence the formation of opinion among western society and the military and political elites of the west, in particular i cant help but recall such a significant long story of the snn, which says that now is the most difficult time of the war. As defined by cnn , the opinions of a number of western european and american officials are given there, although without surnames , and they all admit that the main challenge for the ukrainian troops now is the difficulty of breaking through this the multilayered Russian Defense , which has significant mining and a significant number of trench networks, and the coordinator of the us security council, john kirby , said for sinin that even ukrainians included with president zelensky, they say that they are not advancing as far or as quickly as he would like, but in the United States they also recognize the difficulties that the Ukrainian Forces are facing, but they retain hope for the restoration of progress about how far they will be able to go in the armed forces during the offensive until that this question remains without such a clear answer, and they also say that this gives the Ukrainian Army a limited time to advance sufficiently densely and productively. Of the us chiefs of staff mark mills in this conversation that took place yesterday, the soldier said that the low blood is advancing step by step and creating conditions for further advancement, the initiative is on our side, in turn, the enemy is now trying to conduct active offensive actions in a number of directions , but is not succeeding and the gland told mila that defensive ukraine is a drain. When we talk about these areas where the enemy is trying to conduct offensive actions, this applies to the kharkiv and luhansk regions even today the commander of the ground forces, the commander against the khortytsy direction, Oleksandr Syrsky made his assessment of the Current Situation, he said that when it comes to combat operations in this area from the crimean belogorivka to kupyansk and said that the enemys goal now is to break through the defenses of our troops and get out directly to kupyansk, and the fighting in this area is now extremely intense, individual positions have changed hands several times over the past few days , and he even told the story that the aggressor simultaneously with the offensive from the novoselivsk region, he tried to cut off the grouping of our troops with a flank attack and surround part of the units of the brigade holding the defense, but the enemy did not succeed, also according to sirsky, all necessary decisions were made to ensure additional reinforcement of our troops in the military units with all necessary forces and means and ammunition. And we will talk about other details with the commander of the Assault Rifle company. Now we are still waiting for the inclusion of an officer from the area of swatocriminal investigations, where, in principle, now these active hostilities are taking place. And in general, we understand that when we talk about this area, what happened there during this period of time , the enemy is trying to advance on kupyansk , indeed, active hostilities are taking place there; tracks and even advances to the outskirts of the entire village, which indicates that this direction remains extremely important for the enemy in order to ensure at least some advance to the territory that our troops are currently receiving the other direction is precisely the Movement Towards borova, where the direction of the fence to karmazinivka is there, the situation is completely different there, the enemy had such a bridgehead for some time, but thanks to the actions of the enemys armed forces, the enemy has moved significantly from this bridgehead, and i think that there are all the prerequisites for ensuring and continuing on the enemy in order to push him beyond the bridgehead behind the zherebets river, where he is still trying to hold on, the fighting continues in the sryblyansk forestry around belogorivka , this direction also remains extremely difficult because the enemy understands all these risks of the existence of this p bridgehead around belogorivka and understands that it will always threaten any of his advances there, and there we are now seeing this precisely in the battles in srednyan forestry, where there is nothing left of the forest itself and it is actively used there and artillery and infantry in order to hold our positions and strike at the enemy, if in any case we understand that the situation in all areas of the front now remains extremely difficult and all these assessments of our western partners of our politicians, they want more results, more success, but we understand that all these successful actions can be based only on planned training and on the capabilities of our armed forces, and now the most optimal strategy for promotion is chosen, which is primarily aimed at ensuring the possibility of preserving personnel. It is difficult in these conditions to create the prerequisites for further offensive actions only after the enemys defense has been exhausted as much as possible when we are talking about the situation precisely in the south the direction to which we are focused is also the main focus on that of our armed forces, and now we are waiting for our guest , there is still no communication. Bakhmut is still advancing, and in the north and in the south, nothing significant is happening, the enemy is still trying to transfer a significant number of personnel into the area around bakhmut, and yesterday we had a conversation with the Deputy Commander of the third separate assault brigade, max zhorin. He says that despite the significant loss of the enemy, he is trying to transfer the landing units of other units there or to hold their positions, we understand that bakhmut has now become such a political point for the enemy that they cannot leave, understanding all the political prerequisites that related to the capture of this bakhmut and significant losses of one separativki in this pakhmut meat grinder and now this meat grinder continues to work in view of the fact that due to the actions of our units for due to the work of active artillery, all those units that try to overturn the enemy are destroyed, but yes , but on and on and on, the enemy is somehow trying to hold these sections of the front, and then our guest joins us , artem scherbakivskiy, the operator of Unmanned Systems , joins us of the joint squad from lip birds p artem i congratulate you good day just a few weeks ago we talked with you after you personally and your company made a presentation of your unmanned strike complex beg fire which er Needs Development of further support and i would first like to ask at what stage the situation with this strike complex is now, what issues are you solving now so that it is effectively used on the battlefield uh , at the moment we have today, in principle, your transmission and you i thank you for that, they helped we started the collection and in principle little by little it started to fill up also during this time. Antidrone guns, no, our complexes, our ukrainian ones, bombed your complex to the point of five, in fact, it is impossible to suppress it, it already has features that were programmed , programmed, set a task for the complex , it flew out, and the means of rap against it are simply powerless, i understand correctly, yes , you understand correctly, but eh our colleagues in communications, i. E. Rugby, in these they were sure that they would plant us, silence them, they say, we plant everything, you will not succeed. Well, for us , fortunately for them. Unfortunately, we passed this test on excellent and they were a little schooled mr. Artem and what are the technical capabilities of the complex now . Can you briefly tell our viewers what tasks it performs on the battlefield . Technical capabilities are up to 4 kg payload. Basically, we use it as a bomber, that is, it bombs according to coordinates. To a depth of up to 35 km, this is enough to destroy the enemys rep, the enemys reper , control points , warehouses, in principle. Saying but when we talk about complexes yes i want there to be a lot of them, so there was a speech, you are the prime minister, you will bring the prime minister, mykhailo. He said that 40 billion uah have been allocated for the development of free topics, that ee taxes have been removed there for the purchase of those , and the conditions have been created in order to scale production, what did your company feel from this, using the example of its complex, it felt promises, we will see how it will be further, in principle, there are promises, and we hope that they will deal with financing, first of all , we only need financing you know how uh such a catchphrase, give me a foothold and i will turn the world upside down. Then give us funding and we will change the battlefield. Well, if you passed the fish test at the ministry of defense. As i understand it, this is a component of these general tests, and after these tests, for 345 resolutions, you can claim that the ministry of defense is likely to be able to purchase this bagfire drone in the form of a state defense order. When can this happen . I think it will be another month and a half, because the documentation still needs to be finalized. Now we will be issued a permit for operation and after that it will be possible to put it into service, that is, one and a half months, not two weeks, as is sometimes declared in the ministry of defense, which provides conditions for speeding up the processes of acceptance into service, we see that practice is somewhat different from promises, because here not only it depends on the ministry, it is necessary two weeks from the moment of submitting the documents, i. E. And in order to prepare these documents, it is also necessary to have uhuh time and uhuh, additionally to register all the technical characteristics , to check everything repeatedly, well, that is, thats all unfortunately, it takes time, another component of the creation of strike drones these are combat units, but with whom i have not talked, everyone says that this is actually such an Initiative Zone and a risk zone at the same time, because you do not know how this or that combat unit will work in in the air or in the hands and so on, the question arises. How do you solve this problem . Is there a need to create a unified combat unit . There is a fragmented one. There are highexplosive or other three types of combat units so that everyone has the same or this will be and then the field of such an initiative what are your assessment of this situation, first of all, i give, it is very necessary to create standardization, it will speed up the damage and the quality of the damage, because now our guys are taking risks , they disassemble unexploded rockets from the degrees of the tornado, cassettes, and thats exactly the cassettes there such a bomb with a small size of up to 2 kg, i dont remember exactly how many , but now we use them as bombs, but we need normal ammunition, but here there are questions in all groups, different load capacities, so most likely just three ammunition it wont do, it will have to i think there are at least nine ammunitions, that is, of different weight categories. And when we talk about the components that you need to create the same backfire, that is, there are some things that are systemic there that can be purchased in advance. There are some difficulties there to buy the components needed for the backfer. No, there are no difficulties with the purchase. It is a question of logistics. It usually takes a month or a half, so we buy in advance because of other issues. Well, i am in logistics. I have i mean here, not only the delivery itself, but also to bring it through customs, go through our taxfree service, and then maybe go to the service, that is, it takes time, if there was some channel, which is conditionally state, to which you can turn, what are we . Ordered this and that and that and to somehow speed up the ee at the border, this moment would be good, but there are also options that someone will use this mechanism for the corruption component, so to speak, so that for now we have what we have. And do you have the opportunity well , to test well, not only to perform combat missions with web firer and use other e samples there of etherins of other systems and is it possible to modify these drones as well or does the excessive number of these drones not cause difficulties with preparation for their use and so on, we are currently working on it, we have more several projects specifically on ip videos that we will launch there are quite Interesting Solutions eh and in principle eh is one of them no i will not tell eh but this is something that will greatly change the nature of use and help our pilots not only of our unit and with the front in general, it is important the element that we want to launch. Well, and further. We have ideas about uh, how to do fpv specifically for drones, we will make complexes in order to uh, distance the uh operator from the front edge, that is, in fact, we are talking about that, on the one hand, it is necessary to ensure the safety of the operator, who is sufficiently unique in terms of skills, and on the other hand, to simplify the burden on the operator, because as i understand it, not everyone can be a drone operator, and this is a rather complex nervous activity, which, well, not everyone can handle a yes absolutely true plus we are planning eh for guidance which will help our pilots eh in the use of fpv at the expense of eh which will increase the percentage of hits multiple times because there is such a thing as the radio horizon and during which very often pilots are faced with the fact that they well, they see the target, they focus on it and then the drone flies by inertia, relatively speaking, because there is no longer control by the nadtron due to the fact that it does not complete the communication there because of the enemys rebus for the terrain we will implement it just before the guidance cool things, but the question arises, what are the general statistics regarding the number of halfbuckets and completed combat missions , can we say there that we can one more to three , one there to five, one to two well, i wont tell you the statistics, in principle, zh well, its a pity, its probably a pity that all the statistics are classified if she collects them according to her feelings. I think somewhere one to three, one to four. And when we talk about the use of drones from other manufacturers, did you have the opportunity to communicate there or test them same switch blade, how effective are they on the field of battle . What are your assessments of the switch blade . I came across people who used them during the balaklia operation, but at the expense of them. I understand that they did not have the opportunity then. Normally, they will learn from them. And two milk, that is, actually the issue of operator experience is at the forefront, and when we say that we have strike drones, thats great, but we have to have trained operators so that this symbiosis really works on the battlefield, its absolutely true because eh each drone, well, on its own example. I flew for a long time on a hotel and on a mavic. That is, it is a fairly simple control drone, and when i first picked up the remote controls in pv, although the mechanics are very similar, i felt, well, to put it mildly, not very i am a software person for the first week