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With serhiy rudenko, from monday to friday at 20 00, repeat at 12 10, we are back, yes, we promised you that we would talk about the bakhmud direction on the donetsk section of the front, so far we are there, problems to establish a stable connection, as they say, with the front line, but we can tell you, at least, how it looks, for this section. Of the donetsk front and behind this front line, Donetsk Region this is actually the last day, at first three wounded and two dead , this is when krasnogovka was shelled, this is yesterdays version, we see that in fact this continues kostantinovka in general from part of the city, the rightbank part of the city was shelled and cut off, and this this is how it actually looks every day, yes, in this direction, which is interesting from our general staff, that in this direction attempts to carry out counterattacks and offensives, as they said, have completely disappeared, i. E. Zero, moreover, we cannot verify, but russian propagandists and military personnel suddenly panicked yesterday evening, yesterday evening, they began to scream that there was a very powerful and, most importantly, accurate shelling by artillery, in some areas behind the liberated andriivka, they even crossed this fortified line, which we told our viewers about yesterday, which they did, because there is a Railway Track there, plus enough complex geography, construction, advanced, advanced and passed already behind them, they decided, he says, broke through in some places , crossed the Railway Track and are advancing, this is not. Oh, they wrote, that is, i do not know what they meant by teroborona, but the panic was about the fact that there was a powerful advance and an attack, well, what else do they provide, in fact when they describe, i am now talking about the russian, socalled military forces, they do not provide this information, even if dry with words, figures and facts, that is, at the moment the armed forces of ukraine are undertaking an active attack in given area, they ask to be established in the ruins, that is, they even with such disparaging words try to show that these places, these settlements, which they destroyed, completely destroyed, that they are just some ruins there, and well, in this way they try to convey probably to his readers , viewers, that it seems like a small loss for them. Ugh. And here there is also very interesting information, also confirmed by our military specialists, that they shot down the moskovytskyi bpl cartographer, you know, the Russian Company ifm servers makes them. Him, and what inside, and in general, how it works, as a scout, reconnaissance, they have an iridium navigation system, and this is an american thing, it is a global, in principle, satellite communication company, and the main thing is that until now, in which it has already been a year of the iridium war has a Representative Office and still works in russia and provides these satellite Data Transmission services, that is, they conduct deep intelligence in us, through the Russian Branch of a us company, has. Contracts with the rosguard of the Russian Ministry of foreign affairs, imagine, as it were, on the one hand, sanctions, and on the other hand, such a fool, and actually, the air forces of the armed forces of ukraine have already warned that the activity of enemy Tactical Aviation is observed in the eastern and southeastern directions, the threat of the use of aviation weapons for frontline areas, frontline settlements, which is why only luhansk is red on the map, fortunately, other areas are of traditional color, we hope, that it will not change, but in any case you remember shelter and your own safety, in the event of an air alert. Ugh. Well, what else do we want to show and tell you in the summer of the 22nd oleksandr kolonyuk received a certificate of graduation from school in 2008, and then dreamed of becoming a it was easy to enter the National Academy of internal affairs, but in the Donetsk Region there was a more Important Mission , well, that is exactly what we are telling you about, to drive out the russian occupier, and the 19yearold defenseman coped with it until his mother was awake at night waiting for him at home his sister, but we want to tell you about this story of a young and brave belarusian citizen, look further in our story, mom, everything is fine, i. Fairy tales are still there a balaclava, short warmth, lets move with the boys, hey, they dug holes for themselves, 9yearold oleksandr kolunyuk often sent such videos to his family from the front line, he was called the little one, however, the call sign had grief due to the tattoo of the corresponding zodiac sign, as the boys mother says, in the first in the days of the fullscale invasion, he wanted to join the teroborona, but because of his age, they were not accepted, however, this did not stop alexander from joining the dftg, where. His military history began. Shifts in the belotserkivsk community were not enough for him, because as he himself said, he wanted to be more useful and chose the path to the front. So later, in the ranks of the 24th assault battalion , aidar, bilotserkivets performed tasks in the donetsk direction. Having completed several combat missions, seeing the death of his brothers, his voice and correspondence, my mother felt anxiety. However, he tried not to lose heart and continued to destroy the invaders and captured one of them shortly before his death. Before each mission and after returning, oleksandr wrote to his relatives, the last such message was received on may 14 around midnight. We corresponded, and then he called and we talked, we talked for a very long time, he, well, i think now , this is the feeling that he, well, when i get up, he could not speak, he told, he told, unfortunately, it was his last call , when there was a funeral, its in general, i dont even remember that day, it seemed to me so much, i so wanted to be with him, i so wanted to see him, but he was just all wrapped up, not a single pitcher, nothing could be seen, as later i found out later that he even had a stick instead of a hand the woman found out that her son had died on arrival along with his two siblings. He is remembered as cheerful and always motivated, before picking up a weapon, the 19yearold boy was engaged in dancing and hockey, now only photos and videos remind him of this. When sasha was there, then. This sofa was unfolded, and now it is folded , because i am small, it was sashas guitar, it was given to him for his birthday, well , since sasha is no longer there, now i play it, well , as if he plays normally, well, sasha, sasha learned to play the guitar himself, so it must be me i will also learn to play on my own, but alina studied with oleksandr in the same class for 11 years, and she only remembered his good sides, because, she says, there was no bad, he never liked that someone was sad, he always wanted to give everyone positive emotions, he didnt like it when someone cried, we all told him off, we all said, yes sash, no need, but lets go later, but hes not that mature yet, maybe there, no need, no now, later, when they call me, he said, they need me there, i, i want to go there we will always be proud of him, that we studied with him in the same class , that we were friends there, that we generally know that there is such a person, there is such a sasha, ours, our belarusian, he felt that he would give his life for the freedom of ukraine, about which he wrote in the last note, leaving it in the bag, as well as the address where to send the things and asked him to share his food among his brothers. 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The event of weighty, reliable, is analytics, factchecking, professional comments, about this and much more in todays issue, about important things in plain language, available to all viewers. Greetings, iryna koval is in the studio, and these are the results of the week on the espresso tv channel. News, summaries of the week, every saturday at 21 00 on espresso. We are coming back, thank you for being with us, espresso, a new guest whom we are always happy to welcome, the director of the information and Consulting Company defense express, serhiy zgurets, with us, glory to ukraine, good morning, good morning, i congratulate you, i want to start from yesterdays panic in the Russian Frontline public, they said there that some, as they wrote, not tro, but an elite frequent, were crossing the Railway Track. They have a line of defense behind andriyka klischivka Going Forward with a powerful to artas supporters, thats all we have from this direction of bahmud and thats just their posts, can you tell us a little more . Indeed, the fighting around bakhmut, in particular in the southern direction, is extremely important and powerful in view of those tactics and the strategy chosen by the ukrainian side regarding. Actions on this front line, in particular and in general, we can say that indeed, now our units, after knocking out the enemy from klishchevka and andriivka, are continuing to put pressure on the enemy , the line of defense moved to the railway, and in some directions behind the railway, which the enemy still intends to hold, but the fact that in several areas our troops move behind the railway and further continue the pressure indicates that the potential of our offensive assault units and artillery extremely effective, what does it matter . Well, first of all, we are talking about the fact that on the one hand, after we have cleared andriivka , it creates, further, opportunities for offensive actions from the north on klichchivka, which is such a larger settlement, kurdyumvka, which is a larger settlement compared to klishchiivka, andriyivka, and this settlement, kurdyumivka, remain under pressure from two directions, well, in fact, this road from bakhmut to horlivka, which provides the russian grouping, and where the enemy placed part of his forces behind this road. So, in any case, we see that the actions of the Ukrainian Army in this direction are quite powerful, as evidenced by the hysteria in the russian public, including at the expense of our artillery, which uses all the means that are currently at its disposal, and this creates also the prerequisites for the enemy to continue throwing certain reserves here, which our artillery destroys, and the enemy cannot transfer them to other areas where he needs manpower, mr. Sergey, two points in the next question, i would like you to discuss and ask, actually, first of all, yesterdays was such a massive, i would say, visit of important persons, ministers, two ministers of defense of france and great britain, and stoltenberg , yes, who flew to kyiv, i assume that actually there in lithuanias siauliai on this occasion they flew and patrolled to destroy. This is one question, actually what will be the results, what strengthening of the pppo can we count on, what strengthening, and secondly, he said goodbye, and, lastly, Valery Zaluzhnyi met with mark miley for the post of chairman of the joint chiefs of Staff Committee of the United States of america, from now on Charles Brown will work there, what can we expect from this person, in fact, what kind of cooperation can there be and what are your forecasts as a specialist . Well, first of all, i will start with the visit of the defense ministers of france and britain to ukraine and the head of nato. In fact, these events are really intertwined with these events, where the ukrainian side is talking about holding such an Important Forum with Defense Industry, which will be attended by representatives of 150 companies, and where new projects with the participation of Foreign Enterprises on the territory of ukraine, we already have good examples , in particular, the reid Metal Company received consent from the German Government to open a plant in ukraine for the repair. Of the technique of creating new samples, gensei nato, whom we now see in the video, said that the alliance will continue to make more active efforts to consolidate the Defense Industry of European Countries to provide ukraine with ammunition and to provide ammunition to those countries that shared with our state in the first stage, and the munitions component, in my opinion , is as important as air defense, because actually we understand. That the advance of our troops and the deterrence of the enemy is mainly decided at the expense of artillery and a significant expenditure of ammunition, i think that if we go out there and spend somewhere around 250,000 ammunition per month, then this would be a good indicator, because the de facto numbers were that we spend less , and the enemy is now, despite the problems with ammunition, quite actively using artillery, so that the pace of production of ammunition next year will be one of the key components that will affect the course of hostilities , as well as air defense for the protection of our critical facilities, for the protection of our troops, because the air Defense System must compensate for the very efforts of the russians, which are aimed at increasing the number of casualties, at increasing the number of these planning air bombs and so on. That is, in fact, we are now moving into a war of attrition, taking into account the potential of economies, the potential of defenseindustrial complexes, and precisely the visits of the minister of defense and gentsek precisely to ensure that this strategy on the exhaustion of the enemy economically and strategically took on such more practical forms that the United States and the change in the leadership of the chiefs of staff in the states, indeed mark milley, worked quite actively during this period of time as a leader, but he followed the approaches to relatively speaking, the escalation with was socalled controlled, that is, we saw that it was too slow in the delivery of certain samples of military aid, of course it did not depend only on one mile, but it was a consequence of the approaches of the american administration, or now due to the new leader george brown, we can expect some changes , i am not sure, but i think that now we see that the approaches of the american side should theoretically change, to understand that and the victory of ukraine should be fast enough, but for this it is necessary to achieve greater consolidation in the United States itself, where the election processes are now starting, and i think that the new head of the committee, the chiefs , will also feel these political wars that will be in the United States itself, so now it is difficult to clearly predict what will happen next, but george brown, in principle, is such an experienced general, he was the chief of staff, from the air force, of the United States, and this is the largest technological type in the american army, so i think that there will be no fundamental changes , but it is important that such a tandem in the relations between our military and the American Military , in particular, existed in the relations between zaluzhny and mark mila, these relations were not easy at first, but in the future they were quite. They often called each other and coordinated interaction, i hope that with the new head of the committee of the joint chiefs of staff of the United States, such an alliance is also formed in relations with the industrious, mr. Serhiy, we have touched on this topic with you more than once, we see that it is also in dynamic development, this and in there was a message in germany, and in europe in general, about increasing the production of the nato standard of ammunition for artillery, we see that capacities are being increased and the pentagon is contracting. And in the United States of america, you saw how we imported joint Ukrainian Foreign production, this Ukrainian Armored vehicles imported these projectiles and even transferred them to the front line, but now there is Fresh Information from them that they are finally testing a large batch of fresh 120mm mortars in order to transfer them to the ssso, the armed forces, and the tro , and the national police, and the sbu, that is, the process is dynamic all the time. But at the same time there is no there , well, the guys from the front line say, well, there is no feeling of shell hunger on the russian side, how quickly, whether and whether this year we are in certain areas, important areas of the front for us, we will be able to achieve, at least, a situation close to parity in terms of the projectiles, its mines for mortars, well, this is actually a difficult and basic issue, i repeat that in fact, the amount of. ammunition, both at the current stage and in the next year will generally determine the ability of both sides to actively conduct defensive or offensive actions, we. the story that russia used more than 60,000 munitions per day there at the beginning of hostilities, while we at certain moments used 3,000 per day, that is, we can see what a colossal difference it is was at the rate of ammunition consumption, and it was due to the fact that we used the stocks of nato countries and the support of the United States that we in a certain way reduced this gap, and russia significantly used up its stocks, but now we have statistics that next, what russia wants to reach 2 million per year, and this does not really satisfy its needs , in turn, we hope that at the expense of the United States and European Countries, the production of at least 2,000 shells per month will be ensured there in combination with the American European defense capabilities, and this also means that europe and the United States will produce the same two, 2 million shells per year, starting from the end of next year and from 2025, that is , in fact, we will reach parity in terms of ammunition, and then there will be the effectiveness of the use of the artillery itself should matter, so that in any case this balance with the artillery will be achieved. I think sometime at the end of next year. Mr. Serhiy, we have literally two minutes left, and actually once we are at the shells at the weapons, rhine metal will create with the permission of germany with ukraine a joint defense enterprise, the production of military equipment, thats how it was officially announced, what can be read between the lines, what can it be about . Well, in fact, this company was known earlier, in fact three months ago. The head of the red Metal Company stated that he is interested in creating such a plant in ukraine for the repair of equipment and the production of new models, the new models there tentatively include the fucks armored personnel carrier, and red metal offers us the panther tank, which is a new development of the red Metal Company. Which has there of 130 mm, the cost of creating the plant was estimated at 200 million euros, the pace of construction months, the production of tanks. They talked about the pace of at least several hundred cars per year up to 400 cars per year, and this is what the rnemeta Company Wants to implement, and now we see that this process has received such legitimate support from the German Government that within a month they approved all the necessary documents for the creation of such an enterprise, i think, is a continuation of the memorandum that was concluded between ukrukroborprom, and now the ukrainian Defense Industry with reredmetalo, and this is one of the directions indeed, the creation of new models for the Ukrainian Army, but also other companies, Transnational Companies and the british biasystem and general dynamics, also want to create new models for the Ukrainian Army, that is , we are entering a period when the Defense Industry really of ukraine due to work with partners, can get a second, second wind, we want to thank you, mr. Serhiy, serhiy sgorets, as always, professionally and in detail, the director of the information and Consulting Company defense express helps us understand, in the key word was, lets get to parity in terms of shells, moreover, not only in terms of shells, actually, because here the news came from bollit about the fact that putin instructed the exchief of staff of the wagners to deal with the socalled formation of volunteer units, and they drew attention to the fact that this is a volunteer unit, it is separate from the fact that they will start the autumn draft, literally in two days, actually, actually, that is, they are mobilizing, uh, it is approaching where. Five oclock is when we we remember everyones moment of silence ukrainian defenders of those killed in the second russianukrainian war. Lets honor with a moment of silence the memory of ukrainian soldiers and peaceful citizens of ukraine who died in the war started by russia