The region, ivan fedorov. And at night, the russians released 17 shaheds across ukraine. All destroyed our air Defense Forces in the kharkiv, dnipropetrovsk and poltava regions. The drones were launched from the temporarily occupied crimea. The enemy also hit with a kh31 guided air missile from the temporarily captured Luhansk Region and an iskandarm Ballistic Missile from the occupied crimea, the air force said. The attack was repulsed by aviation and antiaircraft missile units. Fire groups and means of radioelectronic warfare. Three people were injured as a result of the russian attack by shaheds in kharkiv. An elderly man received shrapnel injuries, and another woman man. They were given medical assistance on the spot. 10 private houses, a kindergarten, three fivestory buildings and three cars were damaged , oleg sinygubov, the head of the region, said. In kupyansk , an elderly woman was killed by russian shelling, and four others were injured. A onestory residential building, two floors were destroyed there, the village of liptsi was covered with artillery by the enemy, a horsedrawn carriage shop. The russians killed two people in the kherson region, another three were injured, the enemy shelled 15 settlements in the region, said the head of the region oleksandr prokudin. Russian shells hit residential quarters, damaged a highrise building, 15 private houses, an educational institution, a shop, and a warehouse. Hangar premises, farm buildings and private cars. The russians killed five people in donetsk region, another three were injured, four died in kurakhivka, among them a 16yearold teenager, one person was already injured there. The occupiers hit the village with artillery, six private houses and an outbuilding were damaged, one more was killed and wounded in krasnohorivka. The russians shelled the city with artillery, three houses were destroyed. Reported the regional police. Another civilian was injured during the enemy attack on andriivka. Terrorists hit slovyansk with two guided aerial bombs, destroying health and preschool educational institutions. 11 martyrs were destroyed by the defenders of the sky in the kamian district of Dnipropetrovsk Region due to falling debris, several buildings and cars were damaged, serhiy lysak, the head of the Regional Military administration, said. At midnight, the russians struck the marganets community in the nikopol region with artillery, and in the evening, fragments of a Russian Rocket damaged two garden houses and power lines in petrikivska hromada. Another 820 occupiers were eliminated by our latterday defenders, and in general, since the beginning of the fullscale russian invasion, more than 447 thousand soldiers have been reduced to ashes. The forces were successfully burned. Of defense and russian armor only yesterday destroyed 17 tanks, 54 armored combat vehicles, four rocket salvo systems, 10 units of special equipment, 54 artillery systems and 79 cars and tankers. We were always landed by 61 enemy drone and four cruise missiles. The general staff reminds that all data are approximate. And to operational information from the general staff 57 fighters. Clashes took place at the front during the day. 21 times, with the support of aviation, the russians tried to break through the defense of our troops in the novopavlovsk direction. On bakhmutskyi, ukrainian soldiers repelled 14 attacks. On avdiivskyi five. Also, the enemy does not stop trying to knock out our units from the bridgeheads on the left bank of the dnieper. They unsuccessfully stormed the positions of the defenders five times. Our aircraft struck 14 regional concentration of russians and one antiaircraft missile complex. Missile troops inflicted damage on two areas of concentration of the enemy, the uav control point, the artillery system and the enemys rep station. Espressos volunteer kitchen continues to work for victory. For the second year in a row , we have been making our own vitamin mixtures for the armed forces. Currently, the initiative is gaining momentum and in parcels to the front, in addition to vitamins , there are also other goodies necessary for our defenders, such as dried fruits, nuts, jerky, pastila, dry cloves and borsch, lard, canned meat, in short, everything that will feed our people at zero. We constantly have an extremely large number of requests, which means that there is a need for our help at the front. So join in and support our nato soldiers. You can now see all the necessary details on your screens. The commanderinchief of the armed forces of ukraine, oleksandr syrskyi, has ordered an official investigation into the circumstances of the serving of a summons to investigationinfo journalist yevhen shulgat, who was conducting an investigation into possible corruption one of the senior officials of the sbu. He wrote about this in his head on facebook. According to him, the final decisions will be made later. Inspection battles. Syrskyi added that journalists are respected in the leadership of the armed forces, and their professional activities are protected by law. As is known, slidstvo. Info stated that the sbu could give instructions to representatives of the military commander to serve a subpoena on the journalist who exposed the elite property of the head of the Cyber Security department of the sbu, ilya vityuk. Fires and explosions in Belgorod Region in russia. But that night it was in shebekinsky and graivoronsky urban districts of the region. Governor gladkov tells about it. An explosive device was allegedly dropped on the village of leninskyi from an unknown drone. A fire broke out in a private house. And in the village of dronovka, two cars burned down, Gas Transmission lines were damaged. The russian city of orsk continues to float. The situation in the orenburg region due to the breach of the dam remains difficult. They are fighting in the ministry of emergency situations of russia at the vorsk dam. Two damages, on one of them, it is believed that it was possible to stop the flow, but the water continues to flood the city. The situation is difficult in other settlements region in orenburg, water has already reached highrise buildings. Estonia has found a million shells for ukraine, but money is needed for their purchase, the countrys defense minister hannu pevkur said. The cost of ammunition is from two to 3 billion euros shells can be bought both in europe and outside its borders , by combining the Czech Initiative and the estonian one, ukraine will be able to receive up to 2. 5 million shells this year, but the condition is that the allies allocate funds for this. And in poland, polling stations for local selfgovernment elections have opened. Poles about 47 thousand will be elected. Deputies of local levels, as well as almost 25 mayors, burgomasters and mayors of cities, this is the first test for the parties that entered the proeuropean Coalition Government of Prime Minister donald tusk after almost a decade of rule by representatives of the law and justice party. Tens of thousands of people took to the Central Street of budapest to oppose the government of Prime Minister viktor. Orbans people marched to the parliament, demanding the resignation of the head of government. The action was led by 43yearold petr madyar, former member of the ruling fidesz party. It was he who accused the minister who heads orbans office of running a centralized propaganda machine, and also published records that testify to the large scale of corruption at the head of the government of hungary. A progovernment candidate in. Won the president ial election, now he has strengthened the influence of the pro russian Prime Minister robert fitso on the country. Pellegrini received more than 53 of the vote, while prowestern opposition candidate ivan korchok scored slightly less, 47 , and has already conceded defeat. And in the swedish city of gothenburg the film shadows of forgotten ancestors was shown. After watching. The director and the ukrainian bizhynka discussed the figure of the iconic director serhii paradzhanov and the challenges facing ukrainian culture. The event was held in the city theater of gothenburg, the film was shown with english subtitles. My colleague yuliya kyzyk will tell you more. Veronika and her mother and younger brother came to sweden as refugees. Here the girl actively attends demonstrations in support of ukraine and tells. To the countrymen about the war. Veronika says that she has been interested in ukrainian literature and cinema for a long time, and wants to tell the swedes about it as much as possible. Even literally against us, our cultures often. Used, or destroyed, or stolen, therefore the cultural plan, everything related to it, is very important to protect and preserve, not only for ukrainians, but also for other nationalities. I think its important to raise awareness about ukrainian culture, specifically that ukrainian culture exists, this particular country and this. Culture exist, because i think many people in europe, or in general in the world, are not really aware regarding ukrainian culture. Dmitriy plaks has been working in the theater field in sweden for 30 years, this year he became a dramatist in the production of the Ukrainian Play bad road by natalka voroshbyt in sweden. It was the first modern Ukrainian Play staged in a swedish theater with swedish actors. Plaks says, ukrainian culture. To open for swedes, because there is currently no widespread understanding of this in society. I dont think that the awareness of ukrainian culture in sweden is at the desired level today, but it is growing, unfortunately, thanks to the war. Activists for two years in a row organize weekly demonstrations in support of ukraine in the city center. They want ukrainian culture to be present in sweden in the long term. It is aimed at Swedish Society to tell them about ukrainian culture, as it was before, as it is now. Ukraine is now in all the news, there are a lot of swedes who know ukraine through eurovision, for example, because ukrainian songs occupy ee high places. 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Vitaly portnikov, Khrystyna Yatskiv and invited experts based on facts give their assessment and forecast of the development of events. Want to understand how our today will affect our tomorrow, watch the saturday Political Club, every saturday at espresso. Greetings to all viewers of the espresso tv channel, Andriy Smoliy is with you, and today we will actually talk in the Espresso Program about those topics that are of great concern to ukrainians, from whom. Ukrainian victory and Ukrainian Future depend today. First of all, this is a topic that worries everyone today, the topic regarding the actual allocation of funds to our state by the United States of america, by the congress of the United States of america. The second topic that we will certainly discuss today is the issue of mobilization. And the third topic is a possible parliamentary crisis, which everyone is talking about today. Yehor cherny is in our studio today. Peoples deputy of ukraine, deputy chairman of the committee of the Verkhovna Rada of ukraine on national security, defense and intelligence, head of the permanent delegation of ukraine in the Parliamentary Assembly of the council, in the Nato Parliamentary Assembly, deputy chairman of the Advisory Council on ensuring the rights and freedoms of defenders of ukraine. Mr. Yehor, i congratulate you, glory to ukraine. Congratulations, glory to the heroes. The first topic, which i have already voiced it, it is probably one of the most important today for our country, in principle, for the viability of our country. For the viability of our army and for the ukrainian victory, this is a topic that concerns the actual allocation of funds or the blocking of funds now by the lower, lower house of representatives of the United States of america, the us congress, and today and the previous week, prominent representatives talked about it extremely often actually the Republican Party and mike johnson himself is the speaker. Actually the lower house of the us congress talked about that maybe from next week this issue will somehow move from a dead point, right . But again, we still cant figure out whether it will be a vote, whether it wont be a vote, what bill will be chosen after all, whether it will actually be a vote for the bill that passed the United States senate, or whether it will be that bill that may be considered. Republicans separately regarding the allocation of funds for credit, right . That is, as far as i understand, now there are various options that will be discussed. To us the main thing is that there are still funds. Thats your opinion. Will have these funds in the coming weeks, will there still be some kind of agreement in the parliament, conditionally speaking, of the United States of america, will there not be, is it still possible for us to expect that we will not be able to receive these funds again for several months, this a question that concerns today, probably, both the World Community and our defenders at the front, it is very important, i am not going to predict when we will receive this help. Because ive heard it so many times directly from congressmen and my friends and republicans and democrats that this is going to be voted on, and ive been filled in that its going to be voted on before the new year, and after the new year, and after that, but from what i see from those messages , which im getting from , again, the republicans first, were. Really close to this solution, meaning theyre close to the solution, and were close to the outcome that this solution brings. Two weeks ago, i was at an event from the Nato Parliamentary Assembly, and there i had a conversation with by congressman mike turner, who is the chairman of the house intelligence committee, a republican, thats one of the three mikes who are absolutely clear in supporting us among the republicans. This is the chairman of the Foreign Affairs committee, mike mccaul, the chairman of the defense committee, Michael Rogers and mike turner, this is the trio that constantly pushes forward aid for ukraine. What exactly is he saying . He talks about the fact that, ah, a compromise has allegedly been found within the Republican Party, first of all, and in principle in the middle, in the middle. Congress, what will happen anyway a separate bill, not the one that passed the senate, already without a border, so that it would still pass more easily to the house of representatives, and this is one of the compromises on the part of the republicans, the republicans also insisted that at least the part that is direct Financial Aid for ukraine, it still became a loan, that is. Of the 60 billion, almost 60 billion dollars that are planned to be allocated to ukraine, about 12 billion can be as a loan, and the rest as nonrefundable military aid. Thats it, thats whats going around now inside congress. As for the timing, again , what he said was after returning from easter vacation. They will have the first internal question, the second question should be about ukraine, and supposedly there is a certain internal agreement within the congress with the democrats , including that in order to preserve johnsons position, they promised not to vote for his resignation if such a resignation is passed by his colleagues from the Republican Party from the same. Trampizsky of the same wing, so in principle it looks like we really are are close to this decision and that johnson, and it actually depends on him to just bring it to a vote, and that we can really get this decision soon, that is, relatively speaking, sometime in aprilmay we should come to the to get that help if all goes well as i understand it. I hope so, because we have to understand that in addition to this decision in the parliament , procedures should be carried out regarding the allocation of these funds for filling new packages and already sending these packages to ukraine. Of course, well, lets actually expect that that this issue will really be resolved positively for our country. Another very important thing, we are talking now not only about aid from the United States of america. We are also talking about help from our other key allies, that is, the nato bloc in general, and this is very important, for example, for example, nato secretary general stoltenberg, he took the initiative to create such a fund within nato for approximately 100 billion dollars now , yes . To what extent is it generally possible for different states to build, relatively speaking such a fund. Created it and yet ukraine could use these funds in the future, it is clear that we will tell the audience that the funds will be not only from the United States of america. These will be funds , including those of various nato countries, so it is possible and what kind of mechanism will it be in this year, will it be laid something there for the future, for the following years, maybe, is it possible that something will be allocated from these funds, lets say for reconstruction of our country, what is your point of view and how do you see it as an expert in this field . And i think so the proposal was dictated first of all. The fear of nato member countries that the position will change after the elections in the United States, the position will change regarding the general participation of nato in helping ukraine and the participation of the United States in the alliance itself. That is why, in order to somehow secure both himself and ukraine, there was stoltenberg, who absolutely clearly supports it. From the first days of the fullscale invasion of ukraine and trying to do the best he can in his position, he proposed the following idea, to create such a fund for 100 billion dollars so far, there are more questions than answers, because there is very Little Information about this idea, ah, it is not new, it has been discussed, like, for example, the idea of nationalization. Levels at the legislative level of the member countries of the alliance of expenditures for the aid of the country at the level of 0. 25 , this is estonias proposal and estonias initiative, well, at the same time, such options were considered the creation of a special fund, but first of all it is the creation of a social fund for 100 billion on 5 years, i. E. 20 billion annually, 20 billion from of all nato member countries, but to be honest, its not much. A lot, again, this is including bilateral aid, or separately additional to it, because we have now on a bilateral basis aid from germany, from britain, from others, there are three, there are five, there are 8 billion a year, and in principle, these are quite significant amounts. Second, if we are talking about the decision of the alliance. And the decision of the alliance is always made by consensus, and how will hungary behave and how will slovakia behave, for example, will they block these funds and we simply do not can we use them . Third, at the level of the alliance, we currently receive only noncombat aid, whether these funds will be directed to the purchase of weapons, and whether, again , hungary will not be blocked there or some others. Countries, so there are still a lot of questions and very few answers, and if it is still considered as an alternative, ah, or not even an alternative, but as an option to fix the obligations of all countries, including the United States , to provide assistance to ukraine through such an instrument, then frankly speaking, i i doubt that if trump decides something. If he decides not to help ukraine, then anyway, no matter what, he will not help even through this fund, simply not providing money there, but thank you that at least they are looking for some answers , are looking for some options to get out of the situation when with the change of governments, with the change of political teams, the position of countries may change not only in the United States, in the 24th year we have a lot of elections in europe as well. But in order to ensure this, i understand that this is what the funds are trying to create. One more a very important issue of international, or more precisely, bilateral relations of our country, is the issue of president macron. Yes, macron is very active today about supporting ukraine, macron is very active about the possible sending of troops to ukraine, and in general, he has become. Well , a kind of pioneer in terms of certain initiatives, in particular aid to ukraine, those initiatives that no one ever talked about, which in fact were very often kept silent by other european and american politicians, in your opinion, can it be organized, should we expect, for example, this year or in the coming months or for