The occupiers reduced the intensity of storms by kupinsky direction. This was reported by the spokesman of the Eastern Group of forces, ilya yevlash. In recent days, fierce battles have been fought near the village of senkivka, kharkiv region. Now the enemy is consolidating its positions, because it understood that its attacks in this direction are unsuccessful, added jovlash. Sinkivka remains a strategic stronghold in the kupyansk direction. Defense and the russians slowed down their offensive on the left bank of the dnieper. During the last day, they stormed only once without the support of Armored Vehicles. At the same time, they suffered considerable losses. Minus 40 stormtroopers killed and wounded after an unsuccessful attack, the invaders retreated to their positions. Our soldiers continue to hold and expand the bridgehead on the left bank the Southern Defense forces added. In the zaporozhye direction , the Border Guards destroyed the enemys videothermal surveillance complex by
Speak with the director of the a95 consulting group. Serhii kuyun joins the conversation. Good evening. I congratulate you. Mr. Sergey, well, i just have the following question is this really a necessity, which, well, is regulated by european legislation, or is this a step to the cabinet of ministers to find additional income from the excise tax to the state budget. Well, of course, the cabinet of ministers. In his explanatory notes to this bill, he writes about the need to synchronize with european standards, but you already said in your speech that in fact everyone understands that this is a search for money, and the most important thing is that it seems to me that drivers, and fuel consumers, they should understand this, because the state budget is the only source of our financing. Western partners do not give us money for the army, and accordingly, this is a question of our survival, and here it seems to me, well, this step was expected, and i can even see somewhere that the govern
Of activity, well, we hope that the governments in the government will listen to the proposals of such a truly Sectoral Association as the European Business association, and will in fact, vasyl, book not only some delivery services, as we told you, or some companies, which, in fact, only really pay taxes on time, but are not critically important for. Business development, i dont know if you will say, what was the idea of doing, as it were, economic mobilization in the sense of giving certain businesses, enterprises , some load, to do something for the army, well , in this way you also supposedly make your contribution to the victory, but this is basically the transition of the economy to military rails, or you then completely switch to military rails, then big orders, big money come, but we we understand that we have certain limited resources for these orders, so in such situations, so that taxes are paid and the economy lives, because without a living economy, in principle, too.
The lights will be turned off in all regions, hourly shutdown schedules are planned to be applied to industrial and household consumers, warns the ukrenergo company. Due to dense cloud cover in most regions, solar power plants are forced to reduce electricity production. Therefore, the deficit in the Energy Sector will increase. The current will be turned off, first of all in those areas of the system where the consumption limit will be exceeded. In the morning about lack of light reported in the city of sumy. The work of trolleybuses was stopped there. The number of victims as a result of the russian airstrike on kharkiv has increased. 12 people were injured, including a 16yearold boy. He was hospitalized, the Regional Prosecutors Office reported. And the mayor of the city, ihor terikhov , added that the injured trolleybus driver, who was at the epicenter of the explosion, was operated on. One leg. Unfortunately, the man had to be amputated. The second was saved by medics. The state o
Will have more later. And tomasz has got the winter weather. That is a big car certainly not mine. It is in the north where it is really cold, even some icy stretches overnight tonight. Thank you very much. Also coming up. It never left me, i cannot stay away from it. Look whos back. Tom baker, the longest serving doctor, films new footage to complete an episode abandoned because of a strike at the bbc. Good afternoon. More than 180 people have been killed in a militant attack on a crowded mosque in egypt. The countrys president is holding an Emergency Security meeting. It happened in the northern sinai region when armed men stormed the building and detonated a bomb during friday prayers. One report says the target of the attack appeared to be supporters of the Security Forces who were attending prayers. Its the deadliest attack yet in the three year insurgency in sinai. We will be live at our correspondent in cairo very shortly. Zimbabwe has a new president. Emmerson mnangagwa was swo