With which ukraine began negotiations on bilateral security guarantees. Offensive and defensive operations of the armed forces of ukraine, the situation in the most difficult directions, as well as probable actions and plans of the enemy. The Ukrainian Military discussed such issues with our partners, the Supreme Commander of the Nato Joint Forces in europe, general Christopher Kavoli and the chief of the Defense Staff of great britain. Tony radakin, the commanderinchief of the armed forces of ukraine reported valery zaluzhnyi. They also focused on the actual needs of the armed forces, in shells, drones and military equipment. Separately, they raised the issue of strengthening air defense and protection of Critical Infrastructure objects in the autumnwinter period. Ukrainian rescuers will conduct training for colleagues from finland. This was agreed upon at a bilateral meeting in vilnius by minister of internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko and minister of internal affairs of finland mari rantanen. According to the minister, finnish colleagues are impressed by the prompt work of ukrainian emergency workers and wish to to acquire practical experience. In addition, new aid packages from finland were announced for the meeting, which will include means of protecting ukrainian Critical Infrastructure in the winter period. Ukrainian shrike fpv drones were directed to donets. This was announced by the minister of Digital Transformation mykhailo fedorov. These drones are made in ukraine and are already working effectively at the front, striking the equipment and positions of the occupiers. According to british intelligence, the russian army suffered the worst losses in 2023 near avdiyivka. Russians from units of up to eight brigades were involved in this direction, during a telephone conversation with the minister of defense of the Russian Federation lloyd austin, the minister of defense Rustem Umyerov also informed about the heavy losses of the enemy. According to the ministry of defense , 4,000 russian occupiers were killed in more than two weeks of active assaults on avdiyivka. And about the situation in kherson oblast. After lunch, the russian army shelled the shipping area. Was received by a man, the victim was hospitalized. During the day, the enemy attacked the kherson region. As a result of shelling in ivanovka, two people were injured, the Regional Military said administration the occupiers covered the settlement with fire. A 40yearold man and a 60yearold woman were injured. According to the regional prosecutors office, the enemy also attacked the village of kozatske from aviation, where a 67yearold local woman was injured. Around 5 a. M. , the aggressors again fired at the residential quarters of kherson, wounding an 80yearold woman. Today , the enemy twice aimed at nikopol from heavy artillery. It first hit the district center, three private houses and power lines were damaged in the city. Then he caught on in the chervonogrigorivska community, there are 10 houses, five outbuildings, three garages, as well as gas furnaces and electric grids. Everything went by without a hitch. And victims. The number of palestinians killed as a result of strikes on the gaza strip has risen to 7,703, the hamascontrolled Health Ministry said. Among the dead were 3,595 children, the Ministry Said in a statement. Also , 19,734 citizens received injuries from the shelling. On friday, the israeli army expanded its air and ground attacks on the sector. Gases, International Humanitarian organizations said they had lost contact with personnel in gaza when israeli bombardment knocked out internet and communications in gaza. The tzahau Army Continues its ground operation in the north of gaza, israel increased the intensity of the bombing, the most intense blow since the start of hostilities in the region. Overnight, tsagal destroyed about 150 underground facilities of hamas and several influential leaders. In turn , the militants called on civilians to move from the north to the south of the sector and said that ready to resist israels attacks with full force. Fired several rocket barrages at the cities of zderod, azhdot and ashkilon in the south of israel. The National Security forces and the idf were able to eliminate several hamas commanders and terrorist leaders. Among them is the head of the aviation group, who was the central planner of the october 7 attack. In addition, we killed the commander of the gaza navy and other commanders. We will continue to expose terrorist bases as we have. Shifa hospital. We will continue to reveal more details about how hamas uses civilians in gaza, foreign and local. Turkey is ready to declare israel a war criminal, the countrys president Recep Tayyip Erdogan said during a speech at a crowded rally in support of palestine. The airfield of ataturk airport was allocated for its holding. Erdogan arrived by helicopter directly from the residence. He said earlier. That turkey is ready to intervene in a military conflict if israel launches a ground operation in palestine. Meanwhile , thousands of propalestinian demonstrators passed by marching in the center of london. They are calling on the British Government to promote a ceasefire after the israeli army stepped up air and ground attacks in the gaza strip. Aerial footage shows a large column of protesters passing the prime ministers office. And finished the march near the parliament building. Official london supported israels right to selfdefense after the attack by hamas militants on october 7. In egypt, as a result of a largescale accident, 32 people died, and another 63 were seriously injured. According to preliminary information, in one of the Car Dealerships oil leaked and caught fire. The accident happened on the cairoolexandria highway. Sprat. Vehicles and a minibus with passengers collided due to an oil leak, a largescale fire broke out after the collision. In kazakhstan , a methane explosion occurred in the kostenko mine in the karagansk region, at least 28 people were killed and 18 were missing. The mine belongs to the company arceloral. At the time of the incident, 252 miners were in the mine, 208 of them were brought to the surface. The countrys president , kasym zhomart tokayev, arrived at the scene of the tragedy. He promised Financial Assistance to the families of the victims, and put the blame on the investor. I gave an order to terminate cooperation with the arcelo investment company. We produced all kinds of companies, good ones, not very good ones, the company turned out to be the worst in our history in terms of cooperation with the government, bad weather raged in the capital today, due to galeforce winds, two people died in kyiv informed the mayor vitaliy klitschko, these are men 63 and 35 years old. Also, seven residents of the capital were injured and fractured, two houses were damaged, and several others kiosks and 10 cars. According to the cmd, six hundred trees were damaged in the capital, and Energy Experts reported that 305 power lines and more than 7,300 transformer substations were damaged by the wind in the kyiv region. Most outages are in the boryspil, brovar, buchan, fastiv, and obukhiv districts of the region. Meanwhile , the number of hepatitis patients is increasing in vinnytsia. Already. 141 patients are in the hospital with a confirmed diagnosis, their condition is moderate, the ministry of health reported. The source of the infection has not yet been identified. Epidemiologists analyzed 150 samples from the environment, and additionally check Water Quality and the situation in spontaneous markets. All schools in vinnytsia are currently closed for quarantine. There will be no desert. On the spot. A Willow Forest is forming in the kakhov reservoir and unique vegetation is being restored, the Ukrainian Nature Protection Group reports. The russians destroyed kakhovska gest four months ago, and now they are recording more than 65 plant species on the site of the essentially drained reservoir. Also the kamyanka river, which was flooded back in 1956 during the construction of a hydroelectric power station, is also being restored. That was the news for this time, you can read more on our website, espresso tv, also subscribe to us on telegram and watch. On youtube, you and i will see each other in the results of the week already at 9 p. M. , well, in just a moment, meet Vitaly Portnikov and Khrystyna Yatskiv, who will continue the broadcast of the espresso channel. Greetings friends, the saturday Political Club is on the air, Khrystyna Yatskiv and Vitaly Portnikov, we will talk about the main events of this week and everything, that so troubles our minds and hearts. As always, we will start with the military, near military situation, with the russianukrainian war, with the main trends, and we are glad to welcome mykhailo samus, military expert, director of new geopolitic, to the studio. Deputy director for International Affairs of the Army Conversion and Disarmament Research center. Congratulations mr. Mykhailo, glory to ukraine. Mykhailo. So, lets start with these simulation exercises, a Nuclear Strike, from a Nuclear Strike, lets say immediately, in response, which was conducted here by the Russian Federation under the chairmanship vladimir putin, why is this necessary . In principle, what is the need for special Strategic Missile training , if in principle they should provide similar ones. For this they are created and work, well, it is absolutely true, these are Strategic Nuclear forces, this is one of the components of the triad, ground, air based and seabased, and of course this no longer applies to ukraine, but to the United States, to nato countries, which during the cold war were in parity with the soviet union, then with russia, just in Strategic Nuclear forces, and it is obvious that these exercises are one of the components of nuclear blackmail, since it is known, in any case, from the statements of the same russians and from various publications, that russia is also preparing to resume Nuclear Tests, which will be the next step of nuclear blackmail and a demonstration that russia is serious in its statements about the readiness to use Nuclear Weapons against ukraine and possibly against nato countries, if the United States does not agree, as they say, the russians take into account their vital interests in ukraine or europe. Well, not dangerous, by the way, you conduct Nuclear Tests. This can just show that the king is naked, the last Nuclear Tests on the territory of modern russia, even, i think that they were not conducted on the territory of modern russia at all, they were conducted by the soviet union in 1990, on which territory, was it the Russian Federation . Probably, well, as a rule, it was in kazakhstan, that is, it was a territory. Of the kazakh soviet socialist republic, i dont know if there are any of their own in russia now test sites, there may be, there is a test site on the new land, but it has never been used for this, as far as i understand, president putin ordered in february of this year to prepare it so that it could be used for such Nuclear Tests, but in response to a Nuclear Strike is linked, to the United StatesNuclear Tests, so again this game, with nuclear muscles, it continues. And it is obvious that, well, russia is trying to achieve its goals in this way, will such tests be carried out, i i think they can try, although, again, different information is coming in, and it seems that putin was told that according to the results of the Nuclear Weapons readiness assessment, only up to 20 of the warheads that are in Service Since the time of the soviet union are capable of use, and therefore. if the test of Nuclear Weapons is really carried out, it will be unsuccessful, then it can, on the contrary, lower putins position, lower russias position in the confrontation with the United States. Mr. Mykhailo, well, this week was extraordinary, how about an attack by unmanned aerial vehicles, khmelnytskyi and several Populated Areas were attacked, there was quite largescale destruction, but this time a characteristic feature is the damage to the administrative buildings of the khmelnytskyi Nuclear Power plant, and the ukrainian president quite clearly articulated after this attack that the russians are obviously raising stakes, want to demonstrate where. Thats what theyll be trying to aim for this winter, maybe . We previously stated that we would respond to attacks on the Energy Sector infrastructure will not be left unanswered. The russians use this very thesis and report on strange incidents at the kursk Nuclear Power plant. How do you see this story . It is absolutely true, this, the same steps to raise rates, just by nuclear blackmail, zaporizhzhia as is now a bit in the shadows, but i think that due to the fact that the conditions of the Russian Federation regarding rosatom were clearly set, if the atom is involved in the occupation of this station and such incidents that happened before will continue there, then narosat will be forced to impose sanctions, i remind you that sanctions have not yet been imposed on this russian organization, it continues to participate in international projects, including with our western partners, therefore russia. Is now acting in other ways, including including and demonstrating readiness to strike at ukrainian Nuclear Power plants, i do not think that they tried to strike precisely at objects that are involved in nuclear processes, perhaps the attempt was to strike at the distribution infrastructure, first of all to cause harm opportunities for the production and distribution of electricity already, start this process of its crisis, the Energy Crisis in ukraine, and on the other hand, really show that russia is ready to strike at Nuclear Plants in ukraine, if the west again does not agree to, blackmail, pressure russia will not give up its support for ukraine. Please tell me, mr. Mykhailo , in principle, how do you assess the situation near avdiivka now, to what extent can it be considered that this russian offensive has already stalled, or will the russians continue to try anyway. Him continue . No, judging by the forces that the russians have accumulated , that they have concentrated, there are indeed now several new brigades and other units of the formation, this indicates that the russian command will continue to try to push through the ukrainian defenses and er, sharpen, or to try to surround the ukrainian garrison located in avdiytsia, well, of course, to achieve their military, and first of all political goals, since it is obvious that this command, this order, was nevertheless formed in the kremlin, and including, victory under avdiyivka, should be a kind of gift for putin before the elections, well, another aspect, to demonstrate that the ukrainian offensive has really stalled, now russia has turned the tide and is starting to attack the Ukrainian Forces again, occupying donbas completely, and again having prepared new positions for negotiations with the west, it is obvious that against the background of the turbulence that is happening in the american political system, the kremlin is trying to create conditions for declaring that everything, there is no point in supporting ukraine, if you will support ukraine, we will go further, because the Ukrainian Army is no longer able to go forward, and we do not want to go further, we are ready to freeze the conflict, just stop helping the ukrainians and fast for negotiations. Mr. Mykhailo, our possibilities to fight with the russians for a long time, the estonian intelligence, just a few days ago, the intelligence announced that the russians have 4 million ammunition ready. We are talking now about the million promised to us by the european union. At the same time, the ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Baltic States emphasize that literally 300,000 of this million have been delivered there, and north korea is already ready