news time on espressu tv channel, kateryna shiropoyas works in the studio. internal of the ministry of defense discovered a violation of uah 10 billion, deputy minister of defense yuriy dzhiger announced. according to him, after personnel changes, in particular, when oleksiy reznikov left his position, the new team approved the audit plan for certain areas. in particular , it is about accruals and payments to the military, procurement of food products, use of resources in the military sphere, and financial and technical support of units of the tro forces. jaeger noted that thanks to

auditors' recommendations achieved an economic effect of more than uah 1.5 billion. and president volodymyr zelenskyi said in an interview with the pbs channel that during the attack on trypilska tes, the air defense systems ran out of missiles. the occupiers launched 11 missiles, the ukrainian air force managed to destroy seven. i will finish with us. all the rockets that defended tripillia, so i want to ask you the question after yesterday's attack: is israel in nato or not? here is the answer: israel is not a nato country, the allies of nato countries, including nato countries, defended israel, showed by the forces of the wound, that israel was not alone, and this is a lesson, and this is from'. to everyone who says on

any continent that ukraine should be helped very carefully so as not to drag nato countries into war. the taxi driver turned out to be a russian spy in the kherson region, a 55-year-old local resident was detained. the intruder scouted for the occupiers the location of defense forces and civilian objects. the russians were going to use this information to strike the region. in addition. the law enforcement officers established the involvement of the person involved in the attempted assassination of the head of the local military administration of oleksandr prokudin. this was reported to the security service. the perpetrator faces life imprisonment. to gather intelligence, the russian agent posed as a taxi driver and drove around the city in his own car, in which he installed a hidden video recorder. in addition, he tried to get the necessary fame. starting

trusting conversations with his passengers, and from time to time even ukrainian military personnel used his services. fatal road accident in zhytomyr oblast. people's deputy andriy nikolayenko will appear before the court, the case was transferred to court, the office of the prosecutor general said. according to investigation materials, on november 3 , the suspect exceeded the speed limit and ran over an 18-year-old girl. she died on the spot from her injuries. subsequently, the people's representative confirmed his participation in the car accident and emphasized that he would contribute to the investigation. currently, nikolayenko faces up to eight years in prison. a forest fire occurred near the village of mykulychyn in the ivano-frankivsk region. rescuers could not immediately control the fire due to the lack of access roads. and only after 5 hours employees and emergency services were able to completely

eliminate the fire with an area of ​​half a hectare. previously, the fire completely destroyed the shrub vegetation and the forest floor. currently, law enforcement officers are investigating the cause of the fire. and the security service struck a russian radar station in the bryansk region. this is reported by ukrinform with reference to usbu sources. it is about the nebo y complex. this installation until... helped the enemy to control the airspace 700 km deep into ukraine. the $100 million radar was attacked by seven drones. and i remind you about ours gathering. the intelligence unit of the third regiment of special operations forces needs communication and security equipment. they fight for our independence in difficult battles on the eastern front and give us the opportunity to live, work and study. our. the goal is 720 00 hryvnias,

we already have more than 126 00 hryvnias in our accounts, let's not delay, the war continues, and the help of each of us is extremely important, every hryvnia of yours has... huge importance. you can now see all the details on your screens. german chancellor olaf scholz met with chinese leader xi jinping in beijing. it is reported local media shortly before that, scholz wrote on the x social network that his meeting would concern separate ukraine. they plan to discuss both germany and the people's republic of china, they will be able to do more. contribution to the establishment of a just peace, like ukraine, moldova will try to become a full member of the european union by 2030, however, if ukrainians made such a choice consciously and gave their lives for it, moldovans are still

hesitating where and with whom they want to move forward. kateryna galko got to know the mood of downtown kishenev. more about the situation later in the story. kisheniv is still trying to decide whether it will become the capital of a future european country, or whether it will remain the main city of a post-soviet state. a referendum on joining the european union in moldova is planned to be held in the fall, however, the opinions of the country's citizens still differ. i support the referendum, i support the referendum, because i believe that our future, the future as a country of moldova, only you...

that you see that the poor are suffering in europe, but not all citizens have decided on their choice, very often among the city of chisinau we heard the following: i am not aware at all, i am not aware at all about this, i do not know about politics, to be honest, i do not immerse myself in political topics, i am nothing, i do not think anything and do not even want to put my head in, now the constitutional court moldova is considering a draft decision in which a referendum on joining the eu is proposed to be held already. on october 20 of this year, the official position of the population will finally become clear, because according to the previous february survey of the moldovan company imas, opinions were divided almost in half. 47% of respondents consider the proposed referendum on

accession to the eu as unnecessary, while 44% considered it useful. as many as 37% of citizens associate the holding of such a plebiscite with fears that. president maia sandu will lose the next election. in addition, if moldovans were asked about joining the eurasian economic union, as many as 42% would vote for it. the question is whether russia will not finish the results of the referendum. the risks of russian influence on any elections in moldova are considered serious, even by european officials who are cautious about their statements. unfortunately, i'm pretty sure there will be interference with side of russia. because this is what we see on a regular basis, be it the local governor elections last year, then there was a lot of that, i mean, we are talking about millions of euros and dollars that were injected into the country in various ways to influence the political the process is here.

citizens' uncertainty and reluctance to european integration often overlap with russophile sentiments, which are explained here by the consequences of the hybrid war. ex-prime minister who went to rate in 2023 due to the lack of political support compares moldova now with ukraine in 2014 is experiencing the so-called european awakening. we have now begun to strengthen our resilience our tools to combat disinformation only after the intrusion. a full-scale invasion of ukraine in 2022 . we should have started in 2014, unfortunately then. we had no political will. in addition to hybrid attacks, russia continues to defend transnistria, which is not recognized by anyone, and the head of the eu delegation in moldova even suggests that the country can join the union without it. in those residents of moldova in assessments

threats of a military conflict with the russian federation are also heterogeneous. we cannot say that such a risk does not exist. there is a risk, and it is very big. well, yes, there is such a thing. i... i'm afraid, to be honest, i'm very afraid, well, maybe everything will be fine if we're in europe, i don't want to see it, i don't want to, we moldovans are generally very peaceful people. today , there are no trends for this, there is no common border between russia and moldova, and thanks to the ukrainian soldiers, such a border does not seem noticeable in the foreseeable future. ukraine is also considered as a conditional guarantor of moldova's security the president when asked about readiness to fight against russia, maya sando answered only about supporting ukraine. we continue to support. we will continue to do everything

we can to help our ukrainian friends. the citizens of moldova have at least six months to think about their choice, and in the meantime the country continues to adjust to european standards. according to the most optimistic forecasts, the republic of moldova has a chance to become a member of the eu by the year 2000. 30, as well as ukraine. kateryna galko, yulia belska from chisinau for espresso tv channel. to learn more interesting and relevant information, update our site espresso.tv and our social networks, search for espresso on youtube, subscribe, comment, because your opinions are important to us. we will see you tomorrow, take care.

glory to ukraine, this is the verdict program, my name is serhiy rudenko, i congratulate everyone and wish everyone good health. for the next two hours, we will talk about ukraine, the world, the war, and our victory. today in the program. a battle for time. ravine. putin ordered to capture the key city by may 9. as the armed forces hold positions in conditions of shortage of ammunition and personnel. iron dome and david's sling. israeli air defense systems demonstrate almost one hundred percent efficiency. why does ukraine not have similar protection? china's plan for ukraine. an accomplice of the kremlin is trying to play the role of mediator. what about? olaf scholz negotiates with xi jinping in beijing.

we will talk about this and other things for the next hour with our guests, major of the armed forces of ukraine ihor lapin and diplomat volodymyr yelchenko. however, before we start our big talk, let's watch a video of how hymers destroyed an enemy beech in donetsk region, a zaalpovy fire rocket system, aimed at a russian anti-aircraft missile complex by aerial reconnaissance of the 148th. of a separate howitzer self-propelled artillery division, let's see how it all happened.

glory to the armed forces of ukraine. glory to heroes. friends, during our broadcast, we conduct a survey. today we ask you about the following: should we redirect the funds from the single telethon to the armed forces of ukraine? yes, no, everything is quite on youtube. simply either so or no, if you have a personal opinion, a separate one, please leave it in the comments below this video, if you are watching us on tv, pick up your smartphone or phone and vote if you think that the funds for the single telethon should be redirected to armed forces of ukraine (0800-211-381), no 0800 211 382, ​​all calls to these numbers are free, vote for... at the end of the program we will sum up the results of this vote. we have our first

guest on the phone, this is ihor lapin, major of the armed forces of ukraine, special agent, people's deputy of ukraine of the eighth convocation. mr. major, i welcome you, thank you for being with us today. glory of ukraine. glory to heroes. first of all, mr. major, let's talk about the situation around the temporary yar, because the head of the armed forces of ukraine, oleksandr syrskyi , said that in... the higher military leadership of russia tasked its occupation forces with capturing the temporary yar by may 9, i will quote the head armed forces of ukraine. the enemy disappeared. the same efforts to break through our defenses, west of bakhmut, the exit of the exit to the siverskyi donetsk canal, donets-donbass, possession of a settlement of yar times, creation of conditions for further advancement to the kramatorsk agglomeration. the implementation of the enemy's plans is hindered by the heroic defense of our brigades, which literally dug

into the ground, holding back the enemy's daily attacks. mr. major, how do you assess the current situation? in the area of ​​the time gap, and most importantly, russia plans to capture the city by may 7, so let's be honest, they often make political statements, meaning the russians there, then until may 9, then until january 1, then before the presidential elections, then after the elections, then let's say maybe already after the holidays, i can say this sarcastically, but now, speaking realistically, are there opportunities for russians to... buy time, you understand that today , unfortunately, we do not state the question of whether the times will stand, but we discuss the question of when they will capture it, this indicates what, this indicates that the planning of the defense of the city was carried out only according to the standards of the defense of the bakhmut fortress or the defense of avdiyivka, and it is we who despise the flankers again

the blows of the russians, who are trying to take the city in half. encirclement in order to simply break the logistics chains and thus the city was under fire control from three sides, as a minimum. we saw that the russians did it in the pasture. when they could not take bakhmut head-on, they first took solidar in the north, then in the south they also set fire to several settlements and in fact bakhmut came under fire, in fact a bag of fire from three sides, similarly they worked in avdiivka. we remember this whole story, the only thing until... through lastochkina, it was actually defeated from two sides, the russians in the south and in the north, in fact took such a bag into a trap, so to speak, and continued their work of destruction, having a total advantage in artillery to destroy our armed forces of the defenders of ukraine. what happens during the summary? two months ago, ihor lapin went

on the air and said: "friends, let's look at the settlement of ivanivske and there it is kalynovych, or she has already been forgotten." cholera is clear, i'm sorry, that settlement, that is, to the south, north of the temporal ravine, and in fact, the russians left, they are now pressing in the north over the chasm of time and where ivanivske is in the south, of course, not giving up their attempts to take it head-on, especially since they reached the outskirts of the city and they were already wedged there , in fact, into the urban development there not very far deep, but actually suitable, let's say so. next, what will happen next, well, i don't know how they look, of course, i can't comment, criticize or not criticize the genius of the one who comments that the russians will then go to kramatorsk, i'm looking at the map just from the point of view of what i see, what i know, of course, i don't know where the main reserves of russia are located there, where the main

reserves of ukraine are located, and therefore it is difficult for me to comment on their future moves, whether they will go to the kramatorsk agglomeration , but i... i see that both from the avdiiv direction and from the zchasiv direction, they will break into pokrovsk, because the logistics that actually go through pokrovsk, they feed all our groups that are located, well, in donetsk region, and it's actually the logistics that come with dnipropetrovsk region, the issue of kramatorsk, well, it is possible, but sloviansk -kramatorsk is a rather serious matter... there are factory territories built there, which can be used for bunkers and so on, so i don't know how realistic this scenario is, to me everything - i still look, well, it is the direction of pokrovsk, of course i understand that after the time of yar, something must be done with kostyantynivka, kostyantynivka is also not made with a finger, as they say, the town is not small either, i was there in my time, as they

say , and i can navigate where they can pass the main defensive lines. the more there is a serious height difference and so on, that is, all this will happen, but the question is until may 9 or not until may 9, it all depends on the strength of the means that the russians will throw there, if they throw their air forces there now, and we will still wait for the patriots from germany , maybe there for a month or two, then of course they will disassemble the north into molecules at that time, and that will be the end of it, but i emphasize once again that the question is whether they will still want to take the city right away, or though will go... north or south to semi-cover the fire bag, so to speak, and take it under fire control, this is already a matter of another discussion, and therefore we once again penetrated the defensive component, which is called defense. flanking attacks, now, well, to counter this, we remember how the third assault division countered when it tried to let the defenders of avdiivka out, yes, they began to hit the

e-e from several directions, but still tried to cut off the opportunities the russians to attack avdiivka from the north. well, like now will work, if we continue to dig into the ground and hold back the blows, then this is hopeless bullshit, because... the russians have a total advantage in artillery, they will simply disassemble any defensive line into molecules, and based on what we have there are no wandering patriots there, then the air force will do its dirty work, well, these are my thoughts about the combat situation. mr. major, the washington post writes that there are many drones patrolling the skies above the front line in ukraine, hunting for any signs of movement, therefore the ukrainian and russian troops... writes the publication: they have almost no opportunity to move on the battlefield without being noticed and killed, we see how this war

is turning into a war of drones, a war of missiles, and how ukraine looks in this situation in the face of russian capabilities? well, we continue to work in a single marathon, we write off 1.5 billion to finance the channels of the oligarchs. now life is very difficult for akhmetov, pinchuk, there, lyovochkin, well, the state has taken over the function of financing hierarchical channels, instead of directing additional funds to the needs of the armed forces of ukraine. at the same time, representatives of certain structures, very skillfully manipulating public opinion, formed, so to speak, a false impression with the cries of drones instead of paving stones, and held rallies near city administrations, well, what do i want to say, and then... they will be surprised, why does the united states repulse rocket attacks on israel, and why do they not help us so much, well , because in israel these conscripts do not

swim across the river, through the tisza, because when warned of a possible attack by iran, in israel preparing to repel this attack, as well as working with neighboring countries that could help repel this attack, we rejected any moments. in this context , all the information was rolled into the asphalt and now we have our own problem regarding unmanned systems, well, look, we have april, the month is ending, so the quarter has passed, of the million drones that zelensky talked about at the press conference, according to the idea, there are 300 400,000 drones should already be in the army, i don't know any unit, c to whom such a number of drones would be sent somewhere approximately, at least in the amount of 50 or 10%. there are 10%, i have not even heard of such a thing, well , that's all, then, well, we announced the creation of a new type of troops, even a combat officer, my brother vadym sukharevskyi

was appointed to lead this type of troops, well, there is a leader, there is no type of troops, that is , structural units, subdivisions have not been formed, what to do about it? your colleague vyuri butusov's analysis of the historical parallels, where the infantry used to be the main lever, was very good. and how they appeared tanks, then gradually tanks were no longer attached to infantry, on the contrary, infantry were put on armor, as they say, as an auxiliary function for tanks. today, if we see that the technological breakthrough is just that, well , the tanks of the first world, we can say, today it is the drones of the third world, yes, that is, if we see that drones are becoming the main lever on the battlefield, then what should we do , should we give infantry drones ? whether to add infantry to unmanned troops, you see, that's the whole difference reformatting of military thinking. yes,

mr. mayor, i hope that we will now reconnect with ihor lapin. in his evening video address, president zelensky called on our western partners to strengthen sanctions against russia and its accomplices who resort to missile terror. let's listen to what... the president of ukraine said. russia uses every day, every week, every month to do significant damage. unfortunately, aid to ukraine is still limited, and the russian state still has access to critical components that are necessary for production of missiles and drones. in each missile that strikes ukraine, there are at least dozens of components, electronics, chips that are supplied. from companies from other countries and are imported through the territory of russia's neighbors. in the shaheds, the components are also produced in the free

world. all this must be stopped. the connivance of terror and the ability of terrorists to find accomplices around the world cannot be stopped. major, you are in touch with us, i hope. yes yes. unfortunately, the connection was interrupted, and you started talking about drones systems and unmanned troops, and as a separate branch of the military, as infantry, how they help the infantry advance. let's continue forward, well, it should be just like that, now it should be the other way around, drones should be at the point of attack, like a type of army, infantry should only be an auxiliary, as they say, part of this story. er, mr. major, in president zelenskyi talks about the sanctions that the west should introduce against the russian federation, about those counterparties that provide components there that allow russia to very

quickly... to create these shahedis, there are sanctions for two years, in your opinion, they are not working, or they are not working enough, or our western partners do not want the russian federation to be completely defeated on the battlefield, what is the reason these mantras about her sanctions and the fact that they are ineffective again lost touch with igor. lapinim, i hope that we will recover now and re-elect mr. igor, and since zelensky has already stated that the west should increase sanctions, and this is connected in particular with the fact that russia uses iranian shahedis, which, by the way, successfully defeated israel's western partners, israel was defeated in the night from

the 13th. on april 14, we saw the effective operation of the air defense system and the effective operation of the western partners of israel, great britain, the united states of america, as well as the eastern partners of israel, jordan, that is, the countries that provided full support for these flying objects that were launched by iran on the night of the 13 on april 14. over 150 targets, all of them were hit, and now you see, friends, this is a video, how effectively this whole system worked, and of course, in this story it is important to understand that iran attacked the state of israel, including with the same shaheds, these flying mopeds, as we call them, which it exports and provides

to the russian ... federation, we see the same in our skies the shahed themselves, but we see how quickly the western partners deal with these mopeds in the sky in the middle east. ihor lapin is in touch with us again, mr. major, let's hope that everything will be fine the second or third time. i am asking about these sanctions because president zelenskyy is calling for the introduction of these sanctions, that is, these sanctions are not enough. of them, do we need more, or do western partners simply give russia the opportunity not to be defeated by ukraine. well, let's state my position frankly: sanctions do not work in the context in which we would like. unfortunately, the great global world is very dependent on russia, on energy carriers, on their goods, on gas, there, on oil, there, well, on everything that russia can produce there, and this is... a very

serious problem, only the iron curtain can save the situation in the world of any country, no matter who attacks, no matter where, not just sanctions, but an iron curtain, nothing goes there, not here, not across the border, not outside the border, first, second, any country or structure or organization that helps the under-sanctioned to escape , should automatically become an outcast, because otherwise, well, look, russia earned more than 550 billion euros on energy carriers. and 22-23 years during full-scale aggression, and we dream of american aid in the amount of 60 billion for this year, for example, you understand, well, this is the whole big problem, and that sanctions worked better, we need to pursue our policy of diplomacy, not the diplomacy of kryvorizka in kyda.