war for them in all its elements is a special operation, well, in the classical sense, putin as president and a member of the federal security service, from the kgb, simply put, he treats all these elements of this war as special operations, as provocations, as yes, as to sabotage, as to some certain elements that make up this mosaic of this so-called special military operation. you don't have to go far, you have to understand that all shelling of ukrainian territories, especially recently, is not directed at any military there advantage, to destabilize the situation inside the country, to destroy the civilian population, in order to, i don't know , terrify the civilian population there, so that they go to the streets, try to put pressure on the authorities, because they have no victories on the battlefield, those who they want, maybe there are some... er

tactical er advances 100 m there, 100 m there and there is, but such as to capture some large cities, regional centers there, they do not succeed, and for this you have to to destabilize the situation in one or another territory of ukraine, to make as many victims as possible among the civilian population, this is the introduction of the connection of informational components, and this is the introduction of a hybrid war, when people do not... wage war in the classical sense of the word, but use all methods to achieve their goals. mr. general, the main intelligence department of the ministry of defense on its website tells about how in august of last year a ukrainian intelligence group infiltrated the territory of the russian federation and, having covered 600 km on foot, neutralized three enemy tu-22 aircraft, apparently it is about... events at the airfield

soltsi, this is in the novgorod region of the russian federation, where one tu-22 was completely burned and two more were damaged. during the group's return to the territory controlled by ukraine, colonel oleg babii died, unfortunately, he was posthumously awarded the title of hero of ukraine. this is one of the episodes of our struggle, heroic struggle against the russian occupiers in tela, to what extent is such a struggle, to what extent... such special operations can weaken the russian federation, it is clear that 3 is a sufficiently powerful special operation and very painful for the russian aviation, how painful these sabotage special operations of ukraine can be for russia not only in the novgorod region, but also in other regions of russia, conceptually, it is very simple.

the more there are any events that russia cannot and cannot arrange on its territory, explosions, sabotage, detonation of railways, train derailments, if drones fly somewhere, some extraordinary events, the more of this happens in different places of the russian federation, the more , more often russia will think, not russia itself, how. such an abstract organism, and her the population will think about what are the first reasons for all these events, and this is one time, and secondly, it quite significantly distracts the russian federation from the need to use forces and means to protect certain objects, which also taking into account its large territory .

will greatly harm their, well, it will affect their ability to conduct effective combat operations on the territory of ukraine, therefore, the transfer of military operations, bringing all those extraordinary events to the territory of the enemy, this is an effective fight against him, deterring him and in the end, one of the elements of our future victory. mr. general, thank you for the conversation, it was... general viktor yagun. friends, we work live on the espresso tv channel, as well as on our youtube and facebook platforms. if you watch us live on youtube, please like this video, subscribe to our channel, and take part in our vote. today we ask you the following question: do you trust anonymous telegram channels? yes no. please vote on youtube, either with the yes or no button. if you watch us in tv broadcasts, pick up your phone and vote. if you trust anonymous telegram channels. 800 211 381 no 0800 211 382

all calls to these numbers are free, call, at the end of the program we will sum up the results of this vote. further. on our air yuriy nikolov, journalist, co-founder of the independent group our money, yuriy, i congratulate you and i am glad to see you on our air. greetings sergey, good evening, i will not ask you anonymous telegram channels, because anonymous telegram channels write a lot about you, and a lot of people are writing in connection with the event around your residence, unknown people who came to your door, plastered your door with various inscriptions, demanded that you go to... the central committee or join the army, the law enforcement officers are already reporting that detained people who tried to break into your apartment, they are being investigated, do you know who these people are and most importantly, who hired them? no, i don't know anything, i, along with the whole country,

just watch a video about myself somewhere in anonymous telegram channels, along with everyone , i read press releases about the fact that someone detained, and his boyish mind.' i draw some conclusions, but i unfortunately do not yet have any objective data about what is happening there behind the scenes of the investigation, whether you were asked what you thought about it, and you gave evidence there, what, who you could you show who there could have done that, well , of course, the police during the interrogation, well , did the polls ask my opinion about it, i said that without... tentatively, i consider it pressure on me as a journalist, because to put pressure on me as a person, well, it's just, well, pointless, well, well there are few people in ukraine who come and cover the door with such things, even ordinary people, that means my journalistic activity is meant, who am i until now,

well, i do not know yet, i hope that the investigation there will find the organizers of this attack , and what i knew, you just know, well, as a journalist, i immediately assumed that... i was doing it to establish where it was running, it was definitely necessary to find these guys, the attackers, it was definitely necessary find their phones, correspondence to get data about where did they get the order for this , i don’t know, khyhodka, i call it something like that , that’s how these guys who, according to the investigation, were detained in the zhytomyr, cherkasy and kyiv regions, that is, they live still far from each other. someone gathered in one place, in kyiv. and he made it possible to post a video about his debacle to an anonymous telegram channel, actually during

the debacle itself, that is , they posted it for this video that you showed on the air now and continued there for several minutes after that knock on my door there. ot. that is, there is definitely some connection with the owners of this telegram channel, so i think that society is such a logical dimension, where you can work and where to find organizers, well, the guys just immediately responded, said, here we are in front of nikalov's door, here we are they knocked , that’s how we did it all, it’s absolutely clear, you are a person who knows everything, or almost everything, about ukrainian corruption, and obviously, obviously you... you can say for sure, how is corruption different during zelenskyi’s time from the corruption that existed in previous times, that is, it is clear that the conditions in which corruption lives now are the conditions of war, and this corruption is a grave crime against those who are

at the front, against those who fight, against those , who doesn't get something, because someone there takes and steals on eggs, on e. security, on food and on all all the equipment, well, the first difference is that under zelensky, more precisely now during the bargaining, the attention of international allies to ukraine incredible, well, now our state budget is supported by dollars, in euros, yen, for 70% of our entire budget, there was no such thing before, there was never, well, the imf there financed 2-3-4% there. of our budget, and that is why our government has always , you know, entered into such a game: let 's wave at the imf, promise reforms, report something there, and they will take it as a reform, and it always worked, by the way, the imf continued to support us, but when dependence

on the budget, on foreign friends became so critical, it became clear that the old way cannot continue, because, you know, when there's blinkin, chipritsky. looks you in the eyes, or borel there and says in english: "vladimir, this is a fact, for some reason, you can't continue it in the old regime, and that's why we 're watching what's going on the transparent sector , well, what is transparently happening there in procurement , the margin of corruption really disappears, right before our eyes, but at the same time we see more and more signals that, well, corruption - corruption is shifting to the sector of law enforcement officers, customs officers, tax officials, that is, where they demand bribes, and there are more and more signals from there more, and here we are... it seems that lately we have begun to approach the infamous times of yanukovych, well, so far

there is such a thin line that separates us from this, because during the times of donetsk, i remember how they kicked out the doors in some companies, they came and made a demand: 50 + 1 - one vote of the authorized capital, let's roll out the table and then you will work, so far , i don't see such a thing, that there are companies directly squeezing like that. but the pressure from the law enforcement officers, well , it seems to me, is already quite significant, well , more than it was there before the invasion, but returning to corruption, of course, in corruption there are two sides: the one who takes the order, and the one who receives for giving the order, because it does not happen that the hrynkevich family is put in jail and they are accused of that there they made 1.5 billion hryvnias or losses. hryvnias, and on the other hand, well, that they organized this criminal scheme, which

was operating somewhere in the ministry of defense, and builders, builders from lviv began to provide for the armed forces of ukraine, well, it does not happen even in fairy tales that people come from nowhere, them immediately gave such contracts and they just took it and the guys got up on it, that is , can we expect what we will hear and... on all the people who were involved in this, because 1.5 billion is not 1,500 uah and not uah 1500 , uah 150, and it is obvious that when there is not enough money for everything during the war, it is easy to take and withdraw 1.5 billion somewhere, you just have to be able to do it, and most importantly, why did the anti-corruption authorities not see all this , which or the bodies that should have prevented these wraps, why didn't they see, that's understandable, but what... not at all saw from what was happening, i have the impression that somehow journalists in recent years, well, during negotiations, work a little

more efficiently than our law enforcement officers, and well, in some stories, the law enforcement officers are ahead, but you know, the biggest stories somehow start even from journalistic investigations, and case grynkevich also surprises me the most because he is like that, you know, frankly open, that's right... the law enforcement officers show hrynkevich's head on display, and then they immediately report that there they are terminating contracts with him, that he has for the first time in my memory, a representative of the dbi refused a bribe of half a million dollars, i have not yet heard of someone from the dbi refusing any bribe at all, here they took it and refused it out of character, so that's why, let's say, case grenkevichev is very strong falls out, because just imagine, there are businessmen detained in this case, but, as they say, not a single official was injured, and this

also applies to the same bulletproof vests, and what other possible supplies are there for the ministry of defense, which i will just tell you about here is another example, it is known that there is currently a deputy in the pretrial detention center minister of defense shapavalov, he is also accused of purchasing low-quality body armor there at the beginning of the invasion. and also at an inflated price , so he is in jail, but in his case, i don’t know that any charges have been brought against the company that supplied something there, you understand, that is, in our case, businessmen are accused, not defense officials , in all the other stories, as far as i know, they blame everything on someone from the ministry, but not the firm, and so this is some special case, i think. that, well, unfortunately he, for me, is not a symbol of

the state's struggle against corruption, controlled by its branches. well, instead of fighting corruption , the state is starting to fight journalists, the case is about yuriy nikolov, and these are some nefarious attempts to enter your apartment, or to scare your relatives, your mother and you there, this is one case, the second case is the team of bigus, which was monitored there for a year and monitored. recorded that, who says where, where they are, 30 people who go into some country houses, set up video cameras, that is, some such maneuvers that it's just... they don't get on their heads and it's absolutely impossible to understand it, although you can obviously understand why it happens, the only thing that's not clear is what they all hope for, but you follow them, that is, it's basically such a young team in terms of age , age-old, where, where they have

this is what the yanukovychs had, the yanukovychs were a gang that came and simply squeezed out companies there. sat on streams, they didn't even hide it, and what you told about the campaign, their next step was when they offered 50 + one share to pick up, then they said that if you don't want it, we'll come tomorrow, we'll take everything, but it will cost 10 times cheaper there than it could have been before, and during yanukovych's time, by the way, i didn't receive such threats , well, they didn’t even allow themselves such antics, er, because here... what distinguishes this provocation against me, the bigus of ukrainian truth, which is also going on in telegram channels, that is, it was rather aimed at discrediting us, well, on the destruction of our reputation, look, bigos addicts, nikolov is evading the ukrainian truth, in general , there is some kind of fartsovshchitsa sitting there, who

buys expensive handbags there, that is, it is all something so bad, wrong. and fortunately, ukrainian society reacted correctly, because it perfectly understands the work we do, and that, relatively speaking, if someone over there grabbed some jamb at a corporate party from operators, well , it does not affect the journalistic work of biguus, the fact that i am now in the rear, not on the front line, it also gives me the opportunity to work, well, to do what i do and what everyone can see that in the ukrainian truth, someone... has enough salary to buy a women's handbag, well, that's normal, but what is it? tatarov is allowed, but a journalist is not allowed, that's why all this was aimed at me to discredit me, and why they chose such a modus, because what happened is what i've been saying for a long time, corruption breeds corruption, they are so used to

cooking in their carpeted mercedes with no real life behind them, that they 've decided their reality of... telegram channels is more credible than, well where we live, ordinary people there, well, i 'm an ordinary person, i live there on the outskirts of kyiv, in an old residential area, well, an ordinary sleeping bag, it's not even a new complex or something else, so they thought, oh well this is their fantasy, it can be projected on everyone, and it will work , but it turned out not to, and that's why, you know, these people with reduced social... responsibility, proved that they also have a slightly not very high iq , and that is, that the big problem is in their political technology profession, that is, they decided that their the project will work, but unfortunately, they did not take into account that the attack on journalists, a democratic country, well, this is oppression, yes, it is a shot in both legs in ukraine itself,

it is a demonstration for our partners that, unfortunately, in ukraine there are violations some principles of democracy, including on... freedom of speech, which means that then support to ukraine can be stopped, well, if we ourselves are trying to prove that we are not a very democratic country, then what is there to defend the west, yes, what kind of democracy to protect in ukraine, a little better russia, that's it, na unfortunately, it happened, and it was very predicted, and that's all i've been saying for a year, since reznikov accused me of undermining the national defense capability of the publication a year ago. of these commercial secrets about the eggs of the ministry of defense, but it was explained to him even then that, dear minister, to attack a whistleblower of corruption, to put pressure on him in this way, is the russian modus operandi, it is in russia that whistleblowers are pressured, killed, put in prison, including for treason

of some kind, but not of corrupt officials, and if ukraine does not fight corruption either, but... on journalist, this is a racist scenario, and at that time, it was enough to hit everyone , i really did not care about any state treason, the minister of defense then disavowed his statement, said that oh, oh, oh, i did not mean a journalist there , i meant some other people who broke that contract, that is, nothing bad happened in that sense, well, in reality, we did not have these publications about the suppression of freedom of speech, a lot of journalists asked me about... this year about oh , but were there any consequences for you, i'm honest said, no, the state behaves very politely and correctly, moreover, someone was even arrested there, well, at least something happened, and the main thing is that we... adopted laws, reduced the price of eggs there from uah 17 to uah 6, that is, the consequences are good , there are positives, well, unfortunately, we kept this minister there for seven extra months, who hindered the reforms, but we

coped less with this and with that, and here is such a crazy turnaround, well, i only have one version, which is just someone else's there, as they say, the balls went behind the rollers, they did very badly, without calculating the consequences, and now here it is thinking how to take revenge. well, we felt it , frankly, from the very beginning of the great war, because three tv channels were turned off, just turned off from t-2 and everything, and we were gone from t2, so we completely understand you. thank you, yuriy, for the conversation, it was yuriy nikolov, a journalist, investigator, the person who wrote about these eggs for 17 hryvnias, he is from the ministry of defense, and nikolov wrote about corruption scandals more than once, he sang... the founder of the independent group our money. friends, we work live on the tv channel, as well on our youtube and facebook platforms, for those who are currently watching us there. please like our video, subscribe

to our platforms, and most importantly, take part in our vote, we ask you about anonymous telegram channels. do you trust anonymous telegram channels? yes no. 0800 211381 if you are calling and voting by phone, no. 800 211 382 all calls to these numbers are free, call, at the end of the program we will sum up the results of this vote. we will be in touch later mykola knyazhytskyi, people's deputy of ukraine, head of the group of inter-parliamentary relations with the republic of poland. mr. mykola, i congratulate you, thank you for joining our broadcast. i congratulate you. so, today a nationwide protest of farmers is starting in poland, who demand to protect their business from imports from the third. countries, in particular from ukraine, and actions with tractors and other machinery on the roads are planned for more than 150 places throughout the country. we have

a synchronicity of several farmers coming out for these protests. let's listen. standards dictated by the european union. products arriving from ukraine are mostly not processed. because of that the cost of production. unfortunately, we cannot compete, i also understand ukrainian farmers, now there is a war, it is difficult for them, we are in solidarity with them, but then the european union must support those farmers who work near the border of ukraine, because the hardest thing is for polish farmers, slovak farmers and we have to find some entrance. mr. mykola, you have carefully studied all the problems that exist in ukrainian-polish relations, which now it is happening, there were transporters, now

farmers, how can we live as neighbors with our neighbors, and not as if we are some kind of enemies, well, let's start with the fact that this is still another protest, when they blocked our roads, obviously it was pure hogwash, because the europeans made a corridor of life for us, through which we could supply products to various markets, and bring weapons to ourselves, and equip them to our enterprises, and part of this was also blocked, it was initiated in such a way by the pro-russian party of the confederation, which supported one of the groups of carriers that previously worked on the markets of russia and belarus, i spoke and told and wrote letters about it a lot, and in poland i met with the top management of poland and did everything to unblock the roads, and in principle we managed to do it together with our polish partners. and i think this is very good and very positive, it was one process, although this process is obviously still ongoing, because as the polish transporters and farmers themselves say, it is

temporary, but despite that, the protests that are happening now, people have the right to protest, they live in their own country, and there are many reasons for these protests, one of the reasons is simply, well, first of all, they receive huge subsidies, from the polish state and from the european union, to the refusal, unlike ukrainian... entrepreneurs who are profitable without receiving any subsidies, this is firstly, secondly, the ukrainian import of agricultural goods from ukraine to poland is generally prohibited, that is, when we are talking about other countries of the european union, well, we must to engage in sales and it is absolutely normal if these countries need it, obviously we also compete with polish goods there, this is a matter of discussion, it is a matter of negotiations from the ukrainian side with our other partners in the european union, because... the poles took advantage very much from the fact that poland became a member of the european union, because they actually received these huge subsidies for our agriculture from the eu, and we can either lose everything or, on the contrary,

gain. and it depends on our expertise the government, which will conduct negotiations to protect our ukrainian agricultural producers, among whom there are farmers, but there are also large landowners, large latifundists, and the future of our agriculture will depend on how the government conducts these negotiations, and the market is also shrinking naturally, due to the decrease in meat consumption, for example, more people become vegans, agricultural technologies are used more, so there are many crops. more, the climate is changing, it's warmer everywhere, and because of that, of course, there are few sales markets, and people are struggling for its sales markets, but in parallel with this , exports from poland to ukraine are growing, that is, we bring here fuel, mineral oils, trackless vehicles and many, many things, including agricultural products, should ukraine mirror the behavior of poles, because we are doing the transportation... which, well

, now obviously the farmers will lose and are losing, or do we have to respond to the poles in some way? well, look, so far we are not losing, because farmers inside their country are holding an action, they are not blocking roads, we have to negotiate so that the poles are our allies in negotiations with the european union, we need their experience and skills, because of that we have to negotiate with the polish government, which is now generally well-disposed towards ukraine, although it is a coalition, there are different parties , it must be understood, there is a peasant party, which deals with the ministry of agriculture and the ministry of defense, for example, are we interested in having good relations with poland with these parties, of course, so we need to talk to them first than to go to war before blocking something, but if the protests are unmotivated , like blocking roads that were just a threat to our security, it's not just protests inside

the country, then in... in that case, obviously, we have to act tougher, that is why we need to look very carefully at what is happening there , conduct negotiations, come to an agreement, where there is a common economic interest to seek it, and there is, and where there is russia's use of a method to block our borders, we must mercilessly fight against it. today, ukrainian prime minister denys shmyhal met with robert fico, prime minister of slovakia, and this meeting took place in uzhhorod. before that , fico talked a lot about ukraine, about what he was against. for ukraine to join nato, because then there will be the third world war, they say, it is impossible to do that. previously, he made many statements about weapons, whether to supply weapons to ukraine or not, and today, during the negotiations, shmygalym told fiso that slovak companies will continue to supply equipment for demining and erecting defense borders, and the slovakian government will not block,

most importantly, slovakia will support and... ukraine's migration aspirations will not block financing of ukraine from the european union. let's hear what the prime ministers said as a result of this meeting. an important agreement today is that slovakia will support the ukraine facility program, which provides for the allocation of 50 billion euros to ukraine from the european union. 38 billion euros are intended for the four-year budgetary support of our state. and 8 billion euros are provided for investment purposes, for the implementation of the relevant ones projects. we have two difficult neighbors next to us, hungary and slovakia. basically, they talk a lot about our european integration, euro-atlantic integration. is this connected, mr. mykola, with the fact that both slovakia and hungary are fighting for subsidies, european subsidies, respectively,

if ukraine enters the... european market and becomes a member of the european union, it expects to more, because ukraine in terms of its potential and capabilities, they, it is still a bigger country than hungary and slovakia, and they will simply start to lose, are they just now engaged in political speculation or blackmailing the european union? well, first of all, they still have different approaches, what unites the hungarian and slovak leaders is that they are populist politicians. whose words are worth very little, and who do everything to make money from everyone, in this case to make money from the european union , along with what fice said now, he did not say anything so bad, on the contrary, well, he said , that they will not give us any of their state weapons, but privately with they will sell with the participation of the state, well, it happened, they all sold us weapons before, so it is very important for us that the democratic coalition won in poland after all, because

if there was such a right-wing one in poland... the government and we saw this blocking roads and everything.