the prosecutor general is officially informed about the seven killed ukrainian servicemen. according to the commissioner for human rights, dmytro lubinets, this is another war crime of the russian federation, which probably happened on february 24 in the bakhmut district. he noted that the video shows that the ukrainian military held their hands up, showing that they do not pose a threat without weapons. the russian military should have captured them, but instead shot them. such shooting is a war crime. currently, we also know from which military unit of the russian army soldiers who mercilessly executed ukrainians. this case must be recorded as another violation of international humanitarian law by russia. regarding this, i immediately sent official letters to the un and the international committee of the red cross, so that the organizations would record and publicly admit that the russian military is killing ukrainian prisoners. in the last week, this is already the fourth case of shooting. ukrainian

prisoners of war, which became publicly known, were previously informed about the murder of six ukrainian soldiers who remained in their positions during the withdrawal from avdiivka. the 110th brigade of the armed forces reported that they had an agreement with the russian side to take them prisoner. later, russian telegram channels published a video with the image of dead soldiers, in which relatives recognized these soldiers. in addition, the prosecutor general's office also reported on shootings by russian forces of ukrainian military personnel in the bakhmutskyi... direction near the village of vesele, in the zaporizhzhia direction near the village of robotyne. in total, the prosecutor general's office is investigating 19 criminal proceedings for the murder of 45 ukrainian prisoners of war. yuriy bilousov, the head of the department of combating crimes committed in conditions of armed conflict of the prosecutor general's office, joins our broadcast today. welcome to our broadcast, thank you for joining. good morning. tell us as much detail as you can, what has already been established for sure in the course of the investigation about this last one.

the incident with the shooting, what kind of russian military was it, which brigade, or were there seven or nine of the ukrainian military, who, according to the deepstate portal, and do you know their names the dead? we are currently verifying this information, there are data on seven individuals, but again, we are clarifying this, the problem is mainly in cases where there is not always access to the crime scene, yes, so we are gathering information from various sources, we have reason to believe that that the involvement of a certain unit of rosiska, but still we are refraining from the name of this unit for now, when we are sure, we will definitely make this data public, but i would also like to note that, unfortunately, well, it is far away, as you already said at the beginning, not isolated facts, the facts of our execution of prisoners of war took place from the very beginning of the open invasion, in the month of march, it happened both in the chernihiv region and in the kharkiv region, but at the end of last year, from the end of november, these cases simply increased in number.

grows exponentially, which indicates that this is an unequivocal policy supported by the top leadership of the armed forces of the russian federation, that is, it is a rhetorical question that arises, why is this happening, after all, it is a certain such policy, maybe even unequivocal , such cases can't be isolated cases, if it was an isolated case, it was, you know, the actions of a particular soldier, in this case we clearly, given the geography and the numbers in recent times, it's definitely supported by... leadership, we have no doubt about that . is it clear and known why these videos are being published, who is doing it, are they being done by russian forces to intimidate, or are ukrainian forces managing to record it, and therefore are they making it public so that various cases can be known about it, but definitely, including the russians such videos themselves are made public, we consider it as part, again , of russia's policy towards ukraine, regarding the subjugation of ukraine, and they use all possible means, including measures of psychological influence, and...

such videos are clearly an attempt to demoralize our military, to weaken their resistance, and in general to facilitate the subjugation of ukraine, which once again indicates that this is part of the general plan of the russians, in general, including genocide and the destruction of our people, and therefore such cases cannot do not know the senior leadership, both military and political, and if they wanted to, they would have prevented these cases, as they should do according to the standards of international humanitarian law, but they do not ... they only do not prevent such practices, but judging by they support them as much as possible and, most likely, even give direct orders to carry out such actions. therefore, we are currently working not only as an advanced executor, we are currently trying to establish the entire vertical of the russian command involved in these terrible crimes. are these videos that are yours words are published by the russian side, are they indisputable evidence for the court , is there any chance of justice in these cases, that the war criminals who... shoot

the prisoners will be brought to justice one day, allow me two moments, then, yes, the first thing is that we definitely do not rely only on this kind of video, we collect from other sources, we interrogate our troops. prisoners of war, our military, we interrogate russian prisoners of war, we collect from other sources open, closed, intelligence data and so on, in order for our position to be proven in court as much as possible, yes, because we understand that each of these cases is under the crosshairs, including the russians, who will try to refute our evidence, so we are very much in favor of this we carefully approach, and this is very important, in terms of bringing them to real responsibility, at the moment our task is to record it as much as possible, collect cases, send them to court, and you know, time will tell, the german nazis hid all their lives and some of them were found even in our times, so we understand that they will definitely not escape punishment, some of them have already died on the battlefield, i mean russian criminals, but i think that we will be able to find them only a matter of time, and our task is not to lose this evidence , so that when that

time comes, we will have a choice about what to bring to these persons' charges. yuriy, are there any mechanisms that can help protect ukrainian military personnel who surrender? well, you know, russia, it is a participant of the geneva convention number three, which applies in general treatment of prisoners of war, but russia is a party to many other international documents that it simply does not take into account, so there is definitely pressure on russia from all possible channels through all possible institutions, the un, well, the council of europe, they have already left, but without political pressure, economical and definitely without persecution, both the performers and the top management, well, i think that this practice will be restrained... more difficult, so here for the coordinated efforts of the ukrainian authorities together with international partners, well, i hope, they will still be able to reduce the number of such cases. what did you manage to establish about the previous cases that became publicly known, the killing of prisoners in avdiivka, the killing of prisoners near vesely

in the bakhmut district, near the workhouse in zaporizhzhia? we are charged with specific persons in some of these cases who committed this, we have the testimony of the russian military, which confirms: also yes, that is, we already, by the way, we already have verdicts in such cases, for example, in those the cases that happened in chernihiv already have a life sentence the conviction of the major of the russian army, who executed our military officer in march 22, we already have cases in the courts regarding these cases, we have suspicions in kharkiv, kharkiv region, also regarding russians, and we are already collecting materials on several from the recent cases, i think suspicions will be announced in the near future, that is, the evidence is being collected. systematized, we share information with our international partners, with the international criminal court, which is in ukraine, that is, we clearly we are trying to attract as many resources as possible from the states in order to show them what is happening and attract russians so that they cannot leave the territory in their lifetime, sorry for your swamp, being afraid to go to any other country,

because justice will await them there, and later i hope , we will get to them on the territory of the russian federation, well, as you mentioned, what is important to you, the investigation is important to find not only the executors, but also directly. those who issue such orders. thanks for joining in and telling me all you can. and yuri bilousov, the head of the department of combating crimes committed in conditions of armed conflict, of the prosecutor general's office, was a guest of svoboda ranok. thank you. you can write in the comments which topics and theses from this broadcast touched you and are important to you, be sure to subscribe to our channel, to us on social networks, it is also very important for the dissemination of this information. on which radio liberty journalists are working. next, let's take a breather and talk about modern art. the milk for theo exhibition opened in kyiv on its second anniversary full-scale russian invasion of ukraine. february 24 is not only the anniversary of the beginning of the great war, for its author, curator of modern

art oleksandra pogrebnyak, but also her birthday. and this time, alexander reflects on his new experience of motherhood, especially during the war. this is not a gallery exhibition, it is an apartment exhibition. that is, the curator opens the door of her own home on the left bank of the dnieper for visitors, where the works of modern ukrainian and foreign artists on a certain theme are presented in kyiv. it's already the curator's second apartment exhibition, the first took place a year ago, also on the woman's birthday, february 24. in last year's exhibition, groves, groves, groves and bushes, oleksandra then dedicated it to the theme of home. oleksandra will tell us about, rethinking and new experience. pogrebnyak, curator of contemporary art projects, welcome to our broadcast, thank you for joining. good morning, congratulations. tell us about your exhibition, what it is about and how it happens in general, what is an exhibition at home? well, i have experience working in

institutions, i, in particular, am a junior curator of the pinchukar center, and cooperated with other art centers. we have a little, i hope, now we will establish a connection quickly, i will remind you that oleksandra pogrebnyak, the curator of contemporary art projects we are in touch with, should be here now, and we are talking. about her initiative for the second year in a row before the date of the big big start of the big war of the russian invasion of ukraine and also this date is oleksandra's birthday and here she came up with such an initiative with such an idea to make an exhibition directly at her home and oleksandr, as i am told, is coming back now to our broadcast, oleksandr, it's good that you're back, i hope the connection won't let us down again, so this is already to... your second experience, as you said, you've already mentioned, you have experience, you're from the artistic field, i think that

every one of the audience has been to some gallery of modern art, or classic, let's say so, yes, but how does it happen at home, that's the question, thank you very much, yes, in 2023, the event itself was very necessary for me, my family , to our friends and random viewers, the people of kyiv, who also came to this... exhibition, and therefore that february is always a month when something is expected , when news and even a premonition that something may happen is always very dramatic, and therefore , uh, the number of guests who gather at the apartment exhibition is a shared residence, and experience through the works of modern of art and such... and yes, the format is actually healing

probably through the experience of viewing the exhibition, and about this year's exhibition about milk for theo, and these are the next changes that happened in our lives, after we decided to stay in kyiv and with on february 24, 22, they did not go, and we have problems with communication again, but eh... oleksandra already told us about some rethinkings last year, the exhibition, i will remind, was also at oleksandra's house, and it was such a rethinking of returning home, and now oleksandra is coming back to our air again, this year oleksandr, well, i can first congratulate you, you are a young mother, and this year your exhibition is also dedicated to this rethinking of how to be a mother during the war, what is most important, what theses are you sharing , maybe there with visitors who come to you home to this exhibition, in fact, yes, i approach motherhood through the experience of milk,

because of how, through feeding, these are the bonds that connect the child with the mother, and also the exhibition touches a lot on the search for a safe environment, because you want to create a safe environment for your child the world is dreamy, in which there are no cataclysms, no wars, no discrimination, that is why some works, in particular kateryna lysovenko, she... creates a utopia today, in which you can, with which you can imagine the future, which will be brighter, as well as the work of the french artist lor provo, this such a dialogue of generations, about the world we have now, about the world in which our children will already build their own worlds, and the exhibition really begins with such a very tactile experience of motherhood, but by the end of the exhibition, to the last room, which is our bedroom ? and where exactly the film lord privo is broadcast, it really gets to the questions of the future, to

the questions of the world, the land we leave to our children and this dialogue between generations. how to get to your exhibition, is it open to everyone? and the main days of the exhibition took place already on february 24 and 25, but we received a large number of requests, in fact, just like last year, we did a few extra days of a... work and in march we will definitely announce a few days when you can still visit, of course, the exhibition is open to everyone, because it would be wrong to do a closed exhibition even in your private apartment , and i would like the audience to have the opportunity to see it, is it not difficult, since you have a very small child and at home, when people come and this to organize everything, first of all, to accept people, or it's not a difficult process for you, theo was for... even though it was the best best days

at his house, because there were so many friendly people, and he had a lot of communication, and it seemed to me that my six-month-old baby, by the end of the evening he will start talking on his own, because that's how he wanted to communicate with everyone, that's why this experience was wonderful for us, well, that's the main thing, if you liked it, that's probably the main thing, thank you oleksandr for joining, oleksandra pogrebnyak, curator of the project. of modern art and we talked about the unusual exhibition that takes place at oleksandra's house. we are in our ether, like all of us in our lives are trying to find. positive, something nice, join these topics as well, share something nice from your life in the comments under this video, it's important, it will help us support each other. thank you to all our viewers for being with us, i remind you that we are with you on the air on weekdays, here on the radio liberty channel, on espresso tv, from 9:00 in the morning, join, subscribe, comment and also share the link to this

video is very important. my name is kateryna nikrecha, i and the entire freedom morning team wish you a peaceful day. and see you, we are back, thank you for watching espresso, we will work for you, but we will just remind you about our collection, remember, for the 141st brigade for air reconnaissance, for the infantry we are collecting, they are currently working in the direction of orihida , so of the million hryvnias that need to be collected, here are qr codes and card numbers, 34 thousand remain. and uah 44 to collect and we will be able to close this collection, so let's be active in order to take it, and in fact it can be done within a few hours do, close, then we will be able to buy everything that these boys and girls ask to hand over to them and work, of course, further, because this is not the only collection that needs to be closed, it is not

the only needs of the defenders that need to be implemented, well, in the meantime, we already today with... you information from the ground battlefields, and from the border, and from the air, exactly what we did not do, we collected information from our sea, it is time to talk about the sea, about the ukrainian sea, and for this we are joining of our conversation andriy ryzhenko, captain of the first rank of the reserve the navy of the armed forces of ukraine, and we will talk about the black sea, and mr. andriy is also a strategic expert of the sonata company and will now share with us everything he knows, glory to ukraine, mr. andriy. and glory to the heroes, good morning, mr. andriy, we corresponded all the time until that extreme press conference, where many things were said, including a promise, seriously to ukrainians, or to ukrainians living in the temporarily occupied territories, not to drive illegal crimean bridge, some

comprehensive measures and surprises have been announced, is this an information campaign... of this war, or is it real do you see any plans developed and preparations for something? well, at least these are informational components, but we will not talk about plans, because, well, in general, plans, they should remain silent, no, no, we are not talking about plans so much as about the possibility of their implementation, that is what is most interesting, the possibilities, i think there are , the possibilities are also... well, the fact that the russians assess the danger of the crimean bridge indicates that this bridge is constantly closed for some security checks there, or for some air threats there, and they are constantly there are improving the defense system, and

they constantly complain about attacks from our side, but i think that there is such a possibility, and you know, i looked at one such calculation, where it was explained that the engineering design of this crimean bridge, so that one of only such, well, what is the name of a segment , a flight, to fill this segment, well, there were dozens of different types of rockets, in order to accomplish this, and i looked at this total amount of rockets and thought to myself, do we have enough . means of long-range missile damage, to collapse at least part of this bridge? well, look, in order to disable the bridge , it is not necessary to completely destroy it, it is necessary to disable some of its very critical systems, but i think that the technical

documentation regarding this bridge is in our military, that's for sure, i think they're thinking about it. well, and really well, the point is that, as it were, to get rid of the city - it 's not the same as solving the task of blowing up some quantity of explosives near it, which bring rockets or something drones, but it all depends on where this explosive is located. i want to remind you that during the second world war in 1941, the soviet troops, when they were withdrawing, blew up the dniprogez, and then 21 tons of explosives were used, and then the dam was damaged at a distance of 200 m. and when this crimean bridge was damaged for the first time in october 2022, it was also said that ah

, well, even approximately the same amount of explosives was delivered by car, but the consequences were much smaller, that is, this is the task, the operation itself, i think, it is calculated, the idea is to deprive the enemy of the opportunity to use this bridge, and not to destroy it completely, for example, now. indeed, i agree with you that the number of missiles can, well, that is required, must be very large, because the russians, by the way, take the air defense system of this facility very seriously, and they transferred additional systems and s4 there. and shells, both practically and actually constantly improving this system, mr. andriy, 10 years, these days

, exactly 10 years have passed since the russians very much strengthened their presence in crimea, because their black sea fleet was constantly based there, accordingly, we cannot say that only 10 years, as they entered the crimea, now especially in the last six months, we have been observing trends to the point that we are smoking out their reports, but despite the fact that the ukrainian military hit a lot of targets, a lot of targets, they still remain on the territory of the crimea so many, what are the main ones you could list, where exactly should we aim, where should we smoke them out, so that we can talk about the fact that crimea is already on the way home, that we are already on the way, when there is no turning back, when already... the road ahead is straight and bright , well, really now, thanks to the fact that we have been actively

using naval drones, air and cruise missiles for the past year and a half, the russians have indeed lost some of their ships, that’s at least 20% of their combat personnel, combat, and some of the ships, especially new ones, they transferred novorossiysk, now... sevastopol bay, if you look at it, it is actually empty, that is, these cities, those cities, those berths near which ships of the frigate, corvette, cruiser class stood, they are empty, there is no one there, and i mean this main bay of sevastopol, where before all the photos about sevastopol, they showed, there is nothing there, but there are basing points , there are... piers where they keep small ships now, and these ships, they are soviet- built, they are missile boats, missile ships,

and anti-submarine ships, mining ships, well, indeed, there are many ships in sevastopol to support the auxiliary fleet, but if we talk about targets, then it is really now a direct threat to shipping. in the north-western part of the black sea , and the ships represent a nation of missiles, cruise missiles, one of them was, you remember, this missile boat ivanovets, which was destroyed by five magur drones, right at the exit , during the exit to its starting position, a missile starting position from the lake, in the western part of the crimean peninsula, these are the ones i have to destroy the ships. because they represent a threat, in fact they can destroy any civilian ship that can go through the open sea, well, to

our ports, these are odesa, and pivdenny, and mykolaiv, but now they are showing this, this episode of the destruction of ivanovets, and they still have an order of such ships, that means four units and plus two missile ... ships on which, on an air cushion, on which such missiles are also located, in addition, there are landing ships in sevastopol under repair, and which after the repair is finished can also be used to ensure this war against us, and the main russian forces operating at sea, but now there is really a certain pause, they are in novorossiya. there are also the latest ships that have caliber missiles, and submarines, and a sufficient number of landing craft,

i wanted to ask you, mr. andriy, one more question. when these missile carriers come out, i don’t know how they only have one submarine, but it is also a missile carrier, but with hummingbirds, when they come out, we have the opportunity to threaten them with naval drones, would they be more effective after all, air strikes, because we are waiting for these f16s to appear, well, we have the practice of sea drone strikes on ships near the port of novorossiysk, bezpose'. in the port of novorossiysk there are these ships, including this poter margunov, which you see now, they are based there, that is, i think that an attack using drones is possible, although, well, again, there are pros and cons of this, of course, when f-16 aircraft, this task can be much, well, not that it is simplified, just that our capabilities will be much greater. from

because the f16 plane can also carry harpoon missiles, i think that other missiles of nato member countries, the same storm shadow or scalp, and they can be very quickly used, deployed, strike, because it is so serious the problem of the drone is that it requires a lot of time to... fly into the area at a long distance, well, if you say novorossiysk, then it is the order of the day for it to get there, that's why novorossiysk, it is now such a base for them, but it is also not completely dangerous, they know that, they strengthen it, and well, but well, we now see, in principle, the conditions in which they

are. is what allows them to be there. mr. andriy, what about this information that was disseminated on telegram channels, that allegedly after the attack on novorossiysk, the ships that were stationed near the novorossiysk port, there was a secret request for a collective intervention, first of all the usa, that they should not attack there anymore, because they are the main ones the export corridor is maritime, well , in particular, both for oil and for other cargoes, but it can be simple. for information input, so just wondering if we could in addition to the possibility of also being able to pound on this single hub of this port? well, i would like to remind you that the port of novorossiysk, its volume of cargo transshipment last year was 160 million tons, and most of it is oil and gas, and indeed it is the largest port of the black sea, i

think it is just... a big port of the russian federation, through which such an amount of oil and gas is pumped, if you look at the russian budget, then 50% of the budget, as a rule of the russian budget, is income from the sale of oil and gas, and at least 30% of the russian budget now is going to war against us, so here, as it were , a piece of latias, i actually wanted to see effective cotton there, well... well, let's be patient, because the main thing is that we gradually see that we are increasing the power to hit there as well. mr. andriy, thank you for participating in our program. andrii ryzhenko, the captain of the first rank of the reserve of the naval forces, the armed forces of ukraine, was with us. it's almost news time. khrystyna parubiy already has a selection of the latest information, ready to share. all this is behind us and you. christina, congratulations

word to you thank you. colleagues, i will tell you about the situation in our regions after the russian shelling in a moment in the issue, and also about the losses of the enemy, don't miss it. news on espresso, i'm khrystyna parubiy. i will tell you about the most relevant thing at the moment: one person died and another was injured as a result of the night shelling of the bilopol community in the sumy region. as a result of the attack , four private houses were destroyed, a garage and agricultural machinery were damaged, the regional military administration reported. the russians also hit warehouses with sunflowers in okhtyr district. a fire broke out, but the rescuers managed to save a significant part of the grain. two men.