along the line of battle , hold them with your own forces, building the same positions. praise and honor to them, they are now trying to cope with this task with great sacrifices and are actually coping, because roman pohorily, our guest, something happened with the sound and we will stop hearing you, roman, but i had one more question, but for the next one times... let's postpone. roman pohorily, co-founder and analyst of the deepstate ua project. and we talked with him in general about the situation at the front, including the fortifications in the area in the direction of avdiivskyi, which criticized in western media as well. well, later in our broadcast, we will talk about nato training. steadfast defender , large-scale exercises are underway in nato, the largest since the end of the cold war, 90,000 soldiers from all countries of the alliance and sweden, approximately 50 warships, 80. aircraft and more than

a thousand combat vehicles, and our correspondent, zoryana stepanenko, saw how nato is preparing to confront russian aggression in poland. there are american fighter jets and german tanks in the sky, the contingent is mainly from poland. on its territory for several thousands of kilometers from actual hostilities and a few hundred from the border with russia, nato is preparing to defend itself. we've done this many times in the past, and every year we get better and better at practicing quick west-to-east power flips. the exercise scenario assumes that the alliance was attacked from the east by an enemy of approximately equal strength. the military and their command are testing their reaction for speed and coherence as they advance in a potentially vulnerable direction. we are witnessing a military operation case is considered one of the most difficult forces from poland, france. and britain are crossing

the vistula river, thus they are training to overcome a great and worthy obstacle that stands in the way of the allies in the east, if they have to get there to repel not an imaginary, as now, but a real attack. this is the first practical test of the alliance's defense plans, updated at the summit in vilnius and adapted to current realities, where the allies consider russia a direct and significant threat to themselves. there is always room for improvement, and exercises like this - a great example of how working together we can then develop our methods and tactics. the maneuvers in poland, located like the baltic states on nato's front line, are part of a large-scale exercise by the allies now underway across europe, from the arctic to the eastern flank. judging by the number of forces involved, the operation is the largest since the cold war. every tank is on the move. every

plane and ship is a message, we need to be ready, we need to prepare. what you see here characterizes the scale, ambition and what is necessary these days to keep the alliance safe and secure every inch of our territory. the russian foreign ministry saw these exercises as an outright provocation. the kremlin is a threat to russia's security. however , the allies insist, they practice not the attack, but, on the contrary, the skills of protecting each other and coming to help in time. we show capability, capability and reliability in terms of alliance protection, which is exactly what we want to demonstrate to everyone. the exercise with the symbolic name of the permanent defender, which is considered the largest in the last four decades, will continue until the end of may. by 90,000 soldiers from all nato countries and sweden are currently demonstrating compatibility on land, in water, in the air and in cyberspace, at a distance of thousands of kilometers and in various conditions. a star from poland. stepanenko, marek hajduk, radio

liberty. greetings, i'm bohdan logunov, and here are some important news in brief. in the telegram, they promised to take measures regarding the potentially problematic telegram channels, a list of which they received from the ukrainian authorities. the representative of the company, remy wong, told nv that while the list is being analyzed, if the content of problematic channels violates the telegram rules, measures will be taken. the company did not say who made it to this list and who handed over the list. 30 veterans and military personnel went to the united states to represent ukraine at the united states air force trials 2024 international competition. the tournament has already started and will continue until march 16. the ukrainian national team was formed in december at the all-ukrainian competitions in adaptive sports. it included military personnel who were seriously injured. awards can be received for victories in archery, athletics, cycling. and

other sports. the ukrainian institute and un women in ukraine announced the nominees for the women in the art of resistance award. the awards will be presented in ukraine for the fifth time. the award honors achievements in the field of culture and art and the contribution to the approach of victory, and also honors the memory of artists who died as a result of russia's aggression against ukraine. for the moment, that's all, and more news, search radio svoboda's social networks, it 's facebook, instagram, tiktok and the x network . thank you colleagues, thank you to our viewers for being with us, as you can see, in our morning we cover everything on the air. from operational events, such as the defeat of serhii kotov, we talked about it at the beginning of the broadcast, and to positive news, which can also be found, sometimes not so easily, but in our lives, subscribe to radio liberty, we are on all social networks. well, let's talk about such updates, about the announcement

of updates in the ukrainian government. ukraine plans to reduce the number of ministries by a third. the prime minister made such a statement the day before during the press conference. it is about reducing ministries to 15-16, also, the prime minister says, 20,000 state vacancies have been cut this year. ministries, according to shmyhal, should have a small number of, quote, highly qualified specialists who will shape state policy. and the authorities are working on creating a strong center of government, where auxiliary administrative functions will be concentrated. we are working to preserve, well, such optimism. the cabinet, in my imagination, and in what we are working on, what the president spoke about, what we are discussing, the number of ministers should be 15, a maximum of 16, accordingly, the number of ministries should be no more than 15-16, this is the optimal number in order to be more coordinated,

faster, less bureaucratic, to reduce a certain number of people, accordingly, what these ministries should be, i will not announce yet, i am in favor ... i would like to note that the reduction of the number of ministries in ukraine was already discussed in november 2022, when, as the mirror of the week wrote, the concept of building the cabinet was reached at a meeting with the participation of government officials and zelensky, and at the same time the emergence of the center was announced government ihor kolyushko, chairman of the board of the center for political and legal reforms, joins our broadcast. mr. igor, i welcome you to our broadcast, thank you for joining. good morning. do you understand what this reform consists of, there is not much information - he said. the prime minister, but nevertheless, how will these reductions possibly take place and can it negatively affect the functioning of state bodies? well, in my opinion, the fact that the estimates are more accurate deserves absolutely positive attention, and the fact that

the prime minister started talking about it deserves attention. we've got in recent years, there has indeed been stagnation in the implementation of the state administration reform strategy. and that's why it's very good that they talked about it again. at the same time, from what the prime minister said at the press conference, it is difficult to understand what this reform will be. well, look, in one sentence he says that there will be a reduction of ministries by a third, in another sentence he says that there will be 15-16 of them, but today there are 19 ministries, that is, if by a third , then this... means 13, that's 13 - this is not enough, 15-16 i absolutely agree that it is optimal the number of ministries within which all spheres of politics can be very conveniently distributed, but at the same time it is said that

there will already be a reduction of some tens of thousands of positions of civil servants, again... everything is going the other way around, at first it would be necessary to determine the functions, that is, to model these ministries, to determine who does what and how many people they need for that, and then say what figure we arrive at, unfortunately, unfortunately, it is done , the opposite is done here, and also one problem that does not give the possibility to evaluate this step until it is implemented is that the reform of the ministries should begin with... an analysis of what the government is responsible for, i.e. a list of areas, sub-areas of policy for which the government should be responsible, divide them according to the decree of the cabinet of ministers , the reform strategy should be called directorates, and

then it will be determined after that how many ministers can effectively manage these directorates, because... well, the principles are as follows , that which is very, very difficult to manage more there are six directorates, and so, eh... until we know, we don't see this list, for which the government should be responsible, until we understand how the directorates are organized, it is difficult to assess accordingly whether the reform will be the way to efficiency, will this be another campaign on the order of the president, to do something and so that the president is satisfied with us. mr. igor, is it clear, for example, which ministries may disappear? can it be that there will simply be a number of certain ministries closed, or is it clear, what exactly are these? i don't know anything

about this, i agree that we can really cut three or four ministries, i won't say which ones now, because again, this is a difficult conversation, for me, well, that is, my vision follows actually from the analysis of what the government should be doing, what the government 's priorities should be today, if i were to start such a conversation, i would be happy to explain the logic and my proposals, but so far no one is involved in this, it could be about those ministries that are currently without heads, well, that would be, well, that would be ridiculous to say the least, because, because... um, of course, the reform of ministries should not depend on whether

someone was appointed there or not, but depending on what function it has, whether it can be combined with something, whether one person can cover it all together, becoming a minister of such a ministry there, or not? well, one more thing i can say is that there is a coordinating council for public administration reform under the cabinet of ministers, and i am a member of it. but this issue was not brought up or discussed at the meeting of this council, and that is why it once again looks a little worrisome, because it is not unclear what exactly will happen. mr. igor, you said that maybe this is the president's wish, but why is such optimization, such radical actions, such radical reforms necessary, in order to save money, perhaps the ukrainian budget, or is it a reaction to some... about the fact that certain departments there are not so efficient that the staffs are really bloated, what could be the purpose? here it is again

still, it is difficult for me to answer for the president why he, why he repeatedly announces such campaigns, but i can see both positive and negative trends in this, and if we talk about the positive, then i am already talking. that we really have a big imbalance in the load on different ministries, some, some have a large volume of work, a large responsibility, a large load, others have much less, and this is not, in principle, not good, because on the other hand, everyone says about the fact that it is necessary to equalize salaries, for example, but salaries must reflect in including load. and public responsibility performed by civil servants and politicians, well, yes, because mr. shmegal, he said

that the ministry should have a small number, but very high-quality, qualified specialists, for this, money is needed, so that people from the private sector, professionals go into the public sector? yes, this, this, this is true, and another good thing that has been said is that the ministries themselves should focus on policy analysis, eh, this is also a step in a very right direction. very correct as well it was said that it is necessary to strengthen this so-called center of the government, but it is strange to me, for some reason it is written with a capital letter on the website of the cabinet of ministers, in general, this is a function performed today by the secretariat of the cabinet of ministers and two or three ministries there , different experts evaluate it differently , and the actual task is to concentrate... the performance of this function of the center of the government precisely on the secretariat of the cabinet of ministers, for this

to reorganize it a little, strengthen it, and this can really be such an effective step. what do they have? mean when they capitalize center of government or is that a renaming again? well, in the article in the 22nd year, in fact, the announcement of such a reform, which was then... there was actually a change in the name of the secretariat of the cabinet of ministers to the center of the government, it was then written with a capital letter for the first time, but it seems to me that that in two years we already had to... figure it out, mr. igor, well , we will wait for more information on this, but thank you for joining in and analyzing what igor is currently koliushko, chairman of the board of the center for political and legal reforms, was a guest of svoboda ranok. thank you to all our viewers for being with us, let me remind you that we are talking about the russian ship serhiy kotov, which attacked ukrainian forces today, at the beginning of this

video, so switch over and watch again. thank you for being with us, see you soon. dear friends, we welcome you once again, this is espresso , you are watching it, and this is a marathon, and lesya vakulyuk, andriy saichuk, are with you this morning, we are working until 12 o'clock, there are a few more hours ahead, we have a list of interesting guests and interesting topics for discussion, thank you for staying with us, thank you for the 4200. which we have already collected with you this morning for the 81st separate airmobile brigade, which are now in the luhansk direction, where it is hell right now, where the muscovites are advancing every minute , every second and where our boys need fpv drones, it is for them that we collect, we want to collect 800 00 uah, we want to buy 800 fpv

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combat operations, the infantry is advancing. as well as heavy armored vehicles, we will be very grateful for your concern and understanding, we need as many drones as possible, glory to ukraine, glory to the heroes, these are the guys, so donate, and we will talk to our next guest in the meantime, because as i promised , we have many interesting guests and volodymyr ar'iv, the deputy of ukraine is already appearing on the screen. mr. volodymyr, we congratulate you. good day. actually, i think that maybe we will continue the topic that our previous studio, that is, our colleagues from radio liberty touched on, this question is actually about the government's plans for reduction and reorganization. i was very surprised to learn that there are rumors that,

for example, in the course of this reduction , they are going to, for example, cancel the ministry of culture of the czech republic. i would be surprised, mr. volodymyr, have you heard about this, well, in general, i only heard about it about intentions, but what, what bills or draft resolutions of the verkhovna rada have not yet been registered, so in this in this case, i think this is a kind of abandoned information duck in order for it to fly and collect a little reaction on its feather, and accordingly... we already looked there in the president's office, they always work like this, whether these things should be done or not ? well, okay, there is a feeling, at least from this story, that there is some kind of government that exists completely separately from the parliament, although it seems that it is literally a government formed by the parliament, there in this and, but

we always have this, in fact, the government is the last.. appeared in the verkhovna rada literally several times and only once in the past, when it was possible to ask questions to government officials, but before that, well, come to the opening of the next session of the verkhovna rada , sing to them a kind of horsh of twinkling ropes and go back without talking to the people's deputies at all, this week we will try with... the government should tell about what is happening with the fortifications, and this is a tough requirement, because the fortifications are now an urgent problem for... the armed forces of ukraine in order for them to be able to strengthen themselves on certain lines and prevent katsapskyi from advancing further

troops, so in this case the verkhovna rada clearly decides, especially our european solidarity faction there, others, i hope so, too, they will demand answers from the government to these questions, but the government is under the impression that, as you know, now the verkhovna rada , they want to make the most of everything, for example, salaries, yes, they say that people's deputies have such salaries that it's just, that's just a shame, i can tell you that in the management sector in the pechersk hills, people's deputies have the lowest salaries, for example, at the head of the secretariat of the verkhovna rada of ukraine, the salary is uah 245,000 per month, which is five times more than the salary of a people's deputy. of the country to the head of the secretariat of the committee of the verkhovna rada of ukraine, various committees there from 106 to 120 00 uah

per month, which is 2.5 times more than the salary of people's deputies of ukraine, and similarly now salaries have risen significantly in the public sector, and the only one left without raising the salaries of people's deputies, well, actually , we are not complaining about that. a question of justice and there is a question of what is very convenient to make a goat out of the verkhovna rada happened, in fact, all money is quietly raised, all salaries are raised, all decisions are made already outside the verkhovna rada, and the president's office considers the verkhovna rada, especially its monomajority, or now it is not so much a monomajority as a... such an alliance of servants of the people with former opz, as a kind of apparatus for pressing buttons for

the necessary decisions that were made in the office of the president, and here is the latest example, this is the law on the bureau of economic security, which was simply pushed with knees, heels and everything others were pushed through the verkhovna rada, that is... now the parliament has actually been humiliated, as no other government of ukraine has humiliated, and what is the responsibility of this person who is the head of the secretariat, and you said the verkhovna rada or the apparatus, well, except material responsibility , the head of the secretariat organizes the work of the verkhovna rada, document circulation, security, it ’s all just so... well, you know, the position of head of the farm , the same position as yermak in the office of the president of ukraine, but now the head of the farm has become more important than all others, judging

and in the office of the president and in the verkhovna rada, but do you know what the budget of the ministry of culture is, what money has been allocated to culture over the last year, look, and let's... we will look not so much at the budget, for example, of the ministry of culture or another, how much for implementation, because let me remind you that in 20-21 years, for 20-21 years, the budget allocated, as zelenskyi and the servants of the people said at the time, a record amount for ukraine's defense needs, however 2/ 3 of this amount at the end of each year, were. not used in fact, and they rolled over these money for big construction, for building roads, that is a kind of scheme, we told you that we do the most, but

in reality we will spend the least, so in this case the same situation can be with culture, we saw that money was spent on tv series for their own, and there were comedy tv series that could be waited for, there were even more of them. for example, the same patriotic tapes, well, or pro-ukrainian ones, for example, there were simply epoch-making tapes, which ukrainians then went to the cinema to see, well, just en masse, like, for example, dovbush , but money was clamped on them, for everything that was connected with the former minister tkachenko or with the 95th quarter, well, it is clear that the money was for both film production and production. information programs or talk shows, as was the case with the president's colleague from

the 95th quarter, who received so... there are simply insane sums for her own talk show on the freedom tv channel, so with the ministry of culture right now the question is what is priorities, and culture is really needed, but now culture really needs to work on support of the front, and there is nothing important, actually not only the front and the population, and keeping accordingly not... disappointed and bringing people out of a difficult psychological state, another direction of work - this is very important work should be, should be, but is not being carried out, in particular, to repel information attacks, racist information propaganda sites on the territory of our partners

in western countries that help ukraine. and the population of which is now being turned against ukraine and there is absolutely no effective and systematic opposition from the side of ukraine this field is not observed, so in this case there are a lot of questions, but with the ministries, you understand, they are doing now, if you believe what they promise to merge the ministry of economy with the ministry of agriculture, then it has already happened, they first united. then they were separated, now they will be reunited , you know, like in that anecdote about the rebbe and the congregant who, whose chickens were sick, who came, they said, cut there, scatter the chopped triangles to the chickens, then cut the scattered squares to the chickens, eventually to parishioners, he is coming, says the rebbe, all the chickens have died, the rebbe says, well, i still had a lot of such

cool ideas, so... now the government has a lot of cool ideas, sometimes to unite, then to separate, you know , as in the famous soviet cartoon, enters and exits , uh, it's just sad, you know, while we have it cut this way and that, alla samoilenko, casting director, casting manager, mother of the legendary ilya samoilenko, azov, literally for an hour that's why the post appeared on her page, muscovites. announcements are posted abroad about what will happen to hold a casting for participation in the feature film queen anna, that very one of ours, anna yaroslav, anna yaroslavna, queen of france, and director alexey sidorov, producer leonid vireshchagin, send your resumes and samples to the address it says, and

the email address is specified. they say that this is a film company that belongs to mikhalkov, so the moskals are meanwhile quietly appropriating our history, twisting it, in the meantime, i don’t know, some films are being made, for example, about bucha, some films are being made, for example, about bucha, which are not exactly about bucha, and they are also filmed by persons close to the president of the country, in short, such strange things are happening, mr. volodymyr, thank you for participating in our broadcast, volodymyr ariyev, people 's deputy of ukraine was in touch with us, we are moving little by little to 10 in the morning, at 10 in the morning kateryna shiropoyas appears to us, and she tells us what happened there in ukraine and the world in the last hour, katya, i congratulate you, you have a word, i congratulate olesya, quickly about we will tell you the main thing in a moment.

news time on the espresso tv channel. in the studio kateryna shiropoyas works. well, now officially, at the bottom. this night, an enemy ship of the black sea fleet of arefia, serhiy kotov, was destroyed in the temporarily occupied crimea. this was announced in the main intelligence office. we. sea ​​drones damaged the stern of the ship, as well as the right and left sides. at night , explosions rang out near the kerch strait, the value of the sunken vessel is about 65 million dollars. on the air of the tv channel, the head of the press center of the defense forces of the south, nataliya humenik, said that it was completely possible to sink new ship of the invaders. we are talking about

a patrol ship that...