we will take colonel kostenko and ask him about this draft law, because information has already appeared that shmyhal is developing fairer approaches to the reservation of conscripts, and there is information about this, but there is no information when this draft law is considered in the second reading, over 400 amendments. mr. colonel, what is being said in your committee about the bill on mobilization, when it will be introduced to the verkhovna rada and when it will be approved. final in the final edition? we are working now, just as we were working today, was committee on this bill , we are looking at the last amendments there that did not get into the 16 blocks that we considered before, look , well, as i said, i think that by the end of the month we should have time for it to go to the floor, and again, it will depend on whether there will be meetings, or whether there will not be such a thing again that the meetings... will simply be canceled, if

it goes according to plan in the second half, then i hope that we will have time to prepare this draft law, then that's all will depend on how he will pass the hall, as the people deputies will make their corrections. that is, when it will enter into force is unknown, because it still has to be signed by the president, if he does not sign it, he will return it to the verkhovna rada, then the verkhovna rada must take into account its amendments and changes, and it is not a fact that this bill will become... see, there are many options , there are still options when he does not even return there with his proposals, in order to return it, we need to veto it, and we already know many options when they can lie there for six months even without a veto, this is, for example, the bill on 25 years, he lies there with in the month of may, it's probably been more than six months, yes, but it's still not signed, thank you colonel for the conversation, it was roman kostenko, colonel of the security service of ukraine, people's deputy of ukraine, friends, we're working live on tv. espresso channel,

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vote, at the end of the program we will sum up the results of this vote. andriy klymenko, editor-in-chief of the black sea news portal, head of the monitoring group of the institute of strategic black sea studies, will be in touch with us next. mr. andrii, i congratulate you, thank you for being with us today. congratulations. mr. andrei, let's talk about what is happening now in the black sea, because it is very important from the point of view of fixing in... during the current war and during the deployment of forces of defense in the black sea basin, according to the estimates of the naval forces of the armed forces of ukraine, the ukrainian military has already destroyed a third of the 80 warships of the black sea fleet of the russian federation and damaged quite a lot, dmytro pletenchuk, the spokesman of the navy, a captain of the third rank, said that , that... it's 27 units together with

the submarine, of which 14 are visible serious units of various classes, these are large amphibious ships, missile boats, and submarines, and a patrol ship, and at the same time he says that there is still a lot left in the arsenal of the russians, can we say, mr. andriy, that russia is losing crimea as a base for the black sea fleet of the russian federation? well, of course you can say that and i will say it right away, well, first of all , i will make such a remark that i have all the right numbers there, the captain of the third rank platynchuk calls, of course, i just don't want to be such a faceless optimist and i don't want to be some kind of pessimism, that of course, that for... in all the naval

forces of the world, in the leading ones, and in naval academies, they study the course of events on the black sea over the past two years. because unexpectedly for many, the concept or strategy or strategy projects of the development of the mosquito fleet, they received such a visual confirmation, and this is done for the first time on such a scale in military operations, in the conditions of war, and can be done in my opinion. the following conclusions: well, first of all, of course, russia brought almost all of its new missile ships to novorossiysk, er, this is the first conclusion, er, and

in this sense, of course, that the importance of sevastopol as the main base of this naval of the fleet, it is sharply decreasing, there... there are many different ships currently located there, the main ammunition depots of the black sea passage are located in the cracker beam, this is in the direction of inkerman, there are six kilometers from the entrance to the main bay of sevastopol, that is, the value remains there, but they base their most valuable ships in novorossiya, and what they have left that... continues to pose a serious threat to the entire territory of ukraine, these are definitely missile ships that are capable of carrying, firing, that fired at all of us, during all these two

years, caliber missiles, they have two missile brigades, three missile corvettes of the boyan type, and they are in service. there are three missile corvettes , a karakurt, out of four, the fourth is significantly damaged in the halls factory, and most likely it will not be in service, and three submarines, out of four, the fourth is seriously damaged, they are now trying to somehow restore it there, so it would be say in sevastopol, in the dry until now, that is, it is 11 units of carriers of calibers, but there is still... the problem, the problem is that, look, according to our monitoring data, on september 25 of last year caliber shelling stopped, and only at the beginning of this year

they fired three caliber missiles over the territory of ukraine from ships of the black sea fleet, there can be two reasons, and i think that no one will give an exact answer now, but maybe a complex of reasons, well , first of all, for this, it is necessary to transport them from the same main ammunition base of the black sea fleet in the dry beam , to transfer them by sea, because there was a case last year when an echelon with calibers was blown up in the dzhankoya area, they are now very afraid to carry it across the bridge. through kerchensk strait, because it is not in such a condition that such valuable cargoes can be transported there, and therefore they transport them, including by the very large landing ships that they use as a ferry, and no, it cannot be excluded that the same caesar kunikov, who was going to sevastopol and

was sunk in front of my native yalta, that he was going to pick up a batch of caliber missiles, take them to novorossiysk to... load them on missile ships, that is , what am i leading to, the missile danger remains, yes it is possible that in russia there are problems with the production of these missiles, because there a lot of foreign components, but this danger remains, yes, someone can’t use it, this is the situation, that is, and for a missile , the caliber does not matter where it is from... it has a range of up to 25 25 km, it is almost to london and almost to madrid, that is, all of this is our military, military sailors know everything , that is, but here, well, there is no need to fall into

such optimism, we need to prepare for any eventuality with these missile ships, well, that is, the transfer of ships or the transfer of ships again ... in novorossiysk or further there to abkhazia at all of fundamental importance for these missile carriers are ten that launch these calibers at a distance of up to 20. this is absolutely clear, but explain to me another such story in 2010 yanukovych signed a series of agreements with medvedev, which provided for the extension of the black sea fleet's stay in the territory of crimea until 2042 , there was a package of documents, and gas debts, and discounts on gas, and many, many things, and it was visible. that it is fundamentally important for russia to retain crimea as

a large base, a naval base, first of all, because this infrastructure , which is in novorossiysk and beyond, which they can build in abkhazia, it can be there in the future, well, this is serious, what a serious harbor, and it does not give the opportunity, it is possible to fully control the black sea, as sevastopol , eh or? we can already say that in the future, russia cannot and will not be able to restore the presence of this large group in crimea, which has existed since the time of the soviet union and was of great importance for the entire black sea basin. well, we will liberate the crimea from the crimea, so of course there are some... conversations, agreements , that's all history, that's what it's all about, of

course, the geographical position of the crimea in the black sea, but on the map behind my head you can see that this is the center of the black sea , and the black sea is small, yes, it’s 501 km straight from sevastopol to the bosporus, and we’re still in our pre... before the beginning of the great war, after the occupation of crimea there in 17-18 , drew these circles on maps, yes, the fact is that all missile complexes, coastal ones, which are in service with the russian of the black sea fleet in the crimea, even with the smallest ranges, even the oldest ones, they covered the entire territory. seas, including the coast of romania, including the coast of turkey, and so on, that is, they tried

to create, well, there is a special term, a zone of prohibited access, yes, where is the entire complex of weapons that they have concentrated there, and this includes anti-aircraft s-400 , crimea was the first to receive, and coastal complexes bastion, and bal, and a bunch of iskanders. they drove there, that is , there was a lot of this missile component, which allowed them to really control theoretically on the maps the entire water area of ​​the black sea, well, it did not happen, you and i see it, and one of the reasons why it did not happen and whether it could happen in some future, near future, they have problems here serious well, look, uh, only what we looked at in open sources, and we do it every day, in

the last calendar year, uh, ukrainian, uh, armed forces attacked almost 200 times, objects on the territory of crimea peninsula, and 60% of these attacks were concentrated on the western coast of crimea, that is... this is sevastopol, yupatoria, er, saki, er, chornomorsk, razdolny. that is, this, and the military airfields were the targets, and there are many of them. in crimea, up to 11 military airfields of the first class remained after the soviet union. so, and almost all of them, er, it means that russia has resumed their use. of course it is, attack, attacks. were on the radar complexes that monitored maritime traffic in the black sea, the last of

such interesting ones was when the military intelligence of ukraine destroyed these very locators and its surface and underwater surveillance and air, which were located on the facilities on the platforms of chornomoraftogaz, and they are located between zmiyny island and us from... there terkhankut in the crimea, so, finally, of course, the attacks are here in relation to attacks on... warships, well look, only last year we counted ships at sea, ships at sea, i emphasize, no, not taking into account the cases when there were attacks in the bay, when there were attacks on ships at the sevastopol shipyard, and on ships at sea there were at least 26 attacks, and i'm here

put an exclamation mark, most of these attacks occur. at a distance of about 120 kilometers from the bosphorus, that is, and i already mentioned that from the bosphorus to sevastopol 501, that is, it was closer to the coast of turkey, that is, it is there, just where the recommended so-called routes of commercial vessels that come from the bosphorus pass in the direction against great odessa, and it was these attacks that led to the fact that... russians became afraid to go to the sea not only there to the snake island in the area, where they already understand where they can to hit ukrainian missiles, even to the place where the route for commercial vessels to odesa goes, because they had an unpleasant experience of attacks

by ukrainian naval drones, but this should also be evaluated. calmly, realistically , because of course the russians have already copied the ukrainian drone, they have the opportunity, because they have a huge industrial base, which means that such copies, yes, organize their mass production, and i have a feeling that we will see this year, when march passes, april, may will come, when there will be... less storms in the black sea, we will realistically see an escalation of the naval war in the black sea, that is, yes, now we have an advantage, yes, there are achievements, and they are very interesting and important, but nothing is over and everything,

everything will still be different will be, well, about our victories and achievements as a result of yesterday's sinking of the russian patrol ship serhii kotov in the black sea, seven people died, at least 27 russian occupiers were injured , the main intelligence department of the ministry of defense reports, and nataliya gumenyuk, head of the press center of the forces defense of the south declared that the destruction of the newest patrol ship caused losses to the defense capabilities of russian military bases in the black sea, she said on the air of the espresso tv channel. let's listen to what natalia gumynyuk said. we are talking about a patrol ship, which is quite new, since it was launched on july 30 , 22, that is, already at the time of the full-scale invasion, and it, in principle , obviously performed the function of protecting the base points, protecting the infrastructure that still

remains with the fleet in water areas and harbors black of the black sea on the crimean peninsula, since it is equipped with anti-aircraft systems, that is, it was a kind of defender. mr. andrii, how do these strikes and how do our capabilities, at the current stage, how do they affect the capabilities of the russian merchant fleet, because we know that oil, russian oil is mostly exported. from the ports of novorossiysk and transported by the black sea, well, to posphorus, of course, and this is one of the main routes for russian oil, because all other seas are too far and not aren't that good logistically, does that affect russia's capabilities?

well, in fact, this is a very serious issue, and today, if we take an average year there... well, about 4 million tons of crude oil and 4 million tons of petroleum products are exported there, and there is mostly novorussia, but there is also toapse, when where recently our aerial drones have arrived, there is also the taman port, and there are the ports of the sea of ​​azov, where exports also come from, this is from rostov, azov. you have timryuk, taganroh, yeisk, the port of kavkaz. well, er, those who wish can do so, there are 8 million tons, yes, on average there are 80, er,... dollars per barrel, i take the average between the price of crude oil and petroleum products, yes, you can multiply 8 million by 7.3, it will be in barrels

, multiply by 80, it will be hundreds millions of dollars annually that the russian federation will receive from this, so the black sea has overtaken the baltic sea, for the baltic sea used to be the leader among them in... the export of oil and petroleum products, because a large part of the export went to the european union, it is close there, but now it has, so, the palm of the championship, so to speak, moved to the ports of the black sea and the sea of ​​azov, and approximately 40% of russian exports of oil and petroleum products come from the black sea, and of course that is not... we may like it, just as they may not like the ukrainian sea corridor, so which they no longer control, as it once was

together with turkey, and here there is a huge question, and this question is called, so it is generated by the conventions on war at sea, and they have been since the beginning of the last century... there are several geak conventions that regulate it on the law of the sea, the law of the sea is about peace, about a peaceful situation, it is about war at sea, and these conventions, which have all been ratified by both ukraine and russia, including there after the collapse of the soviet union, they are a ban, they say about the fact that it is not possible to attack the merchant ships of third countries that are not participants in the war. and today there is just such a situation that the overwhelming majority of tankers that depart from the russian ports

of the black sea of ​​azov are not russian tankers, they are tankers from greece, tankers from turkey, china, vietnam, saudi arabia arabia, etc., etc., etc., and, in fact, a mirror situation. and with regard to those ships that reach and successfully go to the party of great odessa, i.e. there are almost no ukrainian ships there, it means that these ships are mainly from greece, turkey, as well as china, germany and 25 other countries, that is, relatively speaking, if russia will strike at... some merchant ship that goes to or from odesa ports and it belongs to a third country, yes a third country, er,

it is russia, russia cannot but understand that this will immediately cause very large-scale sanctions, well, for example, er, a significant number of countries will refuse altogether. work with russian ports, that is, any ship leaving from there will not be serviced in foreign ports. that is, for them , a huge issue arises for their sea exports, and i am sure that they know about it and take it into account, but here it cannot be ruled out, like today's strike, most likely by something on... from the territory of crimea through the odesa port , or the korean counterpart, north korean, it cannot, it cannot

be ruled out that the russian federation will be able to, when the great poo is there, his nerves can't stand it, yes, and they will launch a missile strike with ballistics that is hard to miss on... odesa ports, then this can lead to an escalation of the war at sea, very powerful. thank you, mr. andriy, it was andriy klymenko, editor-in-chief of the blackc news portal, head of the monitor group of the institute of strategic black sea studies. next, we will contact tetyana nikolayenko, a journalist, a member of the public anti-corruption council under the ministry of defense of ukraine, a person who knows about corruption in the ministry of defense, everything, or almost everything. tatyana , i welcome you, thank you for the good evening, let's start with the blackmail of the atomservice company, the ministry of defense, which

provided the company that... supplied the armed forces of ukraine with food, you published this document, which is about blackmail, or simply put, ultimatum, when the atomservice company says that all terms of participation in the bidding must be exclusively made according to them. what does this mean, that is, who and why allows it in the third year of the great war and in the 11th year of the russian-ukrainian war. to blackmail the ministry of defense and why does this happen? and unfortunately, first of all, we already understand today that this is not only the nuclear service, that it is about all the companies that have been supplying food for the ministry of defense for the last decade, and they staged a demarche today, that is, not even today, yesterday, after how about them , well, in fact, through one of the plaintiffs' companies

, they lost a court case about... until they failed to cancel the conditions that were written in the contracts, namely, fines for non-compliance with the military part - the goods that should be supplied , as well as for untimely delivery of the goods, they simply all withdrew their offers from the auctions that were to take place in the coming days on prozoro, that is, in fact, these companies gave the ministry of defense an absolutely specific ultimatum that now your... troops will remain hungry, because you did not agree to our terms, and you don't want us to be a business as it is convenient for us, and of course i honestly have not seen such arrogance anywhere and never there, even if i do not track all the trades that take place in other areas, i have never heard of so much brazen actions cartel, what has happened now with the provision of food for the military, and of course,

we are very worried. because these companies really now, since they have a monopoly on the supply of food for the armed forces, and they can do whatever and however they want to blackmail the military and security forces so that they agree to their terms, including by concluding direct contracts, currently unknown to us, what happened already at the last meetings in the ministry, what decision was made in this regard? and how will contracts be concluded, whether they will be concluded by dot or some other way, that's why we are waiting for this news, but really it's just a blatant situation, when suppliers, the ministry of defense, which had a colossal margin, we can recall and the reports of the accounting chamber, we can recall the statements of the national anti-corruption bureau, which indicated that

the company's margin could be from 26%. up to 100% on specific products, that they have never shipped 409 items that are designated for military supply, that they only ship 26% of the catalog, and we saw, i literally spent the last weekend there trying to find criminal proceedings against these companies , and indeed the sbi, the national police recorded that atomservice, for example, tried to bribe one of the military in order to supply... but much cheaper products, to write off the more expensive ones, which are the assets of companies that we know well through 17 eggs, they entered into a criminal collusion with the head of one of the military units there, and they simply reduced the food supply of the military of this unit by a third and stole money that was actually written off through fake invoices.

we understand in public anti-corruption we are glad that such a scheme was definitely not in one military unit, that it is quite difficult to detect them, if the military themselves do not surrender, we have a suspicion that there are also dishonest people, there are quite a lot of them, which is why such schemes exist, they allow us to launder a lot of money from our budget, and in this case it is simply unacceptable, because in fact we... the opportunity is unknown to some people who do not produce anything, do not transport any goods anywhere to any front line, and in fact have for themselves some incredible margin, to build hotels in croatia, it's great to live, and at the same time, we periodically receive complaints from the military there,