and if we talk about whether there were any diplomatic violations, as mr. chaly wrote about, for example, that it is not done that way, you need to get an answer from the partners of great britain first, and then announce it, what happened so publicly, and we learned about it last night, how do you feel about it , well, there will always be criticism, but it happened, how it happened, the president announced that he approved the nomination, he did not say that he appointed the ambassador, there is a certain mechanism, there is a request for... 30, britain has 30 days to confirm that they want to see valery fedorovych in particular , appointed to the position of ambassador there, as a representative of the president, or the ambassador is the alterego of the president, let's say, in another country, so we wait 30 days, if there is confirmation, then there will be a decree, and then it will be printed this decree is in the central press at the same time in the united kingdom and in ukraine, so then valery fedorovych will be the ambassador, plus until... he still has to hand over

credentials, verses of credentials in great britain, to the minister of foreign affairs and the prime minister, and then he is full begins to perform his duties as a plenipotentiary ambassador, extraordinary plenipotentiary. and in general, the fact that the military commander-in-chief, ex-commander-in-chief, general in the position of ambassador is something new in world diplomacy? no, if you look at the education, look, here... you can certainly look for some things here and criticize this appointment, but first of all, the general, he is already known in great britain, yes, he has been awarded british awards, he has connections with with the british military and with the political establishment, this is one moment, another moment, he has a specialized education, he received a diploma in foreign policy in the 20th year, that is, he is both theoretical and practical. ready ambassador, therefore, well, i would not

criticize, because in general, well, he is already a legend, he is a defender of ukraine, a person who saved ukraine in the first, in the first hours of the invasion, and repelled the second army in the world, that's it legend, and to have such an ambassador , i think it is an honor for any country, including great britain. thank you for your opinion, biden's statements, appointment ruslan osypenko, a diplomat, expert, and internationalist, discussed the problem and aid to ukraine. we will ask bohdan tsyupin, the european correspondent of the voice of america ukrainian service, about the reaction of officials in london to the possible appointment of a stalwart ambassador to great britain. bohdan, congratulations, are there already reactions to such an appointment of zaluzhny, was it expected or not, and how unusual is this news. first, regarding official reactions, official reactions. at the moment here in london i don't see, there are

reports in the mass media, because apparently it's not every day that a combat general of a country at war is announced as ambassador to london, so on the one hand valery zaluzhnyi, when all the formalities you just discussed will be completed. with a specialist, obviously he will become one of, you could say, several hundred ambassadors here in london, but still the fact of the announcement that a ukrainian general will be an ambassador, yes, it attracted attention in the mass media, and it is one of the leading news this morning at the british zmi, so for now we are we are waiting for an... official reaction, despite the fact that

usually such processes take place, one can say, behind the scenes, as a rule, we already become eyewitnesses to the fact that the procedure, the procedure has been passed, the agreement of all parties has been reached and the person has been appointed, now we see such an unusual procedure, which began with this actually political... announcement from kyiv by the ukrainian president and other other persons, here in britain, meanwhile, they are trying to understand, for sure, what happened, why it happened, reminding that the previous ambassador of ukraine in great britain, vadym prystayk was unexpectedly, unexpectedly released against the background of a very interesting, to put it mildly, controversy, which

arose against the background of the remarks of the then minister of defense ben wallace that ukraine's gratitude for the help of the international. partners should be more obvious, then, in particular, i was at that press conference in vilnius, where the ukrainian president, obviously trying to joke, responded to this statement, and again, let's recall, in london, the then ambassador said that sarcasm inappropriate in such situations, and then he lost his position, yes that there are very interesting circumstances that are being followed by people who are interested in ukraine, who may be taking care of ukraine politically, this is an extraordinary event, this is an extraordinary appointment, you can talk about it boldly, an extraordinary appointment, in general, if

you can be so brief, what is in the media write and how they react to it, and to the fact that such, well, there was no information leak, to the fact that the diplomatic procedure was somewhat non-standard, let 's say, violated, maybe, but... i will tell you that on the one hand , of course, i read first of all serious, serious british publications, they mainly state the facts, and in particular these are the facts that i told you about, an important fact, consider it necessary to mention here in britain that the ukrainian combat general valery zaluzhnyi had a very high level of support and... theoretically great political potential, it is considered necessary to mention this in most british reports about this event. bohdan, thank you for joining in and revealing the reaction a little, showing us what

great britain is like, for this bohdan tsyupin, the correspondent of the ukrainian service of the voice of america in london was a guest of svoboda ranok. thank you for your comments, for your feedback. and exchange opinions during the broadcast on the radio liberty channel, this is very important, then let's talk about the fact that the world today, march 8, is celebrating the international day of struggle for women's rights. in recent years, the popularity of this holiday among ukrainians has decreased somewhat, at least this is evidenced by the results of a sociological survey of the kyiv international institute of sociology. if in 2017 march 8 was called their favorite holiday by 49% of respondents, now it is only. 21%. state policy regarding the perception of this day, which for decades was considered a holiday of spring, beauty and femininity, is also changing somewhat. and the day before, for example, the ministry of internal affairs of ukraine published a list of recommendations on how not to congratulate women on this day. instead of

emphasizing looks, wishes for so-called female happiness or love, they suggest emphasizing the professionalism of women, their role in the defense of the country, and wishing for a career growth. i would also like to note that currently... the verkhovna rada has registered a draft law proposing to cancel the public holiday on this very day, march 8. and we asked ukrainians in different cities what they think about this holiday. it should be noted that this survey is by no means representative, it reflects only the opinion of random individuals who happened to be on the streets of ukrainian cities. let's listen: today should be every year and all year round, and not only remember when i... one day, a day of spring, a day of warmth, a day of blossoming, cool holiday, women rejoice, and god grant that they continue to rejoice like this, hurry up, let the war end, let us congratulate our women, in ukraine it is now all equality, i think, no, i think not, well, it is definitely developing, it

of course, it develops, but there were such cases, not with me either, when a man had more rights than a woman on the career ladder, that's how i saw it, i just experienced it. well , we are going to europe, now many men believe that there are no, as we used to think, as such women's duties, everything can be to share equally, if a woman is more busy than a man, why shouldn't a man be able to, for example, wash the dishes, clean the house, cook something, why not, uh, for me in... this is the day when you can thank your mother or someone close to you to people, women, who really exist in our lives and do a lot, but sometimes we don't really appreciate it, we are used to believing that a woman is somehow defenseless, helpless, and now they are providing an opportunity for this, well,

they will refute it and make it so that a woman really has the rights that a person can have. yaryna chornogos, military, combat medic. a marine and a writer joined our broadcast, i welcome you to our broadcast, thank you for joining, congratulations, we heard the opinions of random passers-by in ukrainian cities, in your opinion, are attitudes really changing? do you notice there, for example, to women or to this day, to this day, to the rights of women in ukrainian society, and let me ask about the ukrainian army? yes, yes, there are certain changes, but there are still many prejudices, so, well, despite the fact that i am a military man with a lot of experience, i yesterday all the same, so they gave a bouquet of tulips in advance, with another military girl, they said what a cute sexism, god, thank you. does this also occur, and do you somehow explain in response, for example, such things,

how confusing they are for you? well , honestly, i'm too lazy to explain such and such things, so he , well, my brothers in the mouth knew all these things, uh, i even somehow felt that, well, in one of the previous years, everyone had these certificates, like for women. on march 8, and everyone was afraid to hand over this letter to me your turn has been passed, that is, your colleagues know about your position, well, in general, if we talk about the army, about the perception of women there, to what extent it has even changed in the last two years there or not, what are the main problems in your opinion, which should be addressed pay attention to what shouldn't be, and there are still many sexist y'. well, as for women , there are fewer of them than before, but they are still there,

for example, i hear from friends and sisters and women who are trying to go to military service, that we have, it turns out, units where men say, in principle, we do not take women, this is very sad, because well, in the 21st century, the war outside is also becoming very... technological and a very large amount of work can be done by women on equal terms, even without additional physical training, and how is this explained? i, well, well, commanders usually don't explain a lot about no and no, but no, because no, i don't want to simply take an extra man, well, like, so that there wouldn't be some, i don't know, conflicts in men's teams or something like that. well, i, i, i'm lucky, i'm in two mordo infantry units, in which i

was in two battalions, i did not encounter such problems, well, but i came earlier in 2020, when there was not a large set of combat medics, few wanted this position, now not everyone wants to do business either with, well, being both a soldier and doing crabbing. but well, well, i have not personally encountered such a thing, but i hear this from some friends, mrs. iryna, here in the media there is a topic of discussion from time to time, for example, there is a female uniform for military personnel, whether it currently exists or is it available, because it seems that as it appeared, but i also look at it, there is a lot of criticism with this question, is it still resolved? the fact is that i received from arm women now. er, sets of women's uniforms as early as the end of the 22nd year, then they updated some

samples and in the 23rd year they also handed over and brought us to the front and other girls uniforms, that is, if i had them , it is very good, good, high-quality, uh, well , it's nice to have a solid uniform where, when you need it for some such events, well-tailored, it's very important, because... if we talk about combat operations, well, i don't know, maybe i have such a type of figure, a type that is not very different from a man's, i was quite comfortable in the men's uniforms, which i bought for myself there in those vaientorkas of the 20s and 21s. yaryna, we only have a minute left, but i want to ask you, how do you feel about the ideas of possible, mandatory mobilization for women in ukraine as well? do you think it should be? i'm up for it, i support this idea, i believe that if

women want real equality, then they should also, well, it should be determined by the state a certain number of women are needed who must be called up, and calling them up does not mean that everyone has to immediately go to the trenches, some can go to some positions, others, well, but only then... we will have real equality, and now it turns out that mostly men pay with their lives and health for ukraine. thank you very much for joining our broadcast. yaryna chornogus, military, combatant. the doctor, marine and writer was a guest of svoboda ranok. thank you very much to all of you, our dear viewers, for your support, for that you like, for sharing this video, subscribe to the radio liberty channel, this is very important, i remind you that freedom is mornings with you every weekday from 9:00 here on youtube on radio liberty and also on the air of the tv channel

espresso tv. take care and see you soon. dear friends, we are coming back, lesya vakalyuk , andriy saichuk, for the next two and a half hours, we in this studio will work for you, we will talk with our guests, now i want to remind you that we are still collecting, if so think for this one week three collection that we announce. we closed one of them with you, collected the necessary 800 thousand for the 81st separate air mobile brigade, and we collected 50 fpv drones, which are very necessary at the front, and now they will stop the enemy on the luhansk hellish direction, besides collected with you, i remind you of the vitamin mixtures that the espresso team

makes for our military in their spare time, buys all the necessary products, makes these su'. packs and sends to the front in the trenches, well, now we we are collecting for the trench, for the car and for the trench, on the buggy for the evacuation of the wounded and the transport of combat kits, we are collecting for the 12th separate detachment of special forces, they are now on the video, you can see them now, we have to collect 480 00 hryvnias for them, if you look for the sums that we have collected this week, this is... almost this week we have already collected so much, so join in, please, now you see the qr code and card number on your screens, transfer your money, we already have 480, 182,572 hryvnias in our account, so less than 300 uh, no, we need to collect a little more than 300 00 hryvnias, and i hope that you and i

will do it very soon, join us, each hryvnia is necessary and important, you know, while our colleagues from radio liberty. we were here for almost an hour, then lesia and i actually popped out to drink coffee, have something to eat, we didn't have breakfast, we just didn't have time, and on the way we saw that men were walking in lviv, carrying flowers, and to be honest, not those who were born in the soviet union, here is one of them, whom i hunted, shame on the men, shame on the women, shame on the managers of some companies who order flowers to give out to their... employees, shame, literally shame, but if you're looking at a warehouse right now, just about to go buy some flowers, we're just begging you, don't do this nonsense , transfer that money now just to this collection, tell your loved one there that you know, this is the gift, i transferred the money you have for flowers, in fact, for this war, for us to fight in this war, and

in general this sexist dimension of march 9, as march 8, please, well... let's erase that from our brains, because otherwise russia will come, then there will be march 8 and may 1 and barbecues, you heard what petro andryushchenko said, today we are on the air in mariupol, today is a day off and since yesterday they already started walking and having fun , wishing women a happy spring day, listen, you can congratulate a woman on a happy spring day, there are three months of spring, is it possible on a certain day, but we will talk about it today , tamara zlobina will be with us today, philosopher candidate of philosophical sciences and art critic to... researcher of gender studies, we will talk about it later, now we are adding yaroslav yurchyn, people's deputy of ukraine and head of the committee on freedom of speech to our broadcast. mr. yaroslav, we congratulate you. good morning. mr. yaroslav, we want to talk with you about the survey conducted by kmis, about what people perceive as

restrictions on democracy, for any bans that concern the internet, ah. react badly to the banning of telegram, although this social network is clearly harmful, because it is a social network that is launched, that is controlled by russia, and journalists are very well understand the harm of all kinds of anonymous telegram channels, and they talk about it repeatedly, but people consider any attack on telegram to be an attack on freedom of speech, why do you think we have such a situation? and well, sometimes people act irrationally, and, that is, we, for example, you started with the fact that... we still try to celebrate soviet holidays, although they understand in the soviet interpretation, actually, and such a

day as the day of struggle for women's rights , march 8, so do not rethink, do not strive for greater equality and greater opportunities regardless of gender, sexual identity, and flowers are girls and the like, and people do not always act rationally when we are a country that bans classmates and vkontakte, the vast majority of people were critical of this in 2017, but we understand how effective there was this ban, because it significantly reduced the passability of russian propaganda in our country. it is quite an interesting situation now, because before we raised the issue of

telegram's activity in ukraine rather acutely, telegram, as a network, its administration did not make contact with by the ukrainian authorities, did not consider the requests of the security service of ukraine, the national security and defense council, appeals of the national council on tele. the vision that there is a certain list of channels that are clearly a mechanism of russian propaganda that spread genocidal narratives that are actually co-responsible for those events, for those tragedies that happened in buch, erpin, izyum, which justify. shelling and demonstrating, calling for russian peace and the like, and we as a state cannot help but react to it, whether people like it or not

like it, if people like there pornography, it doesn't mean it should be freely available on the internet, if you like certain bad habits, it doesn't mean we have to encourage it, therapeutic steps are also not... ok, but again i emphasize, now we are not talking about banning telegram, now we are talking about the administration of this network, first of all, giving actual feedback to the requests of the ukrainian authorities, when we record and can prove that certain channels, certain accounts are directly associated with russian propaganda, and it is not people are mechanisms. in order to destroy ukrainians, and accordingly, as a reaction, we expect the blocking and restriction of such channels on the territory of ukraine. so, and the second question,

i have now made a request to the fiscal service regarding the actual economic activity of telegram. ukrainians are actually the second largest number of auditors among countries. country in telegram, the coverage is a little less, because telegram is not popular in europe, but it is popular in asian countries, in particular there in india, of course, we cannot compete with their distribution, but it is a huge market, and we understand that a country that is at war, that allows a certain network to actively earn from its citizens, well, it must understand that taxes come from this income. for the defense of ukraine, for the armed forces, i am now waiting, actually, or in principle, how much and how

telegram pays taxes. one more issue that i wanted to touch on, the bigus team's investigation has just come out about the fact that 273 million hryvnias from the budget of the verkhovna rada is allocated to... a company that produces content for the state tv channel of the rada, well, that's about it in the investigation itself, i think you have seen it too, there is a lot of all sorts of interesting things, this movie cat, by the way, is controlled by kyrylo tymoshenko, who has not yet answered, by the way, what happened to the american car that he repaired for his needs, where and car, they made a movie about it, well, i won't say anything about the car, that's kyrylo. before the dismissal, i wrote that it was being used for its intended purpose, but for what purpose, well, that remained in parentheses, i

saw the investigation, so far we... we did not analyze, we did not communicate with the editors rada tv channel, but we will definitely ask this question, in the end it would be reasonable to invest resources in - actually in this channel, and if people were satisfied with the quality of the communication of the parliament with... the population with ukrainians, but taking into account the fact that we have now ukrainians have limited access to the verkhovna rada, and it is very important to promptly resolve what we have now, so that it is clear what 340 or how many million hryvnias are, for this money, give me this money

for example, i will say that as a person who has... a little experience as a media manager, it is possible to make, for example, one normal media in each area, for example, one normal media, which would be, for example, independent of any power , this is what is terribly lacking, in fact, where would there be cool charging journalists, the best thing is to give each of the best the opportunity to earn normally and cover real events, the amount, it could raise, for example, all regional journalism, this amount alone, which simply earns mr. tymoshenko, arguments people who, who go to telegram for information, they say that what, what do we have to consume information from the marathon single news, well for them there is a very great alternative, they can consume information from espresso on youtube, basically we are now we are doing everything to get you back on

the air. but the key story, why go to telegram when there is espresso, well , it is not clear to me - this is a private company, a private company, the fact that the americans give money here, yes, andriy, look, the situation will arise, because we do not have, because we have problems with freedom of speech, we have challenges for freedom of speech, i completely agree with you, but eh, do we need to invest in adequately informing ukrainians about what it does... the verkhovna rada, yes, ukraine is a parliamentary-presidential republic, and we are critically lacking informing about what the verkhovna rada is doing, because of this very often the errors of the executive power are transferred entirely to the parliament, and what the parliament is doing is not always known, thank you for highlighting it. second, is it a huge amount, or is it actually a small amount? investment in adequate communication.

government institution, it can be used for its intended purpose, and also to provide ukrainians with information that would help them understand the situation in the country during the war, and rallying unity, calling for unity, which is critical, yes, absolutely yes, but is this being done now , i agree with you, no, and that's why the question to this amount is doubled, you can't ask that you should be engaged in rallying unity, you can ask journalists only one question: do you tell the truth to people, this is a basic thing, if we, if we ask question otherwise, then we do not want a free press and free journalism. yaroslav, we are gone , unfortunately there is no time, but the discussion is very important, let 's continue it in the next, our next ones, maybe i am the only one literally for one minute like this, in fact, when you perform your function qualitatively, that is, give qualitative information,

tell. the truth is, ukrainians are uniting themselves, this is not a task, it is a result of implementation, quality journalism and the existence of freedom of speech, thank you very much for this conversation, lav chishin, people's deputy of ukraine, chairman of the freedom of speech committee was with us, and now, well, now we will have kateryna shirokopoyas and a selection of news from her, we listen and watch, i congratulate my colleagues, in a moment i will quickly tell you about the most important events as of this hour. greetings, it's news time on espresso, kateryna shiropoyas works in the studio. the russians do not stop terrorizing odesa. at night, the enemy is on duty.