people who are in the banks, an influential lobby in the city of london itself, which believes that such a decision could destabilize their financial system and, well, it will cause damage and reduce budget revenues. well, from what you described, i, it is difficult for me to imagine the challenges before the new ambassador, thank you very much, orysya lutsevich, head of the ukrainian program of chathamhouse, joined us from london, thank you. well, what do you think about zelenskyi's decision to appoint a diligent ambassador to great britain? you can write in the comments, and we, in turn, asked about it's from people in kyiv, listen to their answers. i think that the military should be engaged in completely different things. no, he might be a good ambassador, but with his experience and with his, as they say, knowledge in a country at war. i personally think that he was sent there away from ukraine so that he would not interfere with zelensky. so at least somehow

affect his rating, my lord, a hardworking person , intelligent, i think wherever he is, of course, he may need a diplomatic education there, but i think it will not be a problem for him, they have them there chekhardav solid, that's why they behaved normally, he's smart , that's the most important thing, but there is information, i did n't check twice, it's true, what he is, it was his old dream, and he has everything with his education , so we'll assume that... that job , which he performs there, it will also be needed and is also needed now, so do you think, he will manage, of course, because he is a very responsible person, as we know, well , from what is, it is positive, probably from what we have, and i am in favor of him being the commander-in-chief, and the ambassador is also good, because now we only have hope for england, so that... the us is not helping us much, we have to

stand up, that's good. and what do you think he will do? of course, he is a military man, he has everything in hand, everything is laid out, unfolded, i think that he will be, well, there with us, even though he is not a professional diplomat, but i think that he will be in his place 100%. i also think that this man will be in any place, he will do well, well, how to get rid of a competitor, that is, they give him some. a position from which he cannot refuse, or has certainly given his prior consent, well, this is not his level, well, if he if he likes it, then it’s fine, i think if he was appointed, well, he was appointed for something, then he will cope, you know, with, as they say, from the princes of the mud a little bit, well , how can i say, comparing the positions he held before and the current one is a little bit like that, but he is a cool dude and i think that even in such a position. he will

feel fine, my babushka knows him personally, so in general i treat him well, will there be a complete reset on zk, how much corruption has increased in the armed forces after the invasion and how artificial intelligence will help identify corruption risks in declarations with a high level. rfe/rl spoke exclusively about this with artem sytnyk, deputy chairman of the national committee on... watch the full version of the interview soon on rfe/rl's youtube channels, and now i offer you an excerpt about corruption in the highest government offices, including the president's office. not so long ago, a report on administrative violations was drawn up against the deputy head of the president's office, rostislav shurma. how and whether the office work is audited the president as a whole on the anti-corruption component and is there any? on the radars of the national security agency, and

can, for example, its head be on the radars of the national security agency and naboom, theoretically , any manager can be on the radar, and i drew up this report, recently i drew up a report on another former deputy of the office, the head of the president's office, this kyril tymoshenko was there, but there is a problem in this area, because in this category of cases. the final instance for consideration of these protocols is the court of first instance, it is the pechersk court of the city of kyiv, and we sometimes we read what they write there, and to be honest , you can't get it over your head, we have now initiated, among the measures of the state anti-corruption program, and the possibility of submitting a bill that would transfer these loudest protocols on the most influential subject to the anti-corruption court, the anti-corruption court, well so far proves that he is independent judicially.

the constitution, and this was exactly the logic when the anti-corruption court was given the authority to recover the assets of those persons who contributed to the armed aggression against ukraine, here are those persons. which are under sanctions, namely the anti-corruption court is dealing with this issue, although it is not entirely logical, but the issue is very sensitive and very important so that judges can resist influence and really make legal decisions, and here is such an initiative to transfer these protocols to the anti-corruption court for consideration, ugh, that is, usually now pecherskyi the court , to put it bluntly, in simpler language, closes them immediately, without even starting, well, not all of them, of course, but we very often see a situation where the same initial data, cases are very similar, but court decisions are written completely differently , and well, once there us were accused of influencing self-government bodies, we drew up, i drew up reports on the mayors of certain regional

centers, and here are absolutely the same cases, there the court decision is positive, there the court decision is negative, and you do not understand at all, in what principle the decision was written court, so i believe that it is extremely important to eliminate this gap, this shortcoming, and to transfer these protocols to the anti-corruption court, in general, the office of the president of ukraine, is it now a structure with a high corruption risk or not? well, judging by the fact that there are two protocols compiled by the deputy head of the office, then perhaps we can still say that it is, but... time will tell: the ukrainian military complains about the lack of people, and until the verkhovna rada has passed a bill on mobilization, individual units of the armed forces themselves are trying to find the right candidates for with the help of recruiting. in yesterday's broadcast, we

began to talk in detail about recruiting, how it works and how attractive this system is for ukrainians, and today we will continue, i will only cite one of the latest studies, which is evidenced by sociological research survey. carried out on the order of the journalism agency of the text data and here it shows that 48% of men, those who do not have a reservation and do not serve in the uzu, are not ready to mobilize, they are scared by bad commanders, capture, uncertain terms of service, on the other hand, 35% of men are ready to join the armed forces. among the main reasons that demotivate ukrainian men to join the armed forces, the interviewees named insufficient material support, and the opportunity to get one. disability or die, as i said, the uncertainty of service terms and probability to fall under a bad commander, and it is interesting that the probability of falling under a bad commander, so to speak, scares the interviewees even more than capture. oleksiy bezhevets, the authorized representative

of the ministry of defense of ukraine on recruiting matters, joins our broadcast. good evening. good evening. yes, i will immediately say for our audience , i will explain, perhaps one more time, that mobilization is the main way to attract people to the army, and in this case the tsk determines the place of service, the specialty, the phage of the mobilized person, and recruiting, if this is an alternative, when you you can choose a division, you can choose a major , please tell me, is everything so ideal, or can it happen that you choose one division and one major, and in the end you will be given completely different tasks, because i, for example, in one recent publication seems to have described such an experience, they found. men who have such a negative experience, even with recruiting? well , look, with such a large army, the one that exists now, of course, there may be questions somewhere and somewhere there may be troops, but when we we are talking about recruits, we are talking about

the voluntary joining of the armed forces, first of all people who go consciously and are already motivated to serve, this is the case recently... provided by the general staff, how this process works, they have been somewhat modified, as of today the general staff approves the list of military units in priority manning, i.e. there is a certain list of military units that the state has determined as those that should first of all be manned, here are dozens, that is a lot of military units in fact, when a person chooses for himself... a military unit and , accordingly, a position, it is from this list that he must necessarily get into this unit, if a person has no experience of military service, then he will usually go to training first , at least a month plus further professional training, if there was experience, then the person

should be sent to this military unit immediately after completing the documents, this is an important point, we are now proving to society that we have certain legs. respectively, before taking a letter of consent from the military part, it is necessary to clarify with this military unit, the military unit knows this for sure, whether it is in the corresponding list of the priority set. and if this is so, then both for the tcc and sp, and for the training center, such a person with such a letter must, after passing all the procedures, eventually get into this military unit. and i understand correctly that now the ministry of defense is working on creating its own extensive network of recruiting agencies, because now such agencies, or we know lobby x, yes, an employment agency that cooperates with the ministry of defense. or, for example, recruiting agencies separately there under each brigade, although i do not know, it seems to me that this

is not regulated by law, but it exists, the ministry of defense wants to make its own network of such recruiting agencies? look, there is no competition here, in fact, all legal ways of attracting people who consciously choose their place of service and part of the army are welcomed in every way, we have, so to speak, five such... their own ways to get involved are , firstly, recruiting centers, which we are now actively scaling up and opening all over the country, and that is, we have the first one in lviv, by the end of this month a few more will open, and in the future, in certain progressions, we want to to cover all major cities of ukraine in the near future, how many recruiting recruiting centers have you already opened as the ministry of defense, look as of today and... not even a month has passed, how is the recruiting center in lviv working, one, uh, here, yes, it is a pilot

the project, in fact, and it showed success , absolutely, we think it was a success, you can share, i can, more than two hundred, well , closer to three hundred, now i am just clarifying the numbers for this week, people who contacted this center for this time, i.e. in a month, and we believe that since this is a pilot, and it is the first time the ministry of defense has done this, it is... an undoubted success, and here we will continue to have such centers, as i said, in large cities, primarily in regional centers will be opened, in addition to this, there are, as you mentioned, recruitments centers of specific military units that directly recruit people to themselves, this is also normal, because military units have the right to create recruitment groups and engage in this activity, this is normal, this is correct, also people can find vacancies on four online platforms: that is, which we started in november of last year, and to date more than 800 vacancies

have been posted from more than 1200 military units and more than 100 thousand people responded to these vacancies, that is, we see great interest in these issues and people are watching, people respond, people are looking for their place in the army, there is an online track, respectively, and there is an offline approach, when a person can physically come, which is why we are actually creating these centers so that you can come safely. as far as possible in a free-willing state , of course, the atmosphere, institution, to communicate with people who do not have the right to you, they even really wanted to issue subpoenas, but in lviv they are absolutely civilian people, we will continue according to the same model, perhaps combining with representatives military units, which also do not have the right to issue summonses, they have the right to explain to people what the essence of the service is, what are the vacancies, what are the advantages of the service in this or that part. in one or another position and thus communicating with people to answer all questions, then pass tests and actually attract people. and

may i clarify, you said that the recruiting center is such a safe environment for military personnel, does this mean that the tsk is not a safe environment? no, no, it's safe, i mean that people, we, we understand now, so that, especially in social networks, somewhere they catch there are some cases in that... the ipso of our enemy is also working, and what is not, well, the operation is what the people call operation busyk, it is not the ipso of the enemy, it is actually happening, we are talking about the fact that those people who for some reason who are afraid to come to the cskp, who for some reason are afraid to turn to the military, can come to a civilian institution in lviv, and talk in an environment where they do not have any fears that they will be directly... mobilized, and recruiting is not about mobilization, recruiting is about voluntary involvement, actually the difference

mobilization, oleksiy, then tell me what do you think, can recruiting fully replace mobilization, we do not have such a goal, these are two processes that complement each other, because they serve their own purposes, so the proper staffing of the armed forces, but these processes are parallel. which complement each other, but in no way cancel, do not exclude each other, and recruiting is about voluntary inclusion, and now it is also possible to do it the way...com, in fact, when we talk about the priority list of military units, yes that is, you can mobilize to them, in fact, not only sign a contract, but when we talk about mobilization, there the state already determines where your place is and how you will serve and where you will serve, depending on the need, these are two two different stories , you know, yesterday we had on the air the head and founder of the loby x platform, who is also

engaged in recruiting for the armed forces, and he said that among the vacancies with the greatest demand are, in positions, programming, drivers, drone operators and somewhere intelligence is in seventh place there. do i understand correctly that because of recruiting people are in no hurry to go to some combat combat positions there, there are stormtroopers and so on. lobi is one of the four platforms in this field, actually, well, this is the platform on which vacancies are posted, they give people the opportunity to see what vacancies are available, and military units to apply, actually, and a. the list of these vacancies is constantly changing , and there is not a single vacancy, in fact , for which at least one response did not come, what does this mean, that currently the interest, yes, it actually, well, exceeds even the demand military units, our task is to explain to people and make this process of entering the army as maximally, well, service-oriented, correctly

configured so that a person can predictably find himself, do you have data, if possible very briefly: how many people managed to do this voluntarily through recruiting in a safe environment join the army? the fact is that, when we talk about the situation as of today, during martial law, it is not only about the contract, yes , that is, the statistics on the contract are there, they are not subject to disclosure, you understand these and those numbers, which for what we are talking about now, how many people came voluntarily, many of them are registered precisely through mobile phones. in a specific part, but due to mobilization, and in the general statistics they are included in the number of mobilized, although in fact they themselves came, voluntarily, well, they concluded, so to speak, an agreement with the state, yes, joining a specific military, thank you very much for your comment , oleksiy bezhevets, authorized representative of the ministry of defense of ukraine on recruiting issues, was on radio svoboda. in

that's all for today, i urge you to subscribe to the radio liberty page on the internet, like this broadcast, in this way you will support our work and support independent journalism in ukraine, and i say goodbye to you and see you on monday. there are 20% discounts on combi mushroom hot in podorozhnyk pharmacies for you and save. there are 10% discounts on lactial in pharmacies plantain you and save. turn on the investigation, from which cold heart? the new chapter of the hbo series is already on me. a real

detective. find out what secrets the alaskan ice hides. exclusively in the subscription. mega the key to beauty is a healthy liver. carsy gives the liver strength. there are discounts on karsil - 15% in travel van and savings pharmacies. there are discounts on moths - 20% in psyllium bam and oskad pharmacies. there are 20% discounts on voltaren forte in podorozhnyk bam and oskad pharmacies. the premium sponsor of the national team represents. united by football, stronger together. every week, the saturday political club helps to understand the processes taking place in ukraine and the world. vitaly

portnikov, khrystyna yatskiv and invited experts give their assessment and forecast of development based on facts. events, want to understand how our today will affect our tomorrow see saturday politics club every saturday on espresso.

nine-year-old victoria ostrovska, 11-year-old suzanne osman and 14-year-old angelina panfilyuk. all these girls disappeared in the temporarily occupied territories of the kherson region, and for quite a long time it has not been possible to find out where they are now. that is why i really hope for yours. i will help and, of course, i am mostly addressing the residents of the territories of the kherson region that are not controlled by ukraine. i know that you do not broadcast ukrainian at the moment tv channels, but maybe you are watching this

program on social networks, so please look carefully into the faces of the missing girls. victoria ostrovska looks nine years old, she has dark blond hair and brown eyes, a missing child in the skadovsky district of the kherson region. the police became aware of this in the summer of last year. there was no news about victoria ostrovska. suzanne osman. the girl is 11 years old, has dark hair and dark eyes. the child lived in the village of bekhtery, which is also the skadovsky district of the kherson region, which still remains occupied. the search for the child has been going on for exactly a year, and this is 14-year-old angelina panfilyuk. the girl lived on the right bank of the kherson region in the berislav district in the village of dudchany. the territory was occupied almost. already from the first days of a full-scale war, but in the fall of 2022 she was released, and it was during this period that it became known about the disappearance of angelina: where the girl might

be now, no one knows, perhaps the child was taken to the temporarily occupied territories, or maybe to russia in general, precisely so your help is very important. if suddenly does anyone have information on the possible whereabouts of victoria, suzanne or angelina, or maybe just saw these girls somewhere. let us know right away. even a small piece of news can become very important. you can call the magnolia child tracing service at any time of the day by calling the short number 1163. calls from all ukrainian mobile operators are free. if suddenly you are in the temporarily occupied territory and do not have the opportunity to call, write to the chatbot of the magnolia children's search service in telegram, or look for us on facebook. i only told you stories. of three children who disappeared due to the full-scale invasion of russia. in general, since the beginning of the war, we have already received several thousand appeals for help in the search. of course,

the vast majority of children were found and everything is fine with them now, unfortunately, the fate of many still remains unknown, and everyone can help find them. believe me, just a minute of your time can be decisive. go to the website of the magnolia children's search service in the "missing children of ukraine" section. here, you can view all the photos of the missing, maybe you will recognize someone and eventually help to find them. at the same time , children are also disappearing in territories controlled by ukraine. as the experience of the magnolia children's search service shows, the vast majority of them are teenagers. we talked about this topic with a psychologist and collected a lot of tips for parents that can prevent a child from suddenly running away from home. one of them is the importance of involving children in the decision. involve the child in the development of the family budget, in solving some problematic issues, because sometimes we accept some decisions, and these decisions are difficult

, difficult, we ourselves are very worried and worried about it, and the child is only informed about the result, and she perceives it as a personal insult, well, for example, the child was expecting a new phone, but in connection with some family events, we don't have the money for it, and instead of explaining, together with the child... decisions, how and what we can save, and when we can still save up for that new phone, we we just bring her this idea that there won't be a phone, like we did then we are perceived, well, as an enemy who just wants to destroy the whole peaceful life of the child, break all the dreams and so on, but if she knew the whole process, and if she participated in the discussion, and if her voice was important and she could say, let's here we will save a little, here i am... ready to give up something for the sake of it, she would feel her complicity in the family budget, planning, feel that she is important, and what can be in life?

better than feeling important. you are watching the program of the ukrainian service voice of america chas time. my name is maria ulyanovska. congratulations. if anyone thinks that putin will stop in ukraine, i assure you, this will not happen. us president joe biden began his address to congress with these words. during his annual state of the union address, the us president compared the war against putin to the war against hitler. he emphasized that the states will not go and bow to the russian president, and also called on the congress to wake up and finally support ukraine at this defining moment. more about

key theses of this speech. and whether the president managed to convince the republicans in the congress, let's talk with yulia yarmolenko and katryna lisonova. girls, congratulations. congratulations! yulia, please tell me how unusual it is for the president to start a speech about the state of his country with foreign policy, and how powerful were these calls for help to ukraine? you know, maria, this is not the first time that president biden starts his speech on the topic of ukraine, it was the same in 2022, because then his speech on the state of the country fell literally six days after the start. full-scale russian invasion of ukraine, and usually, of course, these speeches , which are mostly about domestic politics, focus on that, that's where presidents start, but president biden said that these are extraordinary times, and he actually compared 2024 to 1941, when hitler was trying to conquer the countries of europe, and he was talking about the fact that just as in 1941 president roosevelt was trying to convince and wake up congress, so

too... and he considers it his duty to wake up congress and call on them to support ukraine, approve the request for additional funding, as soon as possible, and it's very interesting that right at those words, when he talked about how ukraine can stop putin if ukraine is helped, it was one of the few times when speaker mack johnson, who sat behind president biden, nodded and also applauded. let's see and listen. if anyone in this hall'. ukraine can stop putin, ukraine can stop putin. if we support ukraine and provide the weapons it needs to defend itself. send it to me

bipartisan national security bill. history is watching. history is watching. if the united states leaves now, it will put ukraine at risk. europe is under threat, the free world is under threat. my message to president putin, whom i have known for a long time, is simple. we will not back down. we will not bend. i will not bend. katya, i know that you worked in congress yesterday, did biden manage to reach the legislator? it is difficult to say whether this was a direct influence of biden's speech, but already today the speaker announced new information on the aid ukraine. in particular, mike johnson said that he opposes a petition that is being collected by individual lawmakers to bring aid to ukraine to a vote bypassing the speaker and that he is speaking, working on his version. there was also

information that other legislators. own bill on aid to ukraine, our colleague catherine gibson also asked the legislators after biden's speech how they feel about the fact that the speech about the state of events in the united states of america began with the situation in ukraine, i suggest you listen. i was shocked, this is a state of the nation address, and we've spent 15 minutes from the beginning talking about a foreign country that has already received. and billions of american taxpayer dollars, nobody agrees with what russia has done, nobody agrees with what putin has done, but when we take our money and send it 500 miles away, while our borders are open, our american citizens being killed in the streets is a problem. i supported aid to ukraine from the very beginning, i think it has a moral value goal and strategic.