the same chips, microcircuits that can be used for the production of missiles, for the production of precision weapons, or, for example, some machines that can be used in russian defense enterprises, or the same, for example, spare parts for civil aviation, but yes, the same spare parts , they can also be used for military aviation, that is, there are a lot of such goods that can be used in the defense industry, and from now on their trade with russia will be considered a criminal offense, and moreover... it is clearly indicated that even if the absence of criminal intent is proven, that is , some company supplied some microchips, some russian companies, and then they hop and appeared somewhere, have already appeared somewhere at a defense enterprise, then the managers of this company will still be subject to criminal liability, which is very important today the initiative was voted, it is important here who is europol, who should be involved, i just don't know what structures there are.

some kind of financial problem, who should be in charge of monitoring it, well, for example, of course certain information appears from , well, intelligence agencies, some people just happen to have information, a missile fell, let's say in kyiv and was shot down, for example, an enemy one, they disassembled the missile, they show that in this missile there are swiss, relatively speaking, german, french , american, well, america is not interesting here, well, it is not in the european union, here are the countries of the european union, and here are their e... components of the 23rd year, or there, already after the adoption of this decision, and here it is also important, or what was sold prior to approval decision, whether the law has retroactive effect here or not, again, who should monitor it, who, well, and again, and oil to circumvent sanctions, this is also an important question, well , which ones are bought in the countries of the european union ? by the way, it's a really interesting question whether the law will have the opposite effect, because so far from

what ... the european parliament voted for this directive, it still has to be approved by the council of the european union, and well, it will happen literally in the next few weeks, and already after that the final text of the directive will be made public and will be published in the official gazette of the european union and after that it will enter into force in 20 days, that is, already somewhere somewhere... then it will be possible to more to be clear about it, right now we have the information that we have , which was heard during the debate in the european parliament, but for example, what is interesting is that each state of the european union, after the directive enters into force, has only a year on to implement it into national legislation, so let's hope that very, very soon this directive will work, well, although a year is a long time in the conditions of war.

for a long time, but we hope that the states will take the initiative and do it, there is one more question for you, well, today, i understand that it happened today, in the russian federation , the ambassador was called to the carpet before the ministry of foreign affairs, well, this is a swiss woman, of the swiss confederation, due to the decision of the swiss parliament, there the lower upper house from the first lower, then the upper approved, and with regard to russian assets, the fact that there are interest or taxes on these assets or. by assets, well, actually not the body of assets themselves, but they will still be transferred to russia, and we are going to ukraine, and we understand that these assets in swiss banks are mainly private funds of the russian elite, they are not some conditional funds of some russia where , and this, and that's why such a tension immediately arose, and they said that if you do this, then there will be such and such actions, and in general you will regret it, and what to do with this, with these assets, is this issue being discussed, are they thinking about how to solve it, and here it is important that... as

they say, don't give a shit, i believe that the swiss won't give a shit, but how do you explain such , such fear and concern, let's say yes, on the part of the russian federation, somewhere there , after all, they found an egg with kashcheeva's needle, or not yet? by the way, a very apt question, because it is this directive that was voted today that allows for the complete confiscation of certain types of russian assets, and it is precisely not about assets central bank, and about assets. natural persons , therefore it is quite possible that this is connected precisely with the directive voted today, because if it is proven that the assets of a certain person are involved in the circumvention of sanctions, then this is already established as a criminal offense, and the money can be confiscated, and about it was just today in the hall of the european parliament that it was discussed that this is one of the mechanisms for the complete confiscation of certain, in some cases , russian funds, and another reason why russians could be worried today. this is

the meeting of ecofin, the meeting of ministers of economy and finance in brussels, which took place today, and the issue of the confiscation of russian assets, as well as the confiscation of income from these assets was also discussed there, and in particular, today the european commissioner valdis dombrovskis said that we have legal clarity on this issue, that is, some big step forward was made during today's meeting in brussels, and now the discussion of the very use of russian assets for the benefit of ukraine has already moved to the level of member states, and this is not yet official information, but it is possible already sometime before july, in july and a little further. we will receive some initial funds from these assets, and in particular, for example, ursela fonderline said that the frozen russian assets, including, first of all, the income from them can be used to purchase weapons for ukraine, which would be a very noble use of them.

thank you very much tetiana, for your comments, for your work and for the fact that everything was explained in detail and professionally, tetiana vysotska, our correspondent in the structures, in the executive and legislative bodies of government. of the european union from strasbourg, where the european parliament is today defined the circumvention of european union sanctions on cooperation with russia as a criminal offense, now not only there will be some charges, such unpleasant charges that, well, no, prison, well , of course, there are courts, we understand that, but in principle, in the perspective of prison, and i think that this will cool the heads of some capitalists today, you know how karl marx wrote in capital that if a capitalist or bourgeois... can get a profit of 300%, he does not think about his mother, nor about honor, nor about conscience and is ready commit any crime for the sake of in order to get a profit of 300%, but i think that russia paid more and to many people, maybe demolished the roof and he was ready to go to any crime, i hope that this warning, it will happen, and russian money

will not be the same an attractive, not so attractive prospect, because the unattractive prospect of prison, although in europe, i think, will still be a cold shower. and i caution, but in any case, i thank the european deputies for this important decision in the confrontation with the aggressor country, and now about the war, in more detail, serhiy zgurets, the director of the defense express agency and the host of the military summaries of the day column. sergey, congratulations , good evening, please, good evening, i congratulate you, vasyl, i congratulate our viewers, today in our column we will talk about military operations on the russian border, about the most massive strikes by our drones on russian critical infrastructure and about where we have to look for internal ones. reserves in the war with russia, because mobilization is not only about increasing the number of attack aircraft for attack or defense, about that in a moment. on the grounds this morning

the war came quite powerfully to russia. ukrainian drones inflicted the largest attack on 10 regions of russia and oil refineries, and quite effectively, units of the russian freedom legion, the russian volunteer corps and the siberian battalion, which are fighting on the side of ukraine, crossed the ukrainian-russian border on march 12 and entered the territory of the kurdistan and belgorod regions . later, the legion of freedom of russia published an appeal where the military stated that they not only dream of freeing russia from putin's dictatorship, but... make every effort to realize their dream. the legion is going to the elections, so wait for you - said the russian military. the siberian battalion also shared a video from the scene of the events, which, by the way, is such a new combat structure, it was known about it for the first time, and the soldiers

of this siberian battalion say that it is better to vote with weapons caliber in the elections. let's listen to a little quote. military guys, there is nothing to vote on the ballot, let's vote with 7.62, 5.66 caliber, which is available, join the siberian battalion, guys, not with this, we see such emotional. to from russian citizens, then the legion of freedom of russia published two more new videos, it was already somewhere in the day, in which it was clear that the situation in the village of tetkino is developing in favor of these units. it was said that the tyotkino-kurdish region

is completely under the control of the russian liberation forces. putin's army, as it was emphasized, is rapidly leaving the village, leaving positions behind and abandoning heavy equipment. and there was a video really from the tyotkino-kur region, and this confirms that the hostilities on russia's border with ukraine continue and will continue for some time, because according to the scheme, it... looks like traditional raiding operations, which are carried out by units relying primarily on their own forces and capabilities, that is, what they came there with, that's why you fight. usually this process takes from three days to a week. at the same time, as was the case with the previous raid, i would like to remind you that a similar raid was carried out by russian volunteers last year somewhere from june 1 to 5, again there was no such effective one. actions by the russian army on in these areas of the border, although

the russians in their media, the russian army has already announced such a victory, it was said that as many as 100 enemy personnel were destroyed, six tanks, sau, caesar, i don’t know where they found these caesars, 20 combat units armored vehicles, and of course this is a lie, because there are no photos and videos. at the same time , the main intelligence department of the ministry. of the defense of ukraine, which actually oversees the actions of all units formed from citizens of other states fighting with the enemy on the territory of ukraine, rather restrainedly commented on these events in russia, it was said by the spokesman of gur that it is about the citizens of the russian federation, and these structures on the territory of russia act autonomously and independently, fulfilling their socio-political tasks, after all, they are at home. and this is not the first operation of these units on the territory of the russian federation, and now

we can only be talking about joint special operations of these adjacent units, this is how the main intelligence agency commented on this story, so in any case, this time , everything is not right with the elections in russia unanimously, i'm sure that this one week units of the legion of freedom of russia, the russian volunteer corps and the new structure, the siberian battalion, will continue their attacks on the enemy, and it will be where... quite such a resonant demonstration that there are movements that are really opposed to the putin regime, which are ready with weapons in hands to choose a better future for themselves, so that it will be precisely against the background of the elections of this main russian criminal, and also russian e-e history has a continuation related to the fact that today ukrainian drones attacked a number of of critical infrastructure facilities in russia. 10 regions, it was indeed the biggest attack in recent months, but the most

effective was the attack on one of the most powerful oil refineries in russia, luk oil. this plant is located near nizhny novgorod, the distance from the border of ukraine to it is about 800 km, and the most important element of the plant was destroyed by ukrainian drones - these are oil processing installations, which are actually key in these technological processes, and as reported in russia, the plant has now stopped work and enterprise processed 15 million tons of oil per year, which is more than 5% of the total volume of russian refining, these are very high indicators, and besides that , other objects in russia were attacked that night, in particular, an oil depot was hit there under the eagle and... as before, this is a continuation of this stable concept, the destruction of russian critical

infrastructure, and we see that we have much more drones, and they are capable of performing increasingly complex operations on the territory of russia, which actually indicates a certain progress in the creation, production and the use of long-range ukrainian -developed drones, and what's more, in russia itself , an il-76 military transport plane crashed in ivanovo, the engine of which caught fire. up to 15 people were on board this transport plane, and at the moment, in addition to this disaster, the information about the downing of the russian su-27 military plane over the donetsk region is being checked, said andrii, a representative of the main intelligence department of the ministry of defense of ukraine. yu, so we are waiting for the continuation of these so beautiful news, so that's what it was like for

our enemies, which is actually still going on, well , now we will talk about other components related to the vico, but already about our realities, because actually at the beginning we talked about the enemies, and now we have to talk about our reserves, about our things and, first of all , about what concerns mobilization, because actually... mobilization is not only an increase in the number of personnel there, an increase in the number of attack aircraft, but it is actually the optimal use of existing resources, their redistribution at need, and to achieve better results, and first of all, most likely in an asymmetric way, because it is completely illogical and inappropriate to compete with russia in a linear way, either in the number of soldiers or tanks, and now pavlo kishkar is joining us, he is a major of the armed forces, the chief headquarters, deputy battalion commander of the armed forces of ukraine, people's deputy

of the 8th convocation, mr. pavle, i congratulate you, i am glad to see and hear you, i congratulate you, mr. serhiy, i congratulate you, the country, we communicate with you quite regularly, and the main topic is now - this is precisely the increase in the use of the armed forces, the defense forces at the expense of finding internal reserves, and here you have a number of directions where it can be found strengthening our armed forces, military formations, but before that i would like to ask about such a thing, i literally last week . had one conversation, a long conversation with a high-ranking military leader, and i asked him about the fact that now many scientific structures, military scientific structures exist in ukraine in the armed forces, but at the same time we do not see such recommendations, regular recommendations for how to improve the situation on the battlefield, and

i would like to ask your opinion about military scientific institutions, is it time for these structures to be... closer to the battlefield, do we need to introduce some changes in their existence to make them so, well scientific support for our military leaders, because when we even talk about a new type of military, about unmanned systems, we know that now it is necessary to develop a concept of application, to support the new leader with new developments, even theoretical developments, but i know that so far it's the same, well, it seems that our scientists can't get their hands on it, what do you think about this? thank you, mr. sergiy , for the question, in fact, there are a number of scientific tools in the structure of security and defense and defense forces now, but unfortunately, like all the armed forces, as well as our scientific units, they live in peacetime, nothing in their work

has changed , cardinally, it is meant, and i am convinced by... stress, that is such a stressful situation for the country and for the armed forces, for the people, like war, it has shorten processes and reduce everything to responsibility, dash signature, dash again responsibility, it is desirable that this responsibility serves the effective use of troops, forces and means in order to destroy the enemy, unfortunately, our... our leading university did not become westpoint, i think everyone involved in the training, whether operational-tactical or strategic, would agree that it is a relative training, moreover, some of the things that are heard from inside the university seem to be much more important to us

to show renovated rooms or toilets than... to show the results of the work of these or other scientific units, so in fact it is not a support now either to the glavkom or to those commanders of the upper middle echelon who were supposed to use and use these e- tools in the life of the armed forces of ukraine . unfortunately, i say once again, there is no west point, there are no drastic changes, we live as we used to. in peacetime, well, as if, well, it was important for me to hear your opinion, because we see here that we are here with you we agree on the assessment of this situation, and another component is territorial defense, we have formed 25, 25 brigades, if i am not mistaken, of territorial defense, during the use of hostilities they began to be divided into battalions, they are now like battalions there and fighting at the junctions combat

brigades are not in a better condition, they have to... perform the same combat tasks, and the question arises whether it is not necessary to reload this concept of territorial defense and find some more correct solutions in order to be not only the name is effective territorial defense, and if there is no territorial defense, let us drive them away with ground troops, how will we form normal brigades and have at least a normal management system, what do you think about this, well you... you have already said everything, in fact, really now teroboron units are such a mobilization reserve for the ground forces, it is no secret for anyone that often... entire units are transferred to combat brigades, therefore, in my opinion, the structure of territorial defense

according to philosophy, it should include, especially now the beginnings of pre-service training, starting from the senior years of school, vocational and technical education, which should be given after all to robotics. systems are unmanned aviation complexes and all people who study in the prophetic world should come out with appropriate qualifications, whether it is a drone operator, or a gunner, or a person who knows how to use a robotic system, this is besides the fact that it would be interesting for young people this would practically increase our mobilization base and... the main units of the territorial defense can be, they can be, i don’t know the mathematics to the end, because it’s all about money, they can be formed on the basis of territorial

communities, i say once again, not according to the regional principle, it doesn’t work, we already checked, it should be the territorial defense of a specific territorial community, then financial resources, people, and responsibility coincide. it is in one, and now there is no responsibility, accordingly, no one is engaged in this, moreover, structural units, like the same 72nd center in structure of the defense, which had the purpose and duty to identify problems within the units, including combat units, which were on the line of contact and to report at that time to tansyura, the commander. of the territorial defense forces did this after they expressed these shortcomings, uh, the people who headed this center, who were involved

in telling the truth about the situation in the units, they were simply dismissed, demoted, demoted or transferred to other units, so i think that the change of command of the territorial defense forces itself structures these things, and the second is that you need to have a philosophy for the development of ground defense in order to do something, to have some vision of how this ground defense will fit into the overall structure of the country's security and defense forces even after the end of the war. and mr. pavle, after our last conversation, you said that the right people should be in the right positions, i will then, it seems like a simple phrase, but when in the context of the fact that now general syrskyi from... zelenskyi has carte blanche to change commanders brigades, and then the question arises whether there is any system for change brigade commanders or the search for the right people

in the right places, was based on some independent evaluation system or some indicators that are decisive, more decisive than loyalty to one or another chief, is it possible to create such a system of promotion along the career ladder in the ukrainian army ? this is a very difficult question, first of all, i never thought so, i think that now syrsky will not have the opportunity to make some grading and evaluation system, he will bet on those people he knows in which he is sure of, and which, according to his conviction, can give results and save people and carry out combat tasks, so it is necessary to think about it, of course. it is necessary to develop such systems, but will it work already? well, it seems to me unlikely, i, for example, there are many legal

restrictions on opportunities, for example, the promotion of certain people, whether they are sergeants or officers, moreover, there are restrictions and, in fact, the impossibility of firing people who abuse. alcohol or drugs, good for me i was lucky that in my units there were units of people, but these problems are so global, the impossibility of firing, even, well , by law, it means if you can’t fire him, and accordingly, in the roster , you are busy with a full-time employee, you can’t to accept no one, to attract no one to the unit, and such... we return to mobilization again, we call people into the soviet army until this army is voluntary,

until mobilization is replaced by... recruiting, until we will not understand that our values, which are based on freedom, are not allows us to be mobilized precisely because training, knowledge, military skills are much more important than the fulfillment of tasks by the tsk or other personnel centers, i have a tactical problem today, there are engineering ones, i would like to fill them, you find people, they are sent with an engineering education, with a higher engineering education, people who know how not only to use a soldering iron , but also to write programs, and to supplement and expand, and to form networks from various structures, from various tools, but instead tcc and personnel centers, including

of the ground forces decide where... these engineers will go, we, as middle-ranking commanders, are ready to take on this, and actually, she, that responsibility remains on us, for the fulfillment of a combat task, but for some reason, when i want to involve a strong person to my unit, then between me and the person there are two more structures that are not responsible for anything, well, it cannot be, well, well, if i have responsibility, if i can convince these engineers... to come to me and help to carry out this combat mission, so let me take them to me, why not to me tsc and these and personnel centers, and we are not talking about any general positions, we are talking about ordinary working hands, feet and heads, thank you very much for the inclusion, i think that we will still return to these topics repeatedly, so that they are extremely important

in order for... the ukrainian army to become really , let's say, not a copy of the soviet one, but a powerful digital, new army that can stand up to the enemy's army, which is larger in number, and so we have to look for completely different effective the basis for our army to be more effective these were the main military results of this day, then more international and economic news, then on vasyl zimi's big broadcast, so stay tuned to the espresso channel. thanks to serhii zgurets, thanks to his guest, these were the military results of the day. events, events that are happening right now and affect our lives. of course, the news feed reports on them. however, it was not enough to know what was happening. it is necessary to understand. antin borkovskii and invited experts soberly assess the events, analyze them, modeling our

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