as for the air alert and air alert rejection, if we take the communication, there is a lot to work on, but what we have now is much better than the first blackout that was last year. mr. ivan, i thank you for stepping in, and take care, hang in there, and let everything be resolved as soon as possible. ivan sokol, director of the department of civil protection of kharkiv. this is the guest of our broadcast, we talked about the situation in kharkiv, which is a difficult situation even now. now i urge you to subscribe to radio liberty's youtube channel, it is important to we have always been in touch with you, and you are accordingly aware of current events, and also do not forget about our other social networks, such as telegram, facebook, instagram, tiktok, mereja x, and read the radio liberty website, there is a lot of important information there analytical information, including russia is trying to use the terrorist attack that took place on march 22 in the kroku city hall concert hall on the outskirts of moscow for propaganda about... the war in ukraine, as well as

to justify the next wider mobilization, said in great britain. at the same time, ukraine denied involvement in the terrorist attack not seen either in the united states or in the european union. the russian president used saturday's speech to accuse kyiv of allegedly trying to help the four alleged attackers escape. instead, a few hours after the attack, there were reports that the islamic state group claimed responsibility for the shooting, which killed at least 130 concertgoers. the cbc and new york times later reported that u.s. intelligence said islamic state was involved in the moscow attack and that the u.s. had provided russia in advance informed about a potential terrorist attack. us vice president kamala harris and the us national security council also confirmed that the islamic state was responsible for what happened. oleksandr bortnikov, director of the russian fsb, also declared about the ukrainian trail. kyiv is also trying to link the russian state media with the terrorist attack. however, the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyi, ministry of for foreign affairs

and officials categorically rejected any connection with the terrorist attack. i will remind you, on the evening of march 22, several armed people attacked the visitors of the krokus city hall concert hall, where a concert of a russian group was supposed to take place. the attackers also set fire to the building and drove away. russian security forces detained four shooters in the bryansk region. they have already been sent to custody. the attackers face life imprisonment. mykhailo podolyak, adviser to the head of the office of the president of ukraine, joins us. broadcast, i welcome you, welcome, welcome, mr. mykhailo, let's talk about everything a little bit, as long as we have time, first of all, let's perhaps dwell on the events in moscow, is there any general kiev's understanding of who are the perpetrators of this terrorist attack and are these groups of idols? well, we cannot, we certainly do not have access to the possibility of conducting an investigation, neither we, nor anyone in the world, but the russian federation will definitely not conduct an objective investigation, i mean that there are two fundamental versions, because what happened... the day before, what happened

during the terrorist attack, it raises certain questions, look, this is crocusity, a huge entertainment center, well, it's always there, if you and i we understand that we are talking about the russian federation, it is a police state, there should definitely have been a large number of people there, and if there is a large number of people somewhere, then there are definitely a large number of policemen or representatives of the fsb national guard there, no one was there, people calmly went in, have the terrorists calmly did what they did, and no one ... there did not take any countermeasures, besides , we see that there are no recordings from video cameras and so on, but this should have been a lot, it raises certain questions, go on, let's go look at the person they detained, four people, all of them migrants who lived there in the russian federation from the 18th and 17th years, accordingly worked, accordingly received documents, accordingly were in the field of view of the migration service of the russian federation, some of they don't even speak russian at all, and so on, that is, it's all clear... it specifically talks about the relevant

strange actions of the fsb, at least, regarding the prevention of such terrorist attacks. on the other hand, let's not forget that russia actively supports some terrorist groups, for example, them are officially communicating with the taliban, and the taliban has a conflict with igil, well, that is , again, this is a fairly fundamental problem for the middle east, including, well, more broadly for asian countries, and definitely the vilayet that everyone is talking about here, the vilayet. certainly he can do it in order to once again reach certain media positions. isis was defeated, as we remember, but in the meantime they have a question to the russian federation for what russia did in syria, for what russia did in other countries that region and so on and the like. therefore , it can be said that there are two versions: the weakness of the fsb as such, or there is a regulatory component in the actions of the fsb. on the other hand, we can say that this is again the return of the fundamental.

of the conflict between the taliban and igil, and together with the taliban , the russian federation will definitely be attacked, and here, you know, what is interesting, for me, another thing is particularly interesting here, and there is an understanding of such terrorist organizations. as well as gil, yes, that the russian federation has a very weak internal power vertical, that everything directed to the war in ukraine, and in this way it will be possible to calmly arrange these terrorist attacks, unfortunately for the global community, because we see that the world does respond adequately to any manifestations of terrorism, but meanwhile it seems to me that the terrorists understand that in russia the power vertical, the internal power vertical is quite weak, and therefore, unfortunately, for the flourishing of terrorism, the russian federation gives it such and such opportunities. well, i have to note here that edil is an unrecognized international terrorist organization, as such recognized as terrorist in the united states, and in ukraine, and in europe, and in russia itself, by the way, this is also important to say. please tell me that in the context of ukraine, have the russian state media really received the order to emphasize the imaginary ukrainian footprint in

this matter, which the ukrainian side denies? yes, they received this arrangement, we see it, we see it in the statements of officials, yes, despite the fact that there are obvious data on... for example, the same four went to the belarusian border, 16 km to the belarusian border, tepliy settlement, they were detained there, what does this have to do with the ukrainian border, well, it is not clear at all, and you know, it all seems a little strange to me, because we are in the 21st century, so there is enough information, you can analyze it and try to pretend that everyone is going in the wrong direction, and only we know what is happening here, but it looks at least worthless, and the russian federation absolutely... will not be able to prove at least something within the framework of its propaganda programs that she says, well, there is no window on the border with ukraine, because the hostilities there are as brutal as possible, there are a huge number of security forces, and if the window specialist, yes, we know who i'm talking about, about such a subjective one as putin, if he speaks

, that there was someone preparing a window from the ukrainian side, then please tell me, and from the russian side, who then had to prepare a window to go through the squeeze everywhere, again the fsb, everywhere the rosguard, which is located... just like that on the border territories everywhere the armed forces and so on, well, that is, who was cooking window, and that is why it seems to me that it is so short-lived, it does not affect, look, no country, well, which actively analyzes the events in step by step, does not react to the official statements of the russian federation, the second component, well, this is obviously absurd, when there is already specific people, when there is an understanding of who it is, what it is, there is a video, which is prohibited by the gil, offers to watch from the first person everything that happened step by step. there are appropriate motivations, there are completely unreasonable actions of the fsb and the russian guard on the territory of croc city, well, they simply disappeared, yes, at the moment of their commission terrorist attack and so on, and at the same time you say that there is some mythical window through which they had to pass because someone was waiting for them in ukraine, well, this is nonsense, and therefore, of course, it

will not have any effect on global media space, it will not have an impact on the course of the war, well, unfortunately, we would like it to have the opposite and a positive course for ukraine, so that there would be more... weapons, because everything will be with the russian federation to decide on the battlefield. but, again, a small nuance: the longer the war goes on, the more the longer we drag on, the more similar incidents and excesses there will be in the russian federation, on the one hand, russia will escalate, that is, shelling what you just showed and discussed, shelling critical infrastructure in ukraine as demonstratively, manifestly as possible, because this no non-military objects, on the other hand, such terrorist organizations will be at the expense of a weak one. raise its head and create huge problems for the global world. mr. mykhailo, regarding the russian missile on the territory of poland and these 39 seconds, about which so many are now talking. how does official kyiv evaluate the decision of the polish military command to not shoot down the russian missile, and from your point of view, will this motivate the army

of the russian federation to continue to violate the airspace of other states, in particular the european union, with a certain goal, which you can tell us about. i think it will motivate. to violate, because they will provoke it, they will think that they are allowing the situation to escalate a little, to scare the european union, well, if you do not react to it, let we will scare you a little more, will it have any logistical consequences there, no, it won't, because after all , today russia is very afraid of european countries, as paradoxical as it sounds, they are very afraid of directly getting into a conflict with nato, not because they don't want to fight with them, no, but because they don't have the resources to do so , because they are all concentrating. today in ukraine for them, ukraine today is definitely a key opponent that needs to be broken. on the other hand, how can we relate to that through the territory a russian missile flies over a sovereign country, instead of shooting it down, because it is their sovereign airspace, they pretend that it will not fall on us here,

it will fall on the territory of ukraine. it's, well, well, how we should feel about it. the same thing happened many times, including with poland. we behave negatively, as we should, because it seems desirable. it would be better to react more harshly to such, even if it is not a deliberate provocation on the part of the russian side, yes, well, it would be desirable to knock it down and thus prove that nato really understands everything as clearly as possible. risks and are ready to preemptively destroy these risks, and this had a psychological effect, a significant effect on the look, here is a rocket flying, it is shot down, and at the same time they come out with such a harsh statement, it will happen again, we will destroy the objects that launch these rockets, well, are there tools that do this and so on, and this would have a significant psychological effect on the russian federation, and on the contrary, it motivates it to further increase provocations, look, they understand that ukraine does not react to this, well, because ukraine it will be just everything from... ukraine in the war and so on, but they want to scare the europeans, we understand that with you.

mr. mykhailo, and after the latest attacks on the territory of ukraine, and in particular the russian missile that flew into the territory of poland, is there any news from kyiv's international partners, perhaps regarding the strengthening of the air defense system in ukraine, perhaps someone has already announced what they will transfer more systems even there despite the statement earlier that they will not be transmitted, but there is some reaction of the international community that should be voiced, well... the president said yesterday that there is a significant increase in packages of military aid, which were directly discussed, i think that today it is clear that the emphasis should be placed on anti-missile defense systems, taking into account the fact that russia uses the same supersonic daggers, for example, in the lviv region, yes, well, that is, actively understanding that kyiv is more or less under the protection of a practically single anti-missile system that can easily destroy daggers, well, or ballistics in general, these are patriots, and definitely... and we will be on different sites, and our partners are aware of this, issues of logistics, issues

decision-making, the speed of decision-making, they realize that they need an additional five or six, well, seven patriot systems in order to close the south, let's say, the east, and definitely put something in the center or in the west, and so on, and then it will look completely different, then russia will have only one trump card to work with, which is tactical, tactical aviation, guided aerial bombs that attack. the border territories of sumy oblast, they simply destroy kharkiv oblast to zero, and the battlefield as such is covered with these manned aircraft bombs, you also understand the solution here, it ’s not even anti-missile systems, it’s tactical aviation from the f-16 type, well, two tools, negotiations are going on, but you yourself almost constantly talk about it, everyone already understands everything, the question is not , do you understand or don't you understand what consequences this leads to, the question is whether you are ready from... from the concept, let's look the other way, well, that's the only thing left and quick

logistical solutions, as much as it takes, six patriots, give us as much as you need tactical aircraft, 50 plus machines , come on, why, well, because russia is demonstrating today, it is not a negotiating country, it will either lose, or it will terrorize everyone as brutally as possible, not only ukraine, mr. mykhailo, thank you, thank you for turning on, mykhailo podylyak, adviser to the president, head of the office of the president of ukraine, is our guest. broadcasting congratulations, this is news in minutes. today i will tell you something interesting from the field of culture. ukrainian conductor kyryll karabyts was awarded the order of the king of great britain for the promotion of musical works of ukraine and eastern europe. this was announced by the bormut symphony orchestra, where karabets has been the chief conductor for the past 15 years. the award was presented to the musician on march 21. and here is another ukrainian conductor, oksana. got into a scandal due to the fact that she became the musical director of the opera by the russian composer

pyotr tchaikovsky based on the novel in verses by the russian poet alexander pushkin yevgeny onegin. this opera is planned to be staged in dresden in july this year. in response to the accusations, leniv says that the works of russian composers belong to the obligatory the repertoire of every conductor whose career is developing at the international level. they are an integral part and standard repertoire of symphony orchestras and opera houses. the whole world 28 events under the general title of the ukrainian history of resistance and identity took place at the leitsia book fair in germany. as part of the national stand of ukraine, poems by maksym kryvtsov, a poet who died in the war, were read there, in particular. 11 publishing houses presented the national stand of ukraine. it was visited, in particular, by the president of germany, frank walter steinmeier and the minister of culture of germany, claudia rodp. tell more. i don't have time for interesting news, so look for it on radio liberty's social networks. it was iryna

ustrovska with news in a minute, well , the us senate approved a budget of more than 1 trillion us dollars, which prevented the so-called shutdown. true, the senators did it a few hours after the money for the functioning of the government had formally already run out. this was reported by the american agency associated press. democrats and republicans did not have time to vote on the law on time, because positions were agreed to the last. the senators argued over a number of issues, including the fact that a conservative. demanded more spending cuts than was acceptable to democrats and the white house. the final version of the budget was approved six months after the us fiscal year began in october. all this time , congress had to pass a so-called temporary budget several times in order to prevent government departments and programs from shutting down. the law will now be sent to president joe biden for signature. government programs after signings will be funded until mid- autumn. this is the svoboda ranok project, i thank you for being with us, my name is oleg aliev, take care and we will meet you on our air tomorrow, traditionally at 9:00. before meeting. we return, thank

colleagues at freedom morning for their work on the information they gave us, and we pick up the information baton, continue to work, remind us that we are collecting for our defenders for three cars, please join the collection every time, as you can see qr code and card number on the screen, donate as much as you can so that we can buy the three cars that we have planned that our defenders need as soon as possible. and transfer them to the relevant divisions, and in the meantime we will learn professional information from the director of ukrhydroenergo. ihor syrota, general director, is in touch with us. mr. igor, congratulations, glory to ukraine. congratulations, glory to the heroes. so tell me, as of now, when it's been possible to evaluate everything after hitting the bottom of the progress, where

the critical damage is, if you can. their voiced and how quickly will it be possible to eliminate them? well, unfortunately, this is not a very quick question, fast time, to date , we are still trying to dismantle the remains of the ceiling of the engine room and the walls, which, let's say, are broken and leaned towards the hall, and therefore we can't... our hall, until we dismantle it, the height there is more than 35 m, and therefore it is necessary to dismantle it all first, so that it is possible to disassemble the rubble already in the majzal itself, we spent saturday together with the head of the military administration ivan fedorov meeting in zaporizhzhia, they asked the state emergency service

to provide assistance in liquidating the floor itself, they have... special equipment to dismantle it all, then we will disassemble those and clear all the debris and we will look, but today a superficial inspection, it gives understanding, to restore the station to the design solution, it will take years, we will not be able to restore this station quickly, due to the damage caused, more than six rockets flew at the station itself, plus on... the road block, plus on the crane beams, where in the crane lifts us gates in order to let the water pass, so the school is very badly damaged, and we can't say for sure today, i think within a week we will be able to sort out all the blockages, and we can talk in more detail

about the consequences, but there are many hits into the units themselves, burned down. the equipment burned down, that is , there is a lot of work, but today, let's say, it is not yet possible to estimate both in time and financially. mr. igor, please tell me about the units in the engine room, how unique are they and how replaceable, that is, will it be necessary to reassemble everything , as they say, from scratch? no, of course, there are units that need to be manufactured completely from scratch, and it takes 18 to 24 months to manufacture a unit of such a plan, plus disassembly and assembly, well , we understand how long it takes to restore exactly those aggregates that are completely burnt. mr. igor, earlier you said that part of the equipment that cannot be restored is very difficult, and in fact, it is an individual order, do you already have an understanding of what exactly will need to be ordered and

then wait, yes, is there already an understanding from whom to order, and how long. it can take, of course, we have an understanding, because all the electrical equipment, this is a manufacturer, is european, global, it is ibb, siemens, and we know, because we carried out reconstruction, modernization, their equipment, we know, also the term manufacturing 9-12 months, and so we understand the time frame we are entering to restore the station, i am not talking about the fact that it will be necessary to completely restore the engine room, that is ... build a new engine room, here, and we will see what is happening further down, that is, because the station is still down, we have almost four floors there and there is a depth of 25-30 m, we will... we will see what else is happening there, but that will be after the rubble , let's see if, let's say, the general construction works below, below the machine hall, are not disturbed, and then we will also understand,

say, the frame times, and i emphasize once again, then we will be able to give an approximate estimate of the cost indicators, what is needed, after 10 days what damage has been done to the dam itself, we by design, as far as he told us... but inside there, in addition, there is a kind of tunnel for the work of technical personnel along the dam, like the condition of the tunnel and like the condition of the dam, well , thank god, the dam is intact, only there you saw the road surface that goes through the dam is damaged, a rocket hit it, and of course we saw that under the crane beams, on which the crane walked to open the shutters, there are also four under-crane beams... simply destroyed, these are the things we will do first of all, here, and as for the condition, it i think we'll need a couple of months

to restore everything, and as for the station, the time is much longer, well, since up to eight rockets, six of which were actually hit, you already mentioned, from the history of the dniproges, when the nkvd, when the russians blew up in the 41st year, they blew up dambus. about stalin's dnieper cascade and the flooding of huge territories, how much do military experts and your engineers estimate

that if, for example, there is a second strike, how risky it is for the dam? well, what they can do again, we know them because, unfortunately, they already started it last year, and showing our disdain for hydro facilities and nuclear power plants and blowing up the kokhovskaya station, because... what they are capable of, we are perfectly oriented, but once again i would like to emphasize that today the world community must react very harshly to russia, very harshly, i it seems that there was an improper reaction to the undermining of the kakhovskaya station, and russia did not tangibly feel the consequences of this undermining, and therefore, of course , you can expect anything from them, and therefore today, precisely today, until what is called they can wait... then it is necessary for the world to react properly, and then they will think about whether they need to repeat it or not, mr. yehor, we understand that on the first day immediately after

the massive attack, there was a deficit in the power system, the help was received properly, what is the situation now, please tell me briefly what is in the energy system, you mean, yes, yes, in the energy system, well, you understand, it is difficult to say, look, after that there were strikes, you know... that in odessa and in pistations, that is, the enemy makes a massive attack every day. today you you see, we are trying everything, energy workers are trying to do everything to ensure that the population has electricity. what will happen tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, it is difficult to say, for today the situation is under control, and we have, unfortunately, a bitter experience of how to quickly recover, how to quickly restore our generation and our capacities in order to provide... our population and the electricity industry, well, let's see, this is going on like this, you know, unfortunately, a competitive process, energy workers against rockets and against rackets, but i wanted to talk about asymmetric

just a question, today i see that the novocherkassk thermal power plant in the rostov region, and there rostov, the so-called governor of golubiv, says that the high-voltage lines of 330 kilowatts have been disconnected. tikhoretskaya and rostovskaya, progress, two power units, put out of operation temporarily, as he says, this asymmetric answer in the rostov region, how do you assess how much power has been put out there , well, look, we believe that the asymmetry should be exactly in all directions , except for the civilian population, that is, the military. asymmetry, energy facilities - asymmetry , everything related to the military industry, asymmetry, and all this must happen, of course, except for the population, that is, we... well

, we understand that hitting the mortal population is not this war, it is not our war , it is a war exclusively of the russians, they say so, there are no victims, the novocherkassk gress power plant is all, but we will see, we will see how powerful their power plants are, we will see, thank you for the conversation, mr. igor, igor the orphan, he was with us , general director of ukrhydroenergo, and we are going further, and we have for you next material about how two... all these are the results of the work of the security service of ukraine, today is their day, and our next material is about this, just look, the crimean bridge is burning, only 2 minutes ago, the almost impossible was achieved, service specialists security of ukraine was hit twice. it first

happened in october 2022, when a part of the building was blown up with the help of a truck with explosives, and on july 23 , ukrainian naval drones reached the illegal crossing. the partial destruction of the bridge then forced the occupiers to limit rolling over it military equipment and fuel to the south of ukraine. russian invader. and they still haven't fully restored the kerch bridge, so they don't use it to move weapons. in addition to limiting logistics, ships of the black sea fleet of the russian federation regularly burn in the temporarily occupied crimea. also , sbu seebaby and mamay sea drones have already hit 11 ships. on october 22, sbu marines attacked enemy ships in sevastopol

bay. then they went to school. four warships, including the frigate admiral makarov. last year, security service drones were neutralized missile carriers samum and pavel derzhavin, tanker sikh, amphibious assault ship olinihorsky gernyak, and also caused damage to the large military tug nikolay mur and the newest reconnaissance and hydrographic ship vladimir kozitskyi. some of them are irreversible. losses, others will take a long time to recover. sbu employees are part of the defense forces of ukraine and on the front line. since the beginning of 2023, they have eliminated more than half a thousand russian tanks that fired and tried to break through the positions of the armed forces. among the destroyed tanks of the aggressor country and the latest t-90 and t-90m, the cost of which is almost 5 million dollars each. also, the security forces

of the service destroyed more than 1,000 bmps. while our soldiers are heroically defending every piece of ukrainian land, agents of the enemy country are caught in the flesh. since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the security service of ukraine has notified more than 2,000 traitors and almost 5,000 collaborators of their suspicions. the sbu does not forget about the cleansing of the church environment from russian influence. to date , the courts have already handed down 22 guilty verdicts against traitors in cassocks. the special service also exposed 47 enemy intelligence networks. the largest of which operated in the mykolaiv region. well, let's congratulate our sleepers, we wish them to go less to the bigos, more to... pavel mercedes

and other agency networks, but happy holiday. in the meantime, we will pass the floor to our colleagues from the news department, because khrystyna parubi and her colleagues have already prepared a selection of the latest, most important information and are ready to share it with all of us. thank you oksana, roman, i will tell you what the situation is with the light in kharkiv, as well as why the russian ship yamal will not soon go to sea and about other loss of the enemy, in a moment, wait. news on the air of spresso, i'm khrystyna parubiy, i'll talk about the most relevant things at the moment. damage