to withstand the huge offensive from the outside and from the inside that putin is planning for the months of april and may. thanks to yuri vitaliyovych for inclusion. it was yuriy lutsenko, captain of the armed forces of ukraine, former prosecutor general of ukraine and ex-minister of internal affairs. friends, we work live on the espresso tv channel, as well as on our youtube and facebook platforms. for those who are currently watching us live on youtube. please vote in our poll. and today we ask you about this, do you see threats to democracy in ukraine? yes, no, everything is quite simple, either yes or no, if you have your opinion, please write in the comments below this video, if you want to vote by phone, you are sitting in front of the tv, pick up the phone and vote if you do you think there is a threat to democracy in ukraine, 0800, 211 381, no, 0.800 211 382, ​​all calls to these numbers are free,

vote, at the end of the program, we will sum up the results of this vote, further contact yevhen magda , executive director of the institute of world politics, mr. yevgeny, i i congratulate you, thank you for joining our broadcast, congratulations, glory to ukraine, glory to the heroes, because mr. yevgeny, we ask our viewers and tv viewers whether there are threats to democracy in ukraine today, let’s be very brief, whether there are threats to democracy in ukraine and internally, possibly externally. the main threat to democracy in ukraine is the desire of the russian federation to destroy ukrainian statehood. everything else, in my opinion, is still secondary. although in the conditions of martial law, of course, certain authoritarian tendencies are observed, which are sometimes justified and sometimes not. inside the administration of ukraine. and that is why i see one of our tasks in this war. not

to turn into a small russia, not to turn into a russia that is governed by manual control, democracy is imitated and things are done, for which later the people who will carry them out will be ashamed. well, actually, why are we asking about this, because just yesterday there was information from the deputies of the people's servant marina bezugluva and galina tryatyakova, who prepared a bill that should be punished with life imprisonment. or there for a term of 10 to 15 years for misappropriation of state functions, bezugla herself called her bill a provocation and a test for political discussion, which she wrote on her facebook page, the bill will not be put to a vote, it is really nice to see how colleagues woke up, who often not stirred up by urgent matters that are happy for a cheap chance to show their devotion to the ideals of democracy, bezugla wrote on facebook, well, we know that

what is on bezugla's tongue is on the mind of the president's office, and it was hardly a provocation, well, maybe it was a provocation, but it could have been a test, how do you perceive such provocations during the war, are they permissible at all? i, mr. serhiy, do not perceive another point well, the fact that the verkhovna rada in the conditions of war, the parliamentary-presidential republic... which ukraine is according to the constitution, does not work like clockwork or like a conveyor belt, does not constantly pass the necessary laws, and the fact that that ukraine has now turned into an office-based presidential republic, where the office of the president takes care of things that do not belong to him powers, this is also related to the inability of the verkhovna rada to make the necessary decisions, making the necessary decisions is not controlled from the bank. our

parliamentarians have somehow given up their own rights by themselves, well, on the one hand, it is theirs , so to speak, maybe it is their right, i think you even remember that they passed a law that one should almost apologize for a failed impeachment attempt , it is good that it is not on the knees and it is good that not the whole country, but if we want to live in a parliamentary-presidential one. public, if we want to talk about something and ask something from our colleagues, our partners in the west , we have to work, including on parliamentary political culture, and this parliamentary convocation has been working for 4.5 years now, that is, the explanation that they are not experienced, new faces, we have better ones there will be no faces until the end of the war, forgive me. except that it will be less, if they will

all compile their powers at such a pace, as they did last year. and everything else, what is happening, is, well, real. these are problems. thank you, mr. yevgeny. against this background, we see how simple it is in russia are spreading anti-ukrainian hysteria around the terrorist attack in crocus city hall. russian dictator putin has for the first time called the attackers who killed more than 130 people in a moscow concert hall radical islamists, but again suggested that the attack could be linked to ukraine. let's listen to a small fragment. we know that the crime was committed by radical islamists, whose ideology the islamic world has been fighting for years. we also see that the usa, on various tv channels , is trying to convince its satellites and other countries of the world that according to their

intelligence, there seems to be no trace of kyiv in the moscow terrorist attack, that the bloody terrorist attack was committed by followers of islam, members of the banned zelenskyi says that putin is a sick and cynical creature, also a small fragment from zelenskyi's speech. putin talked to himself again, and it was broadcast on television again, he again blames ukraine, a sick and cynical creature, all of them are terrorists except him. himself, although he has been feeding on terror for two decades, he is the biggest window for terror, he and his special services, and when he is gone, the request for terror and violence will disappear with him, because this is

his west, nothing more. mr. yevgeny, what does it mean to shift attention in this story, a tragic story. when idil kills people in russia, on the ukrainian topic, on ukrainian territory and ties, they want to show that russia is a victim country, and ukraine is an aggressor country? i think the game is a bit more complicated here, i'll try to break it down point by point. first, russia showed that it has an algorithm of actions for such a case. that is, she clearly showed how she can react to similar challenges. i'm not sure that the kremlin inspired this terrorist act, i don't know for sure, but i don't rule it out, but

i understand that this terrorist attack became an opportunity for putin. to carry out such a special psychological influence operation, he is trying to prove to our partners that ukraine can sponsor terrorism. for what? in order to undermine trust in our country. we should all realize that this is the goal. it is unlikely that putin believes that everyone in the world will believe that ukrainians support terrorists. i think not, but to a high degree probabilities, he models approximately such a situation. you have seen that many member countries of the european union have expressed their condolences, this is how the western model of democracy works, that if

some crime takes place, which is impressive in its size, then it is customary to express condolences. ukraine could not express sympathy to russia. we are at war with her. russia kills our children almost every week and kills our civilians every day, and no one apologizes for it. and it is unlikely that anyone in the west talked about the fact that crimes in mariupol, in buch, in izyum, in other places of war crimes in russia. were acts of terrorism, and acts of state terrorism. russia is trying to divert attention and undermine the west's willingness to help ukraine. to blow it up in any way, to say: well, look, they can

contact terrorists there. do you remember that back in 2022 they said that ukraine was preparing to make a dirty bomb. a dirty bomb is... an element of terrorist organizations. much has been said in the world that idil is hunting for materials for a dirty bomb, right? it everything was and we should be aware. what it was, and we need to understand how it works, in what way it can work, so today we need not only to prove together with our partners that ukraine is not involved in this, but also to send an appropriate signal to the countries of the global south, to speak with them where possible, and to say that ukraine does not support terrorism, that ukraine is... a victim of aggression from russia, that we, fighting for our independence, follow the rules of

war that exist, by the way, show how there are russian prisoners in our camps, to show that ukraine is protected by representatives of different nationalities, to show how it works in these conditions, and not simply, you know, we cannot simply create a situation... when the word of our president is against the word of theirs, which in addition, elected, not elected reassigned to including 20% ​​of the ukrainian territory that was occupied by russia, that is, we must clearly say, a clear message that russia is evil, and we stop this evil in a legal way. and we do not violate or do anything acts of terrorism, unlike the russians

, there must be a clear, as emotionless argumentation as possible, and there must be words that will be understood throughout the world, this is the only way to counter this, well, against the background of these statements that came out of putin's mouth today, and bortnikov and others... vykiv from russia, the basman court of the russian capital granted the request of the investigation and arrested in absentia the head of the sbu, vasyl malyuk, in the case of terrorism. the kid is charged in absentia under the article terrorism. the head of the security service of ukraine himself emphasized in an interview with ukrinform that he, like all ukrainians, is much more interested in another arrest and trial. arrest decision. from the kremlin's pocket judges does not deserve any attention, i, like all ukrainians, am only interested in one trial, against their

master putler, we are doing everything in our power to see this war criminal on the bench of gaga's court as soon as possible. today, oleksandr bortnikov, director of the fsb, said that when asked whether the head of the main intelligence department of the ministry of defense was a legitimate target. general budanov, he said, it still is he promised in advance, that is, they speak publicly about what they believe, well, this is not the first time, but here there is already a court decision of this bastard, which of course no one in ukraine will interfere with, but the very fact that they accuse and they are disproving this terrorist hysteria around ukraine, what do you think, so... hiding behind this statement that both the kid and budanov are

terrorists, they will hit the objects of our special services, or what will they do to justify in some way strikes against kyiv, for example, they strike anyway kyiv, already in kyiv there were more than a thousand air alarms, starting from the beginning of the large-scale invasion. russia does not need it. reasons for hitting ukraine , it will hit it, it is trying in this way , on the one hand, to reduce support for ukraine, including military support, on the other hand, to say that we, that is, ukrainians, are terrorists, and this should cause doubt from our western partners, the missile...strikes, unfortunately, will most likely be as powerful as before,

because russia wants to undermine the internal stability, on the eve of the five-year inauguration of volodymyr zelensky on may 20, which, unfortunately, our government missed, they want to do everything to spin the situation, to say that ukraine is failing. this is their long-standing goal, they will not stop at it, and we must stop them. thank you, mr. yevgeny, for the conversation, it was yevhen magda, the executive director of the institute. world politics. friends, we work live on the espresso tv channel, as well as on our youtube and facebook platforms. for those who are currently watching us live on youtube. please take part in our vote. today we ask you about the following: do you see threats to democracy in ukraine today? yes, no, everything is quite simple. if you have a personal opinion, please write it in the comments below this video. if you watch us on tv,

grab your smartphone or phone and vote. if you see signs of a threat to democracy in ukraine. no 0800-211-382. all calls to these numbers are free, vote, at the end of the program we will sum up the results of this vote. next, we have communications ihor kondratyuk, ukrainian tv presenter, producer and volunteer. mr. igor, i congratulate you, thank you for being with us today. good evening. mr. igor, with the beginning of a full-scale war, many ukrainians gave up russian-language content and content that... is produced in the neighboring aggressor state, but despite that , there are still russian artists in the charts on youtube , who continue to be listened to in ukraine, er, this is morgenstern , and matrang, and rapper rem dyga, why do you think ukrainians still listen to and support russian music and artists,

there are several aspects that i can, that will come to me. come to mind, well, first of all, ukrainians understand russian music, accordingly, a mongolian rapper will never enter the ukrainian chart, unless he writes something like gam style, as a popular south korean, uh, singer, uh, this is the first aspect, the second aspect is inertia, a lot of people still, well, believe that it is normal to listen to russian music even during. full-scale russian invasion and occupation of ukrainian lands and murder of ukrainian soldiers and civilians, destruction, bridges, villages, and so on, that is, during the war that russia shamefully unleashed against ukraine. the third aspect, it's just like that, you know, don't believe it, it's cultural, in the same chat there are also english singers, probably a french one, well, i don't know french ones, but

there are english, american ones, it doesn't ask whether you like the music or not, it's music. she, she penetrates everywhere, but the main factor is still that we understand some words, and, for example, for people who in the city of young people use more russian, than ukrainian, and this, and this is an obvious fact , has not been eradicated, and it will be possible to eradicate it soon, taking into account, well, our roots, from imperial ukraine, from the russian empire, from ukraine from... the ussr, taking into account the fact that even if we break away from them now for 33 years, for 133 years, their population and the money they give for propaganda, it will still make the russian song to be present everywhere on the planet through spotify, youtube and so on. i don't see any big

problem with that, believe me, i think this one is the problem will come to nothing in the result, the problem will come to nothing in the way. that ukraine will prolong this law, although i don't know what is written in it, it seems that there is no deadline for the fact that artists with a russian passport cannot perform in the mass media on ukrainian stages and in general on the territory of ukraine, period, and this is a bigger factor than the fact that you can find anything on ukrainian airwaves, radio and television, on the internet, including pornohub, but that does not mean that... you have to deal with it to fight, it is impossible to fight, yes , i mean pornography, well, not pornography , but let’s say erotica, and it’s the same thing, well, there are videos of sexual content on the internet, and there are videos with russian songs or russian songs, well, that kind of thing of the same kind, in my opinion , the problem is now, the main thing is that we do not let any russian artists into ukraine,

never at all, well, the next 100 years, as a minimum, well, so that there are several generations who... will not see them, no they will be heard, well , at least on big stages, as it was on the beginning of the 2000s or the end of the 90s, that is , when when this wave of ukrainian uplift passed, i mean the red route, territory a, and then, in principle, there was such a large influx of russian artists on all platforms, without fault, and in tv broadcasts too, but look, you mentioned these singers with russian passports, there are already three new citizens. of the russian federation, these are taisia ​​povaliy, anni lorak and regina todarenko, who left for the russian federation on the eve of the so-called elections of putin and povaliy there. showed off her passport with this dead one the chicken on the cover and ani lorak, in addition, during the life and fate show on

the russia-1 tv channel, povaly called it god's providence and salvation for her family that during the beginning of the large-scale invasion of russia, russia into ukraine, she found herself in moscow, we will hear a small fragment. for me, it was like salvation. here is this situation with svo, i realized that i am being saved, that i have a chance to live, i have grown wings, and maybe many people think that i am too cheerful, but yes, i am happy with life, i am happy because i am alive, that this lawlessness in ukraine can end, i i can't hear you well, unfortunately, yes, well, she said that she is very glad that she is the way she is, that she was saved on february 24, that she was in moscow at that time. and said that she is happy, that she is happy with life, and that thank god that she is in russia, you knew these people i am talking about very well in life, and whether they had any

before, i knew a little, no, no, look, i knew them only from the side of creativity, i profess the principle, i professed it all the time from the very beginning of my involvement in show business, i didn’t care who had what views, who was with whom sleeps and... looks and what is happening, i was only interested in creativity, that is, songs. she was once on the street on the maidan, it seems, with a bad girl with her husband, they did not show themselves in any way, well, in the sense that is happening now, she went a little crazy on the basis of the fact that she thought that she was a big russian star , went like that, because they receive money there, which is much more than in... the country, obviously, she just probably does not know that her house, which is located on petropavlivskaya bashivka, is at the end in front of forest, he did not suffer from this

invasion made by her current homeland, well, her joy is, of course, in the fact that her current homeland is killing the citizens of her previous homeland, there can be no more joy there, this is the only thing she she can be happy, but that's the kind of person she is, well, she likes it. she likes murder, she likes perverts, she likes terrorists, she just adores terrorists, otherwise she never got a russian passport, but that's her problem, dead is dead as the joke says, it doesn't matter that she's there is he doing, is he doing, now you’re showing me, well, i don’t know, povaliy is not pavaliy, it’s not pavaliy for me anymore, it’s what the hell, pavaliy, just like i’m not lorak, frankly speaking, well, not for me well, no... but to be leaders of ukrainian show business and become collaborators who serve shells to voldemar there, well, listen, it’s up to them, it’s

up to them, and the number of their bridges does not allow them to digest that complex phrase that you just said, about the fact that they are collaborators, they don't even know what collaborators are, there is a word, well, in short, the word kal ends in to this, it is theirs. the choice to side with the murderers, there is no way to condemn them in ukraine at all, except to forget about them forever, that’s it, they died, here you are watching the dead anya lorak speak, well, what are you going to do with her, miracle , you can even say it's a miracle, a dead woman sings, opens her mouth, the truth is , because it's voiceless, thank god, i don't like collaborators, well, if i don't, i hate collaborators, i hate them. traitors, i hate russia, which attacked ukraine and occupied, including my native kherson oblast, but these girls are going to love it, they're rocking it, they're paid for by the russians

, they're the epitome of khahlushkas, silly little girls who can sing beautifully and jump around the stage, it's just a joy for any imperial necrophile, which is definitely putin, all his environment, and most of the russians, judging by the way we, how we, how we hear their... conversations with their soldiers were made public , yes, you know, the film is a documentary, so what can i say, even here, you are not the first who asks to comment if this is not about it i wouldn't even think about her anymore . she was in poval. she had a choice. they have an apartment in spain. i was told about this personally. likhuta , she could go to spain and escape, as she says, from the war, but how can it escape from the money that she has the russians pay for... the best in the world, she says so now, obviously from the stage, the audience, the listeners, they gilded her and made her russian, well, just what kind of spain is there, russia is a great country.

and spain, by the way, is not a friendly country, i don’t know there yet, i hope putin will take from them or who is there, who is there with them, the fsb will take away the hideout, this apartment, look, i don't even want to talk about them, they died, they, they took it upon themselves so much, howled russian shit , well, let's go with that shit, well, how can we get it, the question is why they still consider themselves, consider themselves to be the people and say that they even write on the posters, this is a big question. of ukrainian modernity, this is a big question of the conformism of the ukrainian authorities in relation to traitors, not only them, but they are only the tip of the iceberg, so what they took away all the ranks and all the regalia of the crimeans, who cheerfully cooperate with the russians , with the formula that you have to live, like bread , bread and bread, you have to earn money in some way, no, i haven’t heard of any knowledge of the titles of heroes there from those who remained

heroes of ukraine. you, who stayed there, is a well-known story that happened after the liberation of kherson from the russian occupiers, a people 's artist, i think, from the kherson regional drama theater or what it is called correctly, i won't, i don't know for sure, she went to russia and performs there having fun well, that someone, someone removed it, no one removed anything from it, this is a great ukrainian conformism. authorities is not supported by anything and is not understood at all, and in general the impression is that they are asking their western partners for money with their left hand to fight the russians, with their right hand, they say, we messed up some things a little bit, in vain, from some of these things , a bigger conformism, well, what do you think, these are the ranks that we are talking about, because the same ranks were distributed left and right, including kirkorov and baskoly ranks

deserved and popular... should they be reset, because i had several questions for the then minister of culture tkachenko, he says, well, only through the court, well, if there is a war, then what kind of court, i don't understand, look, well i don't understand, no one understands this, i spoke with zhenya rebchinsky, who was a member of the verkhovna rada of the last parliament, he explained something to me in the sense that only the president can do it. well, let him do it, write him a law according to which he can do it, what's the problem? i know that in the 15th year of the previous verkhovna rada convocation, and this is again to me with yevhen , when i was talking, and without him you can now find on the internet, they tried to remove the title of people's artist of ukraine from kobzon, baskov, it seems and pavali lorak, but the constitutional court wrote that you cannot do it to do, because it is the prerogative of the one who gave these titles.

i.e. the president, well, we mean not those presidents who gave them these titles, but simply the current president of ukraine, why at that time petro oleksiyovych poroshenko, at the present moment volodymyr oleksandrovich zelensky won't do it, i don't know what's stopping them, well, that is, if, let's say, it is furnished with laws, then it should be laws, which they say, the verkhovna rada is almost not working now, yes, there was information that it is in she worked only 8.5 hours, but they would have worked one more hour and that was it. 9.5 hours where would this bill be considered, although mr. poturaev, mr. poturaev, i think , stated a couple of days ago that they have made progress in removing the titles of collaborators and people who betrayed ukraine, thank you, we have to go off the air, sorry, whatever please, mr. igor, igor kondratyuk, ukrainian tv presenter, producer , volunteer, friends, we are conducting a survey, now we will look at the interim results of the survey, do you see threats to democracy in ukraine today, 96%, yes, 4%, no, in 15

minutes we will... proceed to studio, we will have people's deputies of ukraine, in the studio , don't switch, stay with us, president zelenskyy has replaced the secretary of the national security and defense council and the head of foreign intelligence, what is known about personnel changes - now he will head the departments, we will tell in today's issue of bbc ukraine, i'm olga polomaryuk today's news was personnel changes in two departments of ukraine. president volodymyr zelenskyy by his decree dismissed the secretary of the national defense security council oleksiy danilov and the head of the foreign intelligence service oleksandr litvinenko. and these decrees are published on the president's website. let's start with danilov, already ex.