in the so-called reconstruction of occupied mariupol. putin himself could have sanctioned the arrest of an official of this level, say political observers, and suggest that it may not only be a matter of bribes. the accusation against the deputy minister of defense, even during the war, deals a serious blow to shoigu himself, the financial times writes. perhaps, in this way, putin wants the ambassador to weaken shoigu himself and reduce his influence. how it will affect the war, directly. we'll talk about that in a few minutes. but first , let us give you a deputy on... april 23 russian defense minister timur ivanov is detained on suspicion of receiving a bribe. the next day, the court sent him to prison for two months. after shoigu's arrest, he signs an order to remove ivanov from the position of deputy, which he held since... year, where

ivanov was responsible for the construction and procurement of goods for the army, as well as for the restoration of occupied mariupol, the construction of the main temple of the russian armed forces, the eastern cosmodrome and medical centers of the ministry of defense for the treatment of patients with covid-19. timur ivanov, timur ivanov has always positioned himself as a business man meetings as a person who gets things done, as a person who is ready to work either for money or for other rewards. you do him a favor, he'll do you a favor. in december 2022, the team of opposition politician oleksiy navalny released an investigation into the ivanov family. it said that the official and his wife spent more than a million euros on vacations, renting villas and yachts, jewelry and clothes. the investigation draws attention to the fact that the personal bills of the official's wife were paid by the company that deals with it restoration of occupied russian.

by the troops of mariupol. yachts, rotorcraft, saint tropez, diamonds, parties worth tens of millions of rubles. ski trips - this photo was taken on the anniversary of the beginning of the war. february 24 , 2023. officially, the criminal case against ivanov is related to carrying out work for the needs of the ministry of defense of russia. however , no one would detain ivanov for corruption. apart from that. everyone knew for a long time, so writes the publication of an important story with reference to two sources close to the fsb, the real reason for the arrest according to the publication, the deputy minister of defense was charged with treason. it's a bribe for the public, they don't want to talk publicly about treason yet, it's a big scandal. after all, deputy minister of defense putin gave the order after he managed to convince that it was about treason. in the russian hierarchy. in the russian hierarchy, if you

can't protect the person closest to you, you have a serious problem. you are immediately attacked by everyone else, it is a system of checks and balances between mafia clans, where the mafia clan that cannot defend itself becomes the victim. meanwhile, the spokesman of the president of russia, dmytro piskov, called, i quote: any considerations on this topic as speculation, and ivanov's lawyer stated that the information about accusing his protégé of treason is false. meanwhile , anonymous sources in the special services of ukraine confirmed to the ukrainian pravda publication that ivanov was detained as a result of the work of the main intelligence department of the ministry of defense of ukraine. thus, in march 2024, ukrainian intelligence carried out an operation, as a result of which it gained access to confidential information and official documents of the deputy minister of defense russian federation, timur ivanov. the interlocutor of the up noted that it was the media scandal. the leak

of information and its entry into ukrainian intelligence, and not the bribery of deputy shoigu, was the real reason for his persecution and arrest. anastasia potapenko, radio liberty. maria kucherenko, an analyst of the come back alive fund, has already joined our broadcast. good evening. good evening. i would like to note that for our audience, come back alive, you are leading the direction of studying russia. maria, what do you think? why did they take on deputy shoigu, is it because of a bribe, even if he is in especially large sizes? i think that it is certainly not a matter of bribery, because they did not know about ivanov's bribery in moscow, well, i don't know, only the children, apparently, and it was the subject of very, very many investigations, including the same fbk and a number of others editions, that is, it was not a secret for anyone, the question is not that, the question is not bribes, the question is that putin...

thus once again proved that he remains the arbiter between the power towers of the kremlin, and this is essentially as a result of the so-called riot at... everyone and as a result of all these processes which took place already after the mentioned events, i.e. in this way putin demonstrated to his power elites that he still does not single out any of the parties, i.e. in the plus after the so -called mutiny, as we remember, the russian guard remained, oleksiy dyumin, close to prigozhin, who conducted many, many negotiations there during so... and so on, but the ministry of defense allegedly did not suffer any losses after the said events took place, is now being demonstrated by putin before the inauguration, before the upcoming appointment of the new government, that he remains

an equidistant arbiter, and people in the ministry of defense will also be punished for the fact that all this inefficiency was allowed for the fact that wastes were allowed, but not wastes in themselves, he could still waste to forgive, and this is not a problem, to forgive waste in putin's system, the problem lies in the ineffectiveness of the department's work and in certain suspicions that also fell on shoigo's closest entourage, in connection with what happened in the summer of 23 . for ukraine, of course, it is better for the russian ministry of defense to work inefficiently as possible. we are talking about that now too. let's talk, but did i understand you correctly, that if they took on ivanov, then soon they can take on shoigu and change the minister of defense, or does this not mean that at all? and this does not necessarily mean this, and i would not talk about anything personally, but

i would talk about personnel changes in the ministry of defense, and here i have a strong suspicion, i am not alone in it, that it may happen that the already mentioned oleksii dyumin can go to the position of deputy... in the ministry of defense, who is now the governor of the tula region, who was very, very close to prigozhin and was actually the main political actor in what unfolded in the summer on prigozhin's side, but he was not punished, and nevertheless now we see what appeared in putin's schedule in his plans for a meeting with dyumin on may 2 is just that... this meeting appeared at the last moment, which even russian information sources and commentators are paying attention to, and are thinking in the context that they will probably talk with dyumin about personnel appointments, and in general, if we recall, again the chronology of what happened in the summer, and the consequences of which we are seeing

now, dyumin and sources close to him, from the very beginning spoke about the fact that the governorship in the tol region does not correspond to his ambitions . of course, he would very, very much like to take a certain position in the ministry of defense, we will see whether this will happen in practice, but here, if we talk about what will happen to the ministry of defense, then most likely it will be changes in the level of deputies, not the head of the ministry of defense, because, well, in my personal opinion, and from what i know about what is happening there, shoigu is such a deep state that is very, very difficult to remove from that... soil, in which he took root, in fact, all these years. but nevertheless, you said that putin is not satisfied, if i understood you correctly, with the efficiency, how effectively the ministry of defense works, what it means, how to understand it, and what specifically, perhaps,

now the emphasis will be placed precisely in the work of the ministry of defense, because it will be directly connected, will directly affect ukraine and the course of the war in ukraine. well, of course, he is dissatisfied, and the reason for his dissatisfaction is precisely the fact that he cannot achieve the desired results for him here in the combat zone on the territory of ukraine, but to be honest, the question here should not be asked of the ministry of defense itself , and not even to the general staff, here the question must be asked to... to the situation that he created, actually with his own hands, and to the situation when there is an absolute mistrust, both to the head of the general staff and to the head of the ministry of defense, as far as the reports about

the real state of affairs are concerned, that is, what is known at the moment, it is known that the mistrust that putin feels in the things that are reported to him there with the ministry of defense or... with the gsha or directly from the fronts, this mistrust, it is built on the fact that he wants to hear what he wants to hear. and for these reasons he is trying to find certain levers of influence on the ministry of defense, which, apparently, if everything will be done as it is necessary with provision, probably, if everything is directed where it is needed, then now those victories will begin there, which he planned from the very beginning of this phase of hostilities, but no, and here the point is that the elites, which. .. he is surrounded, the curator of the power towers must demonstrate that

this mistrust, in fact, will result in certain personnel consequences, in certain consequences for their personal careers, and it is precisely because of this that all these processes are taking place around shoigu, but to touch shoigu personally, and immediately and moreover to go to the cause of the fsb in this case, because, as we can see, ivanov is directly responsible for the investigation around him. the deputy head of the fsb serhii korolev, who is called a very, very likely successor to bortnikov, the current head of the fsb, it is also quite dangerous here, so this mistrust he feels, it is converted into the case against the deputies, and it will further be converted into the case against the deputies and a certain change in this personnel hierarchy as far as the deputies are concerned, and... but about shoigu, well, personally, i don’t i will give some kind of guarantee that shoigu will leave his

post. maria, what about other personnel changes in the russian government, after the inauguration of putin, of course, we are not interested in all the ministers, but for example, those persons who have something to do with the war, we have already spoken, maybe someone else remained, or they are related to the occupied territories, maybe there is a change of curators, and that is why there is also some justification or... reasons that we should expect some more additional surprises? i would again pay attention to fsb, because it is very important, i do not think that this change of the head of the fsb will happen in the near future after the change of government, but it should happen after what happened around the step of city hall, i think that after all serhiy korolev his will strengthen his position so much, if he does not actually become the head of the fsb. very... it is also possible to look at whether elvira nabiulina, the head of the central bank of the russian federation, will retain her position. for us, this is

an absolutely key figure, and we need to follow very, very carefully what will happen around elvira nelina, because this man actually kept the russian economy from collapsing after the sanctions that were put in place after this phase of hostilities began , and her conflicts with the fsb, they make her job very...very difficult, but she remains very effective in her job nonetheless , if elvira nabiulina ceases to head the central bank of the russian federation, then this is good news for us, but it is good news only if it is not a transfer to other key positions important for the economy of the russian federation, but her official term should last until the 27th year, but not less, there are such rumors about the fact that elvira nabiulina may leave for... and according to russian legislation, the reason for the departure of the head of the central bank for those reasons

related to health, it is true, well, it can be, it is really determined by the law of the russian federation, but i think that elvira nabiulina will keep her position at least for the time being, and this is bad news for us, we also need to look very carefully at the economic block of the government, look at what will happen around this... block, and we need very- very carefully, i would advise, look very carefully at the figure deputy head of the government andrii bilausov, now they are talking about the fact that he may leave his position, go to the position of the head of the accounting chamber of the russian federation, this is not very good news for us either, because the accounting chamber of the russian federation is responsible for all bills that relate to certain budget expenditures and their audit. bilousov is such a very... economist, he is more of a supporter of what could be

called a planned economy, but he will have a very, very strict audit and for us it would be bad news, but we will see what will happen after the appointment of this new government, what will be the first steps, and from that it will be possible to draw certain conclusions, and already make this analysis more or less convincing and in such a way that it will correspond to that. .. will take place on earth. maria, we have literally one and a half minutes, today we started our program by analyzing how the ukrainian tsc work, how the electronic office of the conscript will work, but in... from november 1st they will also start sending out, well not too, more precisely, electronic summonses will be sent out, a so-called official register of conscripts should also start working there, how do you assess its effectiveness and what will it give to russia in terms of military, maybe? i think that this will not change much in the process of mobilization, which is happening now in the russian federation, because this process of the so-called

creeping mobilization, according to the capacity of the russian vnkmats. he does not he does not stop for a second, and here it is also important to note that in this regard, precisely from economy, will depend most on the state of the economy of the russian federation, and not on the conscript's electronic cabinet, because successes in the mobilization process, successes in attracting those who sign contracts, they are achieved now only and only by the fact that the russian federation creates the conditions for providing these ... the payments that she promises to these people, and for some regions of the russian federation, these payments are a real social elevator, this is a real change - this is a real change in the social status of those people who join the ranks the armed forces of the russian federation or other power structures that are involved in the so-called, as they call it, svo. maria, thank you very much, maria kucharenko, analyst of the

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events of the day in two hours. vasyl zima's big broadcast, a project for smart and caring people. espresso in the evening. the premium sponsor of the national team represents. united by football. stronger together. we are looking for 16-year-old andrii panarin. the boy disappeared in february 2023, and during all this time there was no news about him. i know that andrii was alive when the war started. on the left bank of the kherson region in the city of oleshki. the territory has remained occupied almost since the first days of the full-scale invasion, so no details about the boy's disappearance

are known. if suddenly someone has seen andriy or knows where he might be now, call us immediately on the hotline of the magnolia children's search service at the short number 1163. calls from any ukrainian mobile operator are free, if suddenly... there is no mobile connection, write to the chatbot of the child tracing service in telegram. i also want to remind you that we are not stopping the search for 17-year-old serhiy samoilov, who also disappeared on the territory of the occupied donetsk region in the city of mariupol. his mother said that on the very first day of the war, life in the city became unbearable and the situation worsened rapidly every hour. the family hid in the basement from the bombings. but shelling was far from the only problem of mariupol residents. there was no internet, light, or water, we even drank technical water from a technical tap,

then only the police came, well , the whole family was fed up, he couldn’t drink, we were fed, to be honest, it was very difficult, the shops were all ransacked, no transport, nothing, we just sat there and wanted to eat... of all the horrors , the lack of internet was what bothered 15-year-old serhiy samoilov the most at the time, which is why the boy wanted to leave mariupol. he was very fond of computers, studied programs there, tried to develop them, created servers, and why did he actually leave home, yes, what there was no connection or internet at home, of course there was no water there , there were already problems with food, he was going to go in the direction of pokrovsk. planned to go to my mother's acquaintance in pokrovsk, this is also the donetsk region, about 200 km from mariupol, but the boy's family did not dare to leave the house,

so serhiy went alone. it happened on march 6, 4:00 in the evening, my grandmother and i didn't let him go, because there was a lot of shooting around, and to be honest, we didn't have anything to eat or drink then, it was very scary, he took a backpack with him... was in it computer, dressed as young people dress, i say, seryozha, come on, i thought he was walking around the house and would come back, and seryozha left the house, when he left, i already understood what we had done with the woman, we did not keep him. so far, only one thing is known: serhiy never got to pokrovsk, the boy did not return home, and no one knows where he is now. serhiy's mother still lives in mariupol and does not lose hope of finding her. son meanwhile , serhiy's father, who has been living separately for a long time and is now in controlled ukraine territory, is doing everything in its power to find serhii. in particular, he turned to

the ombudsman's office. i understand that they want to contact that side, yes, and find out if there is any information on that side, because a lot of children were being transported to russian territory at that time, so now they will contact that country. perhaps the boy was taken to russia. but it is possible that he is still somewhere in donetsk region, so i appeal to the residents of the temporarily occupied territory, who may see this program in social networks look carefully at the photo of the child. if anyone knows where serhiy might be now, don't delay. dial the short number of magnolia children's tracing service from any mobile operator, 1163. calls to the hotline from any ukrainian mobile operator are free. if there is a sudden absence. write to the chatbot of the children's search service in telegram. any information is important. we have created a resource through which you can

report any crime against a child. in any place, at any time. simply go to the site and report, and we will launch all possible mechanisms to punish the criminal. stopcraim.ua. welcome to voice of america in ukrainian and our chas time program, my name is osab yarysh. the united states and ukraine continue negotiations on security guarantees and formalize the details of how ukraine's needs should appear in this agreement. this was stated by the councilor of beilohodom. national security communications john kirby. regardless of when the war ends, ukraine will have a long border with russia and will have legitimate and security needs. the united states

will support them - he said. he. meanwhile, the head of the pentagon presented to the committee of the house of representatives the project of the defense budget of the usa for the fiscal year 2025, which reaches almost 850 billion dollars. us defense secretary lloyd gostin told lawmakers that investment in military modernization is desperately needed, especially amid threats from cooperation between russia, china, iran and north korea. regarding the needs of ukraine, the us defense minister, in response to numerous questions from congressmen, said that one of the most important needs now remains. strengthening air defense of ukraine. air defense has long been one of the things that we keep stressing when people talk about different capabilities. we continue to emphasize that ukraine needs this most, and it's true, because we 're watching russia continue to launch missiles that were supplied by north korea, iranian drones. there are countries that have institutions.

patriot, and we will continue to engage them. over the past two weeks, i have spoken to the leaders of several countries, encouraging them to provide more opportunities. baltic countries support the invitation of ukraine to nato, and russia does not have the right to veto the expansion of the alliance. lithuanian defense minister leonas kaščunas plans to deliver such messages at the nato summit in the united states this summer. he stated this during a discussion at the hodgson institute in washington. the minister also expressed hope that one american aid will be able to stabilize the situation on the battlefield in ukraine. i hope this is not the last aid package. this assistance will stabilize the situation, and perhaps in some places it will help to make a breakthrough, for example, in crimea. and that's fine, we are we have to create strategic dilemmas for russia in ukraine. and we can do it, so we have to think in that direction. the biggest challenge, if we compare the capabilities of ukraine

and russia, is mobi. russia is indifferent to people, to human life, besides, they put their economy on military rails. as russian shelling and destruction of ukrainian infrastructure continue, the need for reconstruction grows. oksana bedratenko asked beata yavorchyk, chief economist of the european bank for reconstruction and development, whether investors can come to ukraine without nato's protective umbrella, and what else is needed for reconstruction besides money. ukraine was able to maintain the stability of the economy during the war and wait for the economic assistance of europe, how important is the economic assistance from the usa. the package is extremely important, maintaining macro stability is an outstanding achievement of the ukrainian government. inflation dropped to 4% from a peak of 20%.

budget revenues in relation to gdp at... if this budget hole is not closed, it will destroy the progress of macroeconomic stability. economical us aid is expected to come in the form of a loan, will this have a negative impact? when we studied the post-war experience of the countries of history, on average, their level of debt to gdp increased by 50%. therefore, ukraine's situation is not unique here. i would say everything in turn. let's figure it out. with what is happening now, and then we will think about these questions. the ebrd supports the reconstruction of ukraine, we know that there are companies interested in investing, but is reconstruction possible without the protective umbrella of nato? in ebrr, we are fulfilling our role, we have been supporting for the past two years ukraine. we provided 4 billion euros, including a billion for the development of the private sector. we are convinced by helping the real economy.

by making people's lives more bearable, we are preparing ukraine for reconstruction, because when the time of reconstruction comes, money will be important, but human capital will be no less important. in your opinion, will ukrainians return from abroad? we conducted a survey of ukrainian refugees, we were surprised that only a small number of people indicated that they intend to settle abroad, and the intention... to return equally strong in different age categories, different sexes, different levels of education, this indicates that people will return, of course, a powerful roschiee will be the reunification of families, the international community is considering the possibility of risk insurance for companies.