may day: day of remembrance and victory over nazism in world war ii. still in ukraine. 4:00 p.m. and for your attention , a news release on the espresso tv channel. in the studio of iryna koval. i welcome all viewers to the most important events. the draft law on the mobilization of convicts was adopted in the verkhovna rada. people's deputies informed about it. the relevant decision was supported by 279 people's elected officials. therefore, the document allows prisoners to be released for military service under a contract. however, this does not apply to those convicted of aggravated premeditated murder, sexual violence, terrorism.

treason it also does not apply to corrupt officials. the military unit will independently decide whether it is ready to mobilize the prisoner. now this document must be signed by the head of the parliament and the president. five people were injured as a result of the attack on kharkiv, three of them are children. this was reported by the mayor of the city igor terekhov. the occupiers hit the territory of the educational institution. emergency services are on site. kharkiv was shelled, unfortunately, the rocket hit the stadium, where children were walking at the time, three wounded, two children in serious condition, now they are going to the hospital in an ambulance, one child is more or less normal, but also injured. oligarch... ihor kolomoiskyi was informed

of the suspicion of ordering an intentional murder, you stated in the office of the prosecutor general and the national police. true, they did not name the businessman, but published a photo. sources of ukrainian pravda and rfe/rl confirmed that we are talking about a well-known oligarch. according to the investigation, in august 2003 , four men beat and injured a lawyer in feodosia. the victim survived. then the performers were detained. now the police have established the evidence. which confirm the identity of the customer. the motive is revenge for refusing to cooperate in an illegal transaction. as you know, ihor kolomoiskyi has been in custody since last september on suspicion of fraud and property laundering. the supreme anti-corruption court of ukraine arrested in absentia the ex-head of the state property fund dmytro sennichenko, the specialized anti-corruption prosecutor's office reports. sennichenko is suspected. in laundering more than 10

billion hryvnias. according to the investigation, from 2019 to 2022, he headed a criminal group, which illegally seized the funds of several state-owned enterprises. currently, the ex-official is on an international wanted list. from now on, valery zalozhny is also an honorary citizen of kyiv. such a title was awarded to the former commander-in-chief of the armed forces of ukraine by kyiv. zaluzhny became an honorary citizen of the capital for his services in protecting the sovereignty of ukraine and repelling the enemy during the defense of kyiv. lina kostenko was also awarded the title of honorary citizen of the capital. let me remind you that valery zaluzhnyi became the ambassador to great britain in march. 10 years ago for the first time, ukraine joined the european tradition of commemorating the day of remembrance and reconciliation on the eighth. may we abandoned

the concept of a great victory, instead, according to the european model of memory, we tried to return a person to the impersonal history of war. this is exactly what ukrainian politicians and historians are discussing right now in the center of kyiv. our correspondent dmytro didora is at the event and he is in direct contact with us. dmitry, i congratulate you. yes, we have some problems with communication, we will. to try to fix them now and contact dmytro, a i want to remind you that the day of remembrance and victory over nazism in the second world war is celebrated today, and volodymyr zelenskyi took part in a commemorative event near the motherland monument, during his speech the president compared nazism 80 years ago with the current russian terror . so the head of state presented awards on the occasion of the anniversary of the victory over nazism. just like 80 years ago,

now humanity should remember the victory over nazism, not ruins, and it will be, and may those whose courage, whose strength never disappear from human memory preserve life on earth, let cooperation and law prevail, which ensure normal, peaceful coexistence between peoples. i want to remind you that our collection for repair and preparation of cars for sending to the front continues. with your help, we managed to purchase two suvs. for the gur air reconnaissance group and air defense forces, a pickup truck for the 43rd separate artillery brigade, as well as a refrigerator for the transportation of fallen heroes. the transport is already in ukraine, but needs preparation for combat service. our goal is uah 120,000. and together with you, we have already collected more than

uah 70,000 so now you see all the details on the screen, we invite you to join our gathering. and support him. the tragedy lasted for six years. total losses, according to various sources, range from 50 to 75 million people, including eight to 10 million ukrainians. who won the second world war and why ukrainians are not indirectly involved in the destruction of nazism. let's see further. we remember. we are winning the day of remembrance and victory over nazism, the symbolic day of germany's surrender and the end of the war in europe. until recently, the russians tried to impose on us that it was the soviet army that triumphed in the second world war, completely neglecting the significant

contribution of ukrainians to the victory of the anti-hitler coalition. at the beginning of the war, the ukrainian people were forcibly divided between several states. so in some places ukraine. tintsi were forced to kill ukrainians and fight for other people's interests, moreover, ukrainian territories also became the arena of atrocities. in general, our ancestors fought in the armies of the ussr, poland, the usa, great britain, canada, france and the upa itself. together, this is more than 7 million people. ukrainian oleksiy berest raised the flag of the ussr over the reichstag. ukrainian michael strang, the us flag on iwo jima, the tank that... carried the gate of the auschwitz birkenau concentration camp was commanded by ukrainian ihor pobirchenko. cumulative demographic losses of ukrainians and citizens of ukraine of other nationalities during 1939-1945 are currently estimated at more than 8 million people. in fact, ukrainians had to

stand on different sides of the front, but after that, there was no enmity left, only a bitter understanding of losses. this is exactly what united. both veterans of the red army and veterans upa, who lived to be able to talk calmly among themselves, lived to dialogue, and who got along very quickly, in fact, well enough quickly, maybe as quickly as we would like them, their grandchildren, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, but got along, understood each other because they understood the price, that's why by 2023 may 8. was officially considered a day of remembrance and reconciliation, the reconciliation of both sides for the sake of world peace, which russia could not resist violating. it is not that someone won over someone, but that this is a day of victory over nazism, something passed and reconciliation between

europeans. it is obvious that now in ukraine, for example, it cannot be formulated in this way, because there is a slightly different request. the understanding of that terrible struggle continues to be formed. among ukrainians. it is important to understand that the victory was not won by the red army, but by the anti-hitler coalition. and not in the great domestic one, but in the second world war. and the contribution of ukrainians to this victory cannot be overestimated. the revolution took place in the direction that, initially, there are two versions, two variants of views on the other world war, that the great patriotic war is only a segment of the second world war, because of the explanation. and how and when it was singled out, for what politically and because of the explanation of this to the fact that ukraine gradually began to move more in the direction of the concept of western europe. the second world war brought death factories, the holocaust and

atomic bombing into world history. then the participants on both sides cynically violated all laws and rules of hostilities. today, russia continues this... and ukrainians, as before, give their lives for peace in europe and the world. so that was the news for this time, you can read ours for more as always. also follow us on social networks, there you will find a summary of the main thing, and don't forget to watch our unique content on youtube, i 'm not saying goodbye to you, i'm just saying goodbye, because our team is working to already at 5 p.m. you saw the updated newscast, so stay tuned.

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and the millions who did not survive that war never worked again, but we believe in our victory and remember all our heroes. may 8, the day of remembrance and victory over nazism in the second world war. greetings, friends, with you is vitaly portnikov, our interlocutor is oleksandra matviychuk, a human rights defender, head of the nobel prize-winning center for civil liberties. peace and laureate of the vasyl stus prize. greetings, ms. aleksan. good evening. let's start with the report of the state department of the united states, which is dedicated precisely to human rights in ukraine. there are a lot of serious comments on the address of russia, which could be predicted, but there are also remarks on the address of ukraine. it seems to me that these comments need

to be analyzed, that the most important thing is how we should do this, if you want to work on errors. it's just a statement of fact, obviously, and we have to do this error work while understanding the context. we are trapped between two logics, the logic of war and the logic of democratization, and it is difficult to balance between these logics, so these facts, which are presented in the report, should not be viewed as just criticism, as something that needs to be corrected, for example, considerable attention is devoted to the topic of freedom of speech and ... it is clear that freedom of speech is not an absolute right, it can be limited in times of war due to security considerations, but it can only be limited proportionally, and when at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, for example, a number of tv channels were turned off the air and deprived of the right to broadcast, our human rights organizations, and the center for civil freedom,

the kharkiv provesna group and a number of others made a statement that this was disproportionate interference with freedom of speech, so it is not surprising that this report contains criticism of the telethon, because the decision that was adopted in the 22nd year and could be relevant in that context, well, with the change of the context in the 24th year, needs to be revised. well , here it is very important to understand, you know, where a decision is really made, which is justified by the needs of war, which also... can be right, which can be wrong, there is a decision where war is used to strengthen the monopoly of power, how to distinguish it ? and that differs not in that we get into the heads of the executors or adopters of these decisions, which is impossible to do, we conduct a test, for example, when we talk about freedom of speech, there is a three-step test that is used in practice, for example

, the european court of human rights, it talks about three components: whether there is a legitimate goal. and here they will say yes, there is, this is war, this is security considerations, are these limitations of protecting this goal achieved, and the last, well, extremely important component of this text, are these limitations necessary in a democratic society, and here quite often this is proportionality, which is how the state can pull a blanket over itself, but no more than necessary, even in war conditions, it just fails, here... it is very important to realize how fundamentally we are now in the situation, if you will , selective right, and how society perceives it, because by and large we talked about it even before the war, that of course the state can adopt some measures, very often those that do not correspond to the current legislation, the constitution, against people who

we don't like it, obviously, and it's a very dangerous thing, and i always remind myself as a... advocate that even the people who support it, saying it's a war and we have to use whatever methods, they think that they use these methods against those they call enemies, they do not understand that if you break the rules of the game, tomorrow these methods will be used against you. well, the question arises, how to explain this to a society that is already traumatized by this long war and the awareness that relatively speaking, a dictatorship. which is the opposite, it is very often effective, precisely because it does not care about any right, and it can change the law, change the constitution, do everything, something will be banned, i would say, patience is needed, but here i will add some , probably a lot of love for people who will come to you in the comments, who will find you in social networks and start writing to you that you are not in the trenches, that you are a human rights activist, that you are wearing

your rose-colored glasses, and this is the softest of what i actually read. when i wrote about these are the kinds of violations that seem to me to be disproportionate and threatening, even during the war. well, on the other hand, randomness, that's understandable. but there is another side. a medal that creates such obvious problems for law enforcement. this is that the very logic of war, it somehow calls into question our usual norms with which we treat human rights. and here, even if we are not talking about the russian-ukrainian war, but more broadly, we see how human rights organizations are now condemning the israeli army, the israeli power structures for everyone's actions. demonstrations, speeches, demands, not to give military support, that are heard in the united states, i can just quote senator bernie sanders,

who says: "no, we are not against the state of israel, we are not anti-semitic, we are just saying that you violate human rights, but at the same time there is a need to destroy terrorism there, to fight against terrorist organizations, and the very activity of the security forces when they do this fight with occupied territories, it actually undermines the human rights we are used to, and what to do about it? it is difficult to speak in broad strokes here, because the approach to the protection of human rights requires the analysis of each specific case, that is, each specific case, to the extent that they come into force as an international community during the war. law, human rights, as well as international humanitarian law, to the extent that these two fields, superimposed on this specific example, on a specific context, say that the actions of this or that state

correspond to these norms or not, because unfortunately, during the war, people die, civilians die, and this proportionality, we just talked about freedom of speech, is also present here, and it protects the civilian population. and it establishes the norms and rules for waging wars and protecting its legitimate interests, therefore it is necessary to go into each case, and not to look in broad strokes, to analyze, although i am from the other side, i say this and catch myself thinking that when i talk about the russian federation, i'm just using broad strokes, but we have factual under these broad strokes confirmation, we at public organizations have a database in which we have documented 70,000 episodes of war crimes in just two years throughout the territory of ukraine, and i can definitely, using these facts with wide masks, say that this is a conscious policy

of the russian state, using military crimes, that these are not some excesses of specific actors or some army unit, that this is the method by which russia is trying to win this war by inflicting pain on civilians and breaking their resistance. well, russia itself, when you talk to... foreign colleagues, you don't think that she followed this palestinian path, relatively speaking, when she replaces the aggressor and the victims, says that ukraine is committing crimes against the civilian population there, the ukrainian army is doing it this way and that way, we see how there show the suffering of people in the belgorod region, as if it was just by chance that they got into this situation, that ukraine wants to destroy the peaceful territory there. russia, as it used to be with donbas, with this meme that you did for eight years when ukraine bombed donbas, it was not only heard in russia itself, it was always

discussed in the right-wing environment as well. i just returned from a very long trip to the united states of america, and i saw how widespread the narrative is that ukraine is persecuting khristyyan, that's a good example, and to be honest, this statement by majorim was not accidental. it is no accident, and unfortunately, she is not, not only she thinks so, many are convinced that ukraine persecutes christians, and you know, there is a special cynicism in that, because we have been documenting war crimes for 10 years, of course, a full-scale war is a completely different size, intensity, but the trend has been clear since 2014, russia considers freedom of religion exclusively as a collective category, there should be only... one church, or loyal churches, for example, this transformation and taking under the control of the muftiate on the crimean peninsula, and all the rest of the churches, denominations,

religious organizations, both their leadership and their believers, they are being persecuted, and everything that we recorded during these 10 years, all this i heard, as if it does ukraine kidnaps, kills and tortures priests scientifically. territories, and i, when i heard it, i simply told the cases that i personally documented, for example, i said that the protestant pastor oleksandr khomchenko told me, i mentioned the kidnapping of stepan podolchak from the village of kalanchak, kherson region, a month ago, but honestly saying, i'm really thinking about what to do with it, because our voices, they are single, and russia has used a powerful machine. hired lobbyists in the same washington, they bypassed all congressmen and told how ukraine persecutes, and what is meant by the ukrainian orthodox church of the moscow patriarchate

, first of all, as an occupier organization. it means that when you talk to the average american, they don't make a distinction, for them there are christians, and they don't know if it's the moscow church or some other, and these christians are persecuted by russia, and how they package it for specific congressmen, then this is a question to which i do not know the answer, well, in the united states there is an american orthodox church, which is recognized as russian orthodox by the church... almost no one else recognizes its truth in world orthodoxy, but this is a whole organization, and again its representatives can go to congressmen, to representatives of local legislative bodies, talk about all these sufferings, this is a whole church, but the situation, the situation is more complicated, even the evangelical churches, which russia persecutes in the occupied territories, they believe that ukraine persecutes christians, and something must be done about it, because this

is the... narrative that is actively promoted and used, including in order not to give ukraine the support we expect from the united states of america. and in general, how do you feel that public opinion has changed during this time? i felt that people, and this is quite typical and natural, are already thinking about other things than the russian war in ukraine, and i felt, and this was, by the way, a surprise for me, because i was in... such tour at the invitation of seven american universities, that is, in different parts of the country, that we still have a huge reserve of empathy, because wherever i spoke, it was always a very warm welcome, people responded to what i told, well , actually human pain, it has no borders, these are very understandable stories, and i came to the conclusion that if someone in america constantly focused on this, then it would be... much

easier for us, because people, they are not indifferent, they are just busy with a thousand other things that are happening in the world at the same time. how in principle, what do we have to do to maintain this interest, primarily in the united states, but in european countries, because, well, what you say, empathy is understandable, but the level interest, it is also very important, we see it in the columns of the world media, the middle east has been in the center of events for 200 days in a row, and it is a strategic region for the united states. and it is clear, and it is clear, ukraine is not the only part of the world where tragedies are happening, where people are suffering, that is, there is a lot going on in syria, which has also appeared in the world press, in sudan, in iran, well that is there are various points that needed respect, and our question is how, despite this change of attention, to still secure our interests, because it is difficult

to fight such a... powerful military power as russia without international help, and if the west tells us that you are fighting not only for yourself, then we would like it to be confirmed not just by words, but by concrete actions. therefore, i have such a simplified answer to your difficult question, it seems to me that if russia enters the stage of a long, exhausting war, then we should move to a long-term strategy. we need to build communities. in these countries, and this, we have something to start with, we have 7.5 or i i don't know how many millions of ukrainian refugees there are now, we have a super-active diaspora that became more active after the 22nd year, we have caring artistic circles, human rights circles, we need to expand these communities so that it is not purely ukrainians or people of ukrainian origin, and constantly

involve these... people in some actions, that is, we need to start work on building such an international network, if russia is building on money, on propaganda, on some corrupt connections or on political influence, then we need to build it on values ​​and on such very basic things as human solidarity and empathy and a sense of personal responsibility for everything that happens in the world, but after this story with... the termination of consular services to military men, will there not be cracks in the very diaspora? it is obvious that they will go, it seems to me that, in general, this issue of mobilization is very complicated, and different parts of ukrainian society have different interests in this regard, and here the ukrainian state, it seems to me from the outside, is taking mutually contradictory steps, with one side