knowledge, tomorrow the maximum there is only +10- +12°, well, it is traditionally a bit higher in crimea, and rain will join this cold, and i would like to say that there may be moderate or heavy showers in kherson oblast and priozov region even tomorrow . in kyiv, in the capital, the weather is expected to be dry tomorrow, there will be a lot of sun, the air temperature will hover around +12°, but the next night it will still be cold, somewhere around +3-+5° and in the surroundings... in the kyiv region it will even remain quite high the probability of frost, this is the closest synoptic perspective, everyone who is frozen, i want to tell you, to reassure you, that we start to warm up somewhere from the middle of the week, that is, the second half of this current week will already be clearly warmer, how many degrees and will it rain, of course, as always in our next updated weather forecasts on the espresso channel. thank you natal sidenko, i want

to say that you have already collected more than 190 19153, let's continue at the same pace, i will say goodbye to you until tomorrow, until 18:10, well, literally in a few moments, the program verdict by serhiy rudenko, let's watch together. good evening, we from ukraine. today in the verdict program with serhii rudenko. a new front in kharkiv region. the russians have tactical success in the gray zone near vovchansk. how did the enemy manage to penetrate our defenses and is there a threat of a major breakthrough. preparation for a protracted war. instead of shoigu, mired in corruption scandals, putin appointed a civilian technocrat as minister of defense. what has changed in

the russian olympus of power? reformatting the government. one of the president's favorites has lost an influential position in the cabinet, as evidenced by kubrakov's resignation and the office's plans president to dismember the ministry of reconstruction. glory to ukraine, this is the verdict program, my name is serhiy rudenko, i congratulate everyone and wish everyone good health. in the next two hours, we will talk about ukraine, the world and our victory. the russians are storming the kharkiv region, the fortification of the front, for which oleksandr kubrakov was dismissed. we will talk about this and other things during the next hour with a politician, with our guest, former prosecutor general of ukraine yuriy lutsenko. however, before we start our big... conversation with the ex

prosecutor general, i suggest watching a video of how ukrainian soldiers hit russian equipment in the avdiiv direction, the explosive video was shown in the 47th separate mechanized brigade, let's see how it was.

glory to the armed forces of ukraine and death to the russian occupiers. friends, we are working live on the espresso tv channel, as well as on our youtube and facebook platforms, for those who are currently watching us live there. please like this video as well. subscribe to our pages and take part in our survey. today we ask you about this, do you consider excessive influence of the president's office on other branches of government, that is to say, in ukraine? yes, no, everything is quite simple on youtube, if you have your own personal opinion that is not included in yes or no, please write it in the comments under this video. if you watch us on tv, pick up your smartphone or phone and vote. if you believe that the influence of the office of... ukraine is too excessive on

other branches of government 0800 211 381 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, i want to introduce today's guest of our studio, this is yury lutsenko, captain of the armed forces of ukraine, ukrainian politician, statesman and former prosecutor general of ukraine. mr. yuri, i congratulate you, thank you for being with us today. good evening. well, how would you answer this question about the influence of the office of the president on the other branches of government, as we ask our viewers and television viewers. it is obvious that in ukraine, there are still remnants of democracy legs, what... that the president's office, which consists of yanukovych's people, acts as it did during yanukovych's time, it is also obvious, because if tatar served as a lieutenant in yanukovych's team, he now also manages the courts. if shurma worked in the party of regions, then he also

manages the economic processes and corruption related to this, if yarmak himself is a rather dubious person. the past and connections with russian pro-putin circles, he manages all this, so he is rebuilding the authoritarian model that exists in russia, but there is one nuance: you are you asking if there is too much influence from the administration? uh, from the point of view of the constitution and democracy , so excessive, and from the point of view of the result for the survival of ukraine, i do not see any results of their intervention at all. because before the war, there was no systematic work on the transfer of the economy to the rails of war and assistance to the armed forces of ukraine from the office of the president, and there is none now. yuriyovych, tell me where the line is, where the president's office should interfere

during war, martial law, in some processes, and where it should not interfere. relatively speaking, where appropriate this power, regarding the application, huh? where is it inappropriate and threatens democracy? when such questions arise, i recommend opening the constitution of ukraine, everything is written there, it is written there that the president is responsible for international politics, and there is no end to the work there , because this multi-month failure of western aid is exactly what the president and his team did not do. the next function of the president is to lead the defense of ukraine during wartime, for this. the tool of this leadership is the rate of the supreme commander, at this rate, of course, he can call, for example, the minister or the prime minister of ukraine and ask why there are no fortification lines, why there are no drones, why the production of missiles has not been launched, why a lot,

but instead we see that the interests of the office are manifested in a completely different way, they are mainly reduced to sweets. economic and often suspiciously smelling of corruption issues, but not at all what worries the armed forces of ukraine. well, by the way, what worries the armed forces? the armed forces of ukraine are concerned about the situation in the kharkiv direction, and this situation remains quite difficult, the enemy has wedged into our defenses and has tactical success in the vovchansk region, the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine reports this, the russians involved up to five battalions in the attack on the city and not... lost more than 100 soldiers in a day, but in yesterday's address, president zelenskyy announced the fierce fighting on a large part of the border strip in kharkiv oblast, the attempts of the occupiers to gain a foothold in some forces. let's listen to what the supreme

commander of the armed forces of ukraine said. our task is obvious. it is necessary to inflict the greatest possible losses on the occupier. in particular, on the outskirts of the city of vovchansk, the situation is extremely difficult, the city is under constant russian fire, and the counterattack actions of our military in the city continue, local residents are being helped, and it is very important that everyone who is directly there, in the kharkiv region, in the military forces, security forces, local authorities. against the background of what zelensky is saying, there is evidence that in some areas of the front, russian convoys entered the territory of ukraine on the march, without encountering resistance, well, at least the analysts identified the area of ​​the ukrainian settlement of strelecha, which is several hundred meters from

the border and 52 km from kharkiv, well, this means, yuriy vitalivych, that obviously these areas were not too fortified there, if they are a derivative of the marches. entered the territory of ukraine and the question arises, but where were they and where are those fortifications, about which during the last, well, at least six months, he talked, including president zelensky, you know. i wish i were answered not only by criticizing the president, unfortunately i will have to criticize, but first i started with what i am worthy of with him. first of all, as they say in odesa, the usa panics, no military disaster happened either near avdiyka or chasov yar, it is not happening now near vovchansk either. the russians obviously took a plan to destroy the armed forces of ukraine. they will come. are participating in the zaporozhye offensive, they are advancing in the area of ​​maryanka, they are advancing in the area of ​​ordiyivka, they are advancing in the area of ​​chasovoy

yar, and now they have opened another front under vovchansk in the direction of kharkiv. i suspect that next they will open the same front in sumy region, and will continue to look for the place where we are weakest and from which we can wedge ourselves into the territory of ukraine the most. why is it dangerous? the withdrawal of ukrainian troops is dangerous, because, unfortunately, mobilization in our country was the unloved child of all politicians in power, despite the fact that according to the constitution it is the exclusive function of the president, establishing the scope, terms and order of mobilization, he removed himself from this, the law that was left and in the parliament for four months hung around, turned into a show, and in fact i don’t see that he... did anything special for the equipment of the armed forces of ukraine, which do not have a kit, i have no right to say which, but

believe me, it is very high, and today on espeshka, that is, on the front line observation point zero, instead of five people, sometimes twice, and not four days, as it was before the rotation, literally up to 10 days, such a problem with people, so if this narrow ukrainian defense strip is stretched. it becomes even thinner without mobilization, that's the problem. now the second why did you show the footage, and the russians were walking as if on a walk, and a cluster of troops who did not even disguise themselves, recalling their experience of the four-month war in bakhmut, for us, for our pilots, such a crowd of the enemy in an open area would be simply happiness , we would kill them... and with drops from maviks and fivishkas from kamikaze, and there would be no

one left of them, we hunted for ten people, two or three, maybe we didn’t turn, but such a huge group marches so calmly, it’s a challenge , what does it mean? this means that in there are not enough of our defenders there, i 'm putting it mildly, guys, mr. butusov's post today, which is right there, confirms this. he asks all mayors to immediately allocate funds for the purchase of drones, and then the question arises, so what is happening near kharkiv? my point is this: the public outrage is so great because it is obvious from all the facts that our government has not learned a single lesson from its own insane behavior in 21-22, which i mean back then. in the 19th year, poroshenko's team left them the completed missile and artillery programs

and funds for their production, these are ukrainian rockets for 100 km, 300 km and even 500 km, plus bohdan's dove for 40 km, in the 19th year, until the very 22nd year, our government changed all this to asphalt. i will tell you right away that in the last year before the war... when all the western allies were already warning us about the inevitability of war, when they were showing where and how far the enemy would go, they buried 13 billion dollars in the asphalt, well, if i'm not mistaken, in hryvnias , so that our viewers understand that 234 billion hryvnias were ee 200, well more than 200 billion hryvnias, so now look, now i have in my hands a certificate from the law enforcement authorities stating that... one of the participants in the big construction, as the opposition said, earned

10% in cash from it, that is, the company pivden motorway received from the state uah 50 billion and uah 5 billion depended on different prices for sand, tar, and fictitious leases for their front companies, took them out of there in cash and took them somewhere on the mountain. and who headed this company? this company is headed by oleksandr leonidovych boyko, well, that is, it is a pound of some kind, which no, this is a very serious businessman who continues to travel even now. fortification construction, and i say once again, it is documented here in every direction that you do not take a direction, biton emulsion, rent, diesel fuel, he created his own companies everywhere, screwed up at 10% and transferred to cash, and whose is it, whose data is it, those who have

access to investigative actions, well, it is implied that these are law enforcement data, that is, what... the opposition said before the war, that the government exchanged the development of the army for shadow revenues from large-scale theft, turned out to be more than just in the words of the repositioners, but with clearly established data, look here, there are even payments here, everything is established here, but that was before the war, well, you know, even i thought that let's deal with it later, because we are in huge trouble, and now it is necessary to look for points of unity, but it turns out that nothing has changed for... the authorities, in the 22nd year, large construction was closed, all funds went to the armed forces, finally, already in the 23rd year in the past, to road construction again allocated 44 billion, and this year another 17, in total it is again 1.5 billion dollars, and i have a question, was it worth repairing the road for uah 369 million

from kharkiv to vovchansk and also rebuilding it? that bridge that the muscovites, fleeing from our territory, blew up behind them, is it not on it that russian soldiers are marching so bravely now, without encountering minefields. now let me defend a little bit the armed forces and even the president, from those who say that there are no fortifications and so on and so forth. in fact, fortification lines are not built three or four 5, and sometimes 7 km from the border, because there are russian guns, they hit at least for... 15 km, so under this fire, well, it is not wise to put trenches. trenches, as a rule, are placed a little further, well, for example, 10 km, 15, and some, well, both bloggers and the military, claim that they are there, and the russians did not go there, that is, they passed by what, by military it is called the security lane of the main line of defense, but the security lane is so

called because it ensures that the enemy is not allowed to the main fronts. why do these figures walk so openly and calmly on the roads, why they reach vovchansk, where there are mines, and most importantly, where there is fire impression, if not from our artillery, then at least from our fpv kamikaze drones. i will repeat once again, such a goal is for any part of the front near maryenka, avdiivka, bakhmut, the left bank of the dnieper, for ours... well, just gold, there is none here, and here we come to the second question, let's finish with the fratifications, yes maybe there is no money for fortification, maybe the west, the congress, the senate, the bundestag, who else is to blame? no, according to the prime minister's statement , the government allocated this year for fortification,

i'm sorry, i'm peeping, again. i say in dollars, because it will be comparable to western equipment and everything else, that is , 38 billion hryvnias have been allocated again, which means 1 billion dollars, but in ratification, it is not just digging a trench 10 km deep for vovchanchanskyi, let’s for our the audience is simple, i will not show the military there any knowledge, because i am not a military professional. i'm a retired reserve officer, spent my year and a half in the infantry and the last four months in the bahmout as a cameraman, and yet it's obvious to me what the fortification line is a trench, it needs to be dug, but the kharkiv administration received money from the cabinet of ministers only in february and spent it

on unknown people, the mass media are already writing about it today, these are companies with signs. everything is repeated in the same way as in this yug highway, that is, money is lowered, they pretend that they have done earthworks, but the realization is a trench, this is concrete, this is a floor, these are survival capsules made of steel, these are underground concrete storages for personnel and ammunition, these are minefields in the front, these are anti-tank ditches and dragon's teeth in the front. and on the sides, and this is a must, a reconnaissance drone, such as a mavik, or a tenetic mavik, this is an impact drone, this is an fpv kamikaze drone. this is radio-electronic intelligence that flies at you, and this is a radio complex of radio-electronic warfare, as big as a bukovel that covers 20 km, or a trench

that covers 300 m. so today, while preparing for you, i calculated how much of this good is needed for the entire front . the length of our front is 1,500 km, this is the area of ​​responsibility of the battalion according to the charter, 5 km. it is clear that it is now larger, and... but the battalions are also incomplete, nevertheless, we have roughly 300 battalions, each battalion needs 40 day mavics, 20 night ones, that is 25.5 million dollars for all of them, for 300, fp 40 per day, if there are more hot battles, if it's shorter, on average, it's 144 million per month, strikers, about 10, which can drop mines directly on such borders. this is another 150 million. bukovel-type rapiers, which cover 20 km, 50 million. 100 pieces, 50 million. trenches,

if they cover 300 m, then 500 of them are needed. yes, that's another 20 million. in total, serhiy, 415 million dollars. and the government will allocate one billion for fortification, one and a half billion for drones, then. i have a question: why then do the fighters say that they dig the trenches themselves, i have two shovels? everyone else is turning to mayors and volunteers, give me the drones, then where did they go? the president promised a million drones, right? do we remember prime minister shmyhal said that 300,000 have already been paid in the army, and the european solidarity faction received an answer from the ministry of defense that the army is paid for by the state and local budgets, as well as only

145,000 large donors came, of which i want to say that poroshenko personally brought 1,500 troops, that is, tell me what is happening, poroshenko is not a poor person, but he, well, this is some distortion, he brought 10% of the drones. cotton donor who supports the armed forces from the first day of the war, the whole state together with all the cities brought half less than the promise of the prime minister and six times less than the promise of the president. what am i leading all this to? this, by the way, echoes your first question to our viewers about system of power. it seems to me that this is not the first, unfortunately, not the second, but many. the conclusion is repeated many times: unfortunately, populists in elections are always very interesting, and often even so funny, and then

this laughter turns into tragedy and crying. populists essentially do not have any state management experience, and therefore are not able to build any system of transitioning the economy to real wars. sergey, can you explain to me why min. numbers is responsible for fractionation, i don't know, but tell me who is actually responsible for the construction and distribution of drones, who and what does the prime minister do, that's why we urgently need to choose a system of managing the economy during the war for the armed forces, pay attention, the russians have changed the minister of defense, and it's not just like that, it's a serious bell, they. .. they appointed instead of such a parade of soviet-type balabol, they appointed a person with economic experience,

who worked out the transfer of the russian system under sanctions to internal development, well , in our opinion, he put the economy on the rails of war, they often say in our country, he was a curator the production of shaheeds and other drones, and now he has become the minister of defense, which means, it means that putin has delegated to him to create a war economy to support the army of the aggressor, this is one option, the second option, for example, was during the second world war in america, president roosevelt issued a decree and created a special council on the military, military economy, it was subordinate to him, it had enormous money, it was supposed to pour it into any enterprise that went into the production of the necessary... military eh products, this is the second option, but there was only one responsible, there was the government and its head , churchill, who also headed all economic and

military processes. in britain from the 39th to the victorious 45th, this is also the third option, we have the fourth option, no one is responsible for the war economy, but everyone is doing something together, the ministry of statistics makes registers, makes drones, for some reason builds fortifications, the ministry of strategic industries builds rockets, makes a lot of money when you look at the budget, and when... you look at facebook, you see a lot of requests to donate to support one, of the second, fifth, tenth military body, but look, yuri vitaliyovich, one of those who should have done it, who could definitely do it functionally, it was the same kubrakov, oleksandr kubrakov, who was retired, he had the status of vice prime minister, he united these two ministries, infrastructure, regional development and there, well, such a complicated name, but well, the lion's

share of this money. for sure, this ministry mastered, and the same agency from the restoration of ukraine there also enters into this competence autodorus and menegion so and so what happened to kubrakov in this situation? kubrakov comes, they say to him, listen, we will remove you, shmyhal did not speak to him, zelensky did not speak to him, he did not come to the committee, he was removed there, some german delegation went to meet him, reached halfway to. .. they say, but kubrakov is no one anymore, that is , turn back, what happened to kubrakov in general, because i still can’t understand, there are no clear explanations, and why he was fired, he was doing the wrong thing, or the wrong way , either not with those, or with those with those, well, first of all, i do not agree that the ministry of mines, which consists of regional development, that is, community development support, and was...

the autodora, as it would be called now, has to be responsible for the war, well, these are words on the globe, is not a stretch, it seems to me that such a person should obviously be the prime minister in our country, but the prime minister is not capable of performing this function, he is, he is not the prime minister, he is yermak's shmygal in the cabinet of prime ministers, and pinchuk, if you take akhmetov like that, it's already free time. look, the problem is that he carries out all the instructions given to him by the office of the president in an unconstitutional way, although he is already the prime minister for the fifth year, but that's why the armed forces constantly have no trenches, no body armor, spare parts for, and most importantly, there are no ukrainian missiles, ukrainian drones, and ukrainian components for various western equipment.

ok, then you say kubrakov, yes, indeed kub, our system was so stupidly built from populists without any experience, that at the beginning of the war, it was this ministry that was supposed to build roads and repair damaged houses, and cover the power plant, they engaged in the importation of shells and military equipment, then they for... for example, the shelter of energy facilities, well, what cholera, it’s not the ministry of energy, the former autodor, that’s what no one can explain, because there is no order, no rules in that team, there’s just vasya, you’re going to cover the power plant today, peter will come up to you and he ’ll tell you , what oksana said, i will do so.

as a result, to put it mildly, we are not doing very well with the shelters, so now, when these shelters do not save, they say that we are not here, but we are not involved, that's how it always works, if there is no order and system, then those responsible for failures do not exist, and this is the whole claim of society, yes we, for example, i do not get tired of repeating, president zelenskyi is a legitimate president, and after the 21st, he is also the president of a warring country, which means and my president, but... i want to hear who was responsible for the apparent failures before the war and during the war, and the answer to this is the only marathon telling us yet another pink unicorn about the fact that we are about to be in crimea again and we are about to have a victorious peace, but let's return to kubrakov, and why his removed, let's remember who doryna kubrakov was.