pushing the concepts of who is responsible for what, where is the political decision to get bakhmut or mariupol, and where is the military decision, how to do it, it leads to tragic consequences, and by the way, i mentioned about mariupol, so sodol was responsible for mariupol, and in he has, in particular, a very close general, who, as i already wrote, has a criminal case against chongar, and here i see that he has again received the responsible direction of the front, or? will you demand the resignation of oleksandr syrsky now after what you have said here? well you i don't understand whether you will demand the resignation of syrskyi or not. i don't know and i'm not ready to answer that for you yet, because it's a big broad question, but do we have a replacement? uhu, don't you regret that zaluzhnyi resigned, maybe he could cope with these challenges? no, i don't regret it at all, because mariupol is in good hands. bakhmut, lysychansk, severodonetsk

and preparations for the invasion, and i was a witness to some events, i don’t even want to mention them, but they will have to be analyzed very well, so the meticulousness and detailing is the work of syrsky, it is completely another, he at least goes to the front, finally, finally, our commander-in-chief goes to the front and sees what is happening there directly, because zaluzhnyi had problems with this, he was at... in a representative format in this format literally several times during the entire time , and the first year he did not leave the kyiv region at all. maryana, i am grateful to you for joining our broadcast, maryana bezugla, people's deputy from servant of the people and deputy chairman of the committee on national security, defense and intelligence, we were talking about mobilization, the law about mobilization came into force, and we talked about, maryana talked about the management crisis in the army. thank you very much. today marks exactly 5

years of volodymyr zelenskyy's tenure as president, his inauguration took place on this day in 2019. at that time, he promised punishment for corrupt officials, said that he would limit himself to one term and spoke of his desire to end the war in donbas. listen and see how it was. and our first task is a ceasefire in donbas.

i have often been asked what you are ready for for a ceasefire, a strange question, what you ukrainians are ready for, for the sake of the lives of people close to you, what i can assure you, so that our heroes do not die again, i am ready for anything. i'm definitely not afraid to make difficult decisions, i'm ready to lose my popularity, my ratings, and if necessary, i'm ready without hesitation to lose my position, just so that peace can come.

without losing our territories, never. five years later, it can be stated that to some extent fate played a cruel joke on the president, the war has covered the entire country, domestic politics is abuzz with... corruption scandals, including among the president himself, and zelenskyi is often accused of wanting to usurp power. as of today, all these criticisms are also supported by narratives about the shaky legitimacy of the president. in the conditions of martial law , the law prohibits the election of the president, and this creates a situation that has never happened before in the ukrainian political system. the head of state remains in office longer than the specified term, even for good reasons, through the war doubts about the legitimacy of zelenskyi's stay. in the post of president

after may 20 arose due to unclear wording in the constitution, there is no direct prohibition to hold presidential elections during wartime, all this gives an opportunity not only to russian propaganda, but also to... political opponents of zelensky to question his legitimacy, ukrainian public opinion so far that rather on the side of zelenskyi, according to the february survey of the kyiv international institute of sociology, 69% of ukrainians want that he perform his duties until the end of martial law, 50% for 15, i apologize for the interest for holding elections, 10 for transferring the powers of the president to the speaker of the verkhovna rada, and by the way, this is exactly what dmytro razumkov, ex-speaker of the parliament and once close an associate zelensky at the same time, 53% of the respondents in the polls of the commission were in favor of zelensky going for a second term, well, although the share of such people gradually decreases each time. how do you assess the 5 years of zelensky's presidency? you can write in the comments. we also asked this question to people in kyiv. listen. it is difficult to assess his presidential

term, since the times of the war were quite difficult for his time. but in general, in principle, i am satisfied. i have well, there are questions, of course, but in general positive, negative questions, well, most likely about the process of mobilization and demobilization of our troops, from a positive point of view, the fact that, after all , there are personnel changes from time to time, everything has become worse, and corruption, and more bribes again, it all grew up, normal, satisfactory, i would she said, the war, you understand, there are a lot of issues here, so i don't want... debauchery, it seems to me that he is doing everything he can, well , it seems to me, and i want to believe. mediocre, well, because as the supreme commander-in-chief, he did not provide time for non -mobilization. excellent assessment, i think he copes with his duties. active,

worried about everyone, the military, people. i don't have a good impression, because freedom of speech is a min-resource. well, those are the impressions. i like you, mr. president, volodymyr zelenskyi put, but at the moment there is no completion, so the cadence continues, and we will wait. andrii magera, deputy chairman of the central election commission of ukraine, 2007-18 joined our broadcast. good evening. i congratulate you. yes, the first, main question, which will probably be relevant from tomorrow, is whether president zelensky remains legitimate according to the constitution. after may 20, given that the constitution clearly, let's say, in 1996, when it was adopted clearly, did not foresee all the legal regimes that should be and are not of a separate chapter, these provisions are scattered across different chapters of the constitution of ukraine, but according to

the experts of constitutional law, and actually i also belong to these experts, who gave the conclusion, made the material. it is the center of political and legal reforms. in our opinion, president zelensky remains legitimate even after may 20. due to the fact that, although the five-year term expired, the five-year term of his mandate, however, in view of the full-scale invasion of the russian federation and in view of the fact that we are still under martial law, during which it is impossible exercise many constitutional rights and freedoms, still the president of ukraine. not only has the right, he is obliged to fulfill these duties, since there cannot be a power vacuum, and the first part of article 108 of the constitution must be read in such a way that it speaks of the continuity of power, that is, the continuity of presidential power, but if i understand correctly,

the constitution does not clearly state that the powers of the president of ukraine will continue there or continue until the end of martial law. it was you who interpreted the totality of different ones articles and interpreted in this way that the president remains legitimate, but this is not clearly written in the constitution, so in our constitution there is the first part of article 108, it is written that the president of ukraine exercises powers before the newly elected president of ukraine takes office, who will replace him when, for example, the seventh president, the seventh president will replace him after the elections are held, when the elections are held, after the day is over. martial law, that is, these are interdependent things that cannot to exist without each other, that is, this is a kind of interdependence of many provisions of the constitution, if we are shown, as an example , article 83 regarding the parliament, and it is clearly written, let me quote it so that

it is simply clear for our audience: in the event of the expiration of the term of office of the supreme council of ukraine during a state of war or state of emergency, its mandate continues. until the day of the first meeting of the first session of the verkhovna rada, elected after the abolition of martial law or the state of emergency, here is very clearly everything about the verkhovna rada it is written in the constitution about the president. it is impossible to find, look, we still do not have an official interpretation of the constitutional court of ukraine, and that would be ideal, i am already talking about the interpretation, probably for six months, at least, there is none, no one even applies, but it was possible, the deputies should have applied in advance , not only, no less than 45 deputies, the president, the government, the supreme court, the ombudsman, none of them applied, and why they did not apply, do you have an understanding or an explanation, i think there are more political... considerations, probably , as far as i know, from unofficial sources, there is no certainty when and what

the decision of the constitutional court will be, that is , the question here is not that it will have to be implemented in any case, whatever it may be, that there is no certainty as to what the meaning of this decision will be, well, this is, in my opinion, a rather blatant case, but let's return to the constitution itself, well, we do not have a decision of the constitutional court, but we are forced to leave that matter. which is you cited article 83, why, for example, this record is relative to the parliament, but relative there is no president. in my opinion, there can be two reasons. the first reason is that in 1996, when the constitution was adopted, uh, the constitution makers, in this particular case the people's deputies who voted for the constitution, tried to pay special attention to the parliament, that is, as the main pillar of democracy in the country. the second, the second reason is that the fourth chapter in sequence, precedes

the fifth chapter, the fourth chapter about the verkhovna rada, precedes the fifth chapter, which deals with the president, and even more so, precedes the chapter chapter 10 of the autonomous republic of crimea, which deals with the verkhovna rada of the arc, and chapter 11, which deals with local councils and village mayors, it is not by chance that i mention all these institutions, because they are all elected, they also elect. in the elections by the citizens of ukraine, and therefore, from my point of view, if the parliament said this in the fourth chapter, then obviously here a certain projection, a certain logic, a certain vector of understanding of certain constitutional provisions should also be transferred to the fifth chapter regarding president, and on the 10th chapter 11 is about local elections, so the logic is probably this, but it would be ideal to do it in the constitution in the form of a separate one. section regarding special regimes, so, for example, it is in the constitution of the republic of poland

of 1997, or in other constitutions, we were made the way they were made, and we are forced to proceed from what is, so i emphasize once again that according to the experts of the communist party of ukraine, the powers of president zelenskyi remain legitimate, but i will add one thing about myself: despite the fact that the legitimacy of the current president does not cause comments about... however, it must be understood that from the first day of the sixth year of office, the actual sixth year of zelenskyi's office, he will be quite in the political sense like a crooked duck, that is, he will be quite vulnerable politically, and he must understand, only in in ukraine or outside of ukraine as well, and in ukraine and beyond and outside of ukraine, he needs to understand these subtleties in order to consolidate ukrainian society and all political forces around him. not only about the ruling party, but also about the opposition, statist forces, that is, it should be

harmony in society, including what the president has to say: yes, the servant of the people party has a one-party government in the verkhovna rada, but i am ready to go to meet all political forces, send this government out of office and form it according to the technocratic principle, in order to that all political forces offer highly qualified specialists and that we all together take responsibility for this. thank you very much, it would be a very strong step, i put three dots here, because we will definitely return to this topic. andriy magera, deputy chairman of the central election commission, 2007-2018 was at radio svoboda. we have everything for today, until tomorrow. what is bahmud? bahmud is a place of fear, a place of courage. no matter what anyone says, bravery is not the absence of fear. bahmud is the

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asked for help. hundreds of people immediately joined the search. military and simple caring local residents. they surveyed forest strips, scrubland, coastal areas, and marshland. and it gave a certain result. we managed to find the girl's belongings, this is a wallet with an id passport, a headband, as well as alina's coat. it was lying in the forest 7 km from the place where the student was last seen. unfortunately, there are currently no more hints or information. searches are conducted daily, there are swamps on the territory that could not be crossed by human resources due to the fact that the weather was wet. we are now continuing our search in those areas where we did not search before opportunities, we are working out all possible versions of her disappearance. the search will continue until we establish the truth. the situation is really difficult, but we really hope that alina will be found and

most importantly, that she is alive. so all this time the search did not stop. continue, and we are doing everything possible to help find alina, and above all , the girl's mother, mrs. kateryna, is asking for help in the search. i want help, i can't believe she's not alive, she's alive, i want her found, i can't sleep or eat, i i just don't live, i just exist. in turn , fellow villagers said that alina is from a prosperous family, and she is in education. the institution where she studies described her as a very good and calm student. she did not have any conflicts in the group, she is a cheerful, cheerful girl, she went to classes until... until the new year, she lived in our dormitory. alina followed the rules of residence and was always at classes. it is also known that in the summer of 2023

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yarmolenko, congratulations. help ukraine repel the russian offensive in kharkiv oblast. this was the focus of the next meeting of the contact group on the defense of ukraine, the so-called ramshtein format. this is already the 22nd such meeting and this time it was held in a virtual format. journalists at the final press conference. tried to clarify washington's logic about not using western weapons to attack military targets on the territory of russia. was it possible to get a clear answer, is washington ready to change position and when to expect additional patriot batteries? we will talk about all this with our pentagon correspondent ostap yarysh, who is joining the broadcast today. ostape, hello. congratulations yulia. how does the pentagon assess the combat situation in the kharkiv direction, and what are they ready to do so that ukraine can repel the russian offensive? yes yuli, recently after this press conference here at the pentagon, lloyd austin, the us secretary of defense, as well as charles brown, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff of the united states, talked a lot about kharkiv, talked about what

efforts the allies are currently making to support the ukrainian army. certainly, lloyd gosin said, russia is now opening a second offensive front, advancing on the kharkiv region, attacking ukrainian villages, killing civilians, attacking civilian infrastructure, however, he says that russian troops are paying a high price for this, as well the pentagon's assessment of the combat situation in the kharkiv area was shared by the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff of the united states, charles brown. let's hear what he said. in recent days, russia has launched new offensive attacks on kharkiv, aiming to create a shallow buffer zone along the ukrainian border. russia expects that this will divert ukraine's attention and resources from other critical areas. ukrainians made efforts to develop and strengthen defensive lines. which are now being tested by russian attacks. ukraine spends ammunition for air defense for to protect its skies from russia's constant attacks on critical civilian infrastructure.

ukrainian forces are struggling to contain russia's advance on the front line, while defending against russian offensives, ukrainians are facing challenges to their own reserves and supplies, underscoring the urgency of this coalition's work to support ukraine. that's why the question. in the kharkiv region, how to support ukrainian, ukrainian troops there was at the center of today's discussions of the contact group on the defense of ukraine, they talked about how ways to address these challenges, in particular , they discussed and discussed providing ukraine with air defense systems, or strengthening this shield, how else to help the ukrainian army, they also talked to yulia about long-term needs, talked about how to strengthen the ukrainian army for the future, and what countries can do, how to strengthen its possible defense bases, or approach those... challenges and needs that ukraine has now. ostape, if washington says that most of the efforts are now to help ukraine to protect kharkiv oblast, are the united states ready states to change their position and allow

the ukrainians... to use american weapons on the other side of the border against military targets in russia? yuli, this is a very important question, it is heard not only by journalists. yesterday, literally, victoria nolen, the former deputy secretary of state of the united states, voiced her opinion on american television, she said that the united states should change this approach and allow the ukrainians to strike russian targets located on the territory of russia. from where russia launches its attacks on ukraine. she says that such russian bases from where... russia carries out these attacks or uses these bases to strengthen or to provide its troops are completely legitimate targets, and the united states, according to victoria noland, should help ukraine so that it can carry out such strikes. today there were many questions for lloyd austin to charlie brown about the approach of the united states. or not, the us is going to change this approach and lift this ban on the use of weapons. clear answers: yulia, today we did not hear from either the minister of defense

or the chairman. of the joint staffs of the united states states, they say further that the weapons that are provided are for close combat on the battlefield in ukraine, or for striking on the territory, others, for example, in crimea, we also heard about this, but we also asked lloyd austin today, what about those strikes that russia carries out from bombers from the territory of russia, dropping cabs on kharkiv, do the ukrainians have the right, according to the usa, to strike and shoot down these planes? let's hear the answer. we have clearly stated that we will provide ukraine with the means to protect its sovereign territory. we will leave the dynamics of close combat to experts, but we certainly expect that the ukrainians will continue to use the weapons provided by us for purposes inside ukraine. the dynamics in the air are a little different, but again , i don't want to speculate on any type of fight from this podium. ostap has

literally a minute left, minister austin, secretary of state. stated that they are working tirelessly to get more patriot batteries for ukraine, are there any results? yulia, we have not heard any public statements yet, we know that one of the focuses of this group today was precisely on strengthening the air defense shield, leodostin emphasized that the united states in the last package provided ammunition for nasams or patriot systems, and we know that these packages will be formed in the future, we also know that the allies are trying to deliver additional systems to ukraine, there was information. the media reported that the usa might also provide an additional battery to the patriot, but no specific statements were made today, perhaps they will be made later. we will follow this, it is definitely an important topic. thank you ostap, my colleague ostap yarysh was on the phone from the pentagon. international prosecutor of the criminal court karim khan requested an arrest warrant for israeli prime minister

benjamin netanyahu, defense minister yoah valant along with three hamas leaders for war crimes during the war. this move caused a wave of criticism in israel's allied countries. judge khan, in particular, is accused of using international law as a weapon. at the same time, supporters of the decision insist that the law should be equal for everyone. us secretary of state anthony blinkin said the united states strongly rejects the prosecutor's statement and equates israel with hamas - it's a shame. the spokesperson of the state department clarified the us position in more detail. the united states categorically rejects today's announcement by the prosecutor of the international criminal court to request arrest warrants for senior israeli officials along with warrants for hamas terrorists. there should be no equivalence between israel and hamas, none. hamas is a brutal terrorist organization that has carried out the most brutal massacre of jews since the holocaust and is still holding

hostages. dozens of innocent people, including americans. moreover, long before this conflict, the united states clearly pre...