yourself and your loved ones, see you on the air, watch this week's judicial control program with tetyana shustrova. judicial reform and ukraine's path to the eu are under threat. if there is a failure of any european integration for us, then we will be in this limbo for an infinite number of times. but why does the supreme court leave unscrupulous judges in their positions? i bought it for what, but i sold it. congratulations, this is a program of judicial control, and as always, we are talking about the main reform, on which direction our european prospects depend. as in ukraine a new judiciary is being formed, and is it really possible to talk about a total renewal with confidence? experts notice alarming symptoms that may threaten the entire reform. about all this today, but first traditionally to the news. the firm of the wife of the head of the kyiv district. court of odesa serhiy chvankina

bought an apartment in maidama for 310 thousand dollars or almost 12 million uah. according to sledstvo.info, the apartment was purchased by the company of the judge's wife, nela golubeva. at home , the salary of a lawyer and a teacher of the odesa law academy does not allow such expenses as the salary of the judge himself. according to the florida company registry , golubeva opened a company in the united states that year in february. and in less than a month, the company purchased 105 m2 in miami. several hundred meters from the coast of the atlantic ocean. previously, the public integrity council in its conclusion about the judge's non-compliance with the criteria of integrity and professional ethics noted that the fortunes of chvankin and his family are of dubious origin. meanwhile, the press service of the kyiv district court of odesa published a refutation of the information about buying an apartment in miami, noting that the property was purchased on credit for 30 years. however , the loan agreement was never published in court. also, in the statement about... services

, there is an alleged threat of lawsuits against journalists who published news about the real estate registered to the firm of judge chvankin's wife. the higher qualifications commission continues to conduct interviews with candidates for the post of judge and with current themis employees, assessing their integrity and professional competence. and although this is already an updated composition of the vkks, which was formed in participation of foreign specialists and taking into account high standards, experts and public activists notice a decrease in the quality of conducting assessments. the commission is increasingly turning a blind eye to non-compliance. we have reloaded the highest quality in the panel of judges by 100%. expectations from them, and this is not only the expectation of ukrainian society, because the request for the purification of the judiciary, it has been very relevant since the time of the maidan, since the revolution of dignity, and we have only just started this process, or have we resumed, let's say, the qualification evaluation of judges , which it started back in 2015, with a new body

that was supposed to finally free us from unscrupulous judges, and everything started as if it was not bad, but now the percentage of cases, the percentage of judges, in respect of which the public integrity council made a negative decision, i.e. recognized them as unscrupulous, in respect of which the higher court agreed qualified commission of judges, today only 38%. of the more than 110 judges who have already passed the qualification assessment, at least... 62 had negative conclusions of the public integrity council, and more than half of them are higher the qualification commission, despite their dubious integrity, recognized them as suitable for the position and sent only 22 to dismissal, that is, in two-thirds of the cases, the higher qualification commission of judges throws into the trash all those facts and all those things that were found regarding the judges, their dishonesty, of their property, their previous...decisions and

so on, this is a bad number, but a catastrophic trend, because if this continues, there is every chance that in a few months, not even years, vkks will reach the numbers of the previous supreme court of appeals kozyakova, who was actually dismissed for the failure of judicial reform, when only 15 of the 300 judges who passed the qualification assessment were dismissed . of the court of dnipropetrovsk region serhii babii. in 2018, babia's wife bought a toyota chr car for almost uah 800,000. babii says that part of the amount for him was allegedly given to his wife by her mother, the rest he paid, but for some reason the judge did not indicate a gift in the declaration mother's, nor his own. it was said, i give the old one to my mother, and she helps me buy a new one with you 50/50. all. in the 13th year

, serhii babiya's wife purchased shares of the ebrd public joint-stock company for almost uah 110,000. according to the foundation, at that time she had no official income, judge. in none of the annual declarations did i report such shares or the income from their disposal, my wife purchased these securities with her own funds, i had nothing to do with this transaction, so what did i buy it for, but sold it, okay, but where did she get these funds, here's the issue, the wife had her own free funds all the time, the public council of integrity draws attention to the connections of judge serhii babii with the acting people's deputy of ukraine from the servant of the people, a member of the verkhovna rada committee on legal policy, oleksiy demchenko. in particular, together they were the founders of a law firm and even jointly own an office with an area of ​​111 m2 in dnipro. i stopped my participation in

the society, communication with demchenko continued sporadically. by formal sign i enter in the working group. of the ukrainian parliament on the issues of proper financing of the judiciary, which were created by the decision of the legal policy committee headed by mr. demchenko. from 2018 to 2021, the judge and members of his family traveled to russia several times. according to the public council of integrity, babii crossed the border with the aggressor country at least six times and returned to ukraine in less than a week. babiy himself explains this by the rules of border registration. and allegedly incorrectly entered information in the system, including in the judge's file nabu's information, and the departure airport is dnipro, the arrival airport is sharmershen, and the russian border section is indicated. have you crossed the border with

the russian federation? no. did not cross? did not cross. this explanation was fully satisfied by the vkks. in february 2022, serhii babii tried to become a member of the supreme council of justice. ethics council. thoroughly studied his biography and recognized him as unscrupulous. the ethics council, which was engaged in the reform of the supreme council of justice, which, together with international experts, admitted that, more precisely, it did not give a recommendation on the criterion integrity, recognized the judge as unscrupulous in fact. the higher commission of judges at the qualification evaluation says: everything is great, great judge, you can continue to work until the end of your days, in the updated, reformed judicial system of ukraine. often higher qualification. the judges' mission turns a blind eye to judges' smearing of drunk drivers. themis officials use a common scheme of prolonging the case, and then simply closing it because the time limit has expired. this is a known evasion scheme to avoid responsibility for drunk driving,

as a result, we have accidents, fatal, including, literally not so long ago, there was a story about an 18-year-old girl who was killed by a drunk scumbag, sorry for driving. which before that, six months before, the judge did not take away the law, in spite of all this, the higher commission of new judges of kvilov recognizes them as virtuous. thus, the supreme court of justice retained ada pedenko, the judge of the solomyansky district court of kyiv, who, according to the calculations of the public council of virtue, actually granted amnesty to the 21st drunk driver and alina, the judge of the slavyansk city district court of the donetsk region goncharova, who closed about 100 cases for drunk driving. judge goncharova, who... closed more than 50% of the cases she had on drunk driving due to the statute of limitations, which means that most of the cases you consider in this category, you consider so badly that they are closed and the term simply expires. last year, in

november, the higher qualification commission of judges and the public integrity council agreed on a joint list of markers that indicate the ineligibility of a judge or a candidate for a position judges to the criteria of integrity and profession. ethics, as well as the principles of their application. however, vkks seems to have decided to ignore the agreements. drunk driving are indicators in black and white, written in the criteria, which are jointly agreed by the highest commission of judges and the public integrity council, which are indicators of dishonesty. that is , both bodies agreed that if there are such cases, it is dishonest, the decision is contrary to the decision of the same body. if this trend ... will continue all qualification assessment, and so on the general cleansing of the judicial system of ukraine will be under threat. qualification assessment of judges is one of the priorities. the reset of the vcks was one, there was number two, the reset of the vcks of the ivrp with seven points that we needed to fulfill in order to

obtain candidate status and open negotiations on joining the eu. that is, in fact, if this reform fails, everything goes to that, then... no european integration for us, well , that is, we will simply be in this limbo for an infinite number of years in the status candidate, and we will surpass the turkish language simply by this parameter, which has been there for 25 years. so, currently, in fact, the quality of the work of the higher qualification commission of judges depends on whether the judicial reform will continue in ukraine, and thus the path to the european union. and for today i have everything. if you want to report corrupt judges or illegal decisions, write to me on facebook or to this email address. see you in exactly a week.

the search for student alina bozhko, who disappeared on february 17 this year, has been going on for 3 months volyn region. the circumstances of the disappearance are without exaggeration very mysterious. let me remind you that 17-year-old alina was relaxing with her friends in nature near the village of ugrynnychi. take this photo. a few hours before the girl's disappearance, around 2 p.m., alina left for the forest, but did not return. friends say that it was her decision, that they were on vacation and she went in an unknown direction, then they got mad and started looking for her. friends began to look and call for alina, but, unfortunately, she was nowhere to be found, so they asked for help. search immediately hundreds of people joined, law enforcement officers, rescuers, military and... just caring local residents, they examined forest strips,

bushes, coastal areas and swampy areas, and it gave a certain result, they managed to find the girl's belongings, this is a wallet with an id-passport, etc. 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, at the moment there are no more clues or information. searches are conducted daily on the territory. there are swamps that could not be crossed by humans resource in connection with the fact that the weather was wet. we are now continuing our search in those areas where we did not have the opportunity before. 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, it continues, and from myself... 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, to help me, i don't believe that she is not among the living, she is alive, i want her to be found, i can't sleep or eat, i just don't live, i just exist. in turn , fellow villagers said that alina comes from a prosperous family, and in the educational institution where she studies, she... was described 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 the new year, she lived in our dormitory. alina followed the rules of living and in lessons was constantly it is also known that in the summer of 2023 , alina's 20-year-old fiancé died in the war with the russian invaders. after that, the girl returned to her studies and all this time tried to ... recover from such a loss. we really hope that alina is alive

and will be found. and the least you could do to help in this situation is to repost and share this video on your social networks. the more people see the information about the missing girl, the more chances there will be to find her. and of course, i ask for more look carefully at alina's face. she is 17 years old, of average... build, with blonde hair and green eyes. if you know anything about alina boshko, don't hesitate and immediately call the hotline at 11630. calls from all mobile operators in ukraine are free. you can also write to us on the website or to the chatbot of the child search service in telegram. and i want to note that there is no unimportant information in the search, any little thing, any detail can... become decisive, so we really hope for your help, attention and

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good afternoon, you are watching espresso tv channel, my name is lesya. kokulyuk, and today i will speak with a person who has been commenting on russia's full-scale invasion of ukraine since day one. this is a polish military man, general, former commander of the polish ground forces, waldemar skrzypchak. greetings, mr. generals. i am glad that you agreed to this interview and i would like to talk to you about this one war and its prospects. in your opinion, this is also how the situation on the battlefield looks like . russia will be able to say that it won the war when it defeats the ukrainian army. and

currently, the russians have not been able to defeat the ukrainian army for more than two years. they cannot break it and overcome the defense. the army of ukraine fought successfully for two years and continues to fight, will fight, i believe in it. and that prospect, which putin announced, will be stopped for good in the summer of this year. it will be stopped this summer. yes, this means that the russians will not achieve theirs. since the defense of the ukrainian army is very strong, the army is very good, it fights excellently, they are unsurpassed soldiers who beat the russian army with their heroism, despite the fact that the russians have a great advantage over the ukrainian army, they cannot defeat it and in my opinion they will not defeat it . lost a large number of its

troops, which were trained, had a lot of war experience, because the war started in 2014. and in fact, they are now talking about the fact that a ukrainian counteroffensive is likely in the near future. we'd like that, but as a soldier, i'm watching it's realistic. first of all, the russians have several times the advantage over the ukrainian army, which allows them to conduct an offensive, this is

the first thing. why do you think there is talk of a counteroffensive then? from my point of view, the situation is based on the fact that this is how propaganda works. propaganda shows the desired. instead, in order for the ukrainians to defeat the russian army and liberate those territories, they should have an advantage, not the russians. and at the moment

, the advantage is on the side of russia, so the main goal of the ukrainians should be this. now in ukraine very much there is a lot of talk about mobilization, because there are very large losses among the military. the law on mobilization is coming into effect, and recently ukrainians are talking about the fact that services in the consulates of ukraine in poland may be suspended, and... also about the fact that poland can somehow help with the return of the men who ended up there.

kyiv's decision to mobilize was very late, at least by eight months. in may of last year, kyiv was supposed to announce mobilization, but did not announce it. hence the problems at the front. ukrainians in poland have asylum, they fled from the war in ukraine and found refuge in poland and germany. in many other countries. this is a great potential of young people who can be soldiers. but the key motive for returning to ukraine, first of all, is that they feel they are ukrainians and want to defend ukraine. and the second is that the government in kyiv must turn to governments in europe, to warsaw, to berlin, to paris, to prague, with a proposal for an international agreement that would allow ukraine to... this must be in accordance with

laws and according to agreements between governments, then ukrainians can create, for example, in poland, in germany, recruiting centers for ukrainians who will report to the army, so this condition should also be based on voluntary. about what people say, why are they sitting here, they have to defend their country, but do you hear that among polish society we give money, we help, they just take advantage of what they live here, but they do not defend their country, first of all the position of the poles is to support ukraine and ukrainians the voices of society, which are also heard in the media, say that it is necessary to act according to the law, you cannot do anything by force, you cannot carry out roundups, you cannot deport ukrainians to ukraine, because

poland is a country of law and a democratic country, but of course, the poles claim that it is the duty of ukrainians to return to ukraine and fight for ukraine, but in my opinion the main role here is the role of kyiv and the government. is poland ready for the fact that the war may come to the poles? we are determined, we are in nato, the strength of nato is growing from month to month a month, we are stronger now, we have more growth. to ukrainians who are fighting well, we feel safer, we have time to be a big advantage, thanks to you also, thanks

to prepare our forces, modernize and equip and prepare for what may happen because of putin, but i believe that putin is afraid of nato, because its confrontation with nato would lead to the downfall of putin's russia, that is, putin... russia has always been our enemy, so we

are ready for it as well as ukrainians, i think that we will be in solidarity, all poles in order to to defend our homeland, and our presence in nato is also a guarantor of this. you recently said that the border between belarus and... poland needs to be mined, will the polish government listen to you, or will other military personnel listen to you? it is difficult to say whether they are listening, because if they were listening, they would do something. in the meantime, i say that in order to prepare for war, it is not necessary to undermine the borders. but you have to prepare for it. it is necessary to plan mining directions. to accumulate stocks of mines, so that the russians, who want to attack poland, had to overcome minifields, as they do now in the kharkiv direction and the lyman mine.

could there be such a situation that poland will help protect the sky over western ukraine in order to help ukraine? then they should issue

a warning to putin that every missile that flies in the direction of poland or nato countries will be destroyed by nato troops, because there cannot be such a situation that russian missiles fly into the territory of poland, as was the case in peredov, when the missile killed two poles, and the russians had consequences for this. there should be a clear warning to putin that every rocket that will fly in the western direction. nato will be destroyed, there cannot be such missiles falling in poland, romania or lithuania. this is nato's role, and nato must give putin a clear signal that every missile will be destroyed. why hasn't there been such a signal yet? this organization is more political than military. there is a lot of discussion and lack of courage for decisions. instead

, politicians who lack the courage to tell putin clearly are in charge. every missile that approaches us will be destroyed by air defense systems. there is no other option said that poland should have nuclear weapons, polish prime minister donald tusk is against it, and what do you think about it, will such weapons help poland, or on the contrary, provoke a greater threat from russia? in my opinion, the problem lies in something else: firstly, the consent of nato is needed for the weapons to be on the front-line territory,