his mother allegedly gave it to his wife, he paid the other, but for some reason the judge did not indicate either his mother's gift or his own in the declaration. it was said, i give my mother the old one, and she helps me buy a new one 50-50 50-50 with you, that's all. in 2013, serhii babiya's wife purchased shares of the ebrd public joint-stock company for almost uah 110,000. according to the dejure foundation, she had no official income at that time. the judge did not report such shares or income from their disposal in any of the annual declarations, the wife purchased these securities with my own funds, i had nothing to do with this transaction, so what exactly did i buy it for, but sold it, well, well, where did she get these funds, that's the point in this matter, the wife had her own free funds all the time , the public integrity council from...

draws attention to the connections of judge serhii babii with the current 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 have one in common office property with an area of ​​111 m2 in dnipro. i stopped my participation in the association, communication with demchenko continued sporadically. on a formal basis, i enter the working class. the group of the ukrainian parliament on the issues of proper financing of the judiciary, which was 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 the border.

and allegedly incorrectly entered information into the system, the judge's file includes information about the nabu, and the departure airport dnipro, the arrival airport sharmershen, the russian border section are indicated. have you crossed the border with the russian federation? no, they did not cross, did not cross. this explanation fully satisfied the vkk. in february 2022, serhii babii tried to become a member of the supreme council of justice. the ethics council thoroughly studied his biography and found him unscrupulous. the ethics council, which was engaged in the reform of the supreme council of justice, which, together with international experts, recognized that, more precisely, it did not give a recommendation on the criterion of integrity, and recognized the judge as unscrupulous in fact. the 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. this

commission of judges turns a blind eye to judges' smearing of drunk drivers. themis employees use a common scheme of delaying the case, and then just they close it due to expiration of the terms. this is a well-known evasion scheme to avoid responsibility for drunk driving, the result is accidents, fatal, including, literally not so long ago, there was a story about an 18-year-old girl who was killed by a drunken scumbag, sorry, behind the wheel of before that, six months before, the judge did not take away the right. in spite of all this, the higher commission of new judges of kvel recognizes them as virtuous. thus, the supreme court of justice retained ada pedenko, the judge of the solomyan district court of kyiv, who, according to the calculations of the public council of virtue, actually granted amnesty on the 21st of a drunk driver and the judge of the slovyansky district court of the donetsk region, alina goncharova, who closed about 100 cases for drunken driving. judge goncharov, how

does this mean that most of the cases you consider in this category are so poorly handled that they are closed and the deadline 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 that a judge or a candidate for the position of judge does not meet the criteria integrity and professional ethics, as well as the principles of their application. however, vkks seems to have decided to ignore the agreements. drunk driving are indicators written in black and white 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'. tion

will continue all qualification assessment, and therefore, the general cleansing of the judicial system of ukraine will be in jeopardy. qualification assessment of judges is one of the priorities. rebooting. the vks was one and number two was about downloading the vkss and vrp from seven points that we needed to fulfill in order to obtain the status of a candidate and open negotiations on joining the eu, that is, in fact, if this reform fails, everything goes to that, then there will be no european integration for us , that is, we will be in this limbo for an infinite number of years in status candidate and surpass the turkish language simply by this parameter, which is already there. 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 therefore the path to the european union. and that's all for today, 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. congratulations, friends, the politclub program is on the air on the espresso tv channel, vitaly is with you tailor. 837 day of war, the main events of the week, the main events of this day, the main trends with our experts, our first interlocutor on today's broadcast, ivan stupak, a military expert, an employee of the sbu 2024. good evening, thank you very much for the invitation, and let's start with the impression of a su-57 fighter in the astrakhan region of the russian federation, they say this is the first strike in history on a su-57, which in principle proves this. well, let's leave aside

the money topic, well, let's say how much it is worth, of course we know that the russians money does not count, but we must say that 55 million dollars is not lying on the road. the russians have minus one such fighter for such an amount, it must be said that only six of them were produced, not 60, not 600, six, now there are five of them left, and it is reported that there are six more units that are in in a different state of assembly, somewhere there is more, somewhere less, but now they are not functioning, and i constantly emphasize that this is a blow, any on the plane, on the ship from the side. countries, and this is not half, it is possible 1/3 of the work, 2/3 is reconnaissance, well , once again, for so many hundreds of kilometers, to find out where, when, in what area, in what location of this airfield this aircraft will be located, because it is not just a drone there arrived, and anywhere

, i hit, something will burn, no, no, they clearly knew where he would stand, they clearly knew that, for example, from where until the 12th he would be in this parking slot without traffic, that is , ukraine. .. the eyes are directly on this airfield, if we remember about yesterday's strikes, about the fact that it was also possible to neutralize quite important objects of the russian federation, to fly, one might say, to an absolutely historic distance to mozdok, then this should, in principle, be a signal to the russians that there are certain problems with their potential, you know, they understood, they know that there are problems, ah... but are there ways to solve this problem, of course, well, in principle, this is human logic, which is okay, there is no big problem there yet, well, we are working in the same mode as before. the first problem arises, there is a calculation that it is possible, you know, oh, well, this is one time, something happened, the next, well the next problem will no longer arise here, i

think, after the second or third hit, of course the russians will then start doing the standard story, that is, drag the aviation as far as possible deep into their territory, by the way, if you are talking about the brain. there is a report that ukraine hit a tu-22, this is a strategic russian bomber, by the way, this is part of the nuclear shield of the russian federation, that is , the ukrainians again went behind the red lines of the russian federation, behind the nuclear red lines, took a selfie there and returned back, that is, it is a really great achievement, without exaggeration. president zelenskyi says that it is now possible to state that the kharkiv operation was not successful, and the russians are continuing with this. transfer their forces from the kherson region to the kharkiv region, they do not stop, at least that is what the command of the special operations forces testifies to, yet they were not successful, and do they still continue to look for new opportunities? come on, so that we are not wearing rose-colored glasses, let's say the first thing, the operation that

the russians were planning for themselves, to go there to kharkiv or bypass kharkiv and cut our group, which is located in kupinsk, well this kupinsk limanskyi direction. did not succeed, but once again, well, this is a sober assessment, they managed, unfortunately, to pull away our reserves, this is not a big secret, our military said a lot about it, that they were forced to withdraw from different directions. the divisions are diverse, and it is to be transported to kharkiv region, by the way, and the glorious division of the birds of magyar, it is also located there, although it used to tour specifically in the south, that is, it is now located in kharkiv region, if the russian well, considering that the russians have reached the minimum price, to stretch our reserves, to strain them, they really succeeded, unfortunately, and they continue to do so, by the way, they are taking their troops from other directions, from the south, from kramatorsk to ... in the direction of the troops and transfer them to the north, this is the belgorod region, they are accumulating there, if we talk about the further actions

of the russians, in your opinion, in principle, they will continue to try to advance in the kharkiv region, they will turn east, they will think about the north, how can you talk about the further actions of the russian occupiers, let's try not to guess, to predict, if there are reports that they are taking their equipment there from the south, from berdyansk, from the kramatorsk direction. and drag to the north, this means that, in principle, active actions will take place there. we have basically three, three potential scenarios that we can try to predict. the first is an attack on the sumy region, as the president said, in principle, yes, it is really possible, they can attack. the second option is to open some third direction in the kharkiv region, it may be, well, to the existing two, this may also be an option, or as a third option, it is support for the previous one. offensive, to strengthen it, to feed it, it was not possible for almost a month, so this russian

offensive has been going on for almost a month, and it is possible that this gathering of troops just serves, well, it has such a purpose, to support offensive actions and draw even more ukrainian troops there and cement them there. in principle, if we talk about how far we can now hope that this front line, which will be established. on the moment of the suspension of the offensive of the russian troops, we understand that there is not much time left for the russians to continue this offensive, that it will be such a new line of contact, wherever it passes, for a certain time, perhaps, as it was in the past, yes, it really could be, i don't rule it out, and i'm even more, i predict that it can be like a bargaining chip for this territory, for future potential peace talks there, that is... russians, it's quite possible, can throw these territory on the window and say yes well, we give you back, for example, that’s all, all

the rest you ukrainians are forced to admit, and this may affect our individual partners there, that ’s okay, what a deal, ukrainians urgently accept, of course, this is hypothetical, but that’s just how the russians leave they won't, by the way, they are once again violating all their written dogmas, written specifically by the military, when it is necessary to break through with great efforts, with large troops on a narrow section of the front. and they are stretching again, as it was in february, april of the 22nd year, but why do they want stretch our front, what is the main idea at all? look, the general idea is still unclear, we don’t have clear data there, but we can assume and each, each of these assumptions can have foundations, see, first of all, bypass kharkiv from the west, without entering kharkiv, cut combination. of the russian troops, that is, the kupinsky and lyman directions, that is, to make our troops nervous that

russian troops are coming to their rear, logistics support is interrupted, limping, and this will force us to retreat under the pressure of the advancing russians from east to west in that direction, that is, in principle, to cut off the supply of our troops, it is quite possible, as an option , the terrorist goal is to come as close as possible to kharkiv 15-20 km and banally simply fire from... artillery, using the advantage in artillery, by the way , about the advantage in artillery, i can’t go through the memo, i can’t say at all, two weeks ago, the superiority of the russians in artillery, attention was one to seven, that is, for one ukrainian shot, seven shots of the russians from artillery, mortars and so on, now as of yesterday or the day before yesterday, this one this is a ratio of one to 3.5, i.e. for one ukrainian... 3.5 russian shots have already been fired, i.e. we have, we record the fact that

western aid is still coming to the front and helping our troops to contain the russians, and why the president putin tells such fictions that the losses in his advancing troops are five or 10 times less than in the ukrainian ones, which in fact almost all the time except for the period of the counteroffensive, which also, as such an intense period, ended quite quickly defend yes, well, look, it's possible here only psychology works, once ukraine named its numbers, president zelensky named, if i am not mistaken, 31,000 of our... dead servicemen on all these fronts, the russians stopped counting their losses, it seems, back in the 22nd year at the 600 mark military personnel and all, and now there is such a pause, a vacuum in information, but perhaps with this throw-in putin wants to show that the losses of the russians are much smaller, that the ukrainians are losing more,

that it is hopeless, that the ukrainians will run out much faster than there at all any help will come, and it is possible to convince china there, it is possible to convince turkey, brazil, that russia is on the right path, on the right side of history, and ukrainians, on the contrary, are just dying for nothing, well we can generally realistically assess, so to speak, these real losses of the russians, taking into account all these putin numbers, maybe they can somehow be translated into real language, as you think, if such data already exist, well, look, you mean exactly our losses or russian russians, i think our losses are putin he is absolutely so firmly exaggerating, it is absolutely clear why he is saying this, of course we are exaggerating, look, i would not listen to putin's words, because he is lying, he his all his all his all his team, all his officials , this is deceiving myself, i am more

inclined to the calculations carried out by, for example, western intelligence services, it is not that i do not trust our general staff, i... trust the western ones more, because they count more objectively, they try to count everyone, every body, if they see him, because there are such moments, look when ours the military hit the tank, at once they note that the tank was destroyed plus four crew members, i don't know who they were in that tank, whether they were sitting or not, whether it was empty, empty, no one knows, but there are four at once, maybe there are also problems with calculation and maybe our numbers will be slightly overestimated, but otherwise losses from... from the russian side, that is, once again, i refer more to and rely on western calculations. what do you think about belarus? what do you think lukashenko will do now? see from belarus is not so simple there, as an option, let's always try to look at the problem through the eyes of the other side, how would i be able to use the republic of belarus, okay, i

will not involve it, for example, what i look at from the russian side, i will not involve it in an active military company , i can't use it. he resists in every way, then as an option i can try to use the territory of the republic of belarus to place my troops so that they are invulnerable to ukrainian drones, to ukrainian missiles, because belarus is a separate territory, ukraine is not will be able, will not be able to launch any offensive actions, strikes there, because it will immediately be accused of provoking a war, that ukraine will become an aggressor, so i can use this territory. exclusively as such a safe heaven, a safe little cloud for placing aircraft, equipment, people and at any moment quite quickly transfer the kursk, belgorod, bryansk regions without significant logistical losses for itself, that is, i think that as an option belarus will be involved in this format in ensuring the security of russian troops, i.e

you don't think that the belarusian troops themselves can move anywhere, let's say, look. in general, there are few belarusian troops, they are few, they are not numerous, although we cannot underestimate them, indeed there is a certain number of military personnel, but they have 0.0 experience, the last time they got experience was during the time of the afghan company, now they do not have this experience, they are trying they are taught to actively learn from russian, they are taught by wagnerites, but the experience is theoretical, experience is practical, these are three different experiences, and the main thing is lukashenko... i really, really don't like the idea, i see, he constantly emphasizes that in the event of some problematic situation there , he will have to hand out weapons to his citizens, and he perfectly understands that the first step, if he just starts handing out weapons, some kind of people's militia, then in general, oh, not at all a fact, that these citizens will not return these weapons against lukashenko himself, that is, it

is not profitable for him at all, and do you think that people like lukashenko at all understand whether or not weapons can be returned against them somewhere... he is perfectly aware of this, i will say so , frankly, i have such a weakness, i follow the entire official chronicle of the belarusian dictator, and well , i have to crawl into these annals and look, well, i see that he does not like this idea at all, he relies more on proven military personnel, amon the kgb, on ordinary people , he does not count, he perfectly understands that they can turn their weapons against him, he does not trust his population. after the 20th year, after the moment when he almost lost his power. thank you, thank you, mr. ivan, thank you very much, thank you, ivan stupak, military expert, former employee of the security service. country, and he and i discussed the latest events on the russian-ukrainian front and what, in principle, is happening around these events, what else the russians can do, whether they are able

to use, say, the resources of the lukashenka army allied with them, and so he continued these dialogues are not finished after a short break, and we look forward to you staying in touch. vitaly portnikov, khrystyna yatskiv and invited experts based on facts give their assessment and forecast of the development of events. do you want understand how our today will affect our tomorrow, watch the saturday politics club, every saturday on espresso. your place is waiting for you, the lights are left

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the truth is that everything suddenly changed, the president of ukraine publicly accused china of intending to undermine the peace summit, no one in ukraine has made such harsh statements against beijing for many years in a row. they hoped to persuade china to participate. why such harsh statements, what is happening? well, actually. i think the president has really already used all the methods that were possible during these two years, trying to restore relations with beijing, and you know, sometimes it even seemed that the ukrainian authorities had too much patience or too many expectations about china, because about china's behavior, about what role it plays in this war, unfortunately, the fact that it does not want to be the side that will help ukraine, it was clear. and sometimes even to a certain extent this is the language of actions of the ukrainian side, it was much softer than, for example, the actions of our western partners,

in particular the americans, who put pressure on china with the help of russia, and then ukraine gave too many elements of influence to china or there are too many elements of trust, and therefore this is true the tough rhetoric was actually the truth about china's actions. because in fact, china really did a lot to blur this summit, and these are very obvious things, and that's why the president criticized, and this, in fact, china is unpleasant for china, china does not like such public showdowns, however, it seemed very contrasted with this speech china, and the actions of ukraine looked like that, because literally the next day... our representative of the ministry of foreign affairs, the deputy minister of foreign affairs, went to china and apparently he was still trying to prove, perhaps, whether to convince china to participate, but... these were

pre-planned consultations, it’s not that he left after zelensky’s speech, so to speak, obviously these conversations and the work of the ministry of foreign affairs in general, it was conducted in its own way, and accordingly, it looked like how ukraine seemed to leave amicably, or to make sure once again whether this china could not be involved, but china made its decision in advance, and this was repeatedly said. that is why there is absolutely no hope that the position will change today. but as you think, it is the chinese position, it is really dictated by the fact that china believed that russia should be invited there, because there is a certain illogicality in this. russian foreign minister sergey lavrov, whom the people's republic of china would really like to see in lucerne, said that the russian delegation will not go there, he did not say this to the chinese, he told the representatives of the ministry of foreign affairs of the swiss confederation who

met with him. on the eve of this summit, when they had just started its preparation and heard from him that switzerland was not friendly a country that russia is not going to go there even if it is invited, and what is the point, what is the logic, if russia does not want anyway, how can you demand that it be invited, in fact, if you take china and its position as a neutral party, as they say, so close to both sides, which for them is such an element of their pride and ... a moment of their plus-plus in this situation, then obviously he should send his representative, even if not the highest, but we have a person who is engaged, not here, in china there is a person who is engaged in a peacekeeping mission, this lihui, it is obvious that this whole story that is going around, it was planned by china, and it is absolutely not based on whether russia will go or not, whether it was invited or not, because i personally

noticed that that li hui, who visited european countries and kyiv and moscow at the beginning of march, already based on the results of this visit, he used his formalism that china advocates an international conference where two sides will be invited on equal terms and will be discussed equally different peaceful proposals, before that lihui himself, when he went to the capital, he tried to convince that... they were invited to russia, but obviously this preparation to refuse, if in the case of their decision there, it had already been made. but from my point of view, the refusal here looks not only in the fact that you want to invite russia. the fact is that china does not want to support the ukrainian peace formula, or at least any foundation laid by ukraine, it wants to be in charge of

the process in the process. it is obvious that to promote their peaceful principles, so-called or their different ones the formulations, they, these formulations are close to russia, and these formulations, they are acceptable to china itself, because since the beginning of the war, whatever china says about the war, whatever proposals it gives, they are not all about ending the war, all of them are not about the interests of some other party, but about... promoting the interests of china, and now from my point of view china is against the background of this war, against the background of a certain division that is happening in the world, and it is caused not only by russia and the attitude towards russia from the west, and also various events that are developing around, in particular and war in gas, and china sees an opportunity for itself to form around itself the countries of the global south, influential players,

in order to... develop its platform of friends, allies, whatever you call it, because it is still being formed, but from my point of view, this is the formation from the side of china, a bipolar world in its confrontation with the united states of america, it is happening gradually, visibly or imperceptibly, but in a certain way and using this factor, let's say, russian aggression against ukraine, and different possibilities. factors that currently exist in the world. and what do you think about the so-called peace plan of china, here is this new one, which was made public after the trip of lihui and then, by the way, was discussed by the minister of foreign affairs of the republic of china vni and the chief adviser to the president of brazil marim, and this is already such a chinese-brazilian consensus , what is it and why is it? well, we will look at the first points, they are about what is needed, the first two points, that it is necessary not to escalate the situation.

hostilities must not escalate.