whose life was cut short by russian aggression against ukraine, so let's bow our heads. let's observe a moment of silence in memory of the ukrainian military and civilian citizens of ukraine who died in the war started by russia.

against the background of criticism from the military and people's deputies, zelenskyi decided to replace the commander of the united forces of the armed forces of ukraine yuriy sodol. will this replacement be a solution to the problems at the front and what will happen next for sodol? we are discussing this topic. today is a morning in freedom, let's start with the problems surrounding mobilization and the reservation process, the topic is also relevant, that's why comment to hear in the chat, my name is oleg galiv and we are starting. while we move on to our main topics, we must say that the information that appeared just before the start of this issue, and it concerns people's deputy mykola tyshchenko, the state bureau of investigation reported suspicions to people's deputy mykola tyshchenko due to the events in

according to the materials of the sbi, as indicated on the department's website, the prosecutor general of ukraine informed the current people's deputy of the suspicion of the fact of the illegal deprivation of liberty of a former serviceman in dnipro. also tyshchenko was searched, the sbi published a photo, in particular, a large amount of cash, including foreign currency, can be seen. tyshchenko himself has not commented on this information in any way during this broadcast, we are monitoring how the events surrounding mykola tyshchenko will develop and will inform you about it on air as soon as the information appears. also subscribe to other radio platforms. freedom, there is a lot of relevant and important information. well, the government has expanded the list of categories subject to reservation during mobilization by its resolution, the cabinet of ministers added employees of enterprises that are operators of mine action activities and carry out demining to the list of enterprises that can book their employees. previously, this reservation procedure applied only to conscripts who work in state and local self-government bodies, at enterprises that provide for the needs of the ukrainian defense forces. and enterprises that are critically

important for the functioning of the economy, this is the so-called strategic reservation, which critical for the functioning of the state and the economy, enterprises, organizations, they can receive this reservation from the state and can not pay for it, and for businesses that fill the budget, but are not currently included in the list of those who can ban their employees, the government develops the possibility of so-called economic booking. people's deputy and head of the economic development committee dmytro natalukha says that the business has offered... several reservation models and now the three most acceptable of them will be considered by the people chosen ones according to the people's deputy, in the first case, the company must pay uah 2,000 military duty for each booked employee. the corresponding bill has already been registered in the verkhovna rada. the second model involves booking an employee who receives a salary of uah 36,000. an alternative draft of the law is also registered in the parliament. and the third model concerns legal entities whose employees must receive. minimum

wage from uah 36,000. so what about economy booking in ukraine, yes, no yes. when it appears, what are the reasons for this at all, we will talk with our guest, this is ilya neskhodovskyi, the head of the analytical direction of the ants network. i welcome you. good morning. panel, how do you generally assess the situation with economy booking in ukraine today? it is supposed to be there, but it is not. there are no clear criteria for which. it is possible to carry out economic reservations, but you mentioned the issue that the cabinet of ministers has strategic reservations and reserves employees of strategic enterprises, but we see that in fact it is carried out manually the regime today, and many of those who get there, well, there is no explanation, can you explain whether, for example, football clubs are so important strategically, and this not only applies to those who play in the national team, but also are important from the point of view, let's say, the agitation of some of

our western partners to support ukraine, because our victories behind the cardboard just increase a... the desire to help ukraine, this does not only apply to the same pop singers, because there are not only those who take part in international contests, and let's say those who do not take part in such competitions and so on, that is, in other words, to date, we can say that there is a manual setting of reservations, to date the government has booked more than 600,000 people, these persons in which industries they are reserved, we do not know, there is no such information to date, so we cannot assess how effective it is, how appropriate it is, how it affects the economy, how it affects the defense capability, whether it is really necessary to reserve specific people in order to

to ensure either the first or the second, that is, in other words, today the reservation does not fulfill its function, in the first days of the war, the deputies provided such an opportunity ... directly to the cabinet of ministers, but in more than two years the government has shown that it is not able to objectively assess the need either in the economy or in defense matters, and as a result it is necessary to make certain adjustments, in particular, for example, there were such cases that those who, despite the fact that they do not perform defense duties, were not subject to reservation orders, but they manufacture, for example, not weapons, drones and send them to... and the employees of such enterprises were taken away, directly mobilized and thus reduced our ability to manufacture the weapons needed at the front, and what the deputies proposed, by the way, the government did not develops economic reservation, he takes part in

the discussion, there is no proposal from him, why, because he is satisfied with the current situation, that is, manually determining who can be booked, who cannot be booked. and the deputies want to introduce just that clearer criteria, and as you rightly pointed out, there are three of them: or a certain amount, but i consider this exclusively only within the framework of a valid such redemption, and then the righteous indignation of society that in fact a rich person can simply redeem himself by paying, i want to stop you here , because this is actually an important moment when they talk about mobilization in ukraine, the ukrainian authorities use the word fair mobilization, and everyone says that it should be fair. is the concept of fair economic reservation even possible, after all look, not every ukrainian has a salary of 36,000, not every medium-sized or large enterprise is ready to pay an additional 20,000 or

25,000 per month for an employee. deputies offer as an example, they will satisfy the needs of ukrainian society and the needs of the ukrainian state in the context of mobilization for war. let's just say that... not everyone has, if the company cannot pay, more precisely, not for a person, but this person's salary is more than uah 36,000, this means that this person is not so important for this company, and if these companies can pay, if it is a small business, for example, and he cannot pay such a salary, then he is not so important important for the economy, everything is simple enough, that is, the enterprise, which is first of all important in the economy, pays a significant amount. by the way, i have my comments about this bill, they relate to the following things: first, it is a general burden on this business tax, it cannot be the case that all the employees of this enterprise are there, or let's say, a large part receives the minimum wage, for example, the director set himself exactly 40 thousand in order to get

this economic reservation, i believe that this is exactly unfair , if the average wage is higher than the average for the country and which employees receive more. let's say this limit, well, then we can consider the question that specifically these employees are important, because it is necessary to understand that, for example, if they take away chief technologist of a particular enterprise, the entire enterprise will stop and dozens of people will lose their jobs. how to determine that a specific person is important, to provide this opportunity manually, i believe that this is just not fair, that is, when it is the company that will manually determine who should be booked for it. i believe that just for... the fee is a more objective criterion that indicates that for this enterprise, for the management, for the owners, a specific person is important for him to work, so raise wages to this level, thereby you demonstrate that a particular worker is important to your enterprise and this is what ensures

the operation of your enterprise properly, if you do not do this, then it means that those workers who can be mobilized, you believe that you can easily replace them with others from the labor market, i.e. submit an appropriate advertisement for the search for a person, find and replace this employee, so this person is not critically important for you, first. the criteria you mentioned are general the level of the tax burden, this is the first point, this is the average wage per enterprise, and this is a question of the number of employees, because i, for example, am categorically against providing reservations for fops when you pay a certain amount, this is just such a real redemption, when a person has fopa, she will pay 20,000 there, and thus avoid, well let's say, being booked, of course this person is not that important for the economy. that is, the two criteria that must be considered are the question of how many jobs this person, this employee, creates. if

it does not create jobs, then it is not critically important for the economy. if it created jobs, even 10, for the economy, then it is important, it means that the work of these 10 people depends on this particular person, and if this person is mobilized, then this means that 10 people will actually lose their jobs, and so that this does not happen. another criterion should be the number of employees. thank you, mr. ilya, for telling in such detail how you see this story, well, we will watch it, after all, until what will the verkhovna rada do, what bill will be adopted and whether economic reservation will work in ukraine at all. ilya neskhodovskyi is the head of the analytical direction of the ants network, a guest of our broadcast. well, in order to create safe conditions for harvesting, workers in the agricultural sector can be extended reservation from mobilization for one year. the general rate of reservation for such... is 50%, however, farmers are requesting to increase the reservation quota,

the acting minister of agrarian policy and food of ukraine said about this taras vysotskyi. it is critical for the agrarian sector that the number of employees has decreased by up to 20% in certain areas, says taras vysotskyi. this is due to the fact that a large part of workers in the agricultural sector were mobilized, so the workload eventually increased. according to him, the most sought-after professions in agriculture are tractor drivers, machinists and elevator equipment engineers. well, denys marchuk, deputy chairman of the all-ukrainian agrarian council, is already in touch with us. denis, i congratulate you. i congratulate you. your the organization assures that before the harvest in ukraine there is a shortage of combine harvesters and drivers, grain transporters. how many specialists are lacking, how critical is this figure for the agricultural sector? well , the problem is that we must understand that the agrarian direction, the residents of rural areas are among the first to be mobilized, especially the workers of agricultural enterprises who have experience. driving cars, that is, they automatically became drivers of large military,

large military equipment, accordingly, this mobilization actually started on march 22, as began and continues for farmers, for their enterprises, and accordingly we feel a very large shortage of workers, especially in seasonal work that is connected there with either a sowing company or a harvesting company, there is a shortage of tractor drivers , combine harvesters, just truck drivers, because this is the peak load on these. professions, accordingly, we understand that their absence will in one way or another affect the economic component of the enterprise directly, and then, as a whole , the economic capacity of ukraine, because from what the agrarian collects today depends on the foreign exchange revenue and income to the territory of ukraine, because in the conditions of the war, the agricultural sector is not the only such powerful economic segment that demonstrates potentially good export indicators and allows ukraine to receive funds, accordingly, these funds, which we independently for... makes it possible to find these funds for the defense capability of our

country, as regards the criticality in the professions in particular, well, what the acting minister said, there is a feeling of more than 20%, i think that according to the declaration at the enterprises, it is much more important, more critical, because there is also the concept of seasonal workers who come there, perform work, leave and now, for example, seasonal work will begin there. in the fields and, accordingly , there will be a shortage of such people, so we can say that the agricultural sector is the sector that has the opportunity to be armored today, as it is classified as critically important for the country's economy and 50% of conscripts have the opportunity to do this, but taking into account that there will already be a fifth wave of the reservation process, and accordingly, for this fifth wave of reservations, 50% of those who could be booked, it is simply absent even in these conditions. of course , the thesis that was discussed is very important to us, and in principle there is a resolution that farmers

will be booked for 12 months in order not to interrupt the cycle of work, and this is very important, because having a reservation for six months, in fact already after for four months , product manufacturers began to prepare new documents, and guarantees for reservations for the next six months did not disappear for many, therefore that the mobilization process continued and, accordingly , people... well, during the preparation of documents , they could simply take away the tsc. tell me, please, if, for example, it will not be extended for a year and this thesis will not be fulfilled, such a decision will not be made. is there money in the agrarian sector so that... companies, large for example, could economically reserve workers, if such a decision of the parliament will be adopted and conditionally, or pay an additional fee of 25 there or 20 thousand uah, or, i don't know, increase the salary to such a level as will be provided by law, to be able to book economically? well , it’s all individual, in fact, you can’t say for each enterprise, but you have to

understand that it’s the third year of the war and many of the enterprises are operating at a loss, because the grain group is not profitable, a lot of things have been realized, but it was implemented in order to simply save the enterprise, save jobs, and the money that we comrade workers used were credit funds that went within the framework of the 579 program, which was provided on preferential terms, so to speak i can't for everyone, maybe for some very large enterprises that have a clear list of professions for which they are ready to make economic bookings, small and medium-sized businesses can do it, i don't know, considering that they already have a significant number of professionals. .. a simple example, in my enterprises of commodity producers , accountants already perform the functions of agronomists, engineers perform the functions of tractor drivers, combine harvesters, i am already silent about the livestock sector, which has lost specialists, and this is accordingly reflected in the economic indicators, so everything is relatively frankly speaking, ukrainian cities, in particular the mayors of cities,

who also declare a problem with mobilization, when bus drivers, for example, are mobilized en masse, and they are either forced to reduce the number of routes. or make other decisions, there are initiatives when , for example, women are promised bonuses if they sit behind the wheel of large buses there on city routes, in the agricultural sector it is possible to retrain women for example or other professions and is it already working to fill this shortage those specialists who is? yes, it is partly already used, there are practices where women are put in big cars successfully, when money is spent on retraining, but i will tell you the economic model for retraining or training a woman to be able to drive there long-distance driving or riding a combine harvester, well, it takes several months there, well , in some places even up to six months, well, conditionally there for 3-4 months, this pleasure is not cheap, more than uah 150,00 for studying, but

there are no guarantees that this person will work, that is well, women in we have the opportunity to leave. they can't take it and go abroad if she didn't like the job, well physically it's not easy, she will refuse, economically people, the company suffered losses, because they learned, but unfortunately there are no guarantees that this person will be involved in the work, and the youth, well , there are those who are under 25 who are not subject to mobilization and could join the agricultural sector if they are offered good salaries, this is used, but the problem is again, recently we also gathered for meetings with representatives technical schools, but outdated... the material base of these schools does not allow graduates to immediately be able to get jobs, because when we talk about the high-tech agricultural industry, there is equipment for 300 to 400 thousand dollars and to hire an employee who has never seen such a technique was not practiced, it causes economic damage to the enterprise and, accordingly, will harm

the economic process in general, so this is how these things should be done, we are now active. we insist on the practices that have begun earlier to involve young people in these processes and thus compensate. in total, this work is being done. i thank you for joining in, telling me what it's really like and what to expect. denys marchuk, deputy chairman of the all-ukrainian agrarian council, guest of our broadcast, we talked about economic reservation, in general reservation of agricultural workers, why it is important and what mass mobilization of these workers can lead to. the european union can send money to ukraine, it has been earned. thanks to the frozen russians assets bypassing hungary, the first tranche is possible in july, the amount of this tranche is already known, the minister of foreign affairs of the eu member states agreed to the european commission's proposal to use the loophole. what it consists of and how much money kyiv can get, zoryana stepanenko, correspondent of radio liberty in the eu, will tell. ukraine will receive income generated by russian frozen assets. the first

tranche of billions of 400 million euros will arrive next month, and the funds will be spent on... a more urgent need, weapons, despite the fact that hungary prevented it. she is the only one in the european union opposed such a plan. viktor orban, who has close ties to moscow, does not support the provision of weapons to ukraine and regularly calls for a ceasefire. nevertheless, the european commission has found a legal route by which it is possible to bypass another veto of budapest. their plan was offered to the ministers of foreign affairs of the eu countries, and none, except hungary, expressed objections. it is believed that the arrangement. all 27 countries is optional, because it is not the money of european taxpayers. at one time, hungary refrained from deciding to dispose of it profit from frozen russian assets, therefore, josep borel explained on... the day before, it is not necessary for her to determine the fate of this money now. one billion and 400 million euros will become

available next month, another billion before the end of the year. they will be provided to ukraine for these three purposes: air defense, ammunition and support of ukrainian industry. we understand that legally, since one member state did not participate in the decision-making on the use of these assets, it does not have the right to participate in the resolution of the issues on which. they are whole are distributed the amount accumulated thanks to immobilized russian assets reaches 2.5 billion euros. the money will be spent on the direct purchase of weapons for ukraine. the eu countries will act as mediators, and western media reports that they have already decided which ones they will be: germany, the czech republic, denmark, and then they will be replaced by others. hungary is outraged by such a turn. the head of the ministry of foreign affairs insists that a unanimous decision was necessary and warned that his... ukraine is preparing to challenge it. the day before, the eu council also finally approved the 14th package of sanctions, discussions around which stretched for a month and a half. another 116 individuals and

companies are on black lists. for example, the mother of ramzan kadyrov, the pop star polina gagarin and the shaman ktor ivan okhlobystin, the mayor of mariupol, appointed by the occupation authorities, the head of the russian navy. they will fight with the so-called shadow fleet, vessels that carry fuel to the european bypass. sanctions their access to the ports of the european union was closed, in addition, the re-export of liquefied russian gas through these ports is prohibited. from brussels. zoryana stepanenko, marek hayduk, radio freedom. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy dismissed lieutenant general yury sodol from the position of commander of the joint forces of the armed forces of ukraine. and he appointed brigadier general andrii hnatov in his place. both orders have already been published on the website of the president's office. zelenskyi announced his decision in the appeal, but the reasons. he did not name such personnel change. sodel was appointed commander of the united forces in february of this year, after oleksandr became the commander-in-chief of the armed forces instead of valery zaluzhny syrian prior to that, sodol was the commander

of the marines, and even earlier in 2015 , the deputy commander of the amphibious assault troops, as part of which, in particular, he participated in the anti-terrorist operation. in 2022, he took part in the defense of mariupol and already at the end of this month he received the title of hero of ukraine, after the appointment of lieutenant general yuriy in may of this year. also the head of the khortyts operational-strategic grouping of troops of the largest eastern direction, many publicly expressed dissatisfaction with this personnel decision and demanded the dismissal of sodol. in particular, activist serhii starnenko called the appointment of sodol as the head of khortytsia a personnel disaster. for example, the lieutenant general does not value the lives of soldiers at all and thoughtlessly wastes personnel . people's deputy, member of the verkhovna rada committee on national security, defense and intelligence, maryana bezugla, has recently paid a lot of attention to the person of sodl. she called lieutenant general sodol a butcher, blamed him for the lack of fortification on in the north of kharkiv region, previously in avdiivka and accused him of the recent breakthrough of russian troops in the turkish direction.

moreover, bezugla stated that at the moment when heavy fighting was going on there, sodol, who is responsible for this direction, i quote: piyachev in the ablak restaurant in odesa. bezugly's colleague on the committee, people's deputy roman kostenko , suggested that sodol could celebrate his son's graduation from the academy of ground forces in odesa, maybe he took a vacation - he says. it should also be said that just a few days ago, the chief of staff of the azov brigade, bohdan krotevych, said that appealed to the sbi to open an investigation into one military general who, according to krotevych, killed more ukrainian soldiers than any russian general. he did not give his last name, but according to ukrainian truth sources , it is about sodel. after kortevych's statement about the problems of trust in military commanders, the people's deputy, a member of the same committee on national security, defense and intelligence, solomiy bobrovskyi, also stated, but no surnames were included in her post. there is no on this topic. i will also note that after the appearance of a number of negative publications regarding the appointment of sodol in may of this year as the commander of osov khortytsya. some brigades came out publicly in his defense.

in particular, such statements appeared on the official pages of the 35th separate brigade of the marine corps. radio svoboda asked for additional comments to the ground forces and the security intelligence service, where military officer krutevych wrote a letter and to the spokesman usuv khortyts. so far, the situation has not been commented to us. well, we are with us . there is already marina bezugla, she is a people's deputy of ukraine from the servant of the people and deputy chairman of the committee on national security, defense and intelligence. ms. maryana, i congratulate you. congratulations. thank you for joining. in your social networks, reacting to the replacement of the commander of the united forces, you wrote, i quote: he should not go for a promotion, to an equivalent position or be hidden in some academy. without punishment, without responsibility, it's all a dead end. this is your quote, referring to general yuriy sodel. that is, you think that syrskyi will leave sodel as the head of the structure of the armed forces of ukraine. your information and whether it remains relevant the commander suv khortytsia? it remains for now, but no less, this decision must be made in the near future, that is...

the approach is now that the commander of the united forces, he heads the largest strip, well, the largest section, let's say so, of the front, and accordingly, this the first bell, it should be as soon as possible, because the question to sodul was about how he acted as the leader of the front, well, the leader of the front is conditional, he is the head of the operational-strategic grouping of troops, and... his decision depended fate in general is a few hundred thousand and still depends on our soldiers and headed the sodol operational-strategic group since february 2000 24, that is, this is avdiyivka, this is kharkiv region, this is toretsk, this is the breakthrough in the pokrovsky direction, this is all him, and you see, we have a sad succession,

because... sodol was in charge of mariupol for a moment, and in particular, why is this, in fact , a solid negative in the marines, and also azov knows this general very well, because it's all about stories with the defense of mariupol, and it's also an operation on the surface , which is very ambiguous, and how they actually sent people there to death, and you know, yes, it is difficult for you and i to... now in the discussion discuss some specifics of military science, but there are elementary things that i explained about, if, for example, what happened in the kharkiv region, he just put his friend in charge of the front line there, who did not even visit tactical units, that is, he did not check combat readiness, there was only territorial defense, which was not reinforced by any reserves, although intelligence, as

always... in our country, warned and warned not in one day, and accordingly, the answer to sodul and me when i went on a business trip was that they had no reserves, but if you say so, and then they redirected whole brigades there to close this direction, we have a destroyed city , we have a huge number of dead people, so that, no matter what, do not act on prejudice in any way, well, it really reached odious ones. and probably the top of it was the celebration, they don’t know what the celebration is, it’s not the first time they have, and i hope the last time, during the breakthrough to turkey, that is, he takes, removes the brigade, which stood there for a very long time, the russians are monitoring everything perfectly, while the intelligence warns that there is a possible attempt to break through, and he is for, and he before this,

before... this possible date disrupts the brigade, which perfectly knows the area and very , i don’t want to interrupt you, but in order to have a discussion, i’m just for understanding when we talk about mr. sodel, after all, if you believe the information that is available on the network, at the end of february 2022, yuriy sodel was awarded the title hero of the country not just like that, but for fighting in volnovas of the donetsk region, from where he led people out from under the attack of russian forces and organized a successful counteroffensive, this is if you believe the information that is in particular on the network, that is, in fact, you are very nice... said, if you believe that information, unfortunately, we have a lot of generals, heroes of ukraine, and when i wrote about sodul, i also mentioned kovalchuk, about how he also ruled from comfortable odesa in the 22nd year, simply not having time even physically to get to the nearest control point, because to the nearest control point in the south, he was responsible for the south until he was removed and replaced with tarnavskyi, it was at least

four hours to... drive and he is also a hero of ukraine, and why, who submits to heroes of ukraine? commander-in-chief of the armed forces, circular surety. in your opinion, what responsibility should sodol bear, what should it look like, from what you wrote in social networks, what should be the responsibility, what should it be, it is not enough that he was fired, and you know that, dismissal, that how do they then rule in them, well, in our armed forces, if general, well, what about... officers for an equivalent or higher position, that is , no general is punished if he is simply dismissed and hidden somewhere, as i wrote there in the academy for training or some scientific research institution, or in some operational commands, what is it in general , we have such a very specific structure, this is a separate conversation, then this is not a punishment, he should sit, but also for him...