news time on the espresso tv channel. kateryna shiropoyas works in the studio. two people died as a result of shelling of kostyantynka in donetsk region. this was stated by the head of donetsk ova, vadym filashkin. payback they aimed at the private sector. according to preliminary information, the enemy used artillery. the authorities are urging people to evacuate from the frontline areas of donetsk region due to the constant threat of shelling. in the morning, the enemy hit the premises of the fire department in nikopol with a drone. as a result of the attack, windows at the rescue depot were broken and equipment was damaged. reported in the state emergency service . fortunately, no one was hurt. on the night

of august 8 , a powerful explosion rang out in the temporarily occupied berdyansk, this was reported on local telegram channels, they wrote that they had not heard such a loud explosion for a long time, there was no air warning signal in berdyansk, but a missile danger was declared on the territory temporarily occupied crimea. in the telegram channel, local residents write that the explosion was not similar to the work of air defense. the occupiers, according to the usual scenario, do not comment on the explosion. the foreign legionnaires of ukrainian intelligence are hitting the sumy direction. the soldiers showed a video of combat work on the footage of servicemen using fpv drones to attack the invaders. the successful defeat of the position of the russian invaders has already been recorded. the security service and the national police detained a suspected agent of the russian special service, who was preparing a series of arson attacks in the kyiv region, he turned out to be. a resident

of the capital, the enemy deliberately recruited a minor when he was looking for quick money in telegram channels, test the task was to post leaflets with anti-ukrainian content around the city, after its use, the curator promised the minor a lot of money in exchange for setting fire to military vehicles with mandatory video recording of the process. law enforcement officers report two damaged cars of the promised amount to their crypto-gan, the probable payment is as follows. received, the minor was informed of suspicion under two articles at once, he faces up to 12 years of imprisonment with confiscation of property. the footage was needed by the fsb for information and psychological training special operations that have come under fire in ukraine are not carried out with the money of the fsb, but allegedly in our country there is a pro-russian underground, which in this way tries to disrupt the mobilization and help the russian federation. setting the task

before the minor, the russian curator stated that it is not necessary to set fire to a military car, but any car that resembles a military car. the security service and the national police prevented the implementation of the enemy's plans thanks to the timely exposure of the russian agent and his arrest in hot pursuit. the police detained in kyiv two men who allegedly burned the car of a public activist. according to the law enforcement officer. one of the arsonists followed the woman at night, doused the car with a flammable substance and set it on fire. the police detained a 42-year-old resident of kyiv and a 39-year-old resident of the kyiv region. they were informed that the men face up to 10 years in prison. over 95% of ukrainian prisoners of war were tortured in russia. this was stated by the head of the monitoring mission. un human rights in

ukraine, danielel bel. according to her, the practice of torture in russian captivity is widespread and systematic. ukrainians are beaten with metal sticks and tortured with electric shocks. danielle bel said that the torture used by the russians against the ukrainian military is the worst she has seen in her 20-year career visiting prisoners. joint-stock company. for the first time, the ukrainian defense industry entered the top 50 global military companies according to the defense news rating. oleksandr kamyshchyn, minister of strategic industries of ukraine, announced this on the telegram channel. by according to his data, of the hundred largest companies in the world, ukroboronprom is developing the fastest. its revenue for 2023 increased by 72%. and after the victory, self-defense will become one of the most important ukrainian export directions. economy. over the past 24 hours

, 96 combat clashes took place at the front, according to the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine. the enemy continues to act most actively for the time being. in the krov direction. almost a third of all offensive actions took place there. near turetsk, the occupiers carried out 11 attacks in the north, new york and zalizny districts. by himself in the same year , the russians launched more than three dozen guided bombs in turkey and its adjacent territories. in the kramatorsk direction, the occupiers stormed seven times. they concentrated all their efforts near the temporal chasm. in the kharkiv region, the defense forces repelled enemy attacks near vovchansk and tykhi. near kupinsk there were five attempts by the russians to advance near petropavlivka, kolisnikivka and towards novoosynovo. the aviation of the defense forces made 11 strikes on areas of concentration, personnel of the enemy, and also hit two anti-aircraft vehicles, seven missile forces and aviation, as well as two warehouses

with ammunition of the occupiers. on august 8, 2008 , russia carried out armed aggression against georgia, which killed hundreds of innocent people, occupied abkhazia and south ossetia. erephia has turned these regions into a gray area where lawlessness reigns and human rights are neglected. today in kyiv, public and political forces, volunteers, representatives of the georgian diaspora came to a rally to remind the world of what russia's impunity leads to, because already in 2022 it launched a new attack on ukraine. the demonstrators emphasized that russia should withdraw. its troops from the sovereign territory of georgia and cancel the recognition of the georgian regions of abkhazia and south ossetia, so- called independent states. in 2008, we experienced aggression that the whole world saw. i am

very hurt and sorry that we are seeing the same thing in ukraine now. we are against the fact that people are forced to flee their homes and experience the fear of shelling. we want... tony, who lives in the kyiv zoo, turned 50 years old. ours has already attended the celebration correspondent yulia zubchenko. yulia, congratulations, tells how the birthday boy feels today. greetings katya, greetings to viewers of the espresso tv channel. and today at the kyiv zoo, grilled tony celebrated his 50th birthday. this is such an anniversary. as he tells his keepers, if we count in terms of human age, it is more than 90 years old, so such a guard lives now in the kyiv zoo, according to the zookeepers, he feels good for his age, and as you can see, he is also fit

to enjoy his festive breakfast, he they brought melons, watermelons and various other fruits, as he says. tony was brought to the zoo from germany more than 20 years ago, at that time the gorilla tora still lived in the kyiv zoo and they planned to create a family, but the gorillas did not make friends, so they were bred in different enclosures, i suggest you hear about it from the director of the zoo himself, he is 50 years old and he burned alone, and the fact that we watched his life, he was like that from childhood, once upon a time. but we had a fire, how many years ago, yes, they tried to exchange them to start a family, but they quarreled and did not have any, there was no desire, and they kept them apart, for so many years of life, tony has developed many habits, as his supervisors say, he really likes

to watch tv, read magazines, swing on a hammock, and also playing with a ball, as we were also told about that... he really likes to eat delicious things, so we wish him many more years of life and happy birthday, we wish tony. for now, that's all the information, katya, i'm transferring the ether to you. thank you, yulia, i will remind our viewers, it was ours yuliya zubchenko, she was at an interesting celebration of the 50th anniversary of tony the gorilla, the only one in ukraine. and the espresso tv channel and the vesna charitable fund opened a fundraiser for the purchase of modern drones. and electronic warfare systems for the third separate assault brigade of the 110th and 47th brigades of the zso. our defenders in the donetsk direction hold back enemy attacks every day. they defend our country. it was these soldiers who stood to the last and defended the avdiiv direction in the spring. brigades urgently

need drones and modern equipment countering enemy drones. our goal with you is uah 3.5 million. please remember that each of your donations brings our victory closer. you now see the necessary details on your screens: good health, dear ukrainians, we are fighters of the first assault battalion of the third separate assault brigade, who are defending. our native land is on the front line, we urgently need your help, we need means of radio electronic warfare against look for espresso on youtube and be sure to subscribe, because there are live broadcasts, all program releases and special projects that can be seen only with us, also a short video on hot topics in the shorts section, subscribe, comment us your important thoughts. to find out more interesting and up-to-date information, stay tuned for updates on our website espresso.tv, as well as on our social networks. i will say goodbye to you already until tomorrow.

today in the program is the verdict with serhii rudenko. the kursk raid of the unknowns. until. the headquarters of the armed forces of ukraine maintains informational silence, russian sources report a large-scale offensive by ukrainian forces in the kurdish region of russia. what could be the purpose of the audacious operation? candidates for peacekeeping. democrat kamala harris and republican donald trump are vying for the future status of putin's dragon tamer. whose path to victory. ukraine is more realistic. corruption scandals in

ministries. while moz is canceling the high-profile tenders for the reconstruction of ohmaddyt, the ministry of education is concluding agreements to print textbooks at inflated prices, will personnel changes in the government solve the problem. glory to ukraine. this is the verdict program. my name is serhii rudenko, i greet everyone and wish everyone good health. for the next two hours, we will talk about ukraine, the world, the war, and our victory. let's talk about the deployment of hostilities in kurshchyna, as well as how to fight internally in ukraine, with russian agents, and with russian influence, in the information sphere, as well as in the spiritual sphere. well, of course, we will remember all those events that form. today, which will shape tomorrow and the following days. during its broadcast, we will have

two studios, that is, the first studio starts right now, and we will have mykola as a guest knyazhytskyi, people's deputy of ukraine, sbu general, viktor yagun and political expert volodymyr tsibulko. in the second part of our program, which will start in an hour. we will have political experts viktor boberenko and ihor reiterovych. however, before starting our big conversation, i suggest you watch a video of how the special forces of the main intelligence department landed on the tendriv spit in the occupied kherson region, the scouts managed to destroy enemy armored vehicles and fortifications of the russians, during the battle, the zgardniki suffered losses among personnel, their number is being clarified, let's see how everything is...

glory to the armed forces of ukraine and death to the russian occupiers. friends, we work live on the tv channel, as well as on our youtube and facebook platforms. to you, for those who are currently watching us live on youtube and facebook. please subscribe to our pages, like this video, and take part in our survey. today we... ask friends about this, whether, in your opinion, there are good russians useful for

of ukraine? yes, no, everything is quite simple on youtube, yes, no, if you have a different opinion, please leave it in the comments below this video, if you are watching us on tv, pick up your smartphone or phone and vote for the numbers , if you think that among good russians are useful for ukraine, 0800 211 381, no, 0800 211. 382, ​​all calls to these numbers are free. i would like to introduce today's first guest, mykola knyazhytskyi, people's deputy of ukraine, chairman of the verkhovna rada subcommittee on cultural flight. mr. mykola, i congratulate you, thank you for joining the broadcast. hello, thank you for the invitation. well, since we ask our viewers and tv viewers whether there are good russians, in their opinion, useful for ukraine, i will ask you this question as well. what do you think? this is a very general question. i am against any generalizations, but unfortunately,

so far i have not seen such leaders of public opinion in the russian federation. who would speak honestly, without fear of putin, answering to their conscience, answering to god, about those scoundrels who started the russian aggression, that it must be ended immediately, i have not yet seen people with such a holistic worldview, this does not mean that they do not exist, just in today's information space, among the leaders of russian public opinion, opposition , first of all, unfortunately, i have not seen such people, thank you, and most importantly... the topic, obviously, of the last two days is the events in kurshchyna, in the region that borders the sumy region of the russian federation, today, after almost after a day of silence, putin started something

no one can talk about what is happening on the territory of the kursk region, for sure what is happening there, because there is a message from the ministry of defense of the russian federation, they say that the defense forces of ukraine entered the territory of the kursk region and went deep into the russian federation by 10-15 km, they are talking about 10-11 settlements that the ukrainians have taken under control, the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine has not yet commented, and this is also completely understandable, there are only reports that in the villages that bordering the kursk region , there is an evacuation in the sumy region, there are those who will approach. to the border, how does this whole situation look to you, that is, the war is returning to the place from where it came to ukraine? well, i don't know what, from where, where he is returning, obviously, this is some plan of the ukrainian military command, i trust the ukrainian military command, since the military command itself does not comment on it in any way,

and does not even say that it is the ukrainian army, and the russian public writes more about it, then i... i think that it is better for us to remain silent now to watch how dozens of russian servicemen surrender, how ukrainian troops enter there, and they themselves place these so-called, so-called russian soldiers from the country of the aggressor, since we are silent, i guess why we are silent, because first of all you and i don't know this plan, secondly we saw that kirby, the white house spokesman, has already said that they will find out. with ukraine, what is happening there, that they do not support the use of foreign, in particular, american weapons on the territory of the russian federation, that their position here has not changed. unfortunately, we do not have full understanding from our allies, although they help us a lot, for which we are very grateful, but it is still our responsibility and our decisions. if the ukrainian military command

made such a decision, it means that they have some plan, why they are doing it. i... i hope that it is not just for the sake of pr, as it has sometimes been, and this is also sometimes necessary, but for the sake of a strategic plan, we saw that they occupied this gas station the plant, which is a small facility, but still depends on it for the supply of gas to europe, russian gas, which continues to be supplied, there is also a nuclear power plant, putin himself was absolutely nervous, demoralized and frightened by this, because he did not expect this from the ukrainian army, we saw it directly from his reaction. this means that this operation of the ukrainian army already has certain advantages, and we will see what happens next, trusting the ukrainian command. russian officials and putin also, mr. mykola, quite often talk about that we can consider various options there to discuss during the negotiations, but we have to take into account the realities on

the ground. now it turns out that the realities on the ground may be completely different than what putin thought when he made his pronouncements. shaigu said this thesis this week, just two days ago, about the fact that, unfortunately, the ukrainians did not respond to putin's proposal, well, regarding the four regions, and the withdrawal of the armed forces of ukraine from the four regions and the subordination of these regions to the russian federation. in these conditions zelensky talks about preparations for the next peace summit, peace proposals and possible participation. of the russian federation, you do not know what zelensky's peace plan should be, because one peace plan, as we have already seen, consists of 10 points that were being prepared. before the first peace summit, three of them were considered, whether it is clear now what other proposals there may be to discuss, including with the representative of the russian federation

, at the next peace summit. you know, right now i would really like to be wrong, because i want peace, like most ukrainians, and i am ready to support any efforts of the ukrainian authorities to achieve peace, but i still do not see any desire on the part of the russian... federation to talk about any kind of peace, the fact that the ukrainian authorities send some signals, hold these peace summits, it seems to me well , this is more of a pr campaign both for ukrainian society and for the outside world, which is necessary because we need external support, i have nothing against it, the fact that how many countries continue to stand with us, realizing that we are the ones dealing with enemies, it's not for us. extremely important, but at the same time i don't see any, i hear that everyone is talking about the upcoming elections, about negotiations, but i still don't see the grounds for them and i don't understand how it

can be solved, i don't believe that the ukrainians will agree to it, well, it’s not even putin’s proposals, it’s putin’s mockery of destroying ukraine, regardless of who it is, zelensky or not zelensky, i don’t believe that the ukrainians will agree to it, and most importantly , i don’t believe that our western allies, who support us, who have invested in our... already a lot of funds, will agree to this and this means an investment in our future, in our future in the european union, in our future in nato, no matter what anyone says, but i am convinced that western support is very important, and why are these conversations happening? there is a lot of conspiracy theory around these topics, that someone has agreed somewhere, putin is already falling, i would love to do so, i tell you sincerely, but i myself somehow calculate that it is so, that putin wants some kind of negotiations, but in reality i do not see it , while... the war continues, and this war also continues in the information sphere, mr. mykola, in march 24, you initiated

adoption of the bill on the regulation of the information platform or the telegram platform in ukraine. nikita poturaev, the head of the verkhovna rada's committee on information policy, literally the day before yesterday in an interview with rbc ukraine, called the use a mistake. by the authorities of the telegram platform for communication with society and spoke in favor of regulating the activities of this platform, as poturaev says. i see no other option than to lose not only the information war, but the war in general, except to write a fairly simple bill, the point which will be in the fact that either the networks or platforms establish a dialogue with the ukrainian authorities, or the state simply closes them down. in other words, mr. mykola, mr. poturaev supports your pro... bill, correct, i understood? he supports his ideas, because he fully lists everything that is said in our draft law with him, where he is a co-author, but they say that it should not be written, it

was written a long time ago and is in the committee. well, nikita and i are like-minded politically and geopolitically, i would say so, because he belongs to the ruling party, and i belong to the opposition, and the authorities have such an attitude towards all their deputies that no draft law of the opposition, at least of european solidarity , is considered and passed. in the hall, it is enough to put any other surname there and it will be considered, but they will not be from european solidarity, and obviously, nikita, supporting what is written in my draft law, cannot put it to a vote, even in the committee, on it's a pity, er, that's why, just as it was with the church, when i initiated the prohibited activities of the roc in ukraine, then, unfortunately, my draft law is not put forward, submitted a toothless government proposal, we have already finalized it together, in principle i am also in favor of the result, i am not against everyone working together... to finalize it, but before it comes to that, before the ideas that we colleagues will propose for the protection of the information space, they will be implemented and come to power so that it supports them,

rewrites them and passes them off as its own, a very long time passes, in the conditions of war, from my point of view it is unacceptable, unacceptable, mr. mykola, and to delay the decision regarding the regulation of the activities of the moscow church in ukraine, two weeks ago, the verkhovna rada of ukraine was unable to consider this draft law in the second reading, ruslan stefanchuk announced the work, a break in the work of the verkhovna rada until august 19, will it be today, on august 7 , 2024, is it already known whether this draft law will be whether the law, or rather the bill in the second reading, will be considered on august 19 or 20, and the two dots will be placed. we will do everything for this, we blocked the tribune, we will continue and block august 19 to demand consideration of the draft law, they throw in huge money supporters of the russian orthodox church who cooperate with

novinsky there, with other pro-ukrainian -pro-russian, ukrainian oligarchs, pro-russian or russian, anti-ukrainian, i don't know how to say, some of them are sitting in the verkhovna rada, they are fighting so that the bill does not pass, our goal is to it passed because the situation here is so unique that a large part of the government also supports it, and i am grateful to every representative of the government who votes for it, together with us standing around the rostrum, or how nikita peturaev defends this bill to everyone conciliatory councils, so... i hope that together the representatives of all factions will be enough for us, because here you see the fathers, representatives of freedom, and the servant of the people, and the voice, and for the future, and obviously of our european solidarity, we all stand together here, there is no only the former opzh parties, and i think we will have enough, we already had enough votes, and we will manage to do everything to get this bill passed, this does not mean banning the uoc-mp tomorrow, but it means banning ties with the russian

church and... stupa process of breaking these ties, and then the prohibition of those who did not want to break these ties with the moscow church. if this does not happen, then suddenly this bill will be postponed again . how does this threaten ukraine and the national security of ukraine. well, listen, they continue to act as a fifth column inside ukraine. we see this very well, every day the security service of ukraine, well, not every day, but every week definitely arrests. here is the russian priest who surrenders our positions, not to mention the huge ideological struggle they are waging against ukraine and ukrainians, and the fact that that sometimes sociology does not please us very much when we talk about patriotism, recently, it is all the underground work of the russian church in ukraine, and the sbu directly writes about it, calling it a threat to national security, we think the same way, and we want to support and special services of ukraine and all patriots of ukraine who believe that it is simply immoral

for... gundyaev's church to continue operating in ukraine. another thing is that anyone who breaks all ties with her and wants to be independent is obviously not in danger. and they pay money and lie in the west, as if ukraine is fighting christianity here. there is nothing like it. ukraine is fighting the russian church, which is a subdivision of the fs, namely the russian church. the fsb of the russian army should be banned, as the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe and many other organizations, as they did in latvia, have decided. other european countries , it is absolutely unacceptable that, in fact, a branch of the russian army continues to kill us spiritually from the inside, when our children are directly in the sense of this word, they are fighting and sacrificing their lives in the east of ukraine. a few more scandals or scandals with such a corrupt flavor that we have been observing for the past few weeks, this is the story with ohmadit, when

they tried to give the collected... money to one of the companies whose offer was one of the most expensive at 300 million, 307 million uah, after public outcry , the minister of health announced that the tender would be canceled and re-run, now our colleagues, journalists, are writing about the fact that the ministry of education has set the cash register, as they say in print textbooks at a super inflated price, and we are talking about 180 million hryvnias in the same printing house that was once there from the time of tabachnyk, that is , three publishing houses were merged into one, called the atlant publishing house, and it is trying to print textbooks there at inflated prices, again about it is written by journalists, why are there so many of these stories and why are these stories about these stories not told to us by anti-corruption bodies, but by journalists? well, i think that

the anti-corruption bodies are also telling us, they are doing their job, we see it, maybe obviously not as we would like, but journalists do their work as we would like, or at least we would like it even better, but they also work on time and fulfill their duty, this gives us hope for a good future for our country, all this arises from the fact that journalists ngl media wrote about it, as far as i can see on the layout, you will tell me. uh, yes, the portal and it is obvious that the journalists are just doing their job, and this is happening because there is no rule of law in the country, so it was possible to turn off the espresso channel from the air with one order without no grounds, no reasons, just like the other direct, fifth channels, and please, they wanted to disperse the parliament, please, not you...