know that russian troops did not enter kyiv and there was friendly fire, it’s just that it’s just some kind of parallel reality in which, unfortunately, volodymyr zelenskyi is located, well, in that reality, it’s possible that something like this is happening, but unfortunately, this reality somehow did not intersect with ours, why is it dangerous when the president is in a parallel reality, well, because wrong decisions will be made simply on the basis of incorrect facts, well, it is always such a trouble that when... putin, relatively speaking, on the basis of incorrect facts about ukraine's ability to prevent, he chose the wrong scenario of the war, well, the blitzkrieg attacks on ukraine, and that is why he lost, even then at the start, that is , putin focused on false left-wing fabricated data about ukraine, which was supplied to him by his own corrupt spies, such as sivkovich, there, medvedchuk and so on, who just made up whatever came across, fashioned fake sociological studies. and gave putin the wrong

impression about ukraine, and he made the wrong move, well, the same here, you can simply misjudge the people you work with and get some unforeseen result for yourself. thank you very much, yuriy nikolov, journalist and founder of the project our money, we talked about oleg tatarov and his influence on the office of the president and the president. thank you very much. well, i will also remind you once again that we contacted the president's office today for a comment as well. contacted oleg tatarov, messages reach him very slowly, he changes phone numbers very often, but nevertheless, we are open, and if the representatives of the president's office or oleg tatarov have something to say and tell in more detail about the heroic moments during defenses of kyiv, if there were any, we are open and ready to listen to what oleg tatarov is valuable for the office of the president and for volodymyr zelensky personally, we continue to investigate this, for example, political scientists, with whom we have spoken many times, and i personally. personally suggest that

the president appreciates oleg tatarov for several reasons: loyalty, convenience, efficiency, well, at least, maybe the president considers oleg tatarov effective. tatarov himself is not at all public, he does not appear on camera very often, and it does not happen out of his will. for example, radio liberty last spoke to him in october 2021, it was in truskavets, where the servants of the people held their regular meeting, oleg tatarov came there, and then we and other journalists...

in march 2020, i received a call from the president's office, inviting to come to a meeting without a reception by the president and was invited to go to a meeting with the leadership of the state, accordingly i arrived, we talked, it was the month of march, and then after 5 months they invited me again, they said that let’s take a look at your work, well, they invited me what purpose do they need, who? to communicate, to give my expert opinion regarding some legal issues, regarding the activities of certain law enforcement agencies, that is, without specifics, uh, there were no proposals, we as journalists were surprised by your appointment, because you know, the question of your reputation, the way you commented events on the maidan and so on, did the president's office have questions about this? look, of course, the question was discussed, because my position was needed. but if you look closely at my

comments that i made before, i tried to make comments neutrally, my comments were based only on the materials that were analyzed and provided, because i want to remind you once again that at the moment when i am a domentary, it is a consequence of the relationship, i worked, i worked then, the exact position is called the one that performs responsibilities of the head of the department of information and analytical support. you claimed that it was the protestors beating the willows, that's based on the analytics you got, look, i didn't claim the protesters were beating the willows, i remember that i claimed, i said that based on the material investigation, there are such and such versions, the first, second, third, well, what you just heard is a fragment of the conversation that we managed to record with oleg tatarov on september 22, 21 year, in october, more precisely , it was the beginning of october, it was the city of truskavets, it was a congress of the servant of the people party, where they invited... oleg tatarov, well

, we saw him in the lobby of the hotel, and here were the journalists who he was questioned, firstly, how he ended up in the president's office, who invited him, by the way, once upon a time andriy yarmak was asked the same thing, and he said that... oleg tatarov's resume just landed on his desk, he decided to invite him, and so they had a meeting, but oleg tatarov says roughly the same thing, that they say he came to the president's office, met yarmak, and he offered him a job, also you could just hear how oleg tatarov commented on the maidan and his connection to the maidan, how he commented on the actions of the maidanites, and just when in august, and it was starting at the beginning of august 2020, actually four years have passed when volodymyr zelenskyy appointed him to the position in the president's office, then there were a lot of negative statements from the people of maidaniv themselves and from their relatives, in what sense negative, they protested that oleg tatarov was not appointed to this position, public activists also protested, and

despite that's all, the decision was made anyway, and one more such important moment in this story, oleg tatarov just announced his position, which he held in the ministry of internal affairs during the presidency. viktor yanukovych, this is a position, it assumes such a position the highest echelon, so management, and being in this position, oleg tatarov still fell under lustration, and again, volodymyr zelenskyy at one time ignored the law on lustration, and still appointed oleg tatarov to this position. for the sake of justice , it must be said that this is not the only case when volodymyr zelensky ignores the law on lustration and appoints people to the position, he was also criticized for the appointment of andrii bohdan to the position. the former head of the president's office, well, there were also several stories, smaller ones, but still there were no fewer cases when volodymyr zelenskyy made the decision to appoint officials who seemed to be scrutinized, who did not have the right to hold their positions, and of course, why did this whole story actually begin, and

it arose today, or rather yesterday during the press conference, because during the press conference volodymyr zelenskyi was asked by journalists, the journalist of ukrainian pravda roman kravets about how he to... this is a very interesting moment, because roman kravets asked him the following question: how do you evaluate, how do you choose for yourself people for by the principle of loyalty or by the principle of professionalism, if you select them by the principle of professionalism, then please rate the professionalism of such people as rostyslav shurma, oleg tatarov, oleksiy kuleba and andriy yermak, well, all three are andriy yermak's deputies, and here is volodymyr for some reason, instead of giving a direct... answer to this question, zelenskyy mentioned, first of all, he mentioned tatarov, very little about yarmak, but mainly about tatarov, and in what light, let's look at it again , as for tatarov, neither wanted to talk about it, although we had ofrek,

i am surprised by your question, you and i had ofrek with ukrainian journalists, where were we. representatives of your media, i don't remember, you, i'm sorry, or someone else, but they were definitely there, and i told you about tatarov on the offrek, but if that's not enough for you, i'll repeat it to you, i didn't want to say it, the united states also know it the states and all, oleg tatar, together with vasyl malyuk, killed chechens in ukraine, in kyiv, while you were not here, it is not enough to expel him, to expel him in... because i am already talking about it said and said that this is not public information and told all the media in our private meeting. let's continue the discussion, oleksiy koshel, head of the all-ukrainian public organization

committee of voters of ukraine, joins our broadcast by phone, problems with communication, internet. i congratulate you. good afternoon, good evening. you and i, oleksiy, met yesterday and discussed expectations from the press conference. volodymyr zelenskyi, now we can discuss the results and consequences, what do you think was behind this volodymyr zelenskyi's emotional response to oleg tatarov? well , unfortunately, this unsuccessful answer, this mistake, we can say different epics in different ways, but actually this action, it spoiled the entire effect of the press conference, because in fact the president said many important things that ukrainians should have heard , and ours. enemies including, well, by the way, there about the development of a new ballistic missile, this information, i think, could pass through the russian media quite actively, there is the vision of the kurdish operations, the final goal, other things, these theses should have been aimed at ukrainians and for our

enemies and for our allies, unfortunately, the press conference turned into another mistake of the president, but a mistake that shows enough, that is, first of all, the president. .. indicates that he will not abandon people close to him, but people close to him will remain under any circumstances, this is a mistake made by many presidents, but we remember that... at one time for viktor yanukovych's reluctance to say goodbye to individuals negative characters in his environment led to his escape from ukraine. i don’t want to draw analogies in any way, the analogy here, by the way, is even inappropriate, but there were people around many presidents who negatived the rating quite seriously, who attacked the image of the president’s team, and believe me, after this press conference there was some tatarov... known to the general public, he is such a gray mouse in the president's circle, by the way, i don't

see anything special here, something happened with oleksiy, maybe we'll try again reassign your functions, but after yesterday's press conference, yes, we hear you, you can continue, after yesterday's tataru. will become more known in a negative context for the president, for his image. unfortunately, we lost contact with oleksiy koshel, but i think we heard the main thing. the political scientist believes that volodymyr zelenskyi made it clear that he will not fire his people under any circumstances, under any situation. and by the way, an interesting question is, in principle, where was this turning point, when oleg tatarov became his own, because after all, he does not ... go to such a close circle of volodymyr zelensky, who came with him to the president's office, there from the very

beginning, he then brought with him people who went through a difficult time with him there, at least a long way in the quarter, who worked with him in another field, they all got positions, and oleg tatarov does not belong to this cohort of people, but nevertheless he became his own. we can once again remind you at the very end of the story of oleg tatarov, what he is famous for, what he is known for and what is his, what is his career path. oleg tatarov has been working as the deputy head of the office of the president of ukraine for four years, despite loud journalistic investigations and activists' protests, there are a lot of accusations against tatarov, and they originate from the revolution of dignity. until 2014, tatarov was the deputy head of the main investigative department of the ministry of internal affairs of ukraine, during the revolution of dignity he became one of the main speakers of the ministry of internal affairs regarding the events on the maidan. in tv broadcasts and political currents. show, he justified the actions of the authorities and security forces, who beat and tortured protesters, here is one of his

comments: criminals are smashing everything around, several pieces of equipment have been destroyed, including an ambulance on instytutsky street in the city of kyiv, offices, metro stations, new barricades are being built on the streets, tires are being burned and they are not going to stop the confrontation. and already in august 2020, volodymyr zelenskyi appointed oleg-tat. deputy head of the office of the president of ukraine, who will be responsible for law enforcement. this happened, as the activists assure, in violation of the law on the purification of authorities, i.e. lustration, under which tatarov should have received. tatarov himself , in an interview with journalists, already denied the words spoken in 2014. you called the participants of the maidan criminals, and the police, in fact, you said that they were keeping order and so on, when they were killing people. has yours changed? position on this now? look, i have never called anyone a criminal in my life, because the presumption

of innocence applies. a person can be called a criminal only after a court decision is issued, which becomes legally binding and that's it. and here are the journalists of the radio liberty project of the scheme in 2021 in 2018, we learned that the deputy head of the president's office, oleg tatarov, at the height of the revolution of dignity, not only spoke negatively about the protesters, but even received the title of honored lawyer of ukraine. from former president viktor yanukovych. at the same time, a petition for tatarov's release garnered 25,000 signatures. however, volodymyr zelenskyi replied that he will not fire deputy yarmak, because, as they say, no one can be forced to do what is not provided for by law. and six months later, nabu-ta informed tatarov about the suspicion of bribery during the construction of housing for the national guard company ukrbud, where tatarov used to work. however, almost immediately. the office of the prosecutor general, then headed by iryna venediktova, took the proceedings from nabu and

handed it over to the security service of ukraine, which at the time was headed by ivan bakanov, who is also called a childhood friend of president zelensky, but two years before the beginning of russia's full-scale invasion of ukraine, the criminal proceedings involving tatarov were closed, according to the journalists of bigusinfo, the prosecutor general's office did not reported which body and on what basis... decided to close it. anastasia potapenko, radio liberty. well, that's all for today, we were looking for an answer to the question, why does volodymyr zelensky tatarov and why and for what does he value him so much? and we will continue to look for an answer to this question in the next issues as well. that's all for today, subscribe to the radio liberty channel until tomorrow. there are 20% discounts on gangs until independence day at psylanskyk, bam and oskad pharmacies. the book women at war

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diyachenko, 15-year-old bohdan fabrychny and 16-year-old mark. all these boys disappeared during the full-scale war on the territory of the temporarily occupied luhansk region and their whereabouts are currently unknown, but i really hope that with your help the children will be found. first of all, i am addressing the residents of luhansk region. i know that not everyone has the opportunity to watch ukrainian tv channels, but maybe someone sees this program on social networks. please look closely at the children's faces. nikita diyachenko, in this photo he is younger than his 13 years, but i hope this will not prevent him from being recognized. nikita has an oval face, dark hair, and brown eyes. bohdan fabrychyny, he is now 15. the boy is thin, has dark hair and light eyes. and this is mark bakharev. he is 16. the guy has straight

dark blond hair and an oval face. information about the disappearance of all. these children arrived on the first day of a full-scale war. perhaps the boys were taken to russia, so it is important to know any details about them. if anyone has seen nikita, bohdan or mark, or knows where they might be now, please let us know immediately. even a small piece of news can become very important. you can call the magnolia children's search service at any time of the day by dialing the short number 11630. calls from all ukrainian mobile... operators are free if suddenly you are in temporarily occupied territory and you don't have the opportunity to call, write to the chatbot of the child tracing service in telegram, or look for us on facebook. i have told you the stories of only three children who disappeared due to a full-scale russian invasion. in general, since the beginning of the war, we have already received several thousand

appeals for help in the search. of course, the vast majority of children were found and now everything is fine with them, but unfortunately, the fate of many still remains unknown, and everyone can help find them. believe me, just a minute of your time can be decisive. come in to the magnoli children's tracing service website. in the missing children of ukraine section. here you can view all the photos of the missing people, maybe you will recognize someone and eventually help to find them. at the same time, children are also disappearing in territories controlled by ukraine. as the experience of the magnolia children's search service shows, the vast majority of them are teenagers. we talked about this topic with a psychologist and collected a lot of tips for parents that can prevent a child from suddenly running away from home. one of them is important. involve children in solving family issues: involve the child to developing a family budget, to solving some problematic issues, because sometimes we

make some decisions, and these decisions are difficult, difficult, we ourselves are very worried and worried about it, and we only inform the child about the result, and she perceives it as a personal insult, well, for example, the child was expecting a new phone, but due to some family events, we don't have money for it, and instead of explaining... to make a decision together with the child, how and in what we can save and when we will still be able to save money for that new phone, we just bring her this idea that there won't be a phone, how then we are perceived, well, as an enemy who just wants to destroy the whole peaceful life of the child, and break all the dreams and so on, and if she knew the whole process , and if she participated in the discussion, and if her voice was important and she could say: let's save a little here, here i am ready to give up something, for the sake of it, she would feel her complicity in the family budget, in planning, felt that she

is important, and what can be better in life than feeling important. we have created a resource where you can report any crime against a child. in any city, at any time, simply. go to the site and report, and we will launch all possible mechanisms to punish the criminal. stopcrime ua. the program of the ukrainian voice of america service is broadcast from washington. my name is yulia yarmolenko, congratulations. nato countries have confirmed that they will increase military aid to ukraine, said alliance secretary general jens stoltenberg.

according to the results of the emergency meeting of the ambassadors of the nato council ukraine, which was convened at the request of kyiv. in the final statements after the meeting , it is said that the members of the alliance strongly condemned russia's attacks on ukrainian infrastructure and confirmed their commitment to further strengthening the defense of ukraine. jen stoltenberg quipped: "we must ... continue to provide ukraine with the equipment and ammunition necessary to defend against a russian invasion. this is vital to ukraine's ability to continue the fight. but does this mean that partners may soon also cancel the ban on the use of western weapons for strikes inside russia. let's talk about it in detail with my colleague in london, bohdan tsyupin. hello, bohdan. greeting. bohdany, the ambassador of the nato countries, again promised to increase military aid to kyiv. the application is good, but are there any? practical results of this emergency meeting of the ukraine-nato council? in addition to the statement you just mentioned yulia, it should actually be said that

there was a meeting, a meeting with representatives of nato countries, ambassadors of nato countries, at which the ukrainian minister of defense, rustem umerov with he spoke via video link, he informed the representatives of... nato countries, in fact partners of ukraine who help ukraine to defend itself, about what in particular happened during the worst missile attacks on ukraine that took place at the beginning of this week. we know that there was a lot of talk about the so-called air shield, the defense shield of ukraine against russian missiles, against the threat from the air and... then he emphasized that the protection provided to ukraine, the assistance provided to ukraine in the field of air defense, protects,

saves. specific lives, that is, each shot down a russian missile over ukraine means saved ukrainian lives. so, is it important, it 's probably very, very important. and such meetings, such direct informing of ukrainian representatives, obviously bring results. if not at this meeting, then obviously at the level of governments, heads of state, and command, where decisions are approved, which we can call more con. perhaps we will see these solutions soon. bohdan, one of the topics of the meetings, as reported by our colleagues in brussels, was the use of western weapons to strike deep into russia. the financial times reports that the positions of the four partners of ukraine, which actually have these long-range weapons, were divided. great britain and france are in favor of permission to strike military facilities in russia, while the united states and germany are against it. do we have confirmation of this? yes, journalists made such a conclusion. obviously

based on both facts and what we hear from politicians. probably, the american representatives, most openly, together with the german ones, talk about the problems, every day, regarding the extent to which they are wary of strikes with the use of western weapons in russia. on the other hand, it sounds different from the british. here, for example, how the british minister, prime minister keir starmer spoke about it today in berlin? we are providing support and arms to ukraine, consistent with approaches by other key allies, including germany. we supported the approach and framework proposed by the previous uk government when we were in opposition, and this is how we operate when we come to power.

so i'm very clear that... that there are no new or different solutions, i'm not going to get into tactical questions about the use of weapons for very obvious reasons, but there have been no new solutions, and ukraine is of course a constant topic of conversation among nato allies, and we all recognize the need to support ukraine for as long as it takes, and we reaffirmed that commitment here this morning. bohdan, whose position will prevail and should we ultimately expect that ukraine will receive permission? actually. politicians' answers to this question have to be deciphered, you just heard the british prime minister say that he won't talk about certain things, about other things the position has not changed, but it does not explain what it actually is, you have to talk to others, for example, i spoke today with a british commentator, a former soldier, now he is an active publicist,

who says that he changed. certain shifts, that is, the debate is building, the pressure on politicians is building, and this british analyst, hamish deaton gordon, believes that the actual debate is moving in the right direction, although, he says, uncertainty or even confusion still remains. there's definitely some confusion right now, it looks like... the decision chain in terms of use from prime ministers or presidents all the way to the people who actually push the buttons on stormshadow, there are some american security elements, however, stormshadow has been used outside of ukraine before and in the russian-occupied territory of ukraine as well, probably but not for sure they were used to destroy targets in russia during the defense of kharkiv a few months ago. so, when it comes to the events in kurdsk, from the point of view of a military strategist, this is an extremely

important operation, so that ukraine... could make the most of it, i think, and i think people in the uk ministry of defense think so, and as you mentioned, even members of the new government believe that ukraine should be able to hit targets, in particular some of the russian airfields where the missiles are launched and take off planes that attacked ukrainian hospitals and schools throughout ukraine. you should use storm shadow for this. i think that at this time there are no decisions on this issue, because there is probably a certain difference between great britain and the usa and by some other allies. in my opinion, the british prime minister has every opportunity to allow president zelensky, who has repeatedly asked the prime minister for such an opportunity to do so. i think it's going to have huge positive effects, so there's a bit of ambiguity. there are many people in britain, like myself, who are putting a lot of pressure on the prime minister to agree, he can do it not only in theory but in practice if he wants to. this is the opinion

of a british military analyst. who believes, in particular, that the situation and on...