the role of a neutral observer, he is trying in every possible way to avoid the possibility of immediate responsibility for the commission of war criminals for complicity in acts of aggressive war, as noted in the previous article on the president-elect of belarus svetlana yanovsky visited washington and just held a meeting in the white house with the us secretary of state, this is a non-britain, and at this meeting they discussed bringing lukashenko to international primary responsibility for the crimes he committed therefore, now one of the main things that does belarusian propaganda is the creation of a new image of lukashenko, a new old image that we actively used between the 15th and 20th years in the wake of the occupation of crimea, he asked to create an image a peacemaker, a mediator, and how he himself spoke of himself as a donor of peace, so now he is trying, together with the minister

of national affairs, to make exactly the same company, to create the same name, but this time, not to him don't go and no one believes and eh they are openly mocking, eh, like in europe, and all the excused states, eh, and besides that. as for lisa, the new wave of propaganda messages, eh, are copying the russian ones and saying that russia is not at war with ukraine, it is at war with nato, with the americans everything already means you know takaya ukrainy will be until now. such a standard thesis that has been trying for many years to take hold in the heads of ukrainians and europeans, but for some reason they do not take hold , because everyone already sees the real face of the aggressor. thank you very much. mr. serge for the fact that you joined our broadcast at such a late time, rather early time, serzh kharitonov, a belarusian oppositionist and media expert, was in touch with us about the situation in belarus. also, why

are the belarusian troops making those movements on the border of ukraine and lithuania? well, we let's move on, let's return in a moment unconquered cities of ukraine is a cozy and comfortable kharkiv, a city of students of science and industry, a city that has repeatedly suffered tatar attacks since ancient times, passed both into the hands of bolshevik invaders and and would have given the german fascists, but kharkiv persevered and kept ukraine in his heart then because of kharkiv

invincible those who shoot bullets hit the very heart show how independent she is how strong she is if she is ready to give an answer we find light for creativity these are separate that's right motivates and creates further, we will not break down, we will win with our weapons, take solutions, those who destroy our schools do not know that schools are not walls. good morning, let's come to class, our weapons are mind and knowledge, people under sirens educate those ukrainians. children must

learn what we will be proud of learn we are sure to stand glory to ukraine the plane was attacked it caught fire it was still possible to eject and survive but below are the people oleksandr korpan 27-year-old air force captain from mykolaiv gave his life to save hundreds of others until the last moment he took his burning plane away from residential of houses oleksandr korpan was posthumously awarded the title of hero of ukraine for his courage and self-sacrifice.

ukraine is still claiming the official status of a contemporary of the russian-ukrainian war, when and how benefits can participants of voluntary territorial defense formations receive. my colleague andriy dekhtyarenko talked with oleksandr parkhun, the first deputy minister for veterans' affairs, and received answers about the beginning of the active phase of russian aggression against ukraine and millions ukrainians left their jobs, left their families and went with weapons in their hands to defend the motherland, what will happen to their status and what will be the status of those who teroboron is different from the status of those who are on the front lines. we will talk with the first deputy minister of veteran affairs oleksandr prokhon, so let's start with the first question. we know that you take care of the problems of volunteers and now many volunteers have gone, in particular, to the ranks of teroboron. what about their status and whether they are really equated to of the status of participants in hostilities, which is

, in particular, in the armed forces of ukraine. invasion of the russian federation on february 24, 2022, we understood that this category would expand because we have had a valid law on national resistance and territorial community since last year, and thus the ministry of veterans affairs, together with the social committee of the verkhovna rada of ukraine, developed a draft law and e- on march 15, 2022 , this draft law was adopted as a basis and in general in the first reading and in general as a basis for e-e under number 21:21 that this draft law and the already valid law of ukraine gives us he made changes to

of the current law of ukraine under number 3 51 on the status of veterans and their social guarantees, where we expanded this category and in points 19 20 21 22 we also included the persons involved in the defense of our state as part of the territorial defense and voluntary formations territorial communities and directly made a separate category of family members of fallen defenders of ukraine, therefore, when asked whether they will receive the status of a participant in hostilities, this will be the case now. the ministry for the implementation of law 2121 is developing and has already developed the resolution of the cabinet of ministers of ukraine, which was agreed with all relevant bodies of the central

executive power and this draft of the act, is currently under legal examination by the ministry of justice, after the legal examination of the minister, this project will be proposed and submitted to the meeting of the cabinet of ministers of ukraine for its adoption. and after that, the ministry will directly develop the procedure for granting status to participants in hostilities, and the ministry is also working on the fact that during a full-scale invasion of us many volunteers of ordinary citizens of ukraine took up arms and went to defend our country, and that is why i say that de facto a volunteer formation was created and used in the defense of our country, but de jure they have not yet had time to issue this volunteer - a voluntary formation and

unfortunately among them there are dead and wounded people and we are also working on this status in what right and on what grounds. defender of ukraine and the status of a person with a disability as a war veteran as a result of a wound, a mutilation, control oleksandr, let's still explain to our viewers and listeners what these statuses mean, what we are talking about, what people who become veterans actually get, what their relatives get in this draft law 35-51 according to our draft law, what is governed by the ministry of veterans affairs, the gradation is as follows: this is a participant in hostilities - this is a person according to the disability caused by the war dash, a war

veteran and this is family members of fallen defenders ukrainians of ukraine and there are also persons who are equated with the status of a participant in hostilities. under each category, a number of lists of benefits are drawn up. well , let's take the example of a participant in hostilities in the chat, and these are the benefits and guarantees that currently work in our state directly, these are benefits for a-a housing and communal services for a participant in hostilities they make up 75%, for persons with disabilities e-e they are also divided into categories, a person with a disability of the first group is 100% a person with a disability of the second group is 80%, a person with a disability the third group is 70%. as well as for family members of fallen defenders of ukraine - this is 50%. then there is such a benefit as retraining

for you at the expense of the state, everyone during hostilities has the right to get a free higher education institution, for example, the profession he wants to switch to. and we in the ministry call this the so -called transition from a military career to a civilian one and the state gives the right to obtain this higher education at the expense of budget funds, as well as this preferential transportation, but it is formed at the expense of funds of local self-government bodies, but until during the war, this benefit was in effect, yes, there were certain problems in different regions, we systematically worked on these uh, well, the question is also about the categories of psychological help, this is sanatorium-resort treatment, as well as psychological help. last year, the ministry managed to include family members, not as

prescribed before that it is one person. and we believe that they should undergo rehabilitation as part of a family because it is a more effective and influential mechanism for improving the condition, also for persons with disabilities there are e-e benefits for free treatment for the scheduled passage of e.e. dispersion and passing certain examinations, there are many more benefits. there are simply no, i will not climb over it better. so, a person can go to the website of the verkhovna rada and open the law of ukraine 35-51, where he will clearly understand what kind of benefits he can use ministry of veterans affairs in turn, it is now engaged in the digitization of these processes and the creation of a veteran's office on

the action platform where he will be registered and in his office he will see what benefits he has can take advantage of what benefits he already enjoys and what benefits will be offered in the future, let's now go back a little bit, we talked about the fact that now there are really many voluntary formations that did not have time to issue documents regarding their legalization actually went to the streets of towns and cities of ukraine and really accepted participation in the defense of one's own homeland, how can they correctly issue this status, how can they submit documents, and how can your minister verify it because it is clear that in this situation when we just now told you how many benefits are available for veterans. well, there may be unscrupulous people who want to take advantage of this. how do you check the information? yes, this is a

very valid question. and we approached this very responsibly, because we understand that voluntary organizations of territorial communities were created throughout the territory of ukraine where there was an opportunity to create them and the issue of verification is the most important because it is really the person who was applied and involved in the defense capability of our of the country and directly took part in hostilities with the russian federation, this must be confirmed after the cabinet of ministers of ukraine adopts the draft of the act that i talked about above, we have developed an order, and directly in this order there will be a list of documents according to which a person can receive the status of a participant in hostilities according to our own statement, and we understand that we will act as we did

until february 24, 2022. the interdepartmental commission was directly based at the ministry of veterans affairs, and we gave the opportunity or a person personally collects documents and sends according to his own application to get his status or data to volunteer formations that were used in the area of ​​the anti-terrorist operation, the commander of the volunteer unit formed a package for the appropriate number of his volunteers and sent directly to the ministry what we prescribed and what criteria we want -e to prescribe in this order so that, as you aptly said, there was no speculation and persons who were not involved in the defense of our state received

the status of a participant in hostilities, the procedure that we we are working out that the commander of the volunteer formation must confirm e-e an extract from the unit of the volunteer formation that this person has indeed concluded a contract with the volunteer formation further e-e this confirmation is sent to the brigade commander in the area of ​​which e-e in which the introduction of hostilities was carried out where the brigade commander of territorial defense confirms that this serviceman was involved in the territorial defense forces and there will also be an appeal to the head of the territorial community so that he testified that this voluntary formation of the territorial community was indeed adopted at a meeting of the council of the territorial community. all

documents give us the reason that this person, this citizen of ukraine, was legally involved and officially is in the voluntary formation of the territorial community. next, we collect the testimony of fellow combatants who directly saw that he was carrying out the task of protecting our motherland, and we are forming this package and sending it to e-e decision of the interdepartmental commission the e commission recruits a certain number, we check certain documents and bring them to the commission meeting after the commission's decision, this person will either be granted the status of a participant in hostilities, or the directed regime will be warned that some documents are wrong and need to be completed. we never refuse. we try if it is legal that's right, and the person

did his duty, he 100% receives the status of a participant in the hostilities of oleksandr, but from what you said, it looks like you need to collect a lot of papers at different stages and it's probably should cause great dissatisfaction among people who will be forced to prove that they really took part in hostilities, we understand that after the war this will surely cause a lot of emotions. you just said that you are developing some kind of digital mechanism . convenient for soldiers. perhaps, but we have certain laws of ukraine on public information, and these statements and confirmations of persons for use in the defense of our state are also public information because of that this process well, it is not so easy to provide for it, how about submitting an

application for receiving housing and communal services benefits, we understand that this category is directly impactful for the russian federation and the entire state at the beginning a lot of work was done different work to destroy the data of the participants in the hostilities, because you know the cases and so far in the kherson region and everyday life where the participants in the hostilities were calculated through certain structures and then were eliminated by the russian invaders, so this procedure should not be open and it is even in the power structures there is also a list of documents, but it is performed by the commander of the military unit and the staff-unit. the question is whether the status of a person who was in the armed forces in a city or a village where there were no actual hostilities will differ. well, we understand that hostilities did happen anywhere how does the occupier act, how does

the russian federation act, they enter one region, then leave, they waited everywhere throughout ukraine, people, people went to the defense, barricaded the streets, took turns every day, and these people wasted their time, wasted their health, resources they also have the right to some status, for sure, but the status of people who were directly in the combat zone should probably be a little different. tell me, do you somehow distinguish between these two statuses or not? hands went to defend our state, that is, in the combat zone, that is, in the combat zone, we still have the status of a participant in the war in the state, it is possible to consider the status of a participant in the war for the civilian population, which of found out which of the molotov grenades threw themselves at the equipment,

stopped it, which covered this equipment with a human shield and did not allow it to move further. so, this is an opportunity for them to get the status of a participant in the war, but the status of a participant in the war for today - this issue is dealt with by the ministry of social policy and it grants certain er such statuses i know that the ministry of veterans affairs, if i am wrong, please correct me, e had its own infrastructure and also took care of sanatoriums, medical facilities for veterans, for the disabled starting from 2014 is correct, yes, and i know that many of these places suffered during the war or were even occupied, so what is the infrastructure for the rehabilitation of veterans in our country now, have you collected current information, what is its condition, and how many have we actually lost, and how many veterans are becoming

more and more with each month of the war with each day of the war, and the places where these people can be rehabilitated, on the contrary, are fewer, how will it be, look at the ministry of veterans affairs, there were five medical facilities where direct care was provided psychological rehabilitation, where some medical rehabilitation was carried out, but two centers were damaged - these are borodyans, it completely no longer exists in boyarka, it is also half-destroyed, three centers remain, they were under occupation, but the infrastructure is now well, if it is not touched and they continue to function, we understand that our category, as you correctly say, is growing every day, and this infrastructure needs to be developed and directly engaged in

the rehabilitation of veterans, which in common with the ministry of health has developed a draft resolution in which veterans affairs also joins resolution 411, which allows servicemen to undergo rehabilitation abroad, and the ministry of veterans affairs conducted such communication and also established certain rehabilitation centers and certain medical institutions abroad that are ready to already accept war veterans, together with members of their families, for the recovery of you the ministry of veterans' affairs has an opinion - it is to create a psychological

assistance center in the city of borodyanka, where it can be shown that it is unbreakable and there to start the recovery of our soldiers about borodyanka. just take a look , they would remove materials about how all this is happening, when, when, this center will appear, uh, now there is some communication with international donors, and when there will be some information, i think the minister in of veterans affairs yulia laputina will go on a marathon with this and report such news, i personally invite the minister to us on the air and yet you talked about the fact that our foreign partners want to join in helping restore the health of veterans of the russian-ukrainian war wars to ukrainians, who, exactly, which countries are ready to receive our veterans in the first place? well, you know that

we had the invincibles games the week before last, where our team invector with gay took part. it won 16 medals, although we understand that the veterans did not prepare harrowed our ukraine and they went there only for the purpose of informing the world what is happening in ukraine, how ukraine opposes the so-called second army of the world, but they brought some days of gains and there was communication with canada, britain and a number of other countries that are ready lend a shoulder and gladly help us bring this case to an end. oleksandr cannot ask us. and tell me, do you have an understanding of the fact that money will be needed for rehabilitation and treatment, the provision of benefits to

veterans after even these months, and this terrible war and have you already had communications with the ministry of finance and the ministry of economy, in particular, the process now, so far, we are specifically working on financial and economic calculations, we are working on the number of categories, which will increase because before the war, it was a category of one million 200 people, we we understand that after our victory, this category will grow a-a now i can't tell you the number because there is no understanding how much more will go on, the active phase of hostilities, and how long will it take us to win after that when it will happen and i am 100% sure that the victory will be ours, we will really conduct financial and economic calculations and only then we will be able to name how much money is needed, but directly the ministry of veterans affairs

issues communications with the ministry of finance, this issue is being discussed, i am sure that this will happen and wants and i wish you and everyone who is watching our interview that victory over come to ukraine as soon as possible. thank you very much for this interview . thank you for such a detailed analysis of everything that is needed to help veterans. thank you. we will see you around ukraine now we will rebuild taras we will launch we will defeat the child news together we are strong unconquered cities of ukraine this is the progressive melitopol one of the most comfortable cities to live in ukraine due to its good location the city developed rapidly but at the same time suffered due to frequent raids by invaders in the second world war it became the main defensive point of the nazis was the order

to hold the steel gates to the crimea at all costs , after two years of occupation, residents rebuilt melitopol, turning it into a developed a european city, today the people of melitopol prove to the occupiers that they have not only steel gates, but melitopol was and remains an unconquered ukrainian city melitopol unconquered journalists, cameramen, documentaries, photographers 69 days of war in a whirlwind of events on the line of fire, 16 of them did not return from the mission, it is our duty to continue their cause to tell the truth for which they

gave their lives, millions of us are forced to live unknown, many people who arrived they do not work, they lost their jobs, but they are alone if you moved from the territory where you were or continue hostilities, use the support program and receive up to three thousand hryvnias per person per month, maintain the status of an internally displaced person and payments in action, update the application and use the service section, the help for internal displacement of a person will appear in the application, and the funds will go to the card, there is support or stents for accounting until tsnap or social protection authorities and submit an application for assistance there, more details on the website of the ministry of social policy of ukraine on our land, the ukrainian hero not only carries the death of the enemy but he can even defeat her. meet volodymyr

gordienko, he spent two days with a bullet in his heart getting to his brothers. 1.5 mm was sent to the cavity of the heart. for several days, he didn't even believe that volodya was alive and fighting again. glory to the heroes. glory to ukraine . the only news on the social network for the next hour with you, i'm anatoly yarema, we're adding to our conversation rylla cohen, a senior research fellow at the eurasian center of the atlantic council e prial. welcome to the air. marathon single news you are a recognized specialist you are a recognized specialist in international security issues so let's talk about security