of course, this affects our society very negatively. it is very scary for everyone, for all the relatives who are currently looking for and waiting for their loved ones to be released from captivity. this information scares them very much, and it also scares us, but what is the purpose of this? i think that no one can be sure of this situation. now tetyana, tell me, do you know about the participation of any third countries , third parties, third organizations that are currently involved in these exchange processes, e-e, regarding the exchange processes, no, we do not know, but we know that the red cross e-e acted as a guarantor of the preservation of lives under the time of the exit of our heroes from the factory and from australia and also e. he had to carry out some kind of monitoring mission to monitor the conditions of the boys' stay in captivity, to monitor their

physical health, what they eat, what they drink are they there, do they have something to brush their teeth on, or are they kept in normal conditions at all, but to date the red cross, er, hmm , there is no such information either, and regarding the exchange, unfortunately, no one can comment on anything, there is no clear information about the place either finding boys where are they located, are they in the deer pen , or were they taken out of there, if they were taken out, where? unfortunately, no one can give this information now. thank you very much for your comment, tetiana. i wish you to meet your brother as soon as possible. radio svoboda thank you very much marine yuri kuzminsky was captured by the russian military during the storming of the island of zmyniy, his sister

bohdana told radio svoboda that shortly before that, her brother wrote about shelling, then told about the landing of the landing force, and after that he called, he called to say goodbye, then the connection with his brother disappeared, and for the last four months, bohdan and other relatives of the prisoners of war from zmiino do not know where their relatives are, what their condition is and when they will be able to return home on the island. he has been on the island since january month, that is, they were periodically sent there, they were not assigned to the snake island, to the snake island, assigned directly to the border guards , this is their place to conduct the service there, there are border detachments, and the marines were periodically sent there as my brother explained to me that they were being sent there for training, on february 24 at 6 a.m., my brother called back and said that they were on full combat readiness, and that they had begun full-scale after one o'clock . he began to tell about the shelling that

began to take place. he called back that the artillery started shelling them, then we fired something from the air, he wrote that uh, paratroopers were attacking them and about 15 minutes later he called back to say goodbye and said that he us loves and that's all and he just hung up the phone i didn't even have time to say anything to him, ask him what happened, i wrote to him but there was no answer when the president announced that all 13 border guards had died, different opinions began here at first it was as if something broke inside if they only speak for the border guards, they don’t speak for the marines, so i hope he’s alive, we didn’t sleep all night then. we watched or looked at all the public that we

could possibly look at to find something, uh, all the social networks, all the news were looking at something, maybe somewhere they will tell this marine and on the third day the russian federation released a news video about the fact that all 82 border guards were captured alive and well and our president buried them and here they are. they are alive and well. they went down, we recognized our brother on february 24, he dropped his photos, he was wearing ordinary gray pants with white stripes , this one was like this, you know, like a thread by which you could recognize him and he is nothing, he is 21 years old, they are there according to me six boys by the count on the 21st year, 21 is the youngest age

he was one of the youngest there, yes, he was always called a smiley at the service in mykolaiv because he was very positive. months we have absolutely no information it is difficult to live for 4 months not knowing what happened to them not hearing him i am his sister and it is difficult for me and as a material who are waiting for their sons and you fall asleep praying that they will exchange him sooner somewhere there you pray between in captivity it still remains and the border guards and the marine picot from the marines were there separately, the 35th brigade and separately, our battalion 88th battalion, the 35th brigade, a part of absolutely all of them still remained, the field is occupied

, donetsk is under shelling, local residents report this on social networks, this is us, at the weekend, local residents also reported about explosions in warehouses where the russian military keeps ammunition, the first reports of mass shelling of donetsk appeared on june 13, the leaders of the so-called dpr accuse the armed forces of ukraine of the shelling. at the same time, the american institute for the study of war reports that russian troops are probably conducting artillery fire under a foreign flag on the territory controlled by russia, so who is shelling donetsk ? you are currently receiving messages from donetsk well, analyzing everything you see in social networks, all these videos, what is happening there, who is shelling the city, well, since there is a full-scale war, then of course both

the parties respond with fire to the actions of the enemy , and i will simply remind you that the minsk agreements were in effect for 8 years, starting from the 15th year and from february 15th, and the first point of which was a cease- fire, and none of the parties could er, to engage er, active, let's say, artillery activity to solve their issues, including ukraine, and after putin recognized the so-called dpr as independent states of the minsk agreements, there were no more er, and er obligations of ukraine regarding the ceasefire by the way in russia, e also did not become i.e. started active hostilities and today indeed donetsk is under active shelling, including by ukrainian troops, it must be admitted already the only thing

that can be said for sure is that we are not shelling civilian infrastructure and civilians and not only because it is our city yes and we will then have to restore it with our own funds, for our accounts, and then we will have to live with people who are there, who, if they are now losing loved ones, who will not be loyal to ukraine, and also because, uh , we have uh, excuse me, elementary deficit, uh- is ammunition we don't have enough shells to be able to shoot them anywhere, we shoot exclusively at places of accumulation of military equipment at fuel warehouses at ammunition warehouses and sometimes they really miss and make mistakes and this is explained by - and somewhere it is also possible that it is a subjective factor, but the majority of the degree is to a greater degree. i think it is connected with the fact that, despite the fact that they constantly say that we are shelling denis with western

equipment, in fact, our fire actions they happen with soviet technology. that is, these tornadoes are some kind of hail. it is basically outdated and it is really difficult to achieve high accuracy here, but the locals themselves note that it is very often and probably more numbers just on public objects on civilian objects a-a they hit aa well with a very small er-er er-er with a small period of time between departure and arrival and they themselves understand that if ukraine fired there from a pedavdiivka or spid maryinka there would have been much more time then, people they themselves conclude that the russians themselves are shelling and why is this being done so that, by the way, it is very clearly visible if you simply analyze

the russian mass media uh separatist, can you already say occupation changes yes and the statements of the leaders of the so -called republics they all emphasize to us even on the fact that donetsk is being shelled yes, and on the fact that the civilians of donetsk are dying from western weapons , and i believe that this is the main reason for these shellings and for the russians to create such a public opinion in the west that would hinder the supply by the western government for weapons because the russians understand very well that technologically, well, their technological capacity is now greater than that of ukraine, in fact, weapons are their only advantage if we compensate for this advantage of their western weapons and be more technologically prepared. yes, militarily, in from a military point of view, of course , they will lose this war and very quickly, and that is why for them this urgent task is an important

task to stop the supply of western weapons to the ukrainian army, and this is precisely why they are sacrificing in fact, by their own cities and, well, not by their own cities. i'm sorry for even such a word, by the cities they control, yes. and although the collaborators also donate their own cities. by the way, let me clarify. well, a reliable rear for the russian army, how many of these warehouses are there with ammunition and fuel, and with other necessary things to provide for the russian army, there are a lot of them. well, let's say right away that donetsk has already been stopped all this time on unlike luhansk, by the way, it remained on the front line a-a, that is, the front line, the line of demarcation, which it was called delicately. it passed through the outskirts of donetsk

a -a, of course. rem repair bases where military equipment is repaired a-and that's why the density of fire impression in this place is very high and let me return to the topic of the so-called trial in the so-called dpr against the ukrainian defenders of the leaders of the so-called of the republic denys pushylin said that by the end of the summer in the occupied donetsk region, a so-called tribunal will be held over all military personnel of the armed forces of ukraine, do you allow this process and how can it end because you by the way, in one of our broadcasts, when this so-called court did not exist you said that you allow that they can try them demonstratively, what actually happened to the three foreigners, of course, i think that they will try to do such a process. you are just saying until the end of the summer, i am not sure until the end

in the summer they will have the opportunity, that is, the military, our capabilities can harm it, hinder it, let's see, but they really have such a goal, they want to conduct a demonstrative trial, a kind of nuremberg, and in order to show the whole world a- and the crimes of the so-called ukrainian army, the ukrainian military technicians , the so-called nazis, yes, the nazis have them, they call our azov people a-a, and in this way, once again, they prevent the supply of weapons to ukraine by western countries, that is, they. i think that this is exactly what during the process, the main emphasis will be on the fact that ukraine is shelling and killing civilians, and again, the emphasis will be on the fact that it is being done with western weapons, so the purpose of these processes is very transparent. i think they will try they should be done in donetsk,

even though we know that a certain number of our prisoners have now been taken to russia and there they are being treated with so-called investigative actions yes, but the courts will really come to donetsk in order to attract precisely the occupied territory for russia, these are independent territories, so to speak , the dpr of the lpr, in order to draw the world's attention to them. i don't want to make a mistake. to be honest, it seems to me that it's not, uh, inappropriate for them, simply because it can cause the opposite effect, i.e. they want to show that we are killing, they are humane if they carry out such a demonstrative death penalty, that is, i think that they will put themselves on the same level as the terrorists who do it so often

. it is unlikely that they will dare to do it, though death sentences will most likely be handed down, but i don't believe that they will carry them out . thank you very much for your comment. serhiy garmash, a member of the former delegation to the tcg from ukraine, was on radio liberty. there are currently 1,500 civilians in russian prisons. three people managed to return about it . today, the minister of reintegration of the temporarily occupied territories iryna vereshchuk said at the press conference, there was a correspondent of radio svoboda , roksolana bychay . i still managed to hear. congratulations, there are indeed 1,500 civilians in russian prisons, iryna vereshchuk said this, and it is interesting that russia

recognized only 120 of these people who are in their custody, iryna vereshchuk also said this. these are her data and she as she noted , she focused on the fact that these 120 people are exclusively men, that is, the russian federation does not recognize the fact that there are women civilians in their captivity, and they actually say that only men and only 120. and according to the ukrainian side, there are 1,500 civilians people and the difficulty is that if there is there are some rules for the exchange of prisoners of war, yes, the civilian one is much more complicated. and iryna varchuk explained why i suggest listening to her direct speech for the 14 exchanges that we conducted. we managed to free 103 people, that is, 13 civilians returned to us as a result of such exchanges. i saw that they were returned somewhere in small numbers, but they were returned and

here i must point out that this is a huge problem, because there is no mechanism for their return, that is, physically. for example, the geneva convention is impossible because we do not exchange civilians, there is no such format for the exchange of civilians, that is, russia seized them with the aim of keeping them as terrorists and then trading them for something . well, besides the fact that there are civilians who are actually being held in prisons as prisoners, iryna varchuk also informed and about the fact that there are one million and 200 people who were deported from ukraine to russia, that is, 240,000 children and 161 orphans were forcibly removed from them, this is also the data of iryna vereshchuk, and she said that ukraine is currently cooperating with a number of international organizations in order to return people who were forcibly

deported from ukraine to the territory of russia, iryna vashchuk even said that they are looking for a third party that is more or less neutral and that can help at the level of an intermediary to return ukrainians to ukraine and er, iryna varchuk said that it is more true even she said that people who are free should leave the occupied territories as soon as possible if there is such an opportunity, and she even said that she advises to leave through the territory of crimea, that this is the only option, how can you leave? well, and then by any possible means ways to return to ukraine or to the territory or abroad of the russian federation, well, or actually there through poland, she advised to leave, well, or through other countries, that is, to use any possible ways in order to leave the territory of ukraine. thank you very much roksolana bychal from kyiv live

verkhovna rada of ukraine adopted two laws banning russian music in public places and in the media, as well as the import and distribution of books from russia in belarus and the occupied territories; the text of the law states that it is prohibited in ukraine to publicly perform and show phonograms , videograms and music clips if it is a work by a citizen of a country declared an aggressor in ukraine, although it also follows from the text of the law that such a ban will not apply to russian singers who apparently condemn russia's war against ukraine, the relevant list of performers will be updated by the national security council and defense for more details about how the implementation of this law will look like in practice, let's talk further with us on the link yevgenia kravchuk, people's deputy of ukraine, servant of the people, my greetings greetings yevgenia, we will discuss not only the ban on russian music and the ratification of the istanbul

convention, the verkhovna rada ratified it today, but first about pro-russian music, will this law work in practice? i will first give a very simple example . russian popular music is now banned, i will tell you more that in this law we also added the norm of a particular law that came to the vote that it is not allowed on the bus or in to include minibuses in any music at all, because it is , in principle, well, it is an individual matter of each person who listens with headphones, what about you when, for example, there on a plane, uh, everyone flies they have headphones yes and everyone watches their own program that's why it's another and plus, because i myself am on the bus a lot now, and everyone can listen to their own music, not what they have decided, and there is also the music taste of the bus driver. and if we talk about details

, we are talking about e there please show it up now, that is, by the way, so far the russians do it is possible to show it on the air, it is possible to show it right there, this story is the same informational program, if you show the letters z, eh, on the air, simply showing that it is painted on the tank, well, we also provided for this in the legislation, so that informational programs are it's possible gazmanov yes , these and all of them won't be able to be included on the radio or even more so. well, i don't think that of course they will ever come on tour here, but do you remember we still had these scandals ? singer i don't know insta something there i don't no i know a lot about them, but there was a scandal in odesa . yes, she also insulted people at this concert. well, we had a question. and why do they drive at all? well, now it's completely legal. in general, everyone is subject to the ban, but it will be like this.

called can be created a white list er. well, makarevich , yes, i am, for example. it is obvious to people that it is normal if the song is on the radio. of course it’s about books. it’s just that i’ve already read it somewhere already in disguise. what does that mean ? in general, all books in russian are prohibited. no, that’s not true. it’s about books that are printed in the russian federation. and if there is someone in ukraine . do you want to publish a book in russian , but it’s a ukrainian author, please, or if it’s a friend there, for example, a class that is in russian in the original language, well, that can also be done in ukraine, but at the same time, we are also preparing legislation and there is already part of them

voted for the support of the ukrainian product, because in addition to the ban on what comes from russia with their meetings there, there should be support for ukrainian-language content, and it is clear that now the purchasing power of the people there has fallen, and that is why the support should be all the more medi things, including because the advertising market has fallen so much that well, i just don't know how much the media will be able to do, especially those that don't have an oligarch sponsoring or some donor organization, well, it will be a problem for the media, in fact, there should be some programs to support independent media, yes, but going back to the songs, you said that there will be a white list, and this function will be compiled by the nsdc, they will be a list of oligarchs, a register of oligarchs, and a register. i understand russian singers who condemn aggression, but this well, such a

subjective approach is enough, and if the singer remained silent and did not support and did not condemn, well, that is, this is always for me, because there should be such a statement in the version, that is, the singer himself must apply, it is not easy well, we sat down and compiled this list. it seems to me that this is quite a complex structure, so it is closer to the fact that it will not be on the air . for any support, yes, that's how to get a visa , in fact, yes, in fact, yes, you need to apply , if there are any tours or if this music is on the air, you need to apply for that. well, we understand very well what kind of microscope society will be under. we will consider all this makarevych was mentioned and i remembered the posts on facebook from e representatives of the ukrainian active society, in fact, makarevych is not very welcome in ukraine, although that is why i say that he is a

russian citizen, but for example, lyapis trubetskoi is there in belarus, they are very aggressively shooting at us from territories with rockets and so on, but he actually has belarusian citizenship, but now he is traveling and collecting money for the army in european countries where there is a concert yevgeny and how to be when, for example, now i know that is there freedom, yes, this project is released in russian , well, in fact, it’s a marathon in russian, where information about events in ukraine takes place, is it illegal or something? well, it’s the same, well, it doesn’t apply to the information broadcasting that goes outside, because it’s actually freedom made in order to influence the e-e population, by the way, not only in russia and the russian-speaking population, but also those in the baltic countries. and as it were, just literally 20 minutes ago i spoke with a deputy because i am currently in strasbourg in e-e at a session pari and er, well, the estonian mp

shared that well, actually, there is a large population in the baltics, too, well, it’s great that they are looking for these propaganda channels there, and there are no russian-language media there, but what should be shown to watch, so i think that it is important for the countries -bal, i'm right here, well, i think it's right, so the informational expansion is not going to ukraine, but to those who are still interested, so it's being prepared for those who, well, it seems to me that there is no such thing as convincing in ukraine anymore, and everyone understands that that there is a russian measure, what does it bring and independent there. in what language do you communicate, russian or ukrainian, everything is clear, this is not prohibited by law, the istanbul convention, i would like to remind you that it was signed by ukraine back in 2011 and has not yet been ratified there, either because of the protest of the churches or because of the protest of some politicians. and why it was not ratified for so long, because now it looks like only the

prospect of eu membership forced ukrainian deputies to ratify. well, as they say, there was no political will, er, they tried to ratify in the last convocation, but it was not enough of votes, we actually planned well, before this february full-scale repetition, we were already going to put it to a vote in the spring. they didn’t read the text itself, but they read some horror stories or statements of the council of churches. well, with all due respect to the people, but uh, interference in the secular affairs of the state, and even more so, the votes of people’s deputies. we received there some anonymous e-mails mean that with some such arguments at the level there parents will not be able to raise children the way they want. well, there will be lost er in education, well, this is not at all

about this, the istanbul convention is generally about violence, first of all, against women and the psychological there there are different types of responsibility for psychological violence , economic violence, and so on. well, all this noise arose from the fact that, uh, there is simply the word gender in the text of the convention, and it is there. identification person, but i'll just remind you that the word gender is there, gender exclusion is there, gender discrimination is generally in our legislation, first of all , it also appeared, the party of regions voted for it because it was necessary for visa-free travel, and it was also well, it's not a secret either that a lot of legislation that was needed for visa-free travel was actually voted on when yanukovych was president, but then there was such a course and everyone was taken under a visor

and then voted on what at 15 this year was also added. well, here we are talking about non-discrimination, not about the fact that there will be taken as some kind to force laws on same-sex marriages there and so on, this is all delusion and scaremongering and just when it is easier to treat it superficially, but because of the fact that this well, it was so in a wide information space, we are together with the ratification, they accepted the statement with such a well, if it was with eh, it is clearly stated that in our constitution it is also written there that marriage is a mixture of age and woman and we do not plan to introduce a variable there , well, that is, it is clear, as i will simply remind you that yulia tymoshenko explained today that just through the word gender, she did not vote for the ratification of the istanbul convention in our time yevheniya, thank you very much yevheniya kravchuk, people's deputy from the servant of the people, was on radio svoboda, thank you. i encourage you to traditionally subscribe to the pages of radio svoboda on instagram, telegram, twitter, and

facebook wherever you like. and also two youtube channels radio svoboda and radio svoboda ukraine until tomorrow my greetings to everyone who is with us, the 117th day of the full-scale russian-ukrainian war continues and we begin with operational information from the general staff the army of the russian federation continues to carry out missile and air strikes on military and civilian infrastructure objects on the territory of ukraine , the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine reports that the enemy is also actively using artillery, combat operations continue for control over the city of severodonetsk , ukrainian soldiers foiled enemy assault attempts in the areas of myrna dolyna settlements and white mountain in the slavic direction , the russians focused their main efforts on holding