the law states that a person was mobilized illegally, but the ministry of defense explains that each specific case will be considered separately because there were cases when those who had been fighting since the 14th year of the lpr and dpr volunteer groups appeared under the guise of illegally mobilized daria kurenaya, a journalist from donbas radio, was on. the visa regime for russian citizens began to operate from today. from now on, russian citizens will be able to issue ukrainian visas at visa centers. the vfsglobal company located in eight russian cities previously said in the ministry of foreign affairs of the russian federation that possible measures in response could be taken into account taking into account the humanitarian component and taking into account the russian national interests end of the quote i would like to remind you that a petition on the introduction of a visa regime for citizens of the russian federation was registered

on the website of the president of ukraine in the middle in february and at the end of may, volodymyr zelenskyi supported the initiative. on june 17, the government of ukraine adopted a resolution on the introduction of a visa regime for russians, we are talking about it now, by kostyantyn batoz, a political scientist and director of the public organization priazov development agency. i congratulate you. i wish you a good day. well, it is clear that maintaining a visa regime complicates the entry of russians into ukraine. but in your opinion, can it actually secure ukraine? er, they will try to get this visa. they will probably be able to get it there through some a special passports and so on. well, i would say that the big risk is the existence of a very long line the sigh of the front that we have now, if the russian saboteurs set the goal of entering ukraine, of course they will do it, and through

the occupied territory, temporarily occupied territories, and thus, this is the introduction of the visa regime, it will stop the russians, of course, but will not completely protect us from the risk of russian saboteurs entering, they will come from the temporarily occupied territories. and do you understand how the visa regime from russia will work for citizens who have received passports of the russian federation to the occupied territories for example how how what will change for them and how will it work and i don't know if our migration service has access to russian registers and understanding who among ukrainian citizens betrayed the state and illegally obtained a russian passport and it seems to me that if such facts will be found, then upon crossing the border, these people should be interviewed if they still have ukrainian citizenship. they should, of course, choose

ukrainian to renounce russian citizenship. there are no legal grounds for them to enter ukraine well, but if we are talking about those who did it against their great desire, then in particular the secretary of the nsdc danilov in september in the interior told a person that in the territory of hordlo he is talking then about the territory of hordlo it is simply impossible living without a russian passport is also a situation when these people, children, for example, were born already in the occupied territories and especially there was no choice whether to receive this russian passport, what are the risks for them. and you know that everything should be equipped by law after we occupy our lands after the ukrainian flag of the donetsk land group and i am sure that a legislative solution can be found to make it easier for these people to obtain, not to obtain, but to acquire ukrainian citizenship, return to ukrainian citizenship let's say so, but that's already

should take place after our victory and after the circumstances under which a person a-a chose russian citizenship and e-e renounced ukrainian citizenship will be verified in each individual case citizenship, mostly residents of the occupied territories actually keep ukrainian passports even when they try to get a russian passport, they say that they lost ukrainian documents, or they keep one abroad, they do not give their passports to the internal ones, that is, many people actually survive and therefore use several passports that they have in their hands and in order to survive , but in fact, i understand that you are talking about most cases, but there are, after all, i am not sure that they are single, these cases when people do not have well there are no options to leave the ukrainian passport. i personally know several such a-a cases. what should be done in such a case? it turns out that before the end of the war, those citizens of ukraine who were straw men

received russian passports for some reason, either lost or had their ukrainian passports taken away i think that if a person wants, a ukrainian wants to get back to ukraine, then he can do it. recently, we allowed repatriation of ukraine to people, but not with the entire list of documents, that is, if conditional on the polish side, a person will appear at the border who has purchased the territory and does not have all the documents for entry, a foreign passport or an internal passport, but according to the registry, she is also a citizen of ukraine, and i think that this person must be, she must be allowed to enter ukraine, but the acquisition of further citizenship must of course take place after communication with the special services and after a thorough check of this person by our competent

authorities . they are forcibly mobilizing members of the russian army or self-styled formations, and in order to preserve their lives , the defense advises these people to surrender to the armed forces of ukraine, but there have already been cases when these people were later convicted of treason in ukraine. what do you think why this is happening and what it is still possible to do what is happening, oh, you know, well, again, uh, all these cases must be regulated. i am sure that they will be regulated by a separate law after we worry, our territory is being supplemented, it is just happening i think, well, i understand what you are talking about, but still, the question is relevant already now, well, not after the war, not after that if a person betrayed a-a to ukraine and renounced his citizenship, then he must bear responsibility for this and, of course , the circumstances of which this happened should be taken into account by the court. but in my opinion, when these

cases happen now a-a, this is all a question for the court a-a how does the court, for example, evaluate the activities of this person, that is, when she received a russian passport for treason against ukraine, she has suffer for it punishment but at the same time, when a person on the front agreed to fight and came to ukraine, it must somehow be counted, and it is enough for the decision of the judge of the court, how should the fate of this person turn out, i believe that unfortunately, until the war is over , we cannot make any such special decisions, and the people in the entire territories also have to understand that there is a vital necessity, if there is an instinct for consumption, we will understand it all, but treason is also a very serious crime in our law for which he has to be a punishment that must be inevitable well,

look, i understand your position, i still want to clarify something, but often, for example, my colleague daria kurinay wrote an article about this on our website for donbas realities about what is often this is the line between forced industrial mobilization and voluntary joining to the army of the invaders, it is simply, well , elementary, difficult to prove, because people are not always directly grabbed by the hands, sometimes it is done simply by coercion ; if you don't leave, that is, it's actually quite a gray area here, and hmm. well, what happens then to such young guys who are currently going through an eagle's life, we simply won't have the motivation to surrender to jesus, because they can expect a very long prison sentence well, the term of imprisonment is actually a huge life drama of these people. they are under occupation, but again, we cannot create any special conditions for them.

the law must be the same for everyone, at least now. it is clear that it is ukrainian . intelligence reports that probably in the occupied territories on september 11. when the so-called single voting day is planned in russia, the so-called referendums on joining russia are supposed to be held, not only in the ordlo, but also in the new occupied territories, in particular, as far as i understand, it concerns kherson maybe zaporizhzhia oblast, do you think we should expect some events on this date, you know? i think we shouldn't be tied to specific dates. of course, russia will hold these referendums. they adopted the principle the decision to annex the new occupied territories to join them to russia, that is, another farce in the form of so-called referendums, of course they can be held at absolutely any time and

since this referendum we understand that this is a total show, it is an absolute production that is not will have nothing to do with reality, most likely , even in such a territory as kherson region, the occupiers will bring extras from the crimea to simulate this, this, uh, all the people's support. i don't understand at all who they are trying to interview in mariupoli, where out of almost half a million residents, are there maybe 50 or 60,000 residents? what are these people like ? whom do they represent and how can they make decisions? that is, everything that will happen next from the side of russia has nothing to do with democratic procedures, it is part of a show that should take place in the eastern imagination of their helmsman and

which we can expect today, tomorrow or in august or september or at any time but it will definitely happen, thank you very much it was konstantin batoz political scientist and director of the non-governmental organization azov development agency, russian forces may resume offensive operations on the cities of bakhmut and slavyansk in donetsk region, this is stated in the review of the institute for the study of war, despite constant shelling, approximately 45% of donetsk remains under the control of kyiv, and the entire territory is completely constantly shelled, said today the head of the region, pavlo kyrylenko, a correspondent of radio svoboda, is currently working in the donetsk region, then we show his report from the position of the ukrainian military, we are now in the advanced positions in the donetsk region the front line of the ukrainian military here has actually not changed since 2014, well, more often the shelling is in the evening, they get enough sleep during the day, eh, they

start to climb up in the evening, in general , it’s more or less normal here, that is, they haven’t advanced here for 8 years, the guys are doing well, the guys have strengthened themselves eh- it's very good, i always wanted to go, well, i don't know since the fifth grade, i knew that i would be a soldier there, i watched all these films about the war, and i finished my studies, i studied to become a brawler and decided to go and sign a contract, my parents did not know about it i told them at the very last moment. my mother cried a little longer. how long ago it was, two years ago . i turned 17 years ago, and immediately

i went . the military serviceman himself helps us more, if we compare the brothers with ours, then i don’t know 10 of them should be taken so that he fights with one of ours, because our boys are already hardened to be boys, they have been fighting for 8 years in we guys are driving the muscovites out of a peculiar land behind us, our homes, we have already formed such anger in the heads, you know, as the italians say, revenge is people who serve cold, here we are now already cold, a cold calculation to knock out all these damned fools, drive them out of

our land because bucha irpin we his well, after all, this is not forgotten, this is not forgotten, that's why i think that if i survive and i will survive like that, i will also tell you that they should beat that damn muscovite as soon as their rotten foot steps on our ukrainian the land if ukraine does not come together as a whole and only half will fight to try to defend it roughly we can be very difficult - for a very long time it will be visible for a very long time and if every ukrainian on this land who is here now on the couch on the bed and i think that i will go i will wait i will wait and it will be over i will leave continue to work and it doesn't help anything here, so we didn't finish it, we have a lot, we also don't have many ukrainians here and we don't have enough strength .

who sit and wait for something and have to go here, i don't even think about it. i quit my job without thinking . i loved everything and it was well paid. yes, i understand. it's definitely very scary. it was very scary in the first days. i thought everything was a slipper. it's very scary. well, it's war. it's not scary. we don't need to win. they called on russia to release the kidnapped mayor of kherson , ihor kolykhaev, and other ukrainians. this is stated in the statement of the spokesperson of the european external action service. his advisor halyna lyashevska reported. according to her , after the search, kolykhaev was put on a bus and taken away. ihor kolykhaev refused to leave kherson despite the occupation, he assured that he does not cooperate with russia but takes care of the life of the city and for a long time he managed to coexist with the

authorities appointed by the russian occupiers, but who is he? ihor kolykhaev and what could be behind his abduction, let's talk with political scientist volodyr volodymyr molchanov p. what do you think about the abduction of ihor kolikhaev, because unlike other mayors, he managed to avoid such a fate for a very long time ? well, actually, i don't have an unequivocal opinion about what motivated the occupiers or finally to do what was expected of them. before or actually as some believe in the end to simulate just this abduction in order to disguise, let's say, some kind of secret cooperation i still don't think how bad about our mayor i

think that all the problems are kherson people some kherson people they saw in his behavior that they were caused solely by his , let's say, consistent position, that is, he even made the phrase "we should live here" in his slogan, and he probably couldn't even allow himself to evacuate , that is, in his opinion, it was an escape and in the opinion of his ardent supporters, that is, in any case, no matter what, it is necessary to stay working there, try to somehow support the life of the city, no matter what, and uh, i understand the decision, you have now explained the political logic of mr. kolikhaev but coming out of the security there, in particular, gennadiy loguta, the head of the region until recently, he said when mykhailo still has to leave, what do you think

, did he do the right thing? what remains is my personal opinion, which is not wrong. and i was also one of those who persistently told him about it that all pluses from the fact that he remains in place, they will be very easily demobilized simply by the usual threat to his safety, because his safety is not only him, it is also those people who depend on his electronic signature, i.e. public servants kherson eh and in fact that’s how it happened, that is, they are now stopped well, at least throughout the region now the treasury has stopped funding all eh budget expenditures of all kherson oblast but it all started three days ago precisely from kherson, although there from the mayor himself directly for the implementation payments depends only on the executive committee itself, i.e. 400 employees of the executive committee of the kherson

city council, other budget administrators, such as education , for example, the most. i.e. peace in accordance with the law on martial law already without the participation of the city council makes changes to the budget through the executive committee, by the way, he did it once, but if these changes were already recognized or they were not recognized in one way or another, the financing is carried out for all others without the participation of the city council chairman, this is very important because, for example, kherson teachers using distance learning completed the school year according to ukrainian programs, almost none of them cheated despite the persistent efforts of the occupiers to sway them before that, the same. what is clear about how the townspeople in kherson reacted. i understand that there is currently a very fragmented restriction of information from kherson.

but maybe you know who, and how to react to the fact that the kolyhaiv was stolen and how before that they reacted to the fact that he remained well, first of all, how did they react to the fact that he stayed, opinions were divided eh and this is quite expected because he has his own support group, i call them excuse me, this is my personal me again i emphasize that i do not want to offend anyone, because i am against improvements at any price. this is such a typical ukrainian, as we saw in the previous elections, voting for the one who invests a lot of improvements through centralization . just to all those who don't know kherson people should not be reminded or enlightened about where kolykhayev came from, because in kherson this name

was not known at all until 2014, after 2014, when he became a people's deputy. apologies to the deputies of the regional council from petro poroshenko's block he was also not, uh, the purchase of such land came from a cup, such a shady land market was uh, but where he came from is actually little known . it just so happened that he is connected with some russian special services, although it is quite possible that he simply accumulated capital somewhere and came here to do business on the same grain that you see now. and by the way, he has not taken his business anywhere. stayed here and maybe this was also one of the reasons at least that he decided to stay

because those who left at least their uh crop was simply robbed by the occupiers in the first place and those who didn't left either pumpkins and secondly or for now they didn't even have time to rob us. unfortunately, we don't have much time, and i wanted to ask you one more question about hennadiy laguty until recently. he was the head of the kherson regional military administration and he was recently fired without explaining the reasons. how are you ? what are these reasons? well, first of all, laguta. this was the one hundred percent attitude of igor kalaev, that is, he was his assistant, he was the executive director of his charity fund from lisa, who claim that he was his driver and bodyguard, that is, at least the person had no experience and the skills to lead not only the region but any serious projects, the governor became

the head of the regional state administration thanks to such a strange and already unpleasant change, when igor hesitates to dismiss it only because he became the mayor kherson to his place aa deputy mandate actually er in the 184th district he began to promote his biological assistant hennadiy lagun there and according to old memory the voters were ready to vote precisely for laguta, it was quite obvious, but the government wanted to sit down for himself, this mandate is the only one in the kherson region that was not accepted by the people's servants in the 2019 elections, and their candidates came in second, the candidate was not easy, or the acting head of the regional state administration at the time, serhii kozyr, and this is how such a strange amount happened when in a week until the vote when laguta is no more could withdraw his candidacy, he nevertheless announced the withdrawal of his candidacy and was appointed head of

oda instead of serhiy kozyry, who inherited in such a strange way that he inherited the deputy mandate of e.e. kolkhayev instead of laguta. er but the authorities stubbornly ignored it and er there is little time, you can be brief, they all obviously saw that laguta was incompetent exactly when the invasion happened and vaguta simply disappeared for a month and a half from of the information field and it is not known what he was doing and where he was all this time, and then when he did appear, it became obvious that apart from a few slogans, moreover, he is not able to implement anything in the russian language, other than managing the territorial defense, for example or to organize the financing of the liberated territories , but it was already thank you uhu thank you very much i want to say

that gennady lagut of the svoboda council is ready to give an opportunity on our air to answer any e claims against him on our air and with us was political scientist volodymyr movchan, the village of yagidne in the chernihiv region lived under russian occupation for about one month. all this time, the villagers, almost 400 people, were kept in the basement of the school. russian troops left yagidne at the end of march. now volunteers from all over ukraine are coming to the village to help the locals rebuild their homes as soon as possible. see how it happens

. let's try it. it's okay. i just arrived recently, but for a long time. i hope i like it very much. we do what valera tells us and we're doing the roof now. we're doing it tomorrow. i want to go. help there and learn how to do masonry, if that’s the case , we’re doing

mountain people here. while our guys in the east are protecting us, we’re working here in this video, the war started at the military enlistment office, i had bronchitis, and on the second day i came to the military enlistment office, they sent me somewhere, they said, well, how can i hug you for a long time

i just started helping the people who were burned during the russian shelling, because these are the people who are engaged in demining these territories

. 1,027 settlements have already been liberated by the armed forces of ukraine. this was said by the deputy head of the president's office, kyrylo tymoshenko, during a trip to the zhytomyr region. well, actually, he clarified that he is at 95% liberation of the territory, the work of humanitarian headquarters has already begun. sanctions, and you can read more about it on the royals website. i am very grateful to you for watching us. my name is sashko shevchenko . subscribe to radio svoboda's page on social networks. we are facebook instagram telegram twitter time in other social networks thank you for watching again goodbye war in ukraine is the main topic for ukrainians victories and

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