it will be warm, the maximum air temperature will fluctuate within + 26°, significant precipitation in the capital tomorrow is likely to be small vasyl thank you very much thank you very much natalki for information about the weather i often have something today to say goodbye to you to urge to pay attention to the positive alarm signal to protect yourself fight together against the enemy for our sake of the state, for the sake of each of us, i now bring to your attention a news release from my colleagues from the ukrainian editorial office of bbc news. let's watch together. my name is hryhoriy zhagalov. the verkhovna rada dismissed bakanov from the position of the head of the sbu, they allowed the resignation of prosecutor general benediktova, what is next, the second visit abroad since the beginning of the war and with whom and what he is talking about in tehran and

the great theft, how russia let the dnieper water into the annexed crimea and what is the threat of this president zelensky signed the decree on the dismissal of iryna benediktova from the post of prosecutor general, earlier the verkhovna rada allowed the president to also dismiss, as well as the parliament bakanov was dismissed from the post of head of the security service of ukraine, also at the request of zelenskyi i don't think so. zelensky removed both of them from their positions on sunday evening. soon in his address, zelenskyi explained that the questions to high-ranking officials arose due to the collaborationism of their subordinates. according to the law, both can be fired only with the consent of the verkhovna rada . less than

408 hours have passed since the decision to dismiss has passed, and i am joined from kyiv. my colleague viktoriya zhugan, video, congratulations, please tell me how the voting in the parliament took place. why so quickly? good evening, i will start with the fact that, under the conditions of martial law, the parliament works in closed mode because of the same, there is no online broadcast, which means that we can only judge the course of this vote from the comments that appeared later, so, for example, from yaroslava zaliznyak's voice, we know that iryna venediktova was in the parliament during this vote. ivan bakanov was not present. zheleznyak called the voting and consideration of bakanov's resignation formal, but about the process regarding venediktov, he said that the dismissal was with discussion, but there were no loud statements or accusations , what was the voting like, we know that the most

votes in favor of the resignation, and drumov and benedict's e-e gave in the service of the people, but eurosolidarity and voice each gave zero votes for this proposal, and in eurosolidarity, e-e also came out with a statement that they expect reports of public reports from the heads of such important ukrainian bodies as the prosecutor general's office and the security service of ukraine ivan bakanov later commented on why he did not have a report. he said that usually when the head of the security service of ukraine leaves office , it is customary to loudly report on professional achievements but he added that real cases do not need verbal help, especially in the special services, and limited himself to the fact that he wrote a farewell note in his telegram, where he listed the achievements of the sbu, as he believes, which were under his leadership. but at the same time

, she attributes herself to the structure that she headed video and do you know who will head the sbu and who will become the next prosecutor general, well, not so much, but the new names have not been officially announced yet moreover, according to the same deputy zaliznyak, today the parliament did not consider the appointment of a new head of the security service or the office of the prosecutor general, and later we learned from the head of the servant of the people faction of the archamia that the parliament can decide on the candidacy of a new prosecutor general somewhere in 10 days that is, the next meeting should be held somewhere at the end of july 27-29

that there was no information about when it might happen or who is being considered. thank you for the details, as a bbc correspondent victoria zhogan, well, one more piece of news that does not formally follow from the president's decisions, but the connection can be traced, the competition commission announced the winner of the competition for the position of head of the special anti-corruption prosecutor's office became oleksandr klymenko, it is interesting that the name of the candidate who scored the highest number of points has been known for six months, but for various reasons the commission did not announce the winner, this became the basis for numerous accusations of deliberately delaying procedures, this appointment is quite important for the support of ukraine from western partners, for whom it is an indicator of the fight against corruption, an indicator of reforms, it is also one of the conditions under which ukraine will retain the status of a candidate for eu accession, which the country received in june of this year for the appointment, they are transferred to the office of the prosecutor general, but

there is a nuance here. appoint the head of the sah, the prosecutor general, who is out now, is not available, and we will talk more about it on the link olena halushka member the board of the anti-corruption center i congratulate you thank you for taking the time to talk with us well, actually, the anti-corruption center has been paying attention for a long time to the delay in appointing the head of the company, that's actually the result that we heard today. it is important to clarify that the appointment did not take place today, that is, what did happen was actually the formal confirmation of the winner of the competition , which is how you correctly informed that it was determined that last december today it was approved but officially only the prosecutor general can appoint the head of the

specialized anti-corruption prosecutor's office today or the acting prosecutor what happened today the commission actually approved the winner but put forward a number of additional demands which are unfounded in fact they now want to receive confirmation from the prosecutor general's office that the finalist answers is a condition of laws on lustration on the prevention of corruption and also has access to state secrets and they after receiving it confirmation from the office of the general prosecutor's office will send this submission for approval back to the office of the general prosecutor's office, the problem is that receiving these documents from the office of the general prosecutor's office, judging by our previous experience , they can take an infinitely long time, and if they

will delay this submission, it is now parallel in the courts of e- in particular, in the appeals and administrative court of kyiv, there is a case on cancellation of the tender procedure, and in case of cancellation of this procedure through the court, we receive in fact, the entire competition has been cancelled, therefore it is very important to understand that the appointment did not take place, that all that there are tools that can be delayed and tools that will lead to the failure of the competition , it is really very important to monitor that. i understand that you see the danger that the appointment itself can be delayed, but in general, what is the importance of this position, why is there so much noise around it at the highest level that can only be imagined, up to the first persons of the european union and the united states, they drew kyiv's attention to

the need to complete the competition for the post of the head of the sap, to appoint the head of the special anti-corruption prosecutor's office, why is it so important in fact, in the absence of the head of the sap - the prosecutor general, who is a political appointment , has an unreasonably large influence on the criminal proceedings that are being investigated for procedural support of the specialized anti-corruption prosecutor's office, i.e., in fact, in this case only by decision of the prosecutor general or acting prosecutor general prosecutors can be appointed or dismissed from each specific case, i.e. if we take into account, for example, the case of rotterdam plus e, about which everyone in ukraine knows a lot, what we saw we saw that specifically prosecutors e closed this case several times ae prosecutor general

venediktova did not replace prosecutors in order to be able to unblock the case and continue to investigate it properly, that is, in the event that the head of the garden is not appointed, the prosecutor general or the person who performs the duties has a lot of leverage are e-e top official anti-corruption cases being investigated or, on the contrary, are a lot of artificial obstacles being created for such cases, or are they being closed at all for that very reason, the appointment of an independent e manager who was chosen in a transparent competition with the involvement of international experts is a very important indicator and indicator of how seriously ukraine fights corruption and that is why it is so important for all our international partners , including that it is part of the requirements of the european union for e-e candidacy and as a whole now

does the anti-corruption infrastructure work in conditions of war, because i will remind you that there is no head of the nabu either, although for the sake of it, it must be said today that the head of the government gave instructions to hold a competition for the head of the nabu as soon as possible, that is, on the one hand, we see that the anti-corruption infrastructure continues to work, and the higher anti-corruption court continues e- uh, uh, uh, they've been considering cases since february 24. they've already handed down nine verdicts, uh, nabu, and they continue to investigate cases, they continue to take cases to court, uh, they continue to start opening new criminal proceedings at the same time detectives, especially in the first week of the war, took a direct part in the

cooperation with the special services and thanks to their operational work, the troops of the russian federation were discovered on the territory of ukraine and with their help, in fact, the enemy was destroyed, the prosecutors of the anti-corruption office are directly involved in the protection of the state, they are now at the front, in the ranks of the armed forces of ukraine, but due to the fact that part of the prosecutors are now at the front due to the fact that there is no head of the specialized anti-corruption prosecutor's office, due to the fact that there was political interference from the prosecutor general's office, which is a very heavy workload, which is associated with the lack of personnel, now, and so on , of course, the work of anti-corruption institutions is somewhat

complicated therefore, in our opinion, the appointment of the finalist of the competition will be very important, very important help in order to improve and optimize their work, especially now, especially in the conditions of war. thank you very much olena galushka, a member of the board of the anti-corruption center, heard information about international topics. putin went to iran and why should you follow this trip in kyiv? it is putin's second foreign visit after his attack on ukraine, and tehran remains one of moscow's few allies on the international stage. meets with the president of iran, also with the president for sure, but we will talk about turkey a little later, now about iran, so putin is visiting there against the background of rumors about tehran's plans to supply russia with hundreds of drones, some of them with combat potential, us national security adviser jake sullivan said that russian delegations

recently showed even iranian attack drones , and despite the fact that the minister of foreign affairs and rano declared his country any actions that could lead to further escalation in ukraine in the world is closely watching possible agreements that may be reached after the entire visit, what should be expected from the british columnist regarding iran on martin, asked my colleague tetyana kharchenko vladimir putin travels to other countries not so often, why do you think he went to tehran right now, i think it is very important for putin to keep a picture that confirmed that he is not an international person, isolated after sanctions imposed for the invasion of russian troops on the territory of ukraine, trips abroad in this in a sense, a symbolic gesture that shows that he still has ties with the outside world, especially with iran, which is also under western sanctions , this trip will unite two countries that are experiencing

the pressure of western sanctions, they will jointly look for ways to circumvent these sanctions and also strengthen bilateral ties, what to expect from the negotiations between vladimir putin and ibrahim raisi and recep erdogan, so that putin wants to deepen and expand economic and, above all, military ties in the morning. we saw reports that iran is going to send thrones to russia, iranian officials also announced a trade agreement in which gazprom will invest in the iranian oil industry, and they also want to coordinate their positions regarding syria, together with turkey, the president of which, as you mentioned, is also in tehran. if we talk about his meeting with erdogan, i think the main topic for discussion will be syria, but also the negotiations between turkey, the country, and russia

on unblocking the routes for the export of ukrainian grain through the black sea, but i think that the issue syria will be more important for both sides, because as we know, russia is redeploying its troops from syria to the front in ukraine. drown in the stray has invested large sums in the drone industry he has many different types of thrones which he used in god zones a few years ago with their help they attacked saudi oil facilities iranian drones were intercepted in israel by the israeli army they were sent there by hasbala and others about iranian groups in the region so it seems that iran has a variety of thrones in large numbers also it seems that russia needs quality not so much as quantity accordingly in this request iran is able to help

iran also has relatively advanced missile complexes, russian systems in this sense are more advanced, but it seems that russia cannot provide as many missiles as they need for a war, the corresponding wounds can provide what russia needs, but i also think that in addition to equipment, their agreements on political and security alliance which both countries are trying to create which is important to them iran which is involved in nuclear negotiations also needs both political and economic support in order to be able to keep their demands in all negotiations, why did the official tehran make such a decision and how do ordinary iranians feel

about russia's war against ukraine? even despite this, the government maintains a rather tough position in the negotiations with the united states regarding russia, i see the mood of people in social networks, iranians believe that iran is selling off its resources from the caspian sea treaty on the nuclear agreement in exchange is an involvement in the war of an urban invasion of ukraine, which, according to many, is already lost. therefore, there is a lot of opposition both from ordinary iranians and from followers of a less rigid policy inside iran and the establishment. the government's commitment to russia has given rise to a very large discontent is too much given the imperialist history of russia in the early 19th century and even in the early 20th century. well, now about turkey, because this is another bilateral meeting which planned by putin with his turkish colleague erdogan, remember last week, the talks

about the export of ukrainian grain were lost, then the officials of western countries told the bbc under conditions of anonymity that they talked about the supply of grain , they passed a quote about business, but the decision should not be waited until july 19. when will the autograni meeting take place putin and erdogan actually this meeting the day before in moscow confirmed the export of ukrainian grain will be discussed. of bbc service onure-rem mizyaki cardigan went to tehran to take part in a new round of negotiations regarding a series of talks, the format of which was launched in recent years with the participation of iran, russia and turkey. the leaders of these countries have been meeting in different cities for years, but currently there are two important points in these negotiations: first, the negotiations are taking place when russia is actively trying to occupy ukraine, syria , which used to be at the top of the russian agenda, has now been left behind, the persian bbc service reports that russia is pre-deploying its

troops and syria to ukraine, and the vacated positions are occupied by khazbol and iranian militants, and turkey does not want this. secondly, these negotiations are important because turkey has expressed a desire to launch a similar military operation in syria, justifying it by the fact that the forces of kursk units of the people's liberation army are on the border iran and against this step usually expected from these negotiations a reduction in militant activities in syria, an end to the war, or at least a solution to the issue of refugees, but this time, despite other expectations the fact that the negotiations will still continue in syria but during the occupation of ukraine by russia, putin's meeting with president erdogan has another important component . negotiations in syria and in ukraine are expected , namely on the resumption of grain exports, which are currently blocked in ukrainian warehouses. last week , negotiations were held in turkey regarding of this topic and significant progress has been seen but the issue is still

not resolved some officials hope that these talks may not become decisive but due to the active war it is difficult to predict how quickly it will will happen, turkey started supporting ukraine not at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, and also from the occupation of crimea. and the fact that since then turkey does not accept in its ports the ships that come out of crimea, trains the ukrainian military and sells drones to ukraine is only a sign of this support, but this year turkey's support is different from support of western countries, turkey does not join the eu sanctions or the sanctions of other western countries. turkey announced that it only supports restrictions at the un level. the reason for this is turkey's relations with both countries by russia on different fronts in the left and syria but at the same time talks are held regarding the reduction of hostilities in addition, trade with russia is very important for the turkish economy turkey imports gas and oil from russia

and exports agricultural products and textiles and in addition to this the largest percentage of tourists to turkey are russians , some experts say that if turkey, which is currently going through difficult times, joins western sanctions, it will harm its economy more than economy of russia, that is why turkey supports ukraine and does not cut off relations with russia and wants to take a position as mediators and further about the great theft of ukrainian water by russia. for 8 years, she was looking for a way to force ukraine to release water from the dnipro to crimea. this problem for the annexed peninsula became more and more acute in the last dry years. years full-scale in that i removed this issue for moscow, but it gave rise to new ones.

went along the specially created northern crimean canal and here is the large-scale invasion on february 24 of this year. everything changed. kherson region burned down in a matter of days , along with it the dam that opened the flow of water to the thirsty crimean peninsula. now water is literally being stolen, what will be the consequences of this? it's on our air . good evening olezhe, how did russia manage to release water through the north crimean canal? congratulations. in fact, the situation is simple. as we know, the russian troops advanced rather quickly through the kherson region and already on the first day, on february 24, they reached the kakhovsky reservoir, respectively, on the way, they destroyed the dam, the temporary dam

that controlled the water along the north crimean canal and captured hydrotechnical structures after that, and there were no longer any pipelines for water supply, there was a certain delay regarding the fact that it was necessary to take certain technical actions to equip a channel from the climate side for the concept of water - it took literally a couple of weeks and after that the water already went to the peninsula in full volume, what did this unauthorized launch of water through the canal lead to, what are the consequences well, we understand the consequences in crimea crimea receives water and for ukraine well, actually, the consequences for crimea too are not very clear-cut, we assume that it is not regulated, that is, they released water, but its level quickly filled the reservoirs in the crimea, moreover, the spring and early summer on

the peninsula were quite rainy, and this led to to the point that the water level in the reservoirs is dropping sharply and for example, in june, there were showers in simferopol and flooding, that is, for crimea , the consequences are not unequivocally positive, but for ukraine, unfortunately, here the situation is much worse because there is a problem with the fact that we do not control how much water is stolen from us, that is, there are approximate estimates of the state ecological inspection that it is 50 cubic meters per second, that is, approximately 30 million uah, and we are losing. the moment is about four and a half billion hryvnias, but these are very general estimates and it is much worse that environmental damage is possible for both crimea and kherson oblast, which in turn will not receive enough water due to the fact that the canal was launched somewhat

chaotically . well, in fact, the risks here are quite significant, the russians made a base in nova kakhovka for a reason, it is actually now a fortified area, where their troops and ammunition are stationed, and of course there is the dam of the kakhovsky reservoir, which is a strategic object. there is a certain risk that the hostilities near this object led to its destruction, this will have catastrophic consequences in reality, but there is hope that it will not come to this, because firstly, this object is very well guarded, and secondly, it is very fortified, but the fact it is a fact that near the hydrotechnical facilities of the north crimean canal, the russian troops are reinforced, they protect them

more strongly than other constructions in the territory of the kherson region. from the option that kherson, which is further down the dnieper river, will isotopize the pvv dam to the option that it will silt up the kakhov reservoir and, for example, the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which is located on it, will not receive enough water to cool the reactor. well, of course, this can lead to just a terrible disaster, of course i hope that no one will allow this to happen and how much is known how much does it cost kyiv that the russians are simply stealing water i apologize well, as i said, there are enough approximate estimates there are no people who could know exactly the volumes

supplied to crimea, that is, ukraine will receive data from satellite images, this is very approximate data, and as i said, it is about 30 million hryvnias per day that we lose from unauthorized withdrawal, that is , the balance is approximately ukraine lost 4.5 billion hryvnias there due to the illegal supply of water in the ugu circle. thanks for the information. bbc correspondent oleg chernysh. who wants to know more about this topic? i invite you to the bbc.ua website. in fact, everything is on today, look for more history on our website, as i said bbc.ua and also on our social media pages, be sure to like this broadcast so that more people will see this issue and subscribe if you haven't already so you won't miss the next issue again on the air tomorrow at 21:00 take care so that

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