last year, during one of his visits to kyiv even before the war, anthony blinken once said that in ukraine well, he actually put an equal sign between the two biggest problems that exist in ukraine. the first is russian aggression and the second is corruption, and just... a few days before blinka's visit to kyiv, the ambassadors of the g7 countries made a statement that they were concerned that the independence of anti-corruption bodies was threatened when one of the deputies of the servant of the people proposed to change the rules for the appointment and dismissal of the head nabu please tell me the issue of the independence of anti-corruption bodies was raised at this meeting, well, the whole range of issues was definitely discussed. but you are right to emphasize that there is no need to change the rules of the game when the game is already playing out for us in principle, and look at all the bills and proposals, the deputies can propose any - which is always correct, they make these proposals, but it is not put to a vote

, because it is a matter of discussion, moreover, it is a matter of internal political discussion, so we believe that there is no need to change the rules, that it is necessary to go according to this agreement, which was already in place before the war and during the war. and i think that we will reach the right end on this, on this path, would you say that the deputies can propose any - is it true, after all, there was a question that the deputies tried to pass this law not through a specialized committee, but through a committee that has nothing to do with the nabu, and there were such reservations, many assumed that the president's office was behind this initiative because the president's office wants to establish control over nabu, you know the president's office is behind many stories, conspiracy theory is such a very respectable and very powerful science. as i understand it, and even more so in ukraine, but everything is a little different, look again, there is a certain discussion, there are certain intentions certain people, this does not mean that the president's office does not

understand the fundamental thing that there should be a transparent state, the state's ability to intervene in certain directions, including law enforcement, from the point of view that it is important for the health of the nation, yes, that is, it is important that there were, let's say, a law enforcement audit of the actions of not only the state, well, any other, let's say, institutions in this state, this is key, but the discussion, i emphasize, the discussion we are not in the russian federation yes, where do i remember you know, there was such a p. gryzlov, who at a certain time was the speaker of the state duma and the state duma, who said that the parliament is not a place for discussions . in our country, the parliament is just a place for discussions. there you can test which initiatives it is not. this does not mean that these initiatives necessarily become the president or the president's office or anyone, this means exactly the attempt of the deputies to protest some topic, they protested, they saw that society looks at it differently and will continue to go

and the discussion process is already in a different direction this is very good this is an element of democracy in our country please tell me was there a meeting in the rammstein format in germany yesterday? is kyiv completely satisfied with the results of this meeting? look at rammstein v, which we had just the other day. well, yesterday we had rammstein v - it's a little different configuration there are about 50 ministers of defense, they are discussing specifics. if earlier they discussed including politics, now they are talking only about defense policy, what does this mean ? be given to ukraine as soon as possible, because it is important not only from the point of view of protecting the territory, but also from the point of view of protecting values ​​that are relevant, including for the european continent as a whole, they spoke specific within the framework and bilateral and in general specific plans for the supply of weapons to ukraine,

specific which we need, because we are only talking about heavy weapons there, about the same systems of the russian defense ministry, certain types of e-e guided rockets, about unmanned systems, about systems, see the key about radio destruction systems, e-e, location systems of the russian federation, which cause a lot of damage to us , and so on, all this is already discussed objectively, how or why do i say that the fifth rammstein is significantly e-e different from other rammsteins, because it is principled decision principled decision not to pay attention to any statements of the russian federation that the russian federation should leave all occupied territories of ukraine including crimea and that in order for this to be done by ukraine we will provide well, i mean our partners will provide us with everything we need weapons, i emphasize again. if earlier everyone paid attention to the statements of the russian federation that, god forbid, you will give such and such a weapon or such and such a weapon, we will somehow react today. everyone understands that there are no more

red lines in relation to the russian federation, which commits such a simple thing there, i don't know how to call the volume of war crimes, then i wanted to ask and what red lines are there in ukraine in relation to the russian oligarchs? i ask because, for example , today the wall street journal wrote about the fact that the russian oligarch mykhailo fridman allegedly offered to pay 1 billion dollars from his own funds to the ukrainian alpha bank, allegedly to finance various social energy projects in ukraine there, in exchange for the lifting of sanctions e please tell me how kyiv can answer this very simply, we answer, look at the word, it seems to clearly level everything that is being said about it, that is, it is supposed to give, it is supposed to be taken into account there in order to reduce the pressure of sanctions on him personally or on his subgroup there and so on. this whole word is supposed

to be. to speak frankly about it, there were many companies that were somehow related to russian business, including russian raw materials business, there were a lot of political funds, there were a lot of humanitarian, cultural funds, and so on , gradually at the expense of tough enough sanctions that go through the nsdc, all these businesses will be stopped, property will be confiscated, russian property also means russian business as conceptually, there will be practically no russian business in ukraine, including everything that concerns oligarchs, this is a question of the legal component, the national council of the nsdc must prepare all the necessary documents so that, in principle , sanctions are carried out against specific individuals, and this is happening here today, after all, about the lifting of sanctions. i

understand that in europe or in the united states, where there is wealth there, that is, it is a very good question, look , and how can we influence that, look, mr. light, ukraine can write a letter and say that he compensated us for everything, he is helping us very well here. please remove the sanctions, and then we will not let's talk frankly then, and people understand the nature of the sanctions, this is a little bit . it is not only a matter of relations between ukraine and russia, within the framework of the war that russia is waging against ukraine, this is an attempt by the world business community, the economic community, along with the political community, to separate in general, everything that was saturated with russian money , that is, ours, as you say, our letter, is it our

request there or ours, are there any other assurances - assurances will not affect the principled position, this is the same. look, this is democracy, this is a lot of people who made a decision even in spite of the fact that it somehow negatively affects compatible businesses in europe to separate mr. friedman or any other russian oligarch from european business or is he there from american business, these are much deeper questions and this is not a question of ukraine, this is a question consensus, but today's consensus is talking about something else. let's completely isolate russia, including all this money, which for some time russian oligarchs and russian big business made up the industry, so the name of the so-called russian pro-russian lobby in europe and in the united states, all this will be finished, and we are on it we will not be able to influence anymore, not us as ukraine, not anyone else, not even mr. orban,

who says about three specific oligarchs that sanctions should be lifted against them, and then, for example, hungary supports all other sanctions, do you understand that in in this form, it will not work at all , that is, if ukraine, er, kyiv is offered er, 1 billion dollars from kridman in exchange for the lifting of sanctions, and they ask for advice from kyiv, er, kyiv is mad , it’s understandable and you can say anything, it won’t happen with anyone in a way to influence people who make decisions about sanctions against a specific russian businessman. this much once again emphasizes the bigger issue and in addition let's talk more frankly about others today there is such a conservative estimate of the losses of which ukraine suffered more than 393 billion dollars in this war. that is, where is the 1 billion for which we need to exchange the reputation of ukraine, 393 billion goes. this is a much bigger issue, if we are already talking about ukraine, it is fundamentally important for us to receive other

reparation payments in general. this is a much larger amount and to exchange our reputation the reputation of ukraine, which absolutely sincerely fights for freedom, as such, it makes no sense to exchange it for small sums. well, i think your answer is more than obvious. of ukraine was in touch with us, the head of the pentagon, lloyd austin, recognized the success of the armed forces of ukraine in the kherson region and kharkiv region. he said this today in prague, where he is currently visiting. the achievements of the ukrainian military became possible thanks to the weapons that the west provides to ukraine . heimers installations of harm missiles in prague, he met with his colleague, the minister of defense of the czech republic, jana chernuhova, and the minister discussed further support for ukraine and how the united states will help strengthen the eastern the nato flank will tell the details of the visit sashko shevchenko

sashko my congratulations to you, i thank you personally. so , immediately after the meeting in the rammstein format in germany, us defense minister loydostein arrived on a visit to prague, where he met with his sweetheart , the czech minister of defense jana cernokhova. for loyd, this visit to prague is actually the first in the position of the head of the pentagon, however, as he himself noted, this meeting was productive, the minister announced six projects in which countries in which countries they will continue to cooperate and also promised as much as possible sign a bilateral agreement on military cooperation as soon as possible. well, i thanked austin for the provision of eight combat helicopters for the czech army , now in the armed forces of this country and there are as many as 20 of them, both heads of defense departments assured that they would continue to provide ukraine with the necessary weapons so that kyiv could defend sovereign territories, but also dostin noted the successes of the armed forces of ukraine on the battlefield, in particular the effectiveness of

the use by the ukrainian military, the himers institution will offer to listen to the missiles have proven themselves simply incredible, giving the ukrainians the opportunity to strike targets that they define as important. on the territory of ukraine, they also use weapons and such things as harm missiles to shake the battlefield in such a way as to change the dynamics of the war. we saw success in the kherson region and some success in the kharkiv region and this is very inspiring about the fact that, just like yesterday at the meeting in the rammstein format, and today, the journalists were left with the question why is the west not as poor as possible attack missiles that can hit enemy targets on a distance of more than 300 km and which kyiv has repeatedly requested. and today at a press conference, lloyd austin explained that it is not so important what kind of weapons the usa does not give ukraine, but

what is important is the effect that can be achieved on the battlefield with these weapons, among other things, lloyd austin refused to predict how hostilities in ukraine may develop further, however, he once again assured that ukraine itself will have the priority of the right to determine which outcome of the war will satisfy it, and the usa, in turn, will do everything possible to ensure that ukraine has the maximum advantage on battlefield and had the strongest possible position in the case of victory where the minister of defense of the czech republic this meeting with a colleague from the states is taking place against the background of certain political turbulence at home, part of the population is worried about high gas prices, according to the protesters who came to batlev square in prague on september 3, the problems arose precisely through the government of the czech republic in support of ukraine, among the demands of the demonstrators was to stop the supply of weapons to ukraine and lift sanctions from russia, however, i assured chernikov that the course of the czech government was not supported ukraine will not change, let's listen to our authorities, in one word, instead of communicating with the czech people

about the energy crisis, explaining to people what happened, putin attacked ukraine and he is manipulating countries that are worried about the continuity of gas supplies and the rise in energy prices, this is a homework task for the czech government to improve this communication, we by no means we will not change our foreign policy. and actually, today the head of the pentagon, austin, is also meeting with the prime minister of the czech republic, petr fiala, and the president, miloš zemen and the topics of these discussions are peace and quiet, aid to ukraine and the strengthening of nato's defense capabilities in the face of the threat from russia itself. thank you, sashko shevchenko, thirsty. well, the story of a farmer from the kyiv region before the war, oleksandr krivosheev, owned an entire farm. and when the russian military entered the region, they occupied his farm, the coordinates of this farm the owner

sent it to the ukrainian military and in this way actually opened fire on his own farm, the shells hit the grain warehouses, some of the animals died, now oleksandr krivosheev is trying to restore the farm, the report of our colleagues from the tv channel просмотреть время at the entrance to the farm, we are met by its chief guard, this is rex , he is a little bit contused in the head by a shrapnel, well, he survived next to rex, a flock of sheep before the war. farmer oleksandr had a herd of 170 sheep, now there are only up to three dozen, about 30-40 died, and the rest were eaten because, well, they had to eat something for a month, the russian military lived here for a month, and from here they opened fire on the positions of the armed forces of ukraine. that's why it sometimes flew to alexander's farm."

another part of the economy, grain warehouses. russian soldiers also lived here, everything was filled with products up to the top. you can see on the walls where it stood, the coordinates of the deployed troops were burning. alexander did not think about the consequences. as a result, ukrainian shells hit not only russian military columns and also in the farmer's hangars for 2 weeks. he didn't talk at all, it was very difficult, of course, but now neither oleksandr nor

his wife regret anything, because the russian in the end, the troops were forced to retreat, the spouses dared to restore the farm, borrowed seeds from other farmers, organized the sowing, began to slowly restore the equipment there , called all friends, acquaintances, sweep money, help, who can with what, who with seeds, who with fertilizers, and now the farmers have already received their first harvest, and with them hope for the future and to save the grain until there is no place for us to sleep and cover the grain so that the grain could not $16,000 for the roof of the hangar, the couple is saving to keep part of the money for the repair of the farm for animals. well, here too. you see that there are no windows and doors in principle, but somehow they are needed in the winter

. - they do not leave the thought that the war is not over and suddenly the attack on kyiv is scary again every day we wake up with the thought that this is all at the same time all the words can crumble russia's worsening gas crisis was described by the minister of energy of the czech republic together with his colleagues in brussels. today, they discussed how to provide european homes and businesses with a sufficient amount of heat and gas at affordable prices. zoryana stepanenko with details. my congratulations, how in europe are they going to get out of this situation? what are european officials talking about? my own congratulations. well, you know that winter is coming.

everyone is talking about it here, and in all circles, both at the household level and at the political-diplomatic level, they are trying to act ahead of the curve and prevent electricity from being cut off and its skyrocketing prices. against this background, accordingly, social unrest, russia was relatively recently the largest exporter of gas to the european union last year, in preparation for war with ukraine, it began to reduce gas supplies to the european union and last week completely stopped them due to the nord stream gas pipeline, openly declaring that it would restore it in exchange for the lifting of sanctions and this is nothing but the use of gas as a weapon, the european commissioner for energy said today before the meeting, and because in her opinion russia, by creating a crisis, wants to weaken the eu economically and divide the political one, so the minister of energy gathered today so that these efforts were useless , they discussed an emergency situation on the energy market and the united response of the union of hope of russia, the european commission proposes to act according to such

a plan to diversify the ways of supplying energy resources, as well as to save electricity in peak periods of consumption, also limit excess profits of energy companies through taxation and subsidies, help the population, vulnerable and small businesses, and this road map was discussed today by the ministers working out a scheme for its implementation, the short-term goal is to survive the winter well , the long-term goal is to reduce dependence on russian gas well, this process is already in full swing course because if at the beginning its share in the eu was 40% at the beginning of the war, i mean, now it is nine percent simply zoryana me too i know that the ministers of the eu countries discussed the establishment of a maximum price for russian gas. well, if there was such a way to limit the excess profits of russia and, accordingly, prevent high fuel prices, how

did this part of the discussion really end? the establishment of a ceiling on the value of russian gas and the time has come, and france and other countries that are not too dependent on russian blue fuel have also supported this opposition. i mean, they are not too dependent, but at least 10 european countries are against such a measure, the newspaper finen schelch times wrote about it because these countries do not want revenge from moscow in the form of a complete stoppage of gas supplies. there were also ideas to introduce a general restriction for all suppliers and not only for russian and at the same time set the price higher than in asia and the united states so that the providers would have an incentive to enter the european market, the ministers discussed all these nuances and have not yet reached a common denominator well, they discussed and around the actual level at which this price ceiling should be, there was an idea of ​​50 per megawatt-hour, and

this is a fifth, yes, a fifth of the current price , and another option is to create a single buyer who would negotiate on behalf of about the prices with moscow, but whether she will agree here is also a question. actually , the ministers will now share their thoughts and proposals with the european commission, which will come out with a generalized proposal next week, and then the countries will assess the situation again, and there is a chance that the decision will be made in early october, please, thank you very much zoryana stepanenko, correspondent of radio svoboda in brussels, more than 32 thousand war crimes were committed on the territory of ukraine by russian troops, this is the data of the office of the prosecutor general of ukraine in the chernihiv region, human rights defenders establish new episodes of violations of the laws and customs of war every day, for example, in the chernihiv region, the village of kyivvka kyivska was under siege, and then we we will show

the story of a local resident, andrii tsharov, the russian military killed his daughter, and a fragment of a russian projectile nearly killed him grandson, listen to the suburbs of chernihiv, the village of kiyanka , the russian army, according to the ukrainian military, fired at it with cluster munitions prohibited by the geneva convention, and already before the retreat on march 30, they also used grady with several volleys to fire at the post of mr. andrii, an ethnic russian. i still don't believe it because i'm 22 years old it's just that i've been in the army for 5 years , i studied at the kyiv higher rocket school , and it's not like there were russians. there were all the republics, they all ate the same porridge. says sorry, the guys left, that's what happened, the others

don't need an ingot, the goat represents he, his wife, daughter, and granddaughter during the russian siege, he had to live in his father's basement on the street , we have rabbits somewhere, well, they fed the rabbits, they didn't foretell anything, i just woke up that i was lying on the earth the barn is on fire, the daughter and granddaughter are all lying down. i wanted to get up. i was on my feet. the granddaughter got up. what is the grandfather doing? well done granddaughter, of course, i didn't know that she was either . the granddaughter of mr. andriy diana not only called the neighbors for help, but also bandaged the grandfather's leg and the wound on the head of kateryna's mother, but the woman still could not be saved, despite the fact that immediately under the sounds of continuous canada were taken to the chernihiv regional hospital, please shelling of civilian

houses and property and, first of all, murder, torture , rape, this is far from the entire list of violations by the russian military of the laws and customs of war recorded by human rights defenders in chernihiv oblast during this time, we counted 1180 criminal episodes , we recorded the crime, this is the shelling of the line that was waiting for bread, a projectile hit there, and 14 people died there, but people were shot at the checkpoints . unfortunately, children and students who tried to go out to their settlements to get to their families, human rights defenders , were also killed down to the smallest detail, they communicate with the victims and record the details of the crimes, in particular, side by side with the law enforcement officers. we also point them out that this will allow the relevant international bodies, such as the international

criminal court, the european court of human rights, to prove the guilt of guilty persons and punish them with sentences in specific cases. international courts can announce a certain human rights defender within the next five years and notes those ukrainians who want to testify should consider that at least for compensation from moscow it would be worth fighting for andriy, who lost his daughter, does not believe that russia as a state will comply with court decisions even after the end of the war , i stopped communicating with my relatives and friends there . no, no one will understand, dear, now i am going to join the army. i am going to join the army . does not think only about how to raise the granddaughter

who saved him and cure her, because diana still carries a fragment of a russian projectile in her lung, she turned 16 on august 16, lives here, studies at a technical school, well, she wants as little as possible be a lawyer mom and i really wanted it to end here shevchenko in kiev we will try this was a story from chernihiv oblast well, in the end, let me once again return to the event in kharkiv, in the kharkiv direction, for example, the russian-controlled administration of the occupied part of the kharkiv region announced that they had begun the so-called evacuation of the civilian population from the city of izyum, which, i will remind you , is controlled by the russian troops, so far the kremlin agencies, in particular the tas agency, are reporting about this, and there it is reported that the evacuation apart from the raisin, it should start from the city of kupyansk, and

the occupation authorities advise the residents to leave for the so -called safer territories, that's what they call the self-proclaimed lpr or even the krasnodar territory, and one more piece of news is that to kharkiv oblast, the ministry of defense of the russian federation disabled comments on their social networks after the losses in balaklia , users of social networks came and began to write under the publications that the ukrainian troops are making a major counteroffensive in the directions balaklia kupyanska and raisin, and against the background of a large number of comments on these social networks, the ministry of defense simply closed the opportunity to comment on these events, and one more piece of news, more precisely , another statement from brussels by agent stolkman bergaginsa kanato. we already mentioned this today, he said that russia involved 80% of its ground troops in the war with ukraine. he says

that this is of great importance for russia, and the first message of the alliance is that against the background of such news, they welcome and will give more more support that ukraine needs, and the secretary general also emphasized that all nato allies must be ready for a long-term perspective regarding support for ukraine, and that is why, now, he will consult with all nato member countries for long-term support for ukraine. well, in the end, i want i would like to remind you that radio svoboda will publish the latest update on events in kharkiv region in particular on the website of radio svoboda, and i encourage you to subscribe to our social media pages on instagram, telegram, twitter, facebook and even viber, where you are comfortable. well, there are also two channels on youtube, radio svoboda and radio svoboda ukraine , where we also publish operational videos and news. it is obvious that the weekend is ahead, and there will be a lot of news in particular and

positive ones. i hope there will also be a lot of them, so subscribe and follow, and it continues until monday. 198 days of the heroic resistance of the ukrainian people to the russian invaders to your attention news on espresso anzhelika sezonenko works in the studio we start with an operational summary