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from tehran in light of the active cooperation of the country's authorities with the kremlin in oil and gas, the head of the company yuriy vitrenko is leaving his post, and in parallel with this ukraine asks ukraine for an event on the energy ramstein, what does this mean , a satellite for a billion, journalists, investigators found out that the girlfriend of the head of the dnipropetrovsk region, valentina reznichenko, receives billions of budget money for the reconstruction of the dnipropetrovsk region details at svoboda life. congratulations, this is svoboda lime. my name is vlasta lazur. we speak live on the pages of radio svoboda, on facebook, on youtube, and on the air of the espresso tv channel. if you watch us on the internet, do not forget to subscribe, like , and, as usual, leave questions, lines, comments in the chats. under the broadcast, the situation in donbas is intensifying, the russian occupying forces

are carrying out offensive actions with redoubled force, this is stated in the latest report of the american institute for the study of war donetsk direction i i will remind you that it remains the most difficult area of ​​the front , intense fighting continues there, in particular in the area of ​​bakhmut and soledar, analysts draw attention to the fact that if the ukrainian general staff reports only about an attempted assault near avdiyivka, for example, russian sources also talk about the gods in the novel pervomaisk vodyan, how does bakhmut live, a city that turned into a fierce line we show the front,

we went further , braking, there are no thoughts, you understand, there is no, i don't know, i'm depressed, you look, people walk, they don't leave, but some of them can't stand it who did not vote for ukraine and not everything left, the most persistent people remained, who are holograns, also because they don’t have everything they wear, what’s left is a lot of shooting. lord god save and keep alive lord you for a stick i don't know

when i was gone this is bakhmut donetsk region well, in donetsk region, we have a correspondent of radio svoboda working for us, and serhii horbatenko he knows - he now communicates directly with us serhii moi greetings i know what today you were uh, you were today near sviatohirsk, tell me in general what is happening now in donetsk region, how is the situation there changing every day, i congratulate my own, in fact, the situation in donetsk region is very tense, russian troops are conducting assault upon assault in the ughledar direction, this is a strategically important direction, because ahead in of them, kurakhovo with one of the largest power plants in the donetsk region, and then the city of pokrovsk, through which logistics and civil ukraine actually takes place, is really in this direction. and what can i really say

the situation is very tense in the city of bakhmut. today i actually visited the village of bogoroditsi, well, let's see. sviatohirska, that's what i saw. i saw destroyed houses. there are almost no people there. there is almost no destroyed bridge across the siverskyi donets river. one of the lines of defense of the ukrainian troops. it was in this direction that the russian troops tried to sleep in the direction of sloviansk. assaults were constantly occurring, arrows were constantly being fired, but thanks to the defense of the ukrainian troops, the russian troops all this time, starting from february, they never got to slovyansk in the village of bogorodichny, well, it's terrible, in fact, there was an apocalypse there, i didn't see more than one surviving house , but at the moment there is only one woman, nataliya, who lives there. she has

such a very tragic story. she moved from horlivka, she moved to bogorodichny, she says that there i saw a real paradise, a river, forests, silence and peace, but when the russian troops came, a real hell began. people were dying and houses were burning, and when the russian troops left the virgin mary , they took this woman natalya with them to the city in the city of izyum, as she says, lists were formed to deport people to the territory of the russian federation, but this woman natalia has a patriotic ukrainian position, she persuaded the doctors in the hospital in the city of izyum not to put her on the lists for deportation from bogorodichny, she hid in the basement of izyum, so they waited there all the time until the city of izyum was first liberated, then the city of sviatohirsk was liberated, and in the end she now moved to bogorodichny, so and as for raisins, for now

civilization is gradually returning to this city e there is little by little electricity, gas is appearing, there are many humanitarian organizations that distribute aid there, and in fact, the traces of russian troops are there almost also at every step of the mother of god, many destroyed houses, a lot of grief brought to the city of raisin by the russian troops and i propose to see how the residents of izyum actually remember the russian occupation, they found lists of nonsense, they went with these lists, 20 people from the police were shot, they already knew who, where, and the families they touched and they shot these very policemen in our garden, there was a forensic medical expert, he was killed on the seventh of may, he was a disabled person with a prosthesis, he went

to work, a chechen man comes for 20 hours , asked a disabled person with a prosthesis to squeeze a car for a person with an important task, well, issue him his mother, his mother , his mother, and he was shot in the upa, put to work, the body was taken to belgorod. well, once he goes there, here we have a two- story house, an old, broken one. first they asked why they were glad that they released us, the points were already taken away well, when i was asked this for the first time, well, they were told what he said, well, they say that you here insult the russian-speaking population of mine and there and that and that and that and that i say well, it's me. so, i'm glad that we fired you. well, that's how i look, young guys. i'm a man, i say, you look around here, where my children live, too, well, at home. in general, they even got into the 5th floor,

even support where in the middle, i say, look at what's happening around and how you think we can be i am glad that he freed us from houses, from apartments, from work, many from business, and some even from life. all nadezhda prayed to the lord god. the first days, as i said, my mouth did not close. to tell the lord honestly, they did not treat us like сейчас образоваемся. well, with god's help , your words, lord, live healthy, i want to hand over the 25th brigade to the guys whose feathers came from september 11. i i want a husband for them, they will see me. i love them very much , linochka. i say hello, i love you all , come and visit us, we ukrainians love

our country. this was a report by serhiy horbatenko from raisin, kharkiv region. well, serhiy generally works in donetsk region, but he went on a business trip and told us such stories from the kharkiv region, and one more important topic of internal domestic politics also concerns energy security, the dismissal of the head of the board of naftogaz of ukraine yuriy vitrenka will not affect the provision of gas to consumers, he said minister of energy herman galushchenko, as he said, it is not necessary to link the situation with the provision of gas to a specific person, well, they say there was one manager, another will become - galushchenko said, the current minister of communities and territorial development , oleksiy chernyshov, will probably become the current minister of community and territorial development, and the parliament will probably vote for his dismissal from the government and his appointment at naftogaz already in the next plenary week well, this will cause not a whole series of significant personnel changes in the government, we will talk about this later

ministers fired him from the post of head of naftogaz yesterday vitrenko worked in this position for a year and a half due to the notice of naftogaz, the windmill himself resigned and i will head naftogaz until the third of november, i.e. until tomorrow, naftogaz headed the windmill in 2021, then accepting the offer of president zelensky and replacing prime minister shmygal in this position, andrii kobolev vitrenko promised to reduce gas prices for the population and leave naftogaz as a profitable company, but it did not work out, in particular, due to the war, gas prices did not decrease and naftogaz went bankrupt, this happened back in the summer of july 26, when the state monopoly could not settle its debts and defaulted, although it is worth noting here that naftogaz claimed that the company had the funds to make payments on euro bills, but in order to make such payments, permission from the government was needed, and the government did not have such permission gave a word of disagreement to the opposition of the government leadership and naftogaz leadership began a long time ago and the resignation

of vitrenko, as many experts say, it was only a matter of time well, how can naftogaz continue to work now we will also talk about this objectively, recipes, the only thing i will add is that against the background of this large personnel rotation, the european commissioner for energy came to ukraine, staff simpson, she inspected the consequences of shelling of critical infrastructure, met with president volodymyr zelenskyi, and during the meeting, according to zelensky himself, with the european commissioner, he discussed the initiative to create an energy rammstein for ukraine, what does energy rammstein mean, what is still happening and happened in naftogaz let's talk further, viktoria voytsytka, people's deputy of ukraine of the eighth convocation, secretary for the fuel and energy complex, good evening, good evening, viktoria, joins the broadcast, to begin with, if i were to interpret the words of volodymyr zelenskyi, how do you understand the phrase energy rammstein, what and from whom does it have what should ukraine ask the western

countries of the world for? of critical infrastructure, especially energy, to ask for help in restoring the work of our key facilities that generate electricity, supply electricity, which , by the way, also supply gas for the population and not only for this purpose, the russians were in march in april months ago, we are talking about the fact that there should be a tool, there should be a platform that will allow to quickly find this equipment that needs to be replaced in ukraine when it is damaged or when it is destroyed as a result of appropriate actions in the form of the use of various types of weapons, that's why this is exactly what we're talking

about, by the way, i want to apply the news because volodymyr zelenskyi, that's how i understand it . the most important for ukraine, er, well, it will be a priority. at the moment, it is energy security, you said that it has, well, i would like ukraine to ask for equipment, if i understood you correctly a-a and what is the difficulty, so you now expect that western countries and the european union and the united states they themselves have faced quite an energy crisis. will they have the strength of understanding to help ukraine in this matter as well? let's start from the end of your question, will the strength of understanding and wisdom be sufficient ? stationing from the second

wave, in fact, of the immigration crisis, and we will witness with you that it will once again be millions , if not tens of millions, of ukrainians who will be forced to seek refuge in europe precisely because they simply won't be able to live in their homes in their apartments where it will be cold, where there will be no heat, no light, water and sewerage will not work, or they will be greatly frightened, that's why the europeans, especially italy, the americans - this is great, they just now began to realize. they began to realize the scale of -those injuries are the imminent catastrophes caused by russia, therefore, the ability is definitely being formed there, and it is forming a serious, that is, a serious attitude to this threat. regarding this problem, this is the first and second what to expect from them, but they also have a

difficult situation in the energy sector, but this is due to high prices for energy resources, and what do we need ? we need, i'm sorry, elementary equipment such as e this same transformers and the same cables and other technical e materials and equipment in order to be able to restore the work of the same substations that allow e-e to transmit electricity from the source of generation from thermal power plants of nuclear power plants to the direct one already on to the consumer and precisely on this is now the main focus of the enemy, they mean precisely this critical infrastructure, including generation facilities, all that generate electricity, because we have to ask, we have to ask, and we are asking that we need money so much. how much help do we need in order for you to

to receive this equipment in english, it is called incant, that is, to give us the equipment directly so that you can promptly and quickly restore the work of key such nodal objects of critical infrastructure unfortunately, i was in the world, and now there are also problems, for example, with the same transformers , there is a queue behind them, but i want to emphasize that we already have an example of cooperation with germany, where germany had a contracted supply of ppps for egypt , and of course, when we came to ask for we were given this system, the first reaction was that we have a contract, we have it . priority and we began to receive this ppp system, i

draw such parallels that we should act in the same way and i am sure that our partners will treat us with understanding and there will be such tripartite work between the ukrainian side, for example, the german government, the swiss government, the german government, the canadian government, where are you mainly such equipment is produced by private manufacturers and companies that produce the equipment we need, i will only add that in this broadcast i was recently alana zerkali, an adviser to the minister of energy, and she she talked about this equipment, she also said that there is a queue for it, that it is difficult to get it, that it is another challenge for ukraine, the same transformers that you talked about. well, one more question. it is already more political. do you understand why, yuriy ? vitrenko, did they leave, well , officially, he himself resigned, this question

lies in the plane of his effectiveness. so say the letter because it was appointed in such a way that certain e-e were not fulfilled on the part of ukraine, including there the legislative requirements a-a and one more important thing is the unfulfilled promises made to our partners regarding the fact that the naftogaz company will be managed, including in the matter of appointing or dismissing management in accordance with the standards of corporate governance, that is, an independent supervisory board will be involved, which will evaluate the work of the head of naftogaz. was not held, and here already at the very beginning , the question arose about how long he will

probably hold on to his position, given such a beginning. i think that now, if we look at how the situation has developed , we must remember with you that the question of his dismissal has already begun to be discussed in the month of july, and in the month of july, this was precisely the period when, if you remember, there was a statement from the prime minister that ukraine would receive gas, the so-called english, i.e., money from lengvis, which was sent, including to ukraine in including for the needs of the military that a certain amount will be allocated there for the purchase of gas. i understand that this story is exactly what was made if the statement was made on the basis of the promises that were voiced by the windmill to the prime minister and unfortunately, very unfortunately, or not a big pity, well, in any case, this idea was not implemented, it was the beginning of such a path. well, you can

say that it was a failure on the part of mr. windyanka, then it was discussed that we urgently need to accumulate about 19 billion cubic meters of gas in order to pass winter, we currently have 14 billion cubic meters. well, in principle, now the question is not in their quantity, but in ensuring that our infrastructure is not destroyed in order to supply the same gas to our consumers, and we will have enough gas for that. here is the question, well, if it were done certain promises . how much gas will we have? but again, they were not fulfilled. the next question that hung was the loan from imbrada, which there allocated to us for energy in the order of half a billion dollars, of which 200 million should have gone. just for naftogaz, but one of the elements of granting this loan, again, we return to working with you to the supervisory board , which does not exist. well, accordingly, the money seems to be there, but it

is impossible to use it. and in general, it seems to me that the promises that were made with you vitrenko at one time were to reduce the price on gas for the population and in general it will be revised so that the company will remain profitable, well, history has shown that time has shown that it is definitely not worth making such promises and there are formal and informal things, what is the point of having claims and questions when it comes to his the management well, with the information it has inside the company, the management of the company itself has become more chaotic, especially in the last six months, that is, there is no such, you know, collected character when you need to gather yourself during a war and respond clearly and adequately to challenges, unfortunately, there is more internal politics visible er, they were also cultivated by the dismissal of, for example, mr. mcconnell, who headed

the operator of the gas transportation system of ukraine under the control company naftogaz, and this was also one of these unfortunate cases is why there are a lot of questions. i think that the weatherman himself just decided that ours is a problem for him during such a difficult , probably the most difficult winter since the restoration of ukraine 's independence something else, but you mentioned how yuriy vitrenko was appointed to this position, and then last year the ukrainian government actually destroyed the corporate governance system and took over the functions of the supervisory board. remembered and you remember at the time what was the very negative reaction in the west both from the united states and from the g7 countries and even blinken anthony blinken, the us secretary of state when he came to ukraine at that time and said do not touch corporate governance in oil and gas and at the same time experts also said that with this decision, the government tried to establish

strict control over the company's finances. well, maybe who thought that there would be a war and, well, the war probably also now has an effect on these failures in oil and gas, but if we leave the war behind parenthesis, can we also state that these are not all the successes that befell naftogaz, including is this also the result of the fact that the company began to be managed by the government, not an independent supervisory board? i would say that the presence of an independent supervisory board is our obligation, yes it's either we fulfill the laws that we approve, yes, we fulfill the promises that we undertake, or we say that you know, dear ones, including the ukrainian people, because these were the interests, everything is done by some western partners, yes, such steps and in the interests of the ukrainian state, the ukrainian people, that in order to remove from well, not

to remove, it is meant to move to the maximum political influence on such large companies as naftogaz, this very idea of ​​corporate governance was and was implemented in order to remove politics, remove opportunities for abuse, but we must also say let's be absolutely frank and i have honest claims, i have personal questions for the previous head of naftogaz , and even more than it is important, and this is despite the fact that mr. kobolev had an excellent supervisory board which, as it were, should also perform these functions of supervision, control, ensuring the transparency of the activity of the management, and so on , that is, the supervisory board . we say that as a state, you know, especially during a war, we need to promptly respond to these challenges that exist in the country, therefore, for such a period of time, we take over as the cabinet of ministers

the function of managing such a key company as naftogaz i think that our western partners would understand this, so i want to summarize the supervisory board . er, the appropriate representatives of the supervisory board, but at the same time, as a state, we simply have to be honest and open, er, and talk directly with our partners that if we change the policy, it is due to such and such reasons and as far as we are we will change and when we will return to those rules that we ourselves took upon ourselves in the end, i will only add that the council registered the statement of oleksiy chernyshov, the current minister of community development and territorial affairs, to resign from his post and obviously he

will be the successor of the e-e p vitrenko the head of naftogaz is another topic, when he will be the head, then we will talk. thank you very much. america that iran is preparing to launch an attack on it in the near future. yes, cancer is also trying to divert the attention of the population from the anti-government protests that have been going on for more than a month. carrying out russian airstrikes by iranian kamikaze drones is preparing to confront iranian missiles that may soon appear in russia's arsenal, what is iran's strategy when he does he support whom does he support and where and what conflicts is he free

to touch at the moment iran is his weapon, his military was familiar with this and maybe a couple of thousand on the approach, in addition to drones , there are also fateh sighting missiles from rafagar, but it must be understood that for iran, ukraine is only one of the training grounds of its geopolitical and military influence , and it will soon be even more active in the whole near in the east of yemen, iran supports the rebels of the houthis, the khutir make up more than a third of the population of yemen, and how iranians practice the shiite version of islam , according to the media, iran supplies the houthi rebels with missiles and drones, and iranian military instructors work there. the northern part of yemen since 2016, as long-time

rivals early saudi arabia leads an international coalition in support of the suite government of yemen rebels are also shelling saudi territory in particular, they are trying to hit the oil infrastructure of saudi arabia with iranian missiles and kamikaze drones, here are the shots of march this year, the consequences of the shelling by the yemeni hussites of an oil facility in saudi arabia near the city of jeddah, this facility belongs to the saudi campaign in the morning, the largest oil companies in the whole world from saudi arabia and yemen now to syria, iran and the syrian regime of president bashar al-assad are strategic partners, iran helps damascus financially and militarily, they are in syria and the iranian military, according to various data, from several hundred to several tens of thousands of iranian soldiers, they say exactly at least two thousand

fighters of the islamic revolutionary guard corps, iran also provided the government of bashar al-assad with tens of billions of dollars in aid, when in syria there is shelling of the territory of neighboring israel, the israelis blame in this iran, in particular, it is believed that syria is armed with iranian missiles and drones. the iranian leadership jokingly calls the series the 35th province of iran, iranians actively support the regime of bashar al-assad, who represents, but the army is a minority religiously related to iranian shiite islam, iran also sees the series as a buffer zone against saudi arabia and israel, one of the reasons why iran is now supplying russia with firewood comedians and shaheds for strikes against ukraine is the need for tehran to have russia for a partner in syria where russian troops have also been present since 2015 and together iranians and russians