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

lebanon there iran supports hezbollah, the lebanese group is a paramilitary group of the lebanese shaghites. and many say that the members of the group have greater loyalty to iran than to their own lebanese state, hezbollah, which is headed by sayet hasan. nasrala is important for iran because, firstly, it considers israel to be its enemy and in some places fires at israeli territory, and secondly, militants are present in syria and also support the syrian regime in the civil war in that country in the palestinian territories, iran supports the community movement that controls the gaza strip and iran also supports the shiite majority in the persian gulf island of bahrain, where the ruling sunni monarchy is loyal to iran's longtime rival saudi arabia. in neighboring iraq, iran is on the side of the government which

represents the shiite majority shiites were in opposition to the regime of saddam hussein but the intervention of the western allies in iraq in 2003 put an end to the sunni rule and now the shiite majority dominates the faith iran has troops in the territory of cancer guards of the islamic revolution recently iran strikes iraqi kurdistan it is believed that ethnic the kurds take the most active part in the protests in iran and tehran is afraid of its own kurd separatism in the west of iran, summing up we can say that iran is actively supports friendly regimes in the middle east, often acts through proxies and militants loyal to it. and now the russian army relies on iran, receiving drones and in the future, maybe even missiles. it is surprising that without the support of the theocratic iranian regime, it cannot do without the power of the second army of the world. thank you very much rostyslav khotin

more about iran's interests in the region well, as i have already said, saudi arabia has informed the united states of america that it considers an imminent attack by the u.s. from iran on its own goals, as they have already said before and his island of jormans with reference to his data . well, for now, saudi arabia, the united states and several other neighboring countries have increased the level of combat readiness of their armed forces. the national security council of the white house confirmed that they are concerned about the information and are ready to respond to an attack by iran . everything means let's talk further ihor samovolos joins the air the director of the center of middle eastern studies by phone good evening i know that you don't have electricity that's why you call us today good evening i'm not dancing well i think it's not just you, many ukrainians have this situation now. the main question i wanted to ask you is iran is really real and you want to start a war in saudi arabia because there was also information that an attack could

take place within 40-8 hours are they just threats, well, in order to be sure, is it a threat or really? we need to wait at least 48 hours. i think that the situation will somehow clear up, but as of now, this threat should be taken seriously. why should it be taken seriously? what do you have? i mean, i mean that, in principle, i allow that iran, in order to introduce a state of emergency in the country in connection with war or something similar, in order to bring down the heat of protests , to curb people and make them leave the streets, can unleash in including otaku videos in every such undemocratic, to put it mildly, regimes act in a very similar way in order to divert attention from events

inside the country, they start a war somewhere outside its borders , but today, by the way, there was also a video that in iran a red flag was raised over the dome of a mosque in the city of kum flag as i saw that a number of media called this flag a flag of revenge, because it means that it speaks of the declaration of war. it is necessary to gather there for the war, well, that is, this is such a factor for mobilization, in principle, it can be a part of ipsod, that is, informational propaganda operations, i do not, i can absolutely also assume this because in just in order to the saudis were scared, and on the other hand, we know that they raised this flag there at least earlier, when they attacked the positions of the american

positions in iraq in the 20th year after the assassination of suleimani, yes, yes, many experts mention this, too. then i have a question if iran really starts some kind of provocation or war or attacks targets in saudi arabia, how can the united states react, depending on the fact that, well, first of all, the first task is, of course, to prevent damage to the ports the impressions of the vessels, the impressions of the oil tanks, too many storages, and actually the oil production sites themselves, yes. that is, this is a key issue. and that is, i think that efforts will now be directed specifically at intercepting missiles, intercepting drones from where they did not fly, it may be like the territory early on maybe the territory is nice, yes, because we know that iran

can, in principle, use the territories it has to carry out such strikes, well, this is a war of proxies, a war of proxies , and pretending that they are, but well, if you look at the rhetoric, it’s early, uh, lately especially directed against saudi arabia, it can be said that there are direct threats in this rhetoric, in particular, saudi arabia is accused of interfering in the internal affairs of protests that there are many opposition mass media in the language of the party nu and, according to the opening, finances also the same media in other countries, including europe and iran, have been accused of directly accusing me of interference and, accordingly, threatening to strike. i think that in most cases this is exactly the case

was the reason for this alarm. if we consider this situation in iran and the threats from iran in the context of the war in ukraine and in the context of the fact that tehran is cooperating with the kremlin, if iran really starts a war somewhere, how can this affect its cooperation with the kremlin? well, and accordingly, it is possible it will have some consequences in ukraine, it will strengthen the alliance, that is, in principle, if it was still possible to talk about what tehran might think , they might somehow make a surprised face there and say oh, we didn't know, we're stopping we don't we want a further extension and a war with iran , if it reduces the possibilities of agreeing on all directions at once, including, for example, not supplying the same drones. well, it could

also be drawing russia into the war in the middle east, that is, for well, mirror yes. if i charge you with a war in eastern europe, then, accordingly, russia may get involved in a war in the middle east. this is roughly what the picture might look like, brothers. if the war starts like this, then literally the last question is that today russia announced that it is renewing its participation in the grain the agreement and allegedly threatens to withdraw from it in the event that the guarantees of the agreement that it allegedly received from ukraine today are violated, and what do you think actually forced russia to return to the grain agreement, or to declare a return to this agreement, i do not know which guarantees are mentioned frankly because, well, this is absolutely some kind of nihanism that we can give guarantees to the country of the aggressor. well, the fact that it was simply not able to somehow slightly influence the grain of the agreement is a fact and

in order not to lose face, they and actually they came back otherwise, it just looks like a kind of joke. i think that the situation is additional to this, obviously, because it is clearly not profitable for erdogan to withdraw from all agreements or to demonstrate his political inability, and he has already stated that if turkey does not withdraw from this agreement, russia has nothing else left as just return referring to some all-collar arrangements thank you very much for your comment for the fact that you contacted despite the lack of light ihor samovolos director of the center for middle eastern studies was on radio svoboda by phone well, then we will talk about major reconstruction, well, it is almost like major construction. but no, this is exactly the reconstruction that is ongoing in

dnipropetrovsk oblast from february 2022. dnipropetrovsk oblast spent the most state money on road repair and maintenance than all the regions of ukraine most affected by hostilities together, the journalists of the program of radio liberty established that the private firm budinvest-engineering, which has mastered one and a half billion hryvnias for reconstruction, is directly related to the head of the dnipropetrovsk region valentyn reznichenko, who depends on who and in what amounts to allocate budget money to the region , half of the company that carries out reconstruction in the region is registered to a woman, her name is yana khlanta, she is a professional athlete, works as a coach in dnipro, and as the journalists found out, this woman is a close person, most likely valentina's girlfriend reznichenko, the head of the region, they are in a relationship, the journalists found out. well, in particular, they traveled together, but abroad, in addition, yana has a plan and travels by car. firm, the other half of the company, which uses billions for the

reconstruction of the region, is related to two businessmen , the dubynsky brothers, who were officially declared wanted by the united states on suspicion of financial fraud. joins valeriya yegoshina, correspondent of radio svoboda, journalist-investigator-investigator of the scheme program valeriya my congratulations. from the state budget for the reconstruction of the region, the co-owners of this company are, on the one hand, the girlfriend of the head of the region, who distributes this money and this yana the plan, and on the other hand, there are two brothers from dubyn, leonid and volodymyr, as i remember their names, who have been wanted by the fbi for 10 years fraud everything is true yes yes everything is true the only clarification we

are talking about is that the co-owner of the company will be vesting engineering is a so-called pavlo chukhno he is the vice president of the prometheus sports club where one of the dubinsky brothers is actually the president well well then, if before the investigation itself, how about explaining to the people who are listening to us what is wrong here, what is the matter here, what risks do you as investigative journalists excuse, well, this company gets money, maybe it builds roads honestly, maybe it does build roads, i can even say that that they are really building roads, but to put it briefly and simply, our investigation showed that the co-owner of the company that will receive these huge contracts is closely related to the head of the dnipropetrovsk regional military administration with whom it depends on who and in what amounts to allocate budget money, and it is not just money, as we say in our investigation, this money is already similar. these amounts are an

anomaly, because this is an absolute record of money for the reconstruction of roads, like you. such figures dnipropetrovsk region has already spent more than two billion at the beginning of the full-scale invasion of russia, to be exact 2 billion 314 million uah and this is really an absolute record for the reconstruction of roads because kyiv region, kharkiv region, sumy region and odesa region which, as we know, suffered from this full-scale invasion together, all together, they did not spend so much money, and here are these huge sums, of which one and a half billion only went to engineering thanks to a contract with the head of the military, or rather with the military administration, this is all if you add up, this can testify as minimum about conflict of interest, maximum we

can see in this signs of abuse of official position or even legalization of property obtained through criminal means, we will hope that this will already be proven law enforcement officers by the way, regarding law enforcement officers, there was news that after the investigation of the schemes and this is also a similar investigation on this topic, the ukrainian pravda publication did together somehow, as i understand it, they worked on it separately, more precisely, but it turned out that at the same time it was published and it itself opened criminal proceedings. i understand that valentyn reznichenko well, this whole story will already be under the crosshairs of the specialized anti-corruption prosecutor's office valeriya tell me, this story is exclusively regional did you somehow manage to investigate some connection with the central authorities or with people who are in the central authorities. look, this is regional history, we focused on this regional history precisely on the example of the dnipro, but of course there is also such a big view. and first of all,

this is what i already said amounts that are an absolute record for the entire country, and secondly, as we well know, regional budgets are formed in several ways. that is, firstly, these are our own revenues, and secondly, these are the receipts of state subsidies from the general budget, and how do we examined the budget of the dnipropetrovsk region at the beginning of the year, almost 2 billion uah of state subsidies and subventions were received. at the same time, as we have already said , the region decided to spend about the same amount on roads, and separately, of course, we understand that the program is a large construction - this is what is now called a large-scale reconstruction . president zelenskyi's flagship project, which will be revealed and who does not hide it, is coordinated directly with the bank .

and there we can already see andrii yermak and kirill tymoshenko and even the famous yuriy golyk who calls himself a consultant of the great construction and we can also see even there in stories with kirila tymoshenko that he goes with him to the de-occupation of the territory of ukraine where he actually is is very involved in all these infrastructure projects, that is, yes. this is really a regional story, but in fact it has a national scale. we can now show it again . meetings of the government or in the office of the president. this is the person who was, it seems, now we are showing him. it seems that valentyn reznichenko was an adviser when he headed the region under president petro poroshenko. well, then volodymyr zelenskyi appointed reznichenko was re-elected as

the head of the region and yurii golik somehow moved to the team of volodymyr zelenskyi and began to work on projects of the great construction there, if i am not mistaken, that's about how it all was, so you say everything correctly, we really investigated as well the biographies of reznichenko and golyk, and if you put them side by side in this way, you can simply investigate how they actually accompany each other for more than a decade, that is, they were also working together at the same time, and we know that they are even aware and speak privately to their interlocutor that but their career paths have been crossing for a long time, that is, they are really old associates, and it's interesting. it's all in this context. it's interesting that, for example, yuri golik does not have any position at all, he does not declare it there his fortunes, he is always in the position of advisers , and in reznichenko, when he worked as an adviser in the region and in the context of the great construction, he is also an adviser. the last question is that you note in the investigation

that you tried in every way to get comments from the participants , e.e. him and the main, if possible, heroes of your investigation after the publication, they somehow reacted, got in touch and wanted to explain their position, unfortunately, no, i actually went to dnipropetrovsk region to get the comments of all the people involved. first of all, i would like to point out that we and the comments themselves not only will they conduct engineering, we wanted to receive also the comments of their subcontractors to whom these state funds are distributed . 300 million hryvnias conducts operations, other companies are registered in the city of mass registration of telephone outages.

reception and ask for a comment, we tried all possible ways, made inquiries , called, searched around the place for two days. i tried to meet the average valentyn reznychenko in the regional military administration, but unfortunately he did not come there on working days, during working hours, we called him, i did not pay attention to pavlu scratched volodymyr dubynskyi, we passed on all requests, all questions in the messengers of the official mail, unfortunately , none of them gave their position maybe possible thank you valeria maybe they will get in touch again thank you, we are letting you go, but about corruption, alleged abuses by top officials, let's talk a little more, in general, recently numerous corruption cases, about which everyone seemed to have forgotten, began to come to life in the form of suspicions and trials, just the day before the ex-head of the fiscal service, roman nasirov, i think you

remember him behind a checkered blanket in court like this he was remanded in custody until december 17. does this mean that the ukrainian anti-corruption infrastructure has started turbo mode? ukrainian anti-corruption law enforcement officers turned it on already on october 6, 22 the former head of the national bank of ukraine was suspected of acquiring a sap. according to the investigation, kirill shevchenko was the head of ukrgasbank. his previous work, together with his subordinates, created a so -called ring of several dozens of entrepreneurs to whom bans systematically paid commissions for alleged agency services to attract customers . the anti-corruption authorities claim that 206 million hryvnias disappeared from the bank over the course of five years. at that time, shevchenko himself was allegedly undergoing treatment abroad and about the case against himself learned from the mass media in a post on facebook. he explained that the case is political already on october 17. the former head of the state fiscal

service roman nasirov and businessman oleg bakhmatyuk are accused by the law enforcement officers of accepting a bribe of uah 722 million from a businessman. the location of such was not known. bakhmatyuk believes that the suspicion that he will not have any legal prospects, but will have consequences for the company and the state. since 2017, sirov himself has been accused of a charge of more than two billion hryvnias of losses to the state due to the adoption of a number of groundless and, in nabu's opinion, illegal decisions . on october 18, during an attempt to bribe the mayor of dnipro boris filatov, people's deputy and president of korbud maksym mykytas was detained. he tried to conclude contracts with companies under his control for the construction of the metro in dnipro. the investigation - we, the chinese, wanted out of the competition the loyalty of meraks to the people's deputy, which was valued at 10% of the project's cost. and this is 22 million euros, according to information on booth -

this is one of the largest bribes ever were recorded by law enforcement officers in ukraine as early as october 21. the former people's deputy from petro poroshenko's block, oleksandr granovskyi, was suspected by the nabu. according to pravoho, he organized a corruption scheme , as a result of which more than uah 93 million of damage was caused to the state-owned enterprise odesa proportovets plant. the scheme operated throughout 2015 and already the next day, however, the sbu detained the president of motor sich, vyacheslav boguslav, he was detained in his own house and company officials are suspected of selling engines for russian rotorcraft acted in collusion with representatives of the russian corporation rosteg, which is close to the kremlin, which is one of the main manufacturers of weapons for the russian army. well, at the end of october, nabutas announced the suspicion of 15 people involved in the rotterdam scheme, plus among them two former heads of the national commission that carries out state regulation in the spheres of energy and utilities - six

former and three-time members of the national security agency. this is the second episode of the investigation into this case. the overpayment of over 19 billion uah to you in the 16th of the 17th years was completed in september of this year serhiy stetsenko - radio svoboda because he is behind the activation of anti-corruption bodies and what are the guarantees that all these mentioned cases will be brought to an end, we will talk about this later and tell me am i with us our guest we are expecting a guest from minute to minute we are expecting a guest from minute to minute eh and we will talk about it all in kyiv the light goes out the connection goes out so it is more and more difficult to actually connect the guests and talk to them eh again same because of communication problems, and i will also remind you that in the context of this topic, there is still no head of the national anti-corruption bureau in ukraine in april

. now ukraine faces another challenge to elect the next head of the nabu, and all anti-corruption experts who follow this topic hope that it will not drag on for two years, as at one time in ukraine they elected the head of the garden , the competition really stretched for almost lessons mark savchuk, the head of the public control council is contacting us mark. my congratulations. is there any reason to believe that the anti-corruption bodies have finally worked to their full potential? hello. yes, it is possible . an incredibly influential and important person in the anti-corruption troika was bought by sap and without his appointment, a huge number of things could not work now, as we see after his appointment , a huge number of things that were completed and have the finalized version, so to speak, is a

suspicion, and the people who are suspected and they were signed by the new head of sap and that's why we see such crazy activity, it seems, but you need to understand that the signed suspicion is still not the end and now a large number of these cases will go to court and specifically there we will already see the logical conclusion of all cases that are recognized by the terms and there are still people or institutions in the country who can influence the work of anti-corruption bodies. well, for example , are there still risks ? will be brought to an end because someone will get in the way. someone still has such tools of influence under uh-uh, under today's parameters, it works, that is, that's what we have. today, i would say that the influence of power is limited. that's exactly how it is limited . ah, the influence is very

limited . seriously, because if the government wants to cover up such a person, it will cover it up, and the fact that he has it now is a suspicion, that is, the fact that the case will be brought to court . that's me no at all, well , i can't because, after all, judges are also people who can be pressured, who can be asked to buy, who can be asked to blackmail, threaten, and so on, so i can say that the system does not affect me of course not mogu well, mark also wanted to ask you about the competition for the head of the nabu. i just told our viewers that there is currently no leader in ukraine for anything with the competition, can it last two years, as the competition for the head of the sap was so long, it's my personal opinion i think that this will not be the case. why is it that the law that was voted

for by the competition for the post of the head of nabu is still qualitatively better than the law that was voted for the competition for and the collection of sap heads, and there is a large amount. let's say it like this these controversial and difficult points simply do not exist. this does not mean that, again, the government does not have any influence or delay the process . glausa, that's why i believe that the competition for the head of the state will go ahead. well, it's better to be more constructive. well, they actually tried to change this law. you remember, but it didn't work, and we literally only have a minute. tell me, what are your impressions of today's investigation into the head dnipropetrovsk region because just closer to the evening information appeared that sapzhenim became interested if he speaks frankly i haven't read it yet in the literal

sense of the word "i" to kyiv is to jump from one a-a from one district to another in which there is a light in order to work and i have not yet had time to get to know a-a it is very interesting to me because of course there are a lot of large purchases and they were very active in construction and if there there is objective evidence of corruption, of course, we will be interested in it. well, it means that we are in the future, and when you get acquainted and sap will publish some intermediate results of the investigations, we will include you again and discuss . light and connected to our broadcast. well, traditionally, i encourage you to subscribe to the pages of radio svoboda on the internet, instagram, telegram, viber, facebook, where it is convenient for you, if you too have not yet read the investigation of the journalists

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