valentina, for this extremely interesting and important analysis, and i want to remind our viewers that valentin nalyvaichenko, people's deputy of ukraine, former head of the security service of ukraine, and i, dear viewers, are passing the floor to my colleagues from radio svobody , watch espresso and keep up to date with all the most important news. congratulations, this is freedom. my name is vlad and lazur. it hasn't been two years since the verkhovna rada liquidated the scandalous kyiv district administrative court.

abbreviated oask, it was liquidated literally today this bill on the liquidation of oask as an urgent matter that was submitted to the parliament in april 2021 by president volodymyr zelenskyi in the president's office then declared that trust in the court should be unconditional and in the case of oask, it died enough safes filled with millions of cash volodymyr zelenskyy said at the time, and imagine that after that, the urgent presidential draft law lay on the shelves for a year and a half, and in the office of the president and the public service , they explained from time to time that to liquidate the district administrative court of kyiv , it is first necessary to create something new in its place. and it is said that this is not done very quickly. what happened? now let's trace the chronology of recent events. on december 9, the us state department announced the introduction of sanctions against the head of the kyiv district administrative court, pavlo vovka, as well as two closest members his family, as explained in the

state department, sanctions were introduced for demanding a bribe in exchange for in sudova and other public processes , the wolf rejects the accusation and says that the sanctions against was it ordered by international structures, could the introduction of american sanctions become a powerful signal for the office of the ukrainian president and the verkhovna rada to pay attention to the oas here in ukraine, we will certainly discuss it now, but two more words about the head of uaz pavel vovka himself in ukraine, he appears in in the case, the tape of the asko publicized nabu, according to the version of the investigation, the wolf interfered in the work of the court and influenced the decision -making of the first in certain cases not for nothing, but for money for his leadership, let me remind you that the ask became known for such decisions as the suspension of acting minister of health ulyana suprun or the cancellation of the decision on the nationalization of privatbank. but before the start of the full-scale russian invasion, the oask tried to consider the lawsuit of the fugitive ex-president

viktor yanukovych to allegedly illegally deprive him of his powers. in this way, russia planned to legalize yanukovych after the capture of ukraine, this story was described in detail in their recent investigation by the journalists of the scheme program when february 16, 2022 the router agency began broadcasting from the center of kyiv in anticipation of an attack by russian troops nearby, a court hearing was scheduled according to the schedule for the lawsuit of ex-president of ukraine yanukovych in connection with the alleged illegal deprivation of his title of president, two lawsuits by yanukovych to the district administrative court of kyiv were filed simultaneously for the accumulation of russian troops on on the border with ukraine, european political scientists rule out that the kremlin really sees yanukovych as the future president of ukraine . judges of the district court of kyiv played an important role during the attempt to implement such a scenario 30

in december 2021, yanukovych's lawsuit comes to the court at once, 40 judges could not participate in the distribution of this case, the main reason is that they are on vacation and are divided between the three judges who remained at work, the case goes to the deputy chairman of the court, yevgeny oblova, a few months before that, a video appeared as an employee of the anti-corruption bureau tries to hand over the summons or we will return it or they are suspected of creating a criminal organization and seized power 209 well, i am interested, i have always been asked many times i have a question. please tell me first which power i actually seized. i can’t understand. on january 5, 2022, the judge decides to accept the statement of ex-president yanukovych.

he will do so despite the several-year overdue deadline, and the code of administrative procedure says about the only exception when there is a statement about the validity of the missed deadlines, but it was not received from yanukovych later, or in april, the judge will close this case precisely because there was no such statement, but this will happen already when the russian troops the judge retreated from kyiv or decided to consider the case in a simplified mode without summoning the parties, this also meant that the decision could be made on any day . it is on the official website of the court, and the judge either did not see the public interest in the yanukovych case, and the code warns judges against summary consideration when the case is of public interest. why did you decide that it is

the reinstatement of yanukovych in office is socially important now, well, what are the questions, uh, about the possibility of another lawsuit by yanukovych before the new year, judge ihor kacher accepts for consideration and immediately appoints the next session for february 16, 2022. yanukovych asks to recognize the lack of competence in the verkhovna rada the council decided to self- remove him in 2014 after yanukovych fled from power, his own parliament was removed by 328 votes. the decision was made in the court of kachura. kacher was appointed deputy minister of industrial policy. and even before that, in 2004, at the height of the orange revolution, kacher was a member of the central election commission, which announced

yanukovych as the president-elect despite the baggage of connections with yanukovych. animals, please behave correctly, why didn't they take a recusal regarding the assignment of cases? the court assigns the case, this is the sector of assistant secretaries, they assign the case taking into account the schedule of review of cases by the courts . that's it. goodbye. why didn't they recuse themselves from your appointment of yanukovych as deputy minister? why, despite zelensky's long-standing initiative, the oask was not completely liquidated on october 18, 2021, that is , four months before the full-scale invasion of russia, grandfather volodymyr zelenskyi says that influential people postponed the consideration of the draft law on the liquidation of the district administrative court of kyiv, the liquidation of which he initiated at the request of the public on the threshold of deep-rooted corruption and the practice of unjust decisions in this court, this happened after the anti-corruption bureau suspected

a number of judges of this court, it is certain that now we will speed up this process, the circumvention of the system of self-distribution and the rules of administrative proceedings in yanukovych's cases, on the eve of the invasion of russia, the connections of one of the judge-rapporteurs coincided with the president looks like a puzzle from one of the scenarios, the legitimization of yanukovych as a put-upon kaputin in ukraine, and in this scenario, the key role was to be played by the district court, where the head of the court and a number of of judges is accused in the case of the creation of a criminal organization and seized power. and this court itself was promised to be liquidated a year and a half ago, so only after the us state department introduced sanctions against pavlo vovka, the head of the district administrative court of kyiv, the verkhovna rada is taking on the liquidation of this court, coincidences quoting classic or not, what will the liquidation of aoask give and why, despite the public announcement of the intentions of volodymyr

zelenskyi, until today, you have not liquidated and the judges of this court, in particular, such as pavlo vovk continued to administer justice in the name of ukraine. marksa savchuk, the head of the nabu public control council, mark dobry vechir , joins the broadcast. - and this is a wonderful question , because of course, it is very funny to watch people who joke about external governance. of how sanctions were imposed against the main court a-a pavlo vovka of course this is not a-a coincidence of course this is a direct cause why the court was liquidated a-a it's a shame what exactly from the usa

is required this is how they act, they have to impose sanctions against er ukrainian citizens, although i honestly refuse to consider these people ukrainian citizens legally, probably yes, but in spirit it is definitely much closer to the citizens of russia , considering what they did a-a but yes, only after the us sanctions, when in fact well the president could not do anything to save this court, he had to liquidate it, and the president made efforts to save this court, we saw that he publicly just spoke, or rather, it was wrong in april . last year, he publicly stated that he wants to liquidate this court, and introduced an urgent bill before a full-scale invasion in four months he said that some highly respected people forbid them to do this eh, i would like to ask, eh, the first one, eh, very

correctly, you said about april of last year, because eh, at the same time , eh, it was completely arbitrary, eh, with the minion management of the largest company of ukraine, naftogaz, and it was put president vetrenko's man, this was done so illegally, a brazen insistence on a plebeian attitude to all rules and procedures that even his own driver, who is a-a well, not a protégé of the president, but he came with a new team a-a to the rules in court a - which means to oblige the cabinet of ministers will fire vetrenka and what do you think thanks to which court vetrenka managed to stay in his position of course of course thanks to oazk it was there that this suit was simply buried and it was considered for more than a year and at the

time when vytrenko had already ended a new contract was made for him, and accordingly, the topic of the claim was drawn from, and therefore here we see a direct example of how the ask worked in the interests of the president . and when in the fall, the president says that influential people postpone something he mentions the surnames of those influential people. i think he is an influential person - vladimir zelensky is cute because i am the second most influential people who can tell you. you hear that don't do it and he will take it under his visor and say no, of course i won't, i don't know such people because the president because the party is controlled by the parliament, the cabinet of ministers , the head of the sbu, and the minister of internal affairs, i don't understand how much more power vladimir zelensky needs in order to understand the obvious thing that this court should have been liquidated, even the devil he knows when and uh, only after the sanctions

were imposed against the head of the court, three days later, literally, it was done immediately, and all this time, no one paid attention to it, well, of course, it’s not just like that, mark, did i understand you correctly, that on the one hand the president of the government publicly says that the uazk is a corrupt structure and the judges there can be easily bribed. vetryanka for the position of the general director of naftogaz, whose appointment was protected by this way, by not considering the claim of nazk, who would actually, if this claim were satisfied in favor of nazk, the cabinet of ministers would be obliged to terminate the contract with vytrenko. - it became impossible why did you simply not do

anything? oh my god, who hasn’t just written about the fact that the support was appointed thanks to the management from the office, exactly, also, three times the appointment of vetrenko to the position of minister of economy was put to a vote in the parliament the minister of energy, excuse me, for some reason the votes were not collected. yes yes, let's go to court. let me go back to the fact that today the verkhovna rada liquidated it, how it might look in practice and are there any pitfalls that will not be completely liquidated or will create some new where pavel vovk will go to work again, well, i will to be honest, i don't think that will happen because at the moment the problem has a huge resonance a-a and i doubt that they would do it simply in order to make a new court, where to transfer all these judges a-a technically, that is possible purely technical, technically, it is possible to create a new one

a-a court because it must be created and to which cases will be transferred that er the government will go to such anarchy because there is too much attention now drawn to kularsk and to pavel vovko, so i do not think that this will happen, i think that these judges, at least for now, will simply be hung in the air, so to speak, they will be judges without distribution, that is, without a place of work. unfortunately, they will receive a salary all the time, and it is correct, of course, that the judicial immunity judges them , because she remembers that against the wolf and his vice, those people you saw, as well as other judges at aska now in nabu there is a case, they are accused of corruption and bribery, and in order to arrest them and

bring them to court by force, it is necessary to sit down with them, to remove the judicial immunity of judges for the moment, and this cannot be done, because they are judges, i understand you, thank you very much mark savchuk, chairman of the council of public control, we talked about the future of the district administrative court of kyiv after it was liquidated today . to talk about this judicial issue more broadly, i mean the reform of the constitutional court, today the verkhovna rada also adopted a bill on the competitive selection of judges of the constitutional court. experts had great reservations about this bill. let's discuss the reform of the constitutional court, we talked about it two years ago after his high-profile

decision to cancel responsibility for his unreliable declaration, the court demolished part of the anti-corruption reforms, which led to a loud scandal of rallies and a constitutional crisis with an international reaction to these events until the constitutional court resigned in full to talk about the existence of justice in ukraine we cannot afford then the venice commission summarized that the reason for the decision was the political dependence of the judges and therefore the procedure their selection should become independent and more transparent, the issue is undoubtedly very difficult, this is not the first attempt to reform the constitutional court, the procedure for appointing constitutional judges, all previous attempts, unfortunately, did not agree with the venice commission, all the previous draft laws that arose were far from real life , so time passed. and the reform stalled until the summer of

2022. then, with the status of a candidate for joining the european union, ukraine received seven recommendations for implementation and the first among them the reform of the constitutional court on the fact that the process of selecting judges should be independent and based on integrity and professional skills, the group reminded days after the dismissal of three judges from the ksu seven j7 took into account the resignation of three judges of the constitutional court of ukraine for appointment to the position of a judge. adoption of a new selection procedure is necessary. it is important that draft laws 76 62 provide for the significant involvement of independent experts, in particular , the right to a decisive vote, with this draft law, which should become a reform of the constitutional court, there are problems, mykhailo is convinced zhirnakov, the chairman of the board of the de jure foundation, which oversees the reform of the justice system, says that if the decisive vote of the selection commission is in favor the candidate will belong to the representatives of the political authorities, control over the ksu will return,

three from ukraine, three from the international members of the competition commission, and well, in fact, no one has a decisive vote, that is, its international members can block it, ukrainian representatives can block it, and our public organizations even the ambassadors demanded four to three where there is an advantage from internationalists unfortunately, we will definitely be sure that the committee does not support this norm, and if the law was not adopted, then the judges of the constitutional court would choose it now judges, and at the same time, serhii sobolev, a member of the verkhovna rada committee on legal policy and an mp from his homeland, generally opposes the idea of ​​a selection commission for judges. i am against such bodies, but to develop a mechanism . or another candidate to be appointed as a member of the constitutional court

, this is the biggest threat, because three by three, four by three, it's already early in the evening, it became known that the parliament did pass a draft law on the selection of candidates for the position of judges of the constitutional court on a competitive basis in general, iryna sysak for radio svoboda after the adoption of this draft law on the selection of judges of the constitutional court, for example , mykhailo zhornakov, the head of the board of the de jure foundation, noted that it is the desire to usurp power above all who specifically wants to usurp power and who can to be the reaction of western partners mykhailo zhernakov joins our broadcast good evening on the eve of the adoption of this bill you wrote about what the parliament is planning under the guise european integration is completely politically dependent on the constitutional court, well, i would like details from who is behind this, because if we talk about deputies, i personally have doubts about their subjectivity, to put it mildly, then if not them

, then who understands you and really well, i think it's a secret that a lot of good things and, unfortunately, not so much now come from the president's office and in fact the president's office keeps a finger on the pulse and actually determines what will happen yet will not be accepted so that is, first of all, the persons who those responsible in the president's office for this area are transmirnov, who is very closely related to mr. andriy portnov, who built this corrupt, dependent political system of the judiciary, who was in fact yanukovych's right hand in these court cases, and mr. tatarov, who is generally the lawyer of the former bordove, who is a convinced anti-maidan who said that protesters during the revolution of dignity shot themselves in the back of the head and so on, these two people are now responsible for all politics, in fact, in

the part of the courts, and as absolutely rightly said na it's a pity, the subjectivity of the parliament is at least under a very big question, because as you said, that 's how they voted today, but well, the tailor is not even in the country, he ran away or left in march, and he is sitting somewhere in vienna and influences the president 's office well, somehow, too. to be honest, it’s hard to believe in this. frankly speaking, i’m not saying that portnov is sitting somewhere and directly influencing. i’m saying that i am his people who are very similar, let’s say, in terms of the way they see things, in the way they influence the system, in the way they use it, and they just interested status which the survival of this system or even more in the even greater dependence on the manual management of such bodies as the constitutional court, which did not succeed for quite a long time to clean up the hand, today the authorities control five judges of the constitutional court and five more vacancies are

now the bill was voted, god forbid, it will be signed now and it will enter into force very quickly, they can appoint five more very dependent judges of the constitutional court and the government. in this way, the majority will control there, which means that it is possible to hold anything through it, whether early elections or the cancellation of some anti-corruption reforms or the creation of some additional bodies with excuse me in quotes law enforcement, which are absolutely one constitutional, but no one will say about it anymore because the majority in the constitutional court is completely controlled by the government, i understood your warnings and what this threatens, now i would like to ask what reaction you expect from the western partners, i have already seen in the last month there were two reactions from the ambassadors of the g7 countries, they warned emphasized the need for judicial reform after today's vote in the verkhovna rada, what kind of reaction can we expect? and i expect, well

, at least i really wanted to see a very specific reaction regarding the fact that this law does not correspond to what the ambassadors or themselves and the european union expected because, to be honest, public positioning and the role of our foreign colleagues here, well, i would really like to see it more active in the future, at least because the communication from the european union is not clear from our international partners made it possible for deputies to hunt for the rank of those who in fact managed it all managed and still push through the editorial board today, which helps to shape the government and not to independently select judges of the constitutional court , so i would really like to see a proper reaction, one might add that radio svoboda appealed to the deputies of the people's servants who today supported this draft law, but they were unable to comment on the release of the program, but we are open

. head of the deputy head of the president's office we are also open if mr. smirnov wants to explain the position and everything that was said to him today, please thank you very much mykhailo zhernakov, the head of the board of the de jure foundation was on radio svoboda well, i remind you that svoboda life is broadcast live on the espresso tv channel as well as on the pages of radio svoboda on facebook and youtube. if you watch us on the internet and subscribe to the page, please like it. that way you will support our work and independent journalism in general. in the bryansk region and in belarus, a sudden check of the combat capability of the army began, what does this all mean, let's discuss with a military expert, russian troops are probably using cluster munitions on the civilian population of kherson, this is stated in the report of a well-known human rights organization, what is happening in the city a month after the liberation , the leaders of the countries will also show you the big seven jointly

declared that they will bring putin to justice . who and in what way will be able to do this, we will talk soon, the kremlin decided to refuse from holding the already traditional large press conference of vladimir putin at the end of the year, in order not to show dissatisfaction with the so -called special military operation against its background, this is stated in the current review of british intelligence, since the question of putin is agreed in advance by the kremlin, there are fears that any event involving putin may to be accompanied, so to speak, by unauthorized discussions about the war , the intelligence report says, meanwhile, on behalf of oleksandr lukashenko, belarus suddenly began checking the combat readiness of the army first the units have already left the deployment points according to the plan, the army will have to force the rivers, there is no birch, the monitoring group of the belarusian districts has published a map showing exactly where

these rivers flow, it is quite far from the ukrainian border. for example, one of the rivers is 80 km, in addition, the belarusian district group informs that the content of the permanent deployment has already left the first units of the belarusian army, in particular, this is the military , the military of the 38th separate amphibious assault brigade, they are moving to the southeast from brest to the city of malorita, it is right next to the ukrainian border, we are talking about 25 armored personnel carriers, 30 trucks, communication vehicles of the border service and even two field kitchens, what lukashenko has planned, we will talk literally in a minute well, in russia, they showed the consequences of an attack on a military unit near the city of klintsi, this is bryansk oblast, city, the city is located literally 60 km from the border with chernihiv oblast, according to open sources, a motorized rifle regiment is stationed in klintsi, the governor of bryansk oblast reported that in the city

a missile was launched at night, according to him, russian air defense allegedly shot down this missile, and he blames what happened on the armed forces of ukraine, and the armed forces of ukraine do not comment on the incident in the bryansk region, but look at what the likely site of the impact looks like. well, after the night of flight fragments all the way there he flew this is such a pit flaronka this is he turned over what kind of equipment i don’t know not far away here is the barracks that suffered tonight the armed forces of ukraine shelled the territory of the city of klintsi as a result the operation of the air defense systems of the armed forces of the russian federation, the missile was destroyed, some parts fell into the territory of the industrial zone, there were no casualties and destruction, operational services are working at the site, the attack on the training ground in the bryansk region, regular

training in belarus, we will discuss further, roman svitan, colonel of the reserve of the armed forces of ukraine, joins the broadcast. good evening, i wish you health to each other, let's first talk about the dobryansk region, then the cities in the city of kylinka, and also klima, there were explosions at night. please tell me. what is there, what can to be a potential potential target for the armed forces of ukraine in the last millennium, i flew klimova, this is just under prisoners of war, the airfield taught cadets for a month years ago. a good military town , there is a certain military unit there, and the prisoners of war are also located, the novoinsk honor is what we now see , it is a full-time rocket with explosives, about a little more than 100 kg. it spent, that is, it is not a shot down rocket.

who completed their task, and the combat unit of either the missile or the drone, that is, with certain damaged ones, and the distance from the chernihiv region indicates that this is the regular work of our means of destroying the russians. this is a direct indication that our armed forces are carrying out the task of destroying enemy military facilities on enemy territory. british defense minister ben wallace said the day before that he was open to revising the refusal to supply ukraine with longer-range weapons if russia continues to attack civilian infrastructure, i am not a military person.