that with the participation of independent, let's say, representatives of civil society, including foreign ones, it will be checked whether this or that candidate meets the characteristics first of all of integrity , because everyone who wants to be a judge of professionalism, i think there will be a minimum of discussions, all of them will meet those requirements, have a long experience human rights legal activity, but about integrity - this is something that, unfortunately, sometimes undermines the foundations of trust in this or that institution after you were a representative of the president in the constitutional court, this is not a secret from the kitchen, you know the inner workings very well, i can’t believe that you don’t know, you can not name names like that. well, but three judges of the constitutional court wrote their resignations at the same time. interesting powers for many, well , at one time it was the turn of the constitutional court, and here are the

statements i know i know i want to resolve this in my opinion where i just want to say that if three international experts will participate and they will not i agree, even if some decision is made that does not satisfy them, they will be able to publish information about unscrupulous candidates, and this is already a kind of safeguard, so you know here. i think that this is the right bill. regarding your question, elect the seventh member for example, does he want to answer well, then this is it, the search for a compromise was different, there were various options , why were the committees and the one you are talking about and other options, but we were looking for someone who had support in the hall and this is the one who found support as far as i'm sorry, mr. fedor, in the ethics council in relation to the vrp, it worked and the people's deputies voted for it as a fuse, the deciding vote. if you want, why with

the constitutional court, and the other approach was why exactly 3x3 ? are there no other options? the voice of internationalists was decisive, but i emphasize once again that sometimes a search for a compromise is needed, a search for an option is needed, as for your question about the reasons for the resignation of three judges, the reasons are actually very simple and one can say very banal in life, unfortunately, there are various insinuations taking place when the court says that if one or another point of view wins there , some mechanisms will be introduced that in will make the status of judges less protected, resignations will lead to lower payments and so on, that is, those judges who left, they estimate that the current legislation provides sufficiently good guarantees for the activity of judges upon resignation, they calculated that the risks, which

, in my opinion, are an absolute fiction and how their a decrease in the social legal guarantees of judges should not be expected, but psychologically for many judges it was decisive when writing a resignation letter. well, i must say that in relation to this draft law, a petition was also created on the president's website, and we also had a mortgage court this is an extremely difficult legislative initiative, in particular, it is about increasing the terms of punishment for our servicemen ms. bobrovska, we would like to ask you to evaluate this bill to what extent do you think it is well thought out first of all, i want to note that in uh, such a veto with a request for a veto is also gaining 25,000 there in less than a day, which means that there was a great

uh , huge public resonance. so quickly, the draft law literally went from registration to the hall, and i am very sorry that such things that carry responsibility for the lives of people who have education from five to 12 years and military personnel, er, we, without discussion of an illiterate common compromise the decision of people who are related to the front and to the service and to the general staff and to the office of the president did not sit down and did not work for them on such things, what we are talking about actually at the request of the armed forces, such a bill was someone developed by the majority, i am convinced that these were the drafters of the draft law, these were signed on the website of the verkhovna rada, because some articles sound rather strange and incoherent, in particular, my

comments were about the lack of e-e measure and mitigation for e-certain e- e species e-e c criminal offenses and so according to the criminal code we actually receive a term of 5 to 8 from 6 to 10 from 6 to 12 years as a measure of punishment, but when only a remark from the other side is heard that we have a problem and it should eliminate people who arbitrarily leave the battlefield ab- or there are those who are deserters, studying including e-e court decisions leads to the thought that in fact there is no practice of e-e court decisions on a large account of which e where judges release those under extenuating circumstances on probation or others military servicemen who are accused, in particular, in these articles, she was named, but in particular, this

draft law talks about the fact that there will be no leniency for failure to comply with the order of the commander and a number of adjacent to e-e to to this e-e to this article e-e others e others of articles without the right to soften when we want to aggravate or increase e-e as punishment for those who voluntarily leave not just a military unit, but through i emphasize when a combatant or e-e is a deserter e in in in such frameworks it would be possible to sit down and properly think through e-e, in particular, preventive measures and, in particular, the measure of punishment as a person will be served by a military serviceman, but when in this case, military servicemen who do not carry out orders fall under some articles, and such things can happen. from ideal it is difficult, but in the fall and winter there are many different moments when there is a lack

of truly personnel officers, there are many mobilized who, uh, who have an influence on the teams, are commanders there and so on and so on they have many other military units that today are not in active combat zones, in particular, we are talking about the southeastern direction, at least written orders can be irritated by courts and commanders in very different ways that fall before the courts , so we have a request from solomiya bobrovska so resumed to finalize such a bill that will really solve the problem and the request of the commanders of units of e-e brigades of the general staff, but that such punishments are proportionate and reasonable and do not make our servicemen who are very he often voluntarily came to the military commissariat as a disenfranchised person who has fewer opportunities and rights than a drunkard, a terrorist, a

murderer and a state traitor. and i would like the court to have the right to this discretion and to interpret the circumstances in their own way the serviceman committed such and such offenses, but it is undisputed . once again, i want to emphasize that there is a request and that he understands and everyone who is related to the front knows about such a problem for 9 months, but how did you ask then i my colleague fyodor, ours, unfortunately, our committee does not considered this draft law, did not discuss with reason and correct rational force and spoke of certain risks, but also the maximum punishment, that really put the mandatory capacity of the state under risks because of which friends, colleagues, comrades at the place of service should really be accepted with taking into account the consequences, a professional discussion is needed here, we completely agree with you. well, mr. fedorov, please, you should be responsible for the results of the voting

on what draft law. yes, of course i can answer, indeed, the bill is very let's just say, resonant, sensational and does not have ambiguous evaluations, but i a little want to master solomiya because this bill did not appear for seven days, eh. days of war in all places where hostilities are taking place, and i want you to know that somewhere around may servicemen, the question should clearly be the ratio of, let's say, values ​​and losses that are possible from the application of this draft law, i mean the following, fortunately, in the ukrainian armed forces, there are cases when exactly such

crimes take place, which are provided for by the criminal code , and the responsibility for which was increased on december 13 there are isolated cases, but these isolated cases are absolutely unacceptable and very dangerous . begins to allow himself to get into a fight with a military commander and even more so not to carry out the commander's combat task, a combat order and whether to threaten the commander, then this has an absolutely negative effect on the entire combat military unit . servicemen, this can lead to tragic consequences for his true brothers and possibly the entire military unit. therefore, it is necessary to compare this number of small servicemen who allow themselves to violate military discipline and the goal pursued by this

draft law, that's why a working group was formed about three places ago, which included representatives of all the constituent forces from the security and defense sector. it has already been finalized, indeed it went through a very fast procedure, but i will explain once again that the benefits we have from this draft law outweigh this negative which , unfortunately, by the way, is accompanied by fakes that have nothing to do with reality well, i would just like to add that er, military personnel er, actually reacting to this draft law, there are also completely different opinions, there are those who understand that military discipline is very important, we really need to perfect this story. there are those who, after voting in the verkhovna rada, now feel less protected, for example, and

believe that their positions and the positions of their commanders are not relevant, for example. it was also not done by accident. the fact is that those well, we are all people, we understand that no one wants to die and get sick on the front line, but war, unfortunately, is such a thing that inevitably causes casualties among military personnel in the first place and when some servicemen begin to abuse the law, there is such a concept of abuse of rules, abuse of the right, that is, they deliberately go, for example, to non-compliance or to a dispute with a commander, understanding that this entails criminal responsibility, but realizing eh, that he will be loyal to him in court, the court will

release him, the point is threatened because he will be released from military service because he has a criminal record, and this is also an injustice, those citizens of ukraine who defend their homeland risk their lives, and a person violates the law in order to avoid further execution of military service is comfortable in the conditions, but on the other hand, we understand that certain abuses on the part of the command staff are not excluded and we would like to protect the military personnel, so to speak, of the rank and file, from possible so to speak from the psychological reactions of certain commanders, we understand that the war affects not only the military personnel there, but also the officers of solomia, do we have any mechanisms to protect the privates who

may fall under the hot or ill-conceived decision of their commander, if as a result of a hot hand the death of a person will not be emphasized in such a case. it would be possible except for three months of work when, for example, several factions were not there. at least they did not know about the existence of such a document, and everything was voted on in seven days there were times when even the deputies were against it in the second reading , and in general, without actually having submitted an explanatory note, i still do not support this bill, nor the arguments that were unfortunately not presented during the report to those who will present the bill, but i want to return to the following things for this purpose the prosecutor's office and for this there are judges who really have the authority and the existing general code, which can already play without extenuating circumstances, is very strange. by the way, knowing how our court works system and which i cannot set as an example, we

receive a mitigating product for certain types of violations, and when, for example, the prosecutor's office submits that arbitrarily abandoned military units took place from june to november, then it is not arbitrary abandoned military units desertion and reasons and prosecutors here he must clearly work out his obligations so that the serviceman deservedly receives a certain degree of punishment with bars or increases it, including as a preventive measure and without the right to release is under arrest or under house arrest or under bail, so i would like to once again ask to review this draft law and to work thoughtfully and literately for everyone, especially lawyers who will face this, including not only the top echelon of the general staff or the armed forces forces of ukraine and with the deputies who vote for it ask questions that, unfortunately, there are no answers, and again,

such a draft of court decisions is very strange, because of what was offered to us, you are an explanatory note. thank you very much for your professional work live on the espresso tv channel. and of course, for work on specific parliamentary areas, the last topic that you and i touched on is extremely serious. we continue on the air, but now we have a discussion on the air, which, in my opinion, should take place before concrete decisions are made in the parliament, yes, time is also very important , yes, time is very important, thank you, and now we let's talk about the situation at the front, the russians continue to storm avdiyivka in donetsk region, they are trying to take a place in the ring, they are pressing mainly from the south on avdiyivka, they regularly fire artillery with mortars, and under this barrage of fire

, about two thousand avdiyivka still live. they don't stop hitting here and with heavy artillery from mortars, small arms are also here because the russians are already quite close to avdiivka and here you can see the results of these aggressive actions of the russian federation the city of avdiivka is turning into ruins, the enemy is approaching from the south of the city now, because it is being fought mainly in the fields and plantations on the approaches to the suburbs of avdiivka. increasingly, you can hear the sounds of small arms. they are replenishing their bc and bringing in new attack aircraft, the battle tactics are similar to those currently used by the invaders in the attack on bakhmut, small groups are trying to break through the defenses

of the armed forces of ukraine detect our firing points and then hit them with artillery. well trained machine gunner is a great wgs operator, all these small groups are very fast if he is attentive, there is an observation post of the guys hmm they gave him a signal to move a small group no matter who of mobilized vagnev residents in the regular troops or soldiers of the regular troops, a well- trained sniper from the ags can unroll this whole group in a few minutes in the city, all that remain more than 2,000 people if in the fall the locals still left, now here are those who have decided to spend the winter here in avdiivka, the locals gather, choose some surviving rooms, basements there, they insulate everything as much as possible and are going to face frost every day, we count that we have 88 days left to live until spring, we counted

november december january february difficult months november somehow god sent что он такой был хороший november, here is december, god also sent us god parted 88 days there will be spring and we will be alive every day the russians are literally taking apart with their artillery the city bricks entire districts of avdiyivka somewhere, not long ago, thousands of citizens lived, now the houses are in ruins, covered in fire from constant fires, empty windows, whole spans of five floors are broken, concrete floors under the pressure of their own weight are falling lower and lower, now these houses are like a concrete shield for the city, they accept they were hit by enemy artillery, and several thousand residents of avdi tried to hide from this deadly fire, here are the inscriptions on the doors, this is a reminder of the first shelling of the city, here, on february 28, the heating disappeared 27 april, the first hit in this house. in the adjacent column, the days of this full-scale war are counted and the days until spring, because then the heat will finally return

. they never thought that we would live like this. in this local children's library, they found a temporary shelter. the room is called a refrigerator because of the low temperature in the room; here, among the books, they store products . i made it myself, put it up and took it out there, and here we are with firewood where we can, we cut firewood, we go and cut with saws, we ask to hire someone to cut firewood for us, and here it is, it’s so hot here, it’s really hot , that’s what we feel here now, because it’s impossible to stay in apartments 1° 1-2°. and eight people will spend the winter in this basement, women live here, and

boris is the only man here, everything is in the household, firewood is cut, water is applied , food is found, and all this is taken to extremes under constant fire. it didn't catch fire, it knocked out everything. well, the poddontov house was constantly installed here, too, they set up a small house, stocked up the healthy ones, carefully stacked them under the basement wall , close to people and warmth, and the dogs abandoned by the owners also hid themselves. here is this dog, nicknamed friend, the locals saved from death, the dog came under fire and lost his leg they picked up the bleeding man on the street and went out, the weather was back in the motor, the paw was shot, the fire blew up the paw, eliza was treated to live in avdiivka, now it's walking on the edge, you never know where a russian projectile will fall, but despite this people somehow adjust to the positive

new year's holidays are ahead, although it is even difficult to imagine what the holidays can be like in broken houses and under the sights of enemy artillery, but many locals, like olga ivanivna, believe that whites are better. we thank our colleagues for this extremely interesting and moving story, truly one of the models of good reporter journalism. we are moving on . 4:51 p.m. of the most important christian bukovsky, you are so lively. it is as if there were no rocket launchers fired today, yes, definitely, you can’t get used to this, in any case, as soon as the air alarm has sounded, we all go to the shelter together. the russian federation, despite the fact that some shots were fired this morning, still has a reserve the necessary weapons in order to

remotely attack us. by the way, a characteristic feature of today's missile attack is that they messed with almost everything they had from different directions and added to this whole a flurry of history, even the s300 in the south of our country, unless there were no drones - says the command of the air forces of the armed forces of ukraine, can this say that they really have a certain hunger for missiles ? the enemy is curious what is it for, well, in any case literally in a couple of days there will be a meeting between putin lukash and the ministers of defense yes december 19 that is literally in three days there will be a meeting in minsk about it the assistant minister of defense of belarus for international military cooperation reported verbatim quoting lukashenko's military attache on december 19 in minsk, the

presidents of the republic of belarus and the russian federation are expected to hold talks on issues of the security of the union state in a narrow composition . we understand, for what purpose now, so to speak , putin is going to meet with lukashenko, so they called on the ministers of defense for synchronization we understand what the plan of intentions is. well, accordingly, certain preparations are underway. on the other hand, we understand that the republic of belarus and the russian federation currently do not have sufficient means on the territory of the republic of belarus for a full-fledged offensive in the ukrainian direction, but this does not mean that they cannot, so to speak, have them. to continue in the near future, the situation remains extremely tense, we see negative dynamics well, but in any case, we will

monitor this matter extremely actively and purposefully well, the enemy is continuing to concentrate on the zaporizhzhia direction, already now, from the side of mariupol, the movement of military equipment of the russian federation and armored personnel carriers and howitzers, guns and manpower are recorded, all this in the direction of zaporizhzhia, the adviser to the mayor of the city of mariupol petro andryushchenko reports this, the military situation in and around mariupol again the movement in the direction of berdyansk, melitopol, has become a priority, armored personnel carriers, howitzers, artillery , trucks with military personnel, with a trailer of guns, everything is moving to the zaporizhia region again today marked z before that vet in the square andryushchenko also wrote in occupied mariupol riot police units from st. petersburg arrived and

started patrolling the streets. at one time, the soviet authorities exploited this matter to kill the parents in order to then show the child on some may day, well, this is their classic tactic , meanwhile, bulgaria adopted an agreement with ukraine regarding the supply of weapons, that's what happened today. so verbatim yes yes yes yes yes the parliament of bulgaria today voted for the approval in the second and final reading of the agreement between bulgaria and ukraine on the supply of equipment and ammunition for weapons, 166 old deputies of the bulgarian parliament voted against 48. as reported last week, the deputies voted to approve the list of weapons which will be transferred to ukraine, we understand, although here the signal is not very good, the minister of defense of bulgaria said that they are unable to supply heavy weapons, only small arms and ammunition.

this stoyanov noted that the list is classified because it contains information about all of bulgaria's armaments, well, in any case, something is better than nothing, information from where, perhaps, not all ukrainians were waiting, as of november 25, hungary froze 870 million euros or about 350 billion forints of russian assets according to with the recent conclusion of the european commission, it is possible that this is just a coincidence , in any case, it is worth noting that significant sanctioned assets were discovered in hungary in november, just when the fight for eu funds with brussels intensified because at the end of last month, the board announced that it would recommend freezing part of the subsidies, and it is assumed that hungarian publications note that 870 million is quite a large amount, especially if you remember how much budapest blocked last time, there was 1.2

million forints or 3,000 euros, in addition, significant sanctioned assets were discovered in hungary itself when the orbán government's struggle for european union funds from brussels intensified. well, the united states has approved a record defense budget of $858 billion, of which $800 million provided both additional aid to ukraine and the document provides for the allocation of 45 billion dollars more for defense than was provided for in the budget of the administration of president biden, and this new budget received bipartisan support in the senate by a majority of votes, 83 senators voted for the budget against 11, well, 800 million additional dollars. very good, but so to speak, it would be better to give high-mars second-hand, so to speak, but to talk in large numbers about things that we know and about

which we do not know is correct, well, the point is that if you are a bit of a federation, you have a good opportunity to light candles, relax a bit, perhaps aromatherapy, as you like, because electricity can be renewed with some delay this is reported by ukrenergo, on december 16, russia again launched a massive missile attack on nine of our electricity generation facilities, damage or in any case, the main target once again became the disabled main networks and generation facilities, as a result of the shelling , the electricity deficit in the system significantly increased and, most importantly, after today's a missile attack may take a little longer than usual for recovery, but we will

save ourselves not only with candles. of russian attacks on civilian infrastructure in kyiv and throughout the country, the first american shipment of emergency repair equipment has already arrived ukraine will win well, the ambassador did not specify what is included in this shipment, but the main thing is that our american partners and friends worked quite quickly. it is time to pass the word to our journalists . our colleague angelika sezano will present an updated news release, colleague . thank you very much for your work. in this release, i will tell you about the fact that 60 and 76 missiles were shot down by our forces against air defense, for which we are very grateful to them, but those rockets that, unfortunately, reached the objects of critical infrastructure badly damaged ukrenergo ogolo