another, once very influential businessman dmytro firtash, who has been under arrest in austria for eight years, despite the fact that he is a billionaire, and it is obvious that the same fate may await other big businessmen who can evade in europe or the united states to the states of ukrainian justice, thank you very much oleksandr parashi , director of analytics at concord capital, we talked about the probable or possible extradition of ukrainian businessman konstantin zhivago , thank you, the russian court in occupied crimea sentenced citizen journalist and nurse iryna danylovych to seven years in prison on charges of possession of explosives . in court, the woman denied guilt and said that fsb employees had planted the explosives in her glasses case. danylovych also spoke

about kidnapping and torture at the fsb, according to her, employees of the federal security service stole on april 29, after which she was kept in the fsb office in simferopol for several days and tortured, in particular, she was demanded to tell about journalists working in crimea and give testimony of crimean tatar activists to support danylovych, human rights defenders and relatives came to the courthouse, her father had time to say a few words to his daughter before the law enforcement officers took the nurse out of the court, while the daughter was singing and danylovych worked as a nurse and ran a page in social networks, as well as several blogger columns dedicated to the rights of medical workers and health care problems in crimea shortly after the russian ministry of justice's detention recognized iryna as a foreign agent

, speaking in court with the last word the day before, the journalist noted that she is not the first to use, quote, dirty methods of falsification in the coffee shop of the security council of russia, and also voiced the names of crimean residents kidnapped in crimea since 2014. there is no logic, no common sense . in the black half of a doctor by education, a woman who saves life to people, and return to some kind of terrorism, it is not clear what things the president of ukraine kept

volodymyr zelenskyi addressed the verkhovna rada with an annual message regarding the internal and external situation of the country, as reported by people's deputy yaroslav zheliznyak, a representative of the voice due to an airstrike, the president's speech was postponed for an hour and a half, the meeting was attended by the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of ukraine, valery zaluzhny , military personnel, members of the families of fallen soldiers, foreign diplomats, the speech zelensky was not broadcast live, but it was published later. the goal of restoring the territorial integrity of ukraine is always on the way next to us with the other goal of freeing all our people who are held in russian captivity or in prisons, as well as all those who were forcibly deported from our land, and after february 24, even our team managed to free 1456 people from russian captivity,

thank you very much, i am happy to see everyone and everyone who returns to ukraine zelenskyi's speech lasted 52 minutes and he was applauded more than 40 times well, we have not yet seen these applause 40 times this is more than he was applauded in the american congress, this is his own parliament oleksandr joins the broadcast solontay, director of practical policy programs at the oleksandra institute of political education. good evening. happy holidays. glory to ukraine. glory to the heroes. you listened to the president's speech in the parliament. i watched the comments after that, and then the video finally appeared. usually we are used to listening to the message live , but here for security purposes, this we're listening and here you

understand i'm curious before er the order changed before you watch the live broadcast and then you hear other people's comments and since here the broadcast appears later and the comments appear immediately, because many people 's deputies comment. that's how they cast their opinions , so first you read the comments, and then you watch the video recording and check for comments, and here it is. well, it's good that despite the war, despite everything, the form of the annual message has been preserved. it's good that despite the fact that there are three days before in the new year, the majority of people's deputies, at least in the conditions of martial law, understand that there are not many accents related to the successes of the representatives of the authorities, whom he praised , but he, well, he must follow his team in principle, logically, it is not enough about corruption. but again, well, it's probably an unpleasant topic, that's why this question is also avoided more. well

, there is something to think about from different sides, you can sort it out, but in general. this year, as long as the great war is going on, the form of cooperation between the president and the parliament has changed in general, the parliament is now more of a headache for zelenskyi, is it still a support? well, he brought it back under control, under total control, the parliament attacked him in order to actually stop everything is falling apart here. it’s simple, in fact , that is, as zelensky lost his rating, he lost control over the verkhovna rada, it got to the point that he even lost control over his own speaker, it got to the point that even the speaker became one of the options for a political alternative, they still had time to replace the speaker with may at the peak of the 2019 glory of 2019, razumkova, actually stepanchuk, who was able to collect 226 votes from whom

they were still able to retain the majority and when february 24 came, the whole situation changed. that is, we see that the opposition currents have taken a backseat, the consolidation around the authorities is the maximum, there is a common subject of consolidation that unites the most rigid position, the most supportive of zelenskyi people, this is a common context - it is the need to endure in the conditions military actions. and this is actually a good negotiating position. well, as a result of this, the parliament makes decisions even less, but if it were under the control of the president's office, as it was at the end of 2019, when the owner zelenskyi's team came in, and as of today, the president can count on the adoption of all the decisions he needs in the parliament and, accordingly, is responsible for all bills, even those that are critically perceived by society . it is welcomed

there, the society applauds, they may be there on the border of the constitutional order, for example, i am talking about the court about the dishes, but it is welcomed by the society there 100%. and there are very controversial things. for example, it goes around ukraine such a protest is now full on the issue of it being within the limits of martial law, there are no street actions, but local council sessions are coming, petitions are being written, and so on about the draft law in the field of urban planning, this is critically perceived, for example, by a part of society that is related to local self-government or, for example, e- the president supported the serviceman supported it, but a large part of the military and veterans and volunteers criticize the latest legislative changes in the field of regulation of the rights of military personnel, that is, despite the fact that the parliament has to pass various bills, both very

popular and unpopular among society, in the conditions that we have, it is a double-edged sword, on the one hand, the president returned control of the verkhovna rada, and we can see the verkhovna rada applauding in front of him, but this is not only applause that 's why you wrote, you sympathize with rezelensky and not only zelensky himself for his behavior, but this is also a demonstration of loyalty, and showing that we are ready to work at all, and on the other hand , it will be more difficult for the president, actually, in the plan to maintain its high popularity because everything voted by the parliament, uh, everything ricochets, that 's why we dig along zelensky's lines, and sometimes we have to vote on unpopular decisions, the ones you voiced and the law on the construction and strengthening of responsibility for the military, pay attention, they have not yet been signed by the president, the president is waiting or that the parliament will somehow change them, or maybe when the new year holidays come, attention to

political news will decrease and then you will quietly sign from above yes yes yes well here you understand i am emphasizing why i asked about this because you they asked about what and how are all the relationships between the president and the verkhovna rada? and i must pay attention to the fact that on the one hand, the president is now on the horse, so you, as they say, aptly show him with ermak, and they, together with germak, now control virtually the entire the network of all authorities and can put all the tasks in front of it, but on the other hand, not all tasks are formulated by them with the fair, well, it is obvious that the story with this construction bill is a discussion within one construction lobby with another construction lobby in which the local self-government became against this construction lobby, which broke through this project, which is or, for example, the history of the draft law on military personnel, these are the same drafts, er, well, which actually not in the first, not in the first time, not in the first edition in the verkhovna rada, not the first time he committed a scandal but of course er, sometimes

this controllability, well, that is, the control of the parliament, er, to the president. it allows the president to adopt bills that are necessary for the president and yermak, for example, among the last such controversial bills is this bill about the constitutional court it is obvious that this is directly in the interest of the president's office, but not everything is in the interest of the president's office, for which later zelenskyi will come to the nuts, that's why it 's such a double-edged sword. you also paid attention to the applause that was heard in the verkhovna rada today, and you say that this is also a sign and a signal sent by the parliament to the bank that we are ready for cooperation, now the banks have to look at this video through a magnifying glass. so who applauded did not applaud before, it was like that before, every people's deputy for support of the president and for the big, big applause for everything, he wanted a socio-economic subvention for his district, that is, for the

district, funds for his territory or his industry expenses, but now it is tight with this, in fact, very tight, and with the state regional development fund and with the social subvention of economic development, money for districts and in general, with one or another decision but nevertheless, despite the fact that there is a shortage of money, despite the fact that little is financed at all, but despite this, people's deputies still want to solve certain issues, that's why to decide well, as for looking through a magnifying glass, it used to be like that. we used to see who was more loyal, then less, and here it is like this. everyone who came and everyone who was in the hall more or less showed their support and loyalty, and even the opposition people's deputies had reason to clap and stand to be satisfied with the ceremony, actually, not so much with the content, because the opposition deputies have a lot of critical remarks, for example, about the

corruption i mentioned there, about the lack of mention of nato. but nevertheless, there were again consolidating moments. the president first spoke about a secondly, there was a ceremony with military personnel, and the president edited and combined his speech with a tribute to military personnel and an award. and this is , of course, a moment that consolidates regardless of whether the government or the opposition is neutral, close or distant, in relations with the office or without relations of the industry or majoritarians, it doesn't matter, this is a topic that is consolidating ukrainian society right now, and it is really honor and respect to our armed forces and all soldiers for the fact that it is actually possible for all other fronts to exist, because both the informational and economic and all the other fronts are directly dependent on the military. oleksandr, very briefly, you have already mentioned corruption twice, so what did the president have to say to the deputies about corruption, er, here the question is a local issue, yes, now

investigations are underway, these operations and searches of nabu are underway, this is the question connected with uh, uh, uh, the latest projects and is generally uh, the feeling that, uh, well, in society, the spine of corruption is not broken, despite the military actions. er, it will probably always be universal in all times and peoples that there are no own and no strangers, regardless of who is smeared , stained or noticed, will be removed and if proven, then prosecuted and emphasized that every corrupt penny is what he mentioned do you remember the phrase he said about the church about rust, that no rust can be washed away and hidden, well , it is probably the same phrase about rust, it is more about corruption, that is, i should have thought to apply this epithet, but in general, i added a little, well, for balance, that is but in general

the speech is strong, i understood you, i thank you very much oleksandr solontay, director of practical policy programs of the institute of political education, we talked about the address of volodymyr zelenskyi, the annual message to the verkhovna rada that was today, thank you, oleksandr, a ukrainian military man with the callsign sonzepek shot down a russian missile from an anti-aircraft missile system, the needle, the probability of such a hit is said experts are extremely short, the guy says that it was the first time he shot a sight and at first he didn't even believe in his success, see more about this story in the radio report freedom arrived, missile danger , readiness number one went into battle, the position was the command of the primary missile, destroy the target , having learned the sound of the missile, there will be something in this direction, i saw immediately, i pressed the button, chased and launched, and the target was destroyed. it was

very unexpected that he could destroy the combat first course before we only had this for computer launches. and it was a combat post, it depends on the conditions, the weather, the trajectory of the missile, how it flies, the speed, the range, the fact that the missile flew at an altitude of 400 meters played in our favor, since it was that day, it was overcast , the visibility was very bad, and it just happened that it was flying at a height of 400 m plus, and we first

heard an acoustic signal, and just then it flew over us, and at that moment my subordinate made a stab at catching up, launched, and the target was destroyed . we don't know if it will actually fly over us or in the country, that is, we are waiting . i am ready, two are ready, one is ready. electronic mechanism, mechanical sight , electronic sight, when you can use it to understand whether you captured this one. it is green, then the ball is sitting, the trigger is lying, the rocket then begins to capture the target, and when it

captures, the launch is also made, there is manual or automatic, it is clamped to half as soon as there is enough salt it is necessary to clamp it to the end and heads it was intended even in the soviet union and when the war was going on in afghanistan and it has gone since those times and was developed in order to shoot down rotorcraft and also airplanes not in in the air, not at a high altitude, there is a ground power source on the pipe itself, that is, when we made a shot, it works for us for up to 30 seconds. if we did not capture the target within 30 seconds, we did not launch immediately, it is necessary to replace the ground power supply unit, and

if the target was captured and there was a launch further, this can only be taken to the unit, the factory where it was manufactured, there are experts there to see if it can be ordered again or not, that is, it goes as a one-time use, we are always on duty, we receive information about missile danger as well from which direction is the information coming, then all my subordinates are occupying their combat posts and a combat shift is already underway, surveillance is going to identify the target, we are currently using what we have, we will hope that there will be something newer, we will learn and use them effectively head of the main directorate of intelligence of the ministry of defense kyrylo budanov of ukraine visited the advanced positions of the ukrainian forces in bakhmut, where

special forces scouts work . he spent two days on december 27-28 there, he listened to the reports of the commanders of the gur units, defined the tasks and awarded the soldiers for 10 months of war, the head of ukrainian intelligence visited positions on the front for the first time, or at least before such visits were not publicly reported, and meanwhile the american institute for the study of war suggests that russia's attempts to seize bakhmut are close to culmination, just as it was in kherson oblast in august, russian troops noticeably degraded, they allegedly lack personnel and ammunition, combat losses it is more likely that they are forcing the russian military in the bakhmut region to use assault groups as large as a squad, analysts draw attention to the fact that the use of small groups in the kherson region also indicated that the russian offensive was over. well

, they will tell about how the armed forces of ukraine changed the course of the war in 2022 journalists who not only saw the war with their own eyes, but also filmed it and told others about it, the correspondents of radio svoboda and donbas, the realities, together with the defense forces, were at the hottest points of the front were the first to visit the de-occupied territories and during the year recorded the emotions of happiness, pain and despair, listen to their stories chaos chaos - this is the first thing that happened when the russian troops tried to take kyiv in this chaos it was remembered and remembered this turning point when the ukrainian troops took everything into their own hands and went to counter-motivation. it seems to me that it was thanks to this that the influx of russian troops was restrained in the first days, the front line was stabilized, so now we still

have the liberation of the territory. technically, she was able to do this, she did not lose control, she was able to counteract in various areas of the front, it was coordinated to one degree or another to actually build this defense, because, relatively speaking, a man with a machine gun is not enough to stop a column of tanks, the main achievement is, of course, the victory in the battle of kyiv because she gave the mail in this because what happened next we are moving on now we are in this confrontation in this war the village of teterivske in the kyiv region is remembered, it is the north of the kyiv region , closer to ivankov, which was erased from the face land, not a single surviving house, not a single surviving yard, and one of those moments when an aviation bomb arrived, and the two-story house was simply smeared on the ground, and

for several hundred meters there were only traces of this house and how the aircraft was shooting, it caused me a storm of emotions, something incomprehensible and how is it, why does the earth just rise and fall down, and the impression is that the sky has collapsed on the boy’s head, he managed to master the latest western weapons and managed not only to master them, but now they are successfully used against the invaders by people who do not had no military experience, and there are a lot of them now in the brigades and in the military units of the armed forces, they learn very quickly and become real military professionals in a fairly short time. a serious factor affecting the course of the war, including completely new types of weapons that our soldiers had never encountered before, did not know how to

work with them, and the fact that they learned to use them in a super short time, literally in many cases, literally on the battlefield for example, when we were given the stinger and the like at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, i remember very well the moments when the servicemen asked if there were any translated instructions in ukrainian for how it is used, how it is done, and they translated it themselves and passed it on from company to company from battalion to battalion and in the end we learned how to liberate most of kharkiv oblast by 95%, including beyond the oskol river, although everyone said and planned that we would stand for the winter along the river, but the armed forces forced it back in september and in the future, successful operations were advanced towards the matchmaker, and in

kharkiv oblast, kherson oblast, that is, kherson oblast. to be there despite everything that happened there this first week after the armed forces entered kherson, this atmosphere of a holiday remains . of military personnel because i saw that there were flowers on the tanks and that, well, that’s a lot about snake island. it is very reminiscent of what happened in kherson, that is, how kherson was liberated with the help of systematic influence on the russian military, that is, shelling, and the creation of such the impossibility of being there was also not variable, that is, it was very important to visit and see what is there and on the

snake’s side. it is just a total ruin. it is surrounded by the sea and everything that russia brought to the territory of ukraine. this is such a ruin with no with torn ammunition underfoot with destroyed equipment and just completely leave the place and the fifth achievement in my opinion is the city of bakhmut, the city of bakhmut holds back the russian onslaught , the city of bakhmut is being strengthened and does not surrender to the invaders, the defense of bagnut, which has been going on since july, and this is the real stalingrad, is that the resilience of the ukrainian soldiers of the ukrainian fighters that they demonstrate is happening there right now. this is simply something supernatural, because during such a time to keep the city under the barrage of artillery a-a under e-e carrying out 8 to 10 assaults

only in one location is it. i personally know where i was, well, it’s just incredible stability, which, in my opinion, currently no army in the world is able to show such ukrainian military there, they are locked in that concrete and don’t let anyone in, they stand in one place yes, somewhere there are movements, somewhere some counter-offensive operations, but the whole line has stood and the troops do not pass any further, no matter what forces are thrown there, no matter which wagnerites, no matter which kadyrovs they throw there, no matter how many shells, a ton of shells would be poured on the heads of the soldiers standing, we are fighting for our own no one was invited to my land, we were not called, we were attacked and we are defending ourselves, and what is happening now, fortunately, is happening in a counteroffensive and we have the strength for it, this is the return of our own territories, this is the first thing that distinguishes us, because we are not invaders, we are not occupiers, we are fighting for i would honestly never even compare

mine. as for the ukrainian military, they have motivation, first of all, people protect their native land. they know what they are fighting for, they are fighting for their families, they are fighting for their children. they fight for their wives, they fight for their relatives, for their parents, and this is the most important thing, and it seems to me that this is one of the most important factors that allowed us to restrain the russian army in the first days of the invasion. paratroopers of the 95th brigade who were returning after the offensive, and they were so tired, so dirty. they said that they had not eaten, well , they slept there for three days, about 8 hours in total, but they were so happy and er, just people they stood in the middle of the road, in the middle of the road and in the middle of the road and held ukrainian flags and

greeted them with waving hands. well, as one of the cubans told me, it is precisely for such moments that we fight. the majority of the people we spoke to in the flywheel are convinced that the ukrainian army will defend the city and the occupiers who came from russia should go away and in fact this position is really inspiring well, at the very end, i encourage all of you to traditionally subscribe to the pages of radio svoboda in social networks instagram telegram facebook twitter your lines of wishes leave your comments in the chats under the broadcast and subscribe to the two youtube channels radio svoboda and radio svoboda ukraine svoboda life will return to the air tomorrow join the community with a ukrainian view of the world become a sponsor of the espresso youtube channel and this is

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