literally a month before that, there was a situation when germany offered poland let 's return the patriots to poland for protection , which warsaw officially informed there. let's better transfer them to ukraine immediately, it will be better for everyone . one of the most extreme statements from berlin was that, well, we can hand over petriv if it is a collective decision of nato, well, after that, biden will call scholz and germany will hand over the patriots, that is, well, a collective decision most likely, it was accepted from the very beginning of the entire conversation, considering everything, that is, there are probably such mechanisms. such questions regarding political aspects must be remembered that the tank is an important resource for any nato country in principle but this is an important resource. if we are, well, for understanding there, germany is 25 to the party in

formation. there are approximately uh, great britain 2011 tanks, france 222 leclerc, italy 200 and ariel countries that have more than 100 tanks in service, it is possible that the leopard of the second is possible in general, you can count on the fingers of one hand . the same germany, poland, finland, sweden , there are equal tanks and spain. that is, it is not the same number of machines that can be there, take 211 there at once, every tank is the thing that has will, well, this resource is a tropical resource, but the last questions are very brief. and you personally have reason to believe that ukraine will soon receive these heavy western tanks, that is, if you simply reject any political and optimistic speculations, as if it were a sign, it is important, in principle, to just look at that what is happening is the transfer of the bmp, and the bmp bradley and the same ones, that is, the next step is quite logical. it is the transfer of tanks, but not exactly which

ones . ukrainian servicemen at a front-line location 40 km north of bakhmut in donetsk region said that the current temperature below zero and snowfall help track the movement of russian troops in along the front line also due to winter weather russian troops cannot storm ukrainian positions, say the soldiers of the armed forces of ukraine. the military said that russia sent its regular troops to the northern front line due to weather conditions. currently, the enemy is not taking any active actions at all. the delivery of

ammunition supplies is carried out, the same night time is more visible from thermal imagers, thermal silhouettes, the same from drones, never needed do not underestimate the enemy, now, at the moment, the armies of the russian federation have entered regularly, accordingly, they are acting competently, now they are studying our front edge, they are starting to standardize the situation , they are mainly conducting only counter-battery combat with the known ones, we are working, we are constantly conducting reconnaissance, we are making a fire impression of the artillery unit, unfortunately, as far as losses are concerned, both sides, respectively, our e-e units will suffer losses this year armenia will not conduct military exercises

of the collective security treaty organization which was created under the auspices of russia, the csb i mean yerevan's refusal, armenian prime minister nikol pashanyan said, according to him, yerevan considers it inappropriate in this situation to hold csb exercises on its territory, what is this situation? pashinyan did not explain this situation in writing on the 24th informed the joint headquarters of the csto that we do not consider it appropriate to conduct such exercises on the territory of the republic of armenia in the current situation, these military exercises will not take place earlier the ministry of defense of russia reported that joint training of peacekeeping contingents of the odkb, which is called the indestructible brotherhood 2023, will be held on the territory of armenia. the russian ministry of defense did not comment on the statement of the kitten, but it was definitely commented on by the spokesman of the kremlin. he said that armenia remains a very

close ally of russia and that moscow will continue the dialogue with yerevan, including complex issues, the other day, interestingly, there was also a demonstration near the russian military base in the armenian city of umri against the presence of russian troops in the action several hundred people took part, and among the slogans was the demand to quote, put an end to the russian occupation of armenia. help us get out of this russian bloc. help us free ourselves from the evil russian tyranny . good evening, on the rejection of decab training on the territory of armenia this year is another sign that the russian influence on armenia is weakening. well, if you evaluate the statements of the prime minister of armenia

can be evaluated by a well-known phrase, because the sequence, that is, here we must also remember about november in the war of 2020, when armenia actually suffered a defeat and she tried to appeal to the dkb and nothing good came of it, nothing substantive came of it now koshenian insists on that that russian peacekeepers from the south caucasus, in particular from nagorno-karabakh, should be withdrawn and replaced by peacekeepers from the united nations, mr. putin said this personally to his face, that is, it should also be remembered that ilha maliyev, a koshenian and the president of azerbaijan held negotiations not with the participation of vladimir putin, but also with the mediation of anthony blinkin

, then well, the process of finding the normalization of the situation is going on in the conditions when i azerbaijan has practically restored control over the entire recognized international community of its territory, where the conflict has been going on for more than 30 years and the kitten well, in fact, found itself in enough a difficult situation, but one must give him credit, he has some notable features because he won after the defeat of the country in the 20th year, he won the parliamentary elections and retained the prime minister's chair, that is, he has the factor of political stability and its stability, however, for me, the main conclusion can be defined in other words, the otkb, that is, the otkb as an organization that some exalted

russian pseudo-political scientists call an alternative to nato, well, it simply practically does not exist anymore. well, it exists as a shell, it exists as the aspiration of mr. lukashenka eh with a sense of his own devotion personally vladimir vladimirovich something so meowed but we see the position of armenia, we see that the country of central asia, in particular, kyrgyzstan, tajikistan, which periodically converge in border skirmishes, and they are also members of the soviet union. they are also in no hurry to actively act anywhere. i would also like to remind you that literally a year ago contingents of the soviet union arrived in kazakhstan for stabilization measures, and we then thought a lot about the role of this

organization. now we see that not only russia is losing influence but foreign policy projects organized by her. also, i took notes for myself. you told me everything. we will return to this right now. one more question regarding armenia. russia, more precisely. how do you see the role of russia in the southern region? in the caucasus, in particular, in the conflict around nagorno-karabakh, you yourself mentioned that emanuel macron recently passed his mediation meeting last fall, he accused moscow of igniting a military conflict between armenia and azerbaijan, what does this mean that there are special relations between armenia and france, because france is quite significant armenian diaspora well, not only in france, because the peculiarity of armenia is that the armenian diaspora is larger in number than the number of armenians living in

the territory of the republic itself and accordingly armenia has the ability, you know, to maneuver foreign policy. well, looking for support whether in paris or washington and doing it persistently enough, russia would certainly like to break those whom in moscow are called nationals, that is, representatives of national minorities, still in the soviet union, at the knee, it is absolutely obvious, and it is in in principle, she did not particularly hide the fact that she supports the opponents of the kittens, that is, sargsyan and kocheryan, but she was not able to do something so objectively realistic in the last parliamentary elections. in this sense, you know, i am more concerned about the fact

that in the fall, hundreds of thousands of russian citizens of draft age ended up in the territory of the south caucasus, first of all. well, not only did they end up there in kazakhstan, but we are now talking about the south caucasus and found themselves among people who for them are e is to a large extent foreign. that is, it is such a pyrrhic victory in the 20th year that russia, as a mediator in the armenian conflict in azerbaijan, received the military presence of its peacekeepers in nagorno-karabakh, but this presence, as you know, is quite shaky and koshenian's statements only confirm this, but i personally, er, with me, i know , er, more specialized experts on the

caucasus disagree. opportunities to improve relations with armenia, although it is difficult to do this when we do not have an ambassador there, there is no ambassador in georgia, so we will look for other opportunities, for example in bulgaria . a place where, according to my estimates, she can try to take a hybrid revenge, that is, to bring down the pashinyan government to try, and by military means or by means of some riots, it is possible to provoke corresponding riots even in georgia, where there are also tens of thousands of russian citizens who are in conditions of a kind of discomfort.

well, you understand that well, there as a rule , the national languages ​​used are georgian and armenian, which are absolutely not similar to the russian language, and well, you can of course use english there, but this is not always the case passes and at the same time to act, well, it was strange to me that 700,000 russian citizens left the country so easily after putin announced a partial mobilization, despite the fact that the russian border service is subordinate to the fsb. as winnie the pooh says - it 's not it's just that i don't know. it's probably not enough. who noticed this easy trolling of yours against the ambassador of bulgaria, but i noticed that we often discussed this situation on our broadcast. let me briefly ask you one more question. after all, returning to the csto, do you agree that after such a march on the part of

armenia and other countries that are part of the csto, well, maybe, except for belarus, they will try to repeat this scenario and, so to speak, point out to putin that he is already, well, not as strong and powerful as was before, well, in principle. last year, he made the president of tajikistan an enamel account , which, er, during the central asia summit, russia directly to putin also stated directly to putin's face that we demand respect for ourselves, the special feature of the account is that he is the president said since 1994, we will not now discuss the nuances of democracy in tajikistan and central asia as a whole, but the fact remains, that is, he is putin's aksakal putin. they were not found in the garbage and they demand respect for themselves. well, similar tricks

were carried out by the late turkmen bashi in principle , including with people who had dual russian and turkmen citizenship, they were forced to either live outside the state or decide in favor of turkmen citizenship, where russia could no longer interfere, but i don't think you know well, as the well-known phrase is that the east is a delicate matter, why should they do it well, what will they gain from this, will they lose their influence, will they deport their citizens who are are quite active on the territory of the russian federation. i think that no , the economic situation is such that it does not contribute to the political activity of the countries of central asia. to be honest, i do not see that beijing and china are clearly playing their game in central asia will begin to encourage and support thank you very much evgeny magda director of the institute of

world politics we talked primarily about the events in armenia in the south caucasus but also briefly mentioned bulgaria thank you very much judge of the sixth appeal administrative court yaroslav vasylenko traveled to crimea 25 times already after russia occupied the a the judge's family also has apartments on the shores of the black sea in sevastopol and real estate in moscow, all this is not reflected in the judge's declaration, but is recorded in his wife's name, and the wife, in turn, has a russian passport we learned about this story not from the ukrainian law enforcement officers, but from investigative journalists of the scheme program.

he visited the occupied crimea in july 2014. this photo of judge vasylenko on the odnoklassniki network was posted by his relative of the title album crimea sevastopol. other photos of vasylenko from this album are here: he is sitting in a boat in a sailor suit. and here in the company of his relative , the owner of the account, holding fishing nets behind him, a pleasure yacht with the inscription a trada sevastopol, we found the exact place where this photo was taken by comparing it with in this video on youtube, it is the quarantine bay in sevastopol, in the background, in addition to the russian tricolor, there is a logo from spetsstroy россии , the state agency of the ministry of defense of the russian federation, which was responsible for the development of russian military infrastructure. on july 14, judge vasilenko

entered crimea through the armeniansk checkpoint. vasilenko continued his visits to crimea and in subsequent years, he visited crimea four times in 2015 and the same number in 2016. at the same time, in the summer of 2016, vasylenko stayed in crimea for as many as 44 days from the end of june to the beginning of august. vasylenko continued to travel to crimea and in the following years, he visited the peninsula four times in 2017, five times in 2018, and four times in 2019. the frequency of visits to the occupied crimea by judge vasylenko decreased in 2020 and 2021, only in the summer and only once, analyzing the judge's photos made public by his relatives . we paid more attention to these apartments and found out their exact location, this is the elite residential complex

aquamarine in sevastopol on the shores of the black sea, the owner of this property is the wife of a judge, olena vasylenko, and even there are two apartments here, one with an area of ​​80 m², the other is more modest by 36 square meters. the total cost of these apartments, according to the profile sites for the sale of real estate in this residential complex, is almost 30 million rubles. and this is 17.5 million uah. 2020. however, first of all, in the property declarations of judge vasylenko for that period, there is no mention of the crimean real estate of the family, and secondly, the judge's wife used a russian passport, not ukrainian, for this, we found this out and received it at our disposal the certificate of the right to the inheritance of the wife of the judge , according to which the registration of property rights took place, from this document it follows that olena

vasylenko owns real estate according to the passport of a citizen of the russian federation, the decision was made by the registrar in moscow, here is another extract that we received from the official system of registration, it indicates that that since 2006, the judge's wife olena vasylenko and daughter yuliya have owned a combined half of an apartment in moscow on lyotchika babushkina street, the right of ownership of moscow real estate is close relatives of the judges issued russian passports, this is reflected in a number of historical russian real estate registers in moscow that are at the disposal of the schemes, the total rate of an apartment of such an area in this building is almost 16.5 million rubles or 10 million uah, and therefore the share of the judge 's wife is not reflected in the declaration in this apartment is about 2.5 million about judge yaroslav vasylenko and also about whether there is a place for such judges in ukraine, well, after

that, at least when the judicial reform is completed, we will talk about this further with us live expert of the anti-corruption center halyna chyzhik good evening good evening halyna but how does it work, can you share your thoughts how does it work, what about judge vasylenko and his undeclared wealth in russia, in particular, we will not learn from the sbu or from the dbr well sash to all law enforcement agencies in ukraine and from journalists. i think that this is not accidental and i think that judges like vasylenko were needed in the past by the ukrainian political authorities, because they are judges who are actually easy to control by keeping them on the hook because of such kompromat, these are judges from whom you can receive similar decisions and let's pay attention to which court mr.

vasylenko works in i called the fiscal service, the border service, and all other central authorities located in kyiv. so the stakes are extremely high and there are . all these facts were known to them, but as i have already mentioned, they closed their eyes to all these facts. this is one reason. the facts and actually release them as i am talking about the higher political commission of judges, first of all, which successfully recertified judge vasylenko in 2016-2017 without the participation of the public, without any publicity, they formally conducted a review of the

judge, while having before their eyes a certificate from nabu in which it was written in black and white about all the judge's trips to crimea, but i am convinced that no one even asked the judge about this, they simply recognized him as virtuous and in fact gave him the indulgence to administer justice in the name of ukraine forever. in the past, you know, our viewers have asked us in the comments. well, what is it that he could not go to crimea on vacation, but maybe we could explain to such viewers who really do not understand. what is it that a small person in crimea is not to rest, a ukrainian judge cannot afford to go to crimea on vacation, if he wants to rest in crimea, let him give up the judicial mafia, why. because the judge is an extraordinary citizen, he has received extremely great power to make decisions on behalf of ukraine . rights to judges in order for

them to resolve disputes between us and this is such an agreement in our society that we agree to carry out the decisions that the accordingly elected people make accordingly having such enormous power, judge vasylenko agreed to bear responsibilities and he is limited by certain obligations, why is it bad to go to crimea, and because any judge who enters the territory of crimea obviously recognizes the jurisdiction of the russian federation on territory of crimea carries out the instructions of the right of friends of russians in crimea to pay, it is obvious that he pays in rubles, i am convinced that it is not hryvnias that he used to pay there, did he pay in euros or dollars, namely in russian rubles, paying taxes in crimea in this way. and thanks to the journalists of the schemes, we know that the relatives then there is still own real estate in the crimea, formalized property rights, eh, additional, paying

taxes according to the russian budget, and the ukrainian judge can’t do it because, again, because of the power he received, we can’t be sure that eh, he received any social benefits for himself security guarantees from russia in crimea and we cannot be sure that at some point there, in exchange for such security guarantees, the judge did not agree to make decisions in favor of the kremlin in the future , again. this judge does not work in a simple way judges, and in the court in which the issue of state weight is decided, in fact, these are all the facts . in my opinion, there are grounds directly for talking about the dismissal of such a judge. and what do you think of such judges as judge vasylenko? well , i still know the judge lviv also has one with a russian passport, but in general these are isolated cases. what do you think, is this the system in ukrainian courts, unfortunately, these are not isolated cases, and i am convinced that

there is more than one judge with a russian passport in the judicial system of ukraine. we are correct we know the name at least a few judges who have received identification codes of taxpayers in the russian federation, for example supreme court judge valentyna sibanenko, and these facts were known when she was running for the position of supreme court judge and when petro poroshenko was still president and the public publicly appealed where poroshenko with a request not to appoint valentina symonenko, who voluntarily and we established that voluntarily in crimea, went to the russian occupation authorities and received an identification code there because she has one in crimea real estate from which she wanted to earn profits. that's why she got this code. that's why she paid russian taxes in crimea to the occupation authorities. all these facts were known. we asked poroshenko not to appoint symonenko to the supreme court, but all these facts were unfortunately ignored. valentina symonenko

was not the only judge, by the way, he also paid taxes in the crimea, and the former head of the constitutional court, oleksandr tupytskyi, also had real estate there. this is not an isolated story for ukrainian judges, russian. citizenship unfortunately, it also happens unfortunately, we do not know about all these facts, we know few surnames, but i am convinced that the sbu knows these surnames, but this is russian citizenship, this is paying taxes to the russian federation, this is a trip to crimea, not to crimea, or to moscow for a rest, let me remind you that our former member of the supreme council of justice, oleg prodyvuz, used to go to moscow every year to celebrate the new year of traditions. i think this also says a lot about his beliefs and values, this tradition was probably like that in i have the last question, we have literally a minute. and please tell me , is there a judicial reform going on in ukraine right now, because there are some guarantees that after this reform there will not be any judges like mr. vasylenko, mr. lviv, mr. vovk and others in ukraine,

or is there an interest in the ukrainian the authorities and the ukrainian parliament in the fact that they were not there, it is not even a question of the ukrainian parliament or the president, now it is a question of the judiciary itself before the supreme council of justice and the higher qualification commission of judges of the bodies that now they are just forming. tomorrow will be the day when the supreme council of justice will elect eight new members of the supreme council of justice, and based on the results of this congress, we will see whether the supreme council of justice will be renewed, whether it will become high-quality, or whether it will be independent , fair, and decisive enough to dismiss such judges as vasylenko with russian citizenship, real estate or trips to the crimea, in january and february there will be interviews with candidates for the higher kovaliv commission of judges by the body responsible for evaluating judges on integrity, so in fact now the question of whether we should

expect that in the future the judicial system will be cleansed of such people as vasylenko bohdan lviv and others is only being resolved at the very end of our conversation and with you i want to share with our viewers that there was a survey conducted to order center of the new europe and there it is reported that 73% of ukrainians said that it is correct that the european union requires reforms from ukraine and they must be what ukraine needs them first of all i need them why am i talking about this because the judicial reform is also one of the requirements of the european union for ukraine's path to the eu, so we will also monitor judicial reform. thank you very much. halyna chizyk, an expert at the anti -corruption center, was on radio svoboda. thank you . no less, i have to share with you that the head of the german foreign ministry arrived in kharkiv, but not lena berbuk with an unannounced, unannounced

visit, and she became the first german - the first german high-ranking official of this level who arrived in kharkiv with with our visit, we will monitor the consequences of this visit. perhaps there will be some additional announcements about additional help or some news, we will share it with you tomorrow. and finally, i urge you to subscribe to the pages of radio svoboda on the internet, social networks, instagram, telegram , facebook, twitter on channel two, youtube two youtube channels radio freedom and radio freedom ukraine until tomorrow you have found a working store in three letters is closed the light is gone for me please here is this bouquet is lucky we have it and it does not disappear yes it is generator on the street hums ukrainian veteran background money