[000:00:00;00] with tetyana shustrova , newly elected members of the people's party of ukraine who participated in the entanglements of the judicial mafia and covered up criminal schemes. tatyana shustrova on the espresso tv channel 19:00 in ukraine news time on the espresso tv channel in the studio iryna koval welcomes all viewers and i will tell you the main events about them just now

the prosecutor's office has announced suspicions high-ranking officials of the ministry of defense in the morning, the security service of ukraine searched the former director of the state department of state procurement bohdan khmelnytskyi and deputy minister of defense vyacheslav shapovalov, both of whom are involved in the scandal with the purchase of food for the military. in addition, according to the investigation, the ex-official khmelnytskyi bought almost 3,000 low-quality bulletproof vests for the ukrainian army for more than 100 million hryvnias , the sbu handed over a suspect, the parade of government dismissals continues following the leadership of the customs government dismissed the first deputy head of the state forestry agency, yuriy sotnyk, as well as the deputy head of the state production and consumer service, andrii lorka-penidze, regarding the deputy head of the state customs service, ruslan cherkaskyi , disciplinary proceedings were initiated, he was suspended from performing his duties earlier , the cabinet of ministers dismissed the management staff of the customs office , in particular the acting head of

the v' yacheslav demchenko, from the post of first deputy oleksandr shchutskyi and deputy head ruslan cherkaskyi, the head of the tax department dealt with multimillion-dollar transactions kyiv state bureau of investigation informs about this, abusing power, understated tax payments for certain enterprises, and artificially inflated the gross costs of some enterprises through her proxies , according to expert estimates , more than uah 15 billion got into shadow circulation , operatives of the day are also investigating the lifestyle of the head of the main department of the state tax service service in the city of kyiv, which does not correspond to the level of her official income, she has three apartments in kyiv with a total cost of

approximately 1 million usd, a house near kyiv worth approximately $200,000 usd two cars worth approximately $150,000 usd legalized medvedchuk's funds the security service conducted searches in kyiv construction companies controlled by one of the people's deputies from the banned party opposition platform for life in the photo released by the security service vadim stolar can be recognized commercial structures are suspected of illegal schemes for the legalization of funds in the interests of ex-deputies viktor medvedchuk and taras kozak, similar schemes also worked for the benefit of others citizens of russia and belarus to whom sanctions were applied by the nsdc of the eu and the usa, and the security service admitted that they were preparing today's mass operation of searches and handing over suspects, they say this is only the first stage , so we should wait for new cases, this is only the first stage of that complex and systematic

work which is already being carried out by the security service and we do not plan to stop, every criminal who has the audacity to harm ukraine, especially in the conditions of war, must clearly understand that we will put handcuffs on his hands, the sbu will report to of this maximum effort, the lviv court of appeal removed vladyslav atroshenko from the post of mayor of chernihiv for a year, and the official must also pay a fine of uah 6,800 . thus, the court partially satisfied the petition of atroshenko. read more about the case of the mayor of chernihiv in our story. at the beginning of the full-scale invasion , vladyslav troshenko's wife iryna left the first shots rang out on the official car of the chernihiv city council of ukraine , the car that was uh for maybe had to go

could go technically yes, i uh gave permission to my wife to go outside the city in a company car, and already at the beginning of july, together with their driver, they went on a business trip to switzerland. they were going there in a tesla car belonging to the wife of an official . well, really, i, let’s say, listened to the driver’s insistence and waited for the driver until he returned in the official car, which one way or another had to be returned, and it was in these actions they soon saw a conflict of interest, since the driver was only supposed to make work trips, and already on september 15, 2022, the mayor of vladyslav atroshenko received an administrative report from

the agency for the prevention of corruption . there was a real conflict of interest. corruption about the existence of such a conflict of interests despite the fact that the legislation allows and even obliges to do this no later than the next working day if possible, i.e. at the end of the business trip was the opportunity to do this at the end of last year yavoriv district court found vladyslav atroshenko guilty and suspended him for a year from the post of mayor of chernihiv, instead, the official decided and appealed the court decision to support atroshenko , heads of ukrainian cities and people's deputies came local self-government is the foundation of democracy and this is actually a challenge all systems in the system of democracy, if a court decision can deprive any mayor of his position and the community of his choice. well, this is

already a very bad signal in two hours. during the review of the atrosh woman's appeal, there was also the questioning of a witness and court debates, and in the end, the court's decision here decided to partially satisfy the appeal, the decision of the yavorivsky district court of the lviv region dated december 7, 2022 on bringing the atrosh woman to administrative responsibility, the official stated that he considers this decision unfair and directed against of ukraine as a democratic state, this decision demonstrates that ukraine is only trying to become a european country, and there is a big question whether is there an objective unbiased justice in ukraine? is there selective justice? everyone has to draw their own conclusions and it is obvious in my person that the attack on local self-government is over 70% of the citizens of chernihiv who voted for patroshchenko. he was one of those heroes who stopped the city from falling.

guarded the citizens and stopped the onslaught of the russian aggressor when he was passing through chernihiv . they even handed him an order, they didn't hand it over, but they issued an order and immediately gave a command to the parties for those . all local self-government is currently planning to appeal to the chernihiv city council european court of human rights, the decision of the first instance of the yavoriv court, it was not against the mayor of chernihiv, against the citizens who elected him, against democracy and against local self-government, we heard the words of the judge. i was personally in the hall. but where are the terms of health in part ? i would comment on this decision after we see its text ulyana hryshchuk nazar melnyk tv channel espresso mikhail saakashvili's health has deteriorated sharply about this he himself stated during the court session on a video link from the tbilisi clinic , at the same time he showed the camera his physical condition after being in custody the third president

of georgia stated that he was tortured and poisoned in prison volodymyr zelenskyi believes that the georgian authorities are slowly killing mikhail saakashvili would like you to look at these photos, it's also a question of neutrality , it's just interesting that they know something, they poisoned him and now he's a little bit sorry , they're killing saakashvili this is what the former looks like the president of georgia, austria will provide 5 million euros for the restoration of transformer substations in ukraine. this was announced by the president of austria, oleksandr vanderbelen, who arrived in kyiv today on an official visit to the mariinsky palace. he met with volodymyr zelenskyi. that helps preserve and restore normal life during the war, at the same time vanderbelen

assured that austria would support the proposed ukraine is the formula for peace, the president of the united states, joe biden, will visit poland in february, this was announced by the president, because duda , who is on an official visit to latvia, also emphasized that poland will continue to support ukraine. however, not to the detriment of our own security, we must remember that we support ukraine, but we also take care of the security of poland, at the moment we have about 50 f16 fighter jets. in the polish military, we are here ready to talk with our allies on the topic of supporting ukraine, but i say once again, we help ukraine, but we also

we take care of the security of the commonwealth of nations as part of nato . the most important thing is that we must remember that deterrence works when you are able to defend yourself, when we have a high military potential, what can we transfer to ukraine? 2 that are to be handed over to ukraine, the minister personally made sure of the technical efficiency and combat mission of the armored personnel carriers, the decision to provide the leopards was announced by germany on january 24. as part of the international of the tank consortium, ukraine receives at least 120 vehicles, and already on friday, friends from europe will come to ukraine, the annual ukraine eu summit will be held for the first time, our state will speak for the first time in the new status of a candidate for accession , about expectations and possible results, see further in the story, despite active military operations in the east and the south will still hold the 24th ukraine eu summit in kyiv

, the european commissioners can take part in it, that is, the ministers of the main executive body of the european union plan to sign the final a document that can provide a certain impetus for ukraine's further movement towards accession, we are waiting for news for ukraine, we are waiting for the decisions of our partners in the european union, which will correspond to the achieved level of interaction between our institutions and the eu and our progress, which is obviously even despite the full-scale war, progress in reforming the state the main topic of the summit is the government presenting the dates for the implementation of the seven recommendations of the european commission in the field of the rule of law in the fight against corruption , independence of the media, etc. of the european integration path, in particular about the start of the next stage of negotiations on membership despite the war ukraine continues to move

towards the eu you have demonstrated very good progress in the work on implementing the recommendations of the european commission during the summit there will be an opportunity to analyze this progress and also to discuss what can still be done in the near future ukraine has achieved an active push in the movement towards membership for you as a candidate state, it is necessary not only to adopt the relevant eu legislation, but also to implement it. on the agenda the issues of economic integration into the euro area will be important for ukraine, the provision of long-term access to goods without quotas and the ministry of foreign affairs, joining the single payments area and the european roaming space, among the political topics will be new sanctions against russia, the security situation, the peace formula , bringing the russian federation to justice and post-war reconstruction, while at the same time doing homework in order to become a full-fledged member of the eu in ukraine

. there is no homework that other countries have done. and that it will not fall on us , taking into account the circumstances in which ukraine is today. already this year, the ukrainian authorities expect to start negotiations on accession, which contain 35 chapters on reforms in various spheres of public life from of energy to science, this will probably happen no earlier than october, after the official assessment by the european commission of the implementation of the recommendations , a realistic assessment of the acquisition of full membership by the end of the current decade valery pashko andriy verstyuk espresso tv channel and these were all the news for now, i'm iryna koval, i'll say goodbye to you until tomorrow, and as always , you can read more on our website espresso tv , subscribe to our telegram channel espresso tv and watch us on youtube, and

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glory to ukraine good evening we are from ukraine i congratulate you i congratulate you dear tv viewers my name is vasyl zima this is a big broadcast on espresso tv channel i will get my colleagues, as usual, we will talk with you before 21:00, we will talk about what happened, we will inform you quickly about what will happen during our veter 343 day of the great war against the ukrainian people and this day is ending , what was this day, we are now let's talk natalya gumenyuk, head of the press center of the security and defense forces of the operational command south ms. natalya, i congratulate you glory to ukraine i salute you as a hero glory i first of all want to ask about this fire that happened in melitopol in the city where the location was of the russian forces. well, i also understand that there were hangars for storing equipment. if there are any comments on this matter , please ask our supreme commander-in-chief. they

finally found a place for a smoke break here , for sure, and they will buy it there where they haven’t yet. i ’ll ask what they talked about now. cases of russian subversive intelligence groups trying to cross the dnipro and arrange certain aggressive actions already on the right bank of the dnipro river in the kherson region. please tell me what this is it is related to what caused it and to what extent under such weather under such conditions today it is problematic or not problematic to identify and neutralize these subversive intelligence groups, this is most likely a step forward because the military and political leadership requires the occupiers to intensify certain actions. they are trying to simulating that the connection was broken in some way, but we will now restore it and continue to listen to mrs. natalya humenyuk about the situation in the southern direction , there is actually something to talk about and not only

about what the enemy is trying to do using these floodplains, islands of which there are many in the dnipro riverbed, using them, they are trying to take certain actions already on the right bank , literally yesterday, five boats on which ms. nataliya, ms. natalya are, were neutralized, please continue , but for now this situation is characterized the enemy is trying to measure the density of our defenses in all directions. they are trying to portray a certain activity, we are ready for it . we have been watching their actions for a long time. and the fact that they use such a barbaric method the local population is watercraft watercraft, well, this is emphasized once again by the country the terrorist remains true to herself uhu i would like to ask your comment about the possible offensive actions of the enemy in the zaporizhzhia direction, to what extent can it now be characterized those actions taken by the enemy

as offensive or can it be called small assault attempts groups, how is it assessed, what are the threats in this direction today, and those try that they have already allowed themselves convinced them that their task now is to hold the defense and they returned to the stable tactics to the point that they did better than storming, they returned to the defense and now they are trying to keep what is called the front line in the same place where it was fixed. agreed by the leadership of the armed forces of ukraine and the command of the operational command of the south , what can be said?

uh, in the light of further actions, well, in particular, on the part of the ukrainian forces. well, it is possible that the plans of the enemy in this direction, on our part , it is really important to establish control or at least not allow the enemy to go there, because they are trying to fire at the civilian population from the points of the opposite the shore is the ochakiv kutsurub direction, and people there suffer from regular shelling, in particular , many buildings have been destroyed, fortunately , human casualties have been avoided in recent days, but before that, for several weeks, there were the victims were human losses, so we are working to preserve the lives of every person, we are working on the opposite shore of what is now the kinburn spit, but the enemy has a connection there by land and we have the opportunity to bring reserves there after we destroy those

checkpoints that he deploys there, that's why they can be located there, because it is necessary and we are working, but from time to time they are tightened in order to terrorize this direction in general , since these are international transport routes maritime and talk of involving the mykolaiv region in the grain agreement is heard again and this topic is worked out in a general sense, it will be useful for the development of the economy of ukraine as a whole and for equalizing the situation with food in the world, therefore the enemy is trying to prove in this way that he e- he is the one to be reckoned with, but we hope that the world community, as they did with the black sea grain agreement in general, will add confidence and guarantees, and we will be able to establish

permanent control over the kinburn spit so that the enemy did not deploy his own there, and then we can talk about involving mykolayiv ports to work in the grain corridor, well, that is, i understand that in general there should be control over the dnieper-buzka estuary and here is the exit to the black sea there must be guarantees from the aggressor, well, at least here in the black sea, of course, the aggressor is checked for a very long time by the ukrainian vessel, so what slows down this logistical chain, so to speak, but in any case, at least it does not aim at these vessels, that is, such you can they are also trying to achieve in the dnieper estuary, could there be more risks here? because you know here, you can always shoot from where and then tell them that it is not us, well, that is , there are no more options, it is not the open sea, conditionally speaking, where do you know, there are some, there are some, and there are also banks please, but world experience says that when such guarantors as, in particular, turkey

and the united nations are involved, which currently oversee the grain corridor, it can be quite convincing , that is, in international maritime law and the general control situation at the world level, plus our combat work is effective, which will convince that it is not possible to draw up more forces there. well, and in the further development of combat events , which will push the enemy further along the left bank, all this in the complex can be a guarantee that the grain agreement will be spread in mykolaiv oblast as well. thank you very much ms. natalya for your comments . thank you for joining. take care. natalya gumenyuk, head of the press center of the security and defense forces of the operational command south. the struggle for the buzky estuary and for the polish border, which today is usually , in fact, as i understand it, is a gray zone that is not

used by the enemy, but where the enemy suffers losses from the strikes of ukrainian artillery and other forces and means that are in service with the armed forces forces of ukraine well, actually, let's not forget the shelling of ochakov, it was terrible when the enemies shot at a place where mines were stored since the time of the second world war, there was a terrible explosion that damaged the whole city. unfortunately , the tragic consequences of this attack were huge destruction and even from the explosion itself, people suffered from the sound of this and the shock wave, that's why we remember all this oles malyarevich, still a junior sergeant of anti -shock drones of the tertilorian intelligence of the 92nd separate mechanized brigade of the armed forces of ukraine, a member of the kyiv council, and now he is in the kharkiv direction e- е в п oles, i congratulate you good evening glory to ukraine glory to the heroes svatovo yes, i am not mistaken in the place where we are now fighting our state to fight with the enemy yes, exactly sativsky

directions, please tell me more about that what is going on there, what is the situation, because now of course all attention is mainly focused on the donetsk direction bakhmut soledar eh well, the svatov crime is also being discussed, but people probably know the details to a lesser extent . er, currently the situation is stable and fully controlled by us for a week and a half because you know where we bought very important strategically important villages in veselivske, the enemy tried to return it several times unsuccessfully and now they are not crashed and i will not look for weak spots in order to choose a place where they cannot counterattack us, i.e. now such positional artillery fates, from our reporting side , we discover, thanks to the examination, the accumulation of manpower of the enemy’s equipment because of

the composition of the rbc and we are striking that is, we are doing everything to prevent their counteroffensive actions , thereby improving our positions and currently we are not attacking, the weather is not good, somewhere it is not good enough and we do not have enough strength to counterattack. and tell me, please, the enemy is accumulating accumulated enough forces, or to talk about the fact that the enemy has enough forces, let's say compared to what was under soledar and remains what is under bakhmut, it is obvious that in this direction the enemy has significantly less forces and means to act more actively , please the forces that are on the first, on the first line, well, with us, they accumulate , they are not enough for large forces , because they ask me how the rotation of the orks takes place . i say that

they do not rotate. and they they are sending new ones, they are sending new series of wagner soldiers and special forces and they are mobilized, but now the airborne forces have arrived, that is, they have now reinforced enough so much to stand the direction, such personnel of this unit have abandoned everything, but i think that for a few days, and this edition should also be a matter of paratroopers, the situation is not as hot as for the solidarity type to the olidars with tobacco and bahmut, but the war must be observed and he understands what he can say there tomorrow and here it will be completely different personnel units , they are also seen near the coal mine there is the marine corps, this 155th brigade, which at one time suffered significant russian losses , now they are again celebrating the work of the paratroopers there under fire because, well, they act more professionally than what the wagners did , all the more. and please tell me when the offensive will take place on the part of the armed forces of ukraine and the advance of the enemy. what

are the risks for the enemy and what are the chances of prospects for ukraine to liberate the occupied territory and advance further what are the risks precisely because the practice is from us and the risks for the enemy are that there will be an attack on your area, how important is it ? well, please, and that's how we'll respond with the shock company of the pila and artillery aerial guns, we'll receive orders that we carry out somewhere a day in advance. i can say what the offensive will be when it will be, is there enough force for this? the army is built in such a way that the military does not know what is happening . it's not ours, but we deal with them every day, that's why when there's an attack, only the command knows everything and such plans are kept secret, so now we have enough forces to control this situation, these

decomposed territories, well, to contain them in the authorities and in principle, eh if there is an order for a counterattack, first the artillery will be very active, and then you will go to the end of the campaign . i want to ask you about the drones . please tell me whether the ukrainian armed forces are sufficiently equipped with all the necessary drones today. i say again, about your direction, if not, then what would be needed in order to observe more effectively and strike more effectively, help the artillery more effectively, please. well , i think the whole country already knows that the commander-in-chief has grown ridiculous . our company is one of those kinds , and if we talk about support, after a while we will have the best support in order to offend the enemy, and drones and wings are called wings for scout planes