[000:00:00;00] how are you? what do you expect from vasyl the kid? hmm, i don't know. maybe you spoke and set him some tasks or voiced your expectations for his work for the next six months or the next month or two . i don't know. victory over our enemy is very difficult, mr. baby, by the way, yesterday at the committee and in addition, we members of the committee were informed about those special operations, including with regard to the enemies of our state, that is the main idea and the main goal of mr. baby's activity in office head of the security service of ukraine - this is the transformation of the security service into a pure counter-intelligence body of a special service that will not have unusual functions, and yesterday vasyl vasyliovych confirmed this once again together with the members of the committee that drafted the draft law on the reform of the security service, that is, one version of the law on he will definitely support the security service, because i can personally say

that even during this time of war, at the meetings where i was present, i saw the position of vasyl the kid , he constantly confirmed the need reforming and passing the law that will transform the security service into a european or, in the scheme of things, a western e-e body of special purpose. we just showed a photo of vasyl the kid next to the head of ukrainian intelligence, kyryll budanov. they took this photo after kyrylo budanov said that his full-time employee denys kireev was allegedly killed by sbu officers in march of last year. did you ask the kid about this case and what did he say yes about this case? we also asked, but in in this case, we, as members of the committee, also have information about this incident by e-e for e-e at the moment and the pre-trial investigation is ongoing and the state bureau of investigation , which is the body of the pre-trial investigation in this

case, has not yet issued conclusions. therefore, now let's talk about some circumstances of the death of mr. kireev or the death of mr. kireev , we will wait for the decision of the matter - the decision of the pre-trial investigation bodies , then it will be possible to discuss all aspects of this event in general, and the people who directly killed kireev or gave the order to kill him, they still work in the sbu , you know, in this case, i will emphasize once again that we cannot divulge the information that is a secret of the pre -trial investigation. well, then, one more question does not directly concern vasyl the kid , but today it became known that on the positions of the heads of low-lying regions are appointed by sbu employees or law enforcement officers . this is such a new approach in managing regions during the war. yes, this is a really new approach, and the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi announced this approach today at

for the positions of heads of military administrations, priority will be given to combat generals who commanded the relevant military operations or special operations , therefore today's approval of the cabinet of ministers of ukraine for the candidature for the post of a number of heads of regional military administrations is absolutely natural, and they are , if anything, in the format announced by the president, that is, it should be expected that on january 24 , volodymyr zelenskyi dismissed five heads of regions, today three of them are appointed heads and two more remain vacant, i.e., someone from the security service of ukraine or the national police will also be appointed there. not necessarily representatives of special services or internal affairs bodies, it can also be combat officers, generals who commanded in certain directions of the defense of ukraine against the enemy. well, how is the task of the heads of regions changing now? considering that they are either generals or representatives of slash-special services well , so far there are only representatives of special services, not

generals, well, in this case, we are talking about what military administrations perform specific functions, first of all, functions in the system of components of the security and defense sector, when the country is at war with russia , it is absolutely natural, in my opinion, that those persons who have experience of combat operations, who have experience of managing special services in conditions of war, head military administrations that are components important components not only of local executive authorities, but also of the security and defense sector, because by and large the head of the military administration is one of the heads of the defense of the corresponding region of the country

now we are talking about the regional state administrations . something happened to us with the connection, maybe it's just that we don't have a connection . okay, but now we will continue to talk about personnel changes, it was a fedirvenislavsk people's deputy of ukraine, a servant of the people representative of the committee on national security, defense and development well, recommending a candidate for the post of the head of the sbu is, i remind you, a prerogative of the president, that is, volodymyr zelensky, have you seen the video today, he came to the verkhovna rada and addressed the deputies before voting for vasyl the kid , listen to what he said security service ukraine can be the way the people of ukraine want to see it. the security service of ukraine carries out successful and often truly unique special operations. some of these operations

have changed the picture of the war in our favor. collaborators in the occupied territories realized that they cannot escape from justice and this is also one of the achievements of our security service. well, as i already said, for the appointment of vasyl makyk to the post of head of the sbu, the deputies cast 324 votes, this is a lot, but not all. for example, the european solidarity faction did not vote zero votes were given by this political force, and the faction did not vote, and there were already zero votes. that's why it's like that now, a second second , and we'll add a representative of the faction's vote to the parliament to the broadcast. and we'll ask why these the political forces did not vote for the candidacy of ivan mal-vasyl makyk. i apologize for any complaints they had about this candidacy. i would like to remind you that vasyl makyk headed the sbu after ivan bokanov. roman kostenko, people's deputy of the voice, joins our broadcast, secretary of the committee on national security, defense and intelligence

my greetings to you. good evening. this is our previous speaker , fedir venislavskyi, your colleague. he praised the skills of vasyl the kid, he justified why he voted for him, and as far as i understand, you did not vote for me in the first conflict of interests, i act as an employee of the security service of ukraine and as a people's deputy, there is a question of whether i can vote. although i do not obey anyone, but there are such questions, in particular, our faction as a whole made a decision not to vote for this candidate. for one reason or another, which we discussed in including the factions, and well, such a decision was made. that is, this is such a political reason. so you decided that your faction decided not to be responsible for some personnel appointments a-a from the servant of the people and the president or what? we if looked, almost never voted for personnel appointments because with us they could, as from the faction, they are not discussed, these

candidacies are submitted in particular by the president and are discussed only at the factions of the servants of the people directly, the representatives themselves , including the candidates, they do not come to the road factions to other political forces in order to express their position there in order to say how they will carry out reforms or not carry out as they will. they do not come to the faction to be a servant of the people no. excuse me, the voice or some other. therefore, there is also a question in this, that if they go only to the faction of the servant of the people, then let them take responsibility. well, then share your impressions. yesterday, before the appointment , vasyl the kid came to you on the committee, he promised you something you asked him something, well, what are your impressions and expectations , what kind of security service chief will he be during the war ? look, he is already working in the position

of, practically, temporarily acting as the head of the security service, and i generally think it is wrong that now we do not have a head of the security service during a large-scale invasion, after all, a person should be in office, first of all, this is a responsibility , a responsibility before the parliament, because for these six months, the person was practically a quo. it is a matter when you are appointed by the parliament and you are accountable to it according to the constitution; it is another matter when you are appointed as a temporary acting president and you do not bear such responsibility, so of course it is better that a person is appointed as a servant of the people and the president and parliamentary principles, who voted and made their choice, i hope that vasyl the kid will be a good head of the security service, many questions were added

, in particular, at the committee. we also have disagreements about the reform of the security service , for example, he believes that there, let's say, the issues of combating corruption should be left to the security service of ukraine, many of the committee spoke and said that these issues should be cleaned up, but let's be factual. let's say that the majority of the committee voted in favor of vasyl the kid's recommendation for the position of head of the security service. and why was vasyl the kid interested in keeping the fight against corruption under his department? they talked about it, and he explains it from his point of view because many of the foreign special services use corrupt people primarily for, and they are, let’s say

, more capable of recruiting than ordinary people. i explained from the point of view of counterintelligence that this function should be the security service. i do not agree with this unequivocally, but let's say now we believe that the head of the security service should be in place, and the council made this appointment today. whether vasyl the kid will be politically independent is not a question. i think he is, let's say, he is the president 's man . we probably didn't have a head of the security service, and i don't remember that he was politically independent. this is according to the constitution , the situation of the president. will be to help the president to fulfill his duties and even though he is not a military man , but we have to be realistic. well, look right here. the question is that he. well, we will see how he will

fulfill his duties. we will monitor and see. and the most important thing is that, you know, persecution does not come there today, by the way, some people's deputies did not jump from the tribune and in the hall they asked questions about the persecution of the opposition there about others and these questions were also left to him, he was there and explained, but this is a problem there was always the security service about political favors, so to speak, and favors, of course, when you become a political force, you think that maybe you are obliged to them or in some other way, but let's hope that now everything will be done for the war by your colleague fyodor venislavsky. he said that does not see any risks in the fact that vasyl the kid will be politically dependent. well, you see , he is a competent officer, he went from lieutenant to general, let's say so, so let's hope for this, i say once again that

the verkhovna rada is public control and a plus the president submitted to me the majority, well, today, well, there was a table where they voted, so his servants chose uh, urine plus there, well, splinters of this pj and everyone added , so he got a large number of votes, something with us uh, i stopped communicating i hope to hear from you in a second and we will redial, roman, can you hear me, so something with the connection was good, er, i will ask you the same questions because you, mr. vinislavsky, were also on the committee, er , please tell me whether you asked with vasyl the kid regarding his plans as he sees the future the investigation of ivan bakanov's actions is possible, because we remember that the president suspended bakanov for a rather serious article , does vasyl the kid have the will to investigate

what happened to ivan bakanov and what actions led to serious consequences, eh, i was just asking the question, in particular, where is the bakanov bank located? he said that it is located in ukraine. i also asked the same question that you are asking. and in general, some actions took place, well, the person was summarily suspended. he said that an investigation was conducted within the framework of the security service of ukraine, this is official the investigation is not a criminal investigation, and hmm, the materials of this investigation. they have a seal of secrecy, as i understand that if there is some kind of crime, then the results of this investigation should be transferred to the dbr, because it is for military personnel that i will remind you, mr. bakanov, that i am a lieutenant of a military personnel, possibly a senior maybe a lieutenant, uh, it should be investigated by the dbr well, as far as i know, this case was not transferred to the dbr and i don't know if there are any facts

of the crime, but the dbr must study the results of this investigation, so there were no specifics the question was asked, yes, bakanov is in ukraine, there is an official investigation there, but there is no official investigation, but there is no case as such , it is correct that it is up to each serviceman in order to prove that first the commander conducts an official investigation into what was done there, and then it is transferred to the db now there are no facts. better, i understand that while the official investigation is being completed, you have to what extent the sbu is ready to investigate or be involved in the investigation, to help investigate denys kireyev, whose murder he declared kyrylo budanov, in particular, in our interview, eh, what did the kid say about it? unfortunately , the meeting was opened, eh, so it turned out that, eh

, we couldn't, let's say, hold this meeting in closed mode in secret. we have a special for this the premises and this was done by the leadership of the committee specifically so that it was not possible to ask such secret questions, we spoke in the open mode, and therefore such questions really cannot be asked in the open mode, this is a violation of the secrecy regime. i asked a few questions superficially there. seriously, that's why i think that we will still have the opportunity to ask these questions. at times, no one asked vasyl the kid about his husband, whether he had ties with oleg tatarov , no one asked. and you are interested yourself. well , then we know that. we discussed it in detail at the committee.

said vasyl the kid before his appointment well, at home, after all, the service to monitor is the head of the security service of ukraine, a key position during the war. well, not only during the war, but i have a few more questions. according to the situation at the front , everyone is preparing for another wave what kind of attack will it be, where will it be for sure, there are various statements, by the way, british intelligence reported today that the russian forces will not be able to achieve any specific successes, because there is a lack of ammunition and also qualified units, from your point of view, what will happen in the end or i understand you, and during what period can this announced offensive take place, the next one , in fact, the situation is difficult now, despite the fact that no matter who says it, the enemy continues to advance, continues to press the ring on bakhmut and it is very difficult. i think that in some time it will be possible for our troops , well, let the command decide how they will solve this issue, because i know that some

expensive main ones are already under fire and the command will decide how to proceed here but according to my information , there is still pressure against them, and yes, there are problems with gymnasts as ammunition in some directions , it is not military personnel . to provide, but there is something that will happen, how it will develop further, not without taking such, let's say, operational strategic directions , well, they are preparing for an offensive against them , he will be able to show it or not, but remind us that the enemy is resourceful and they have more resources than ours and this the fact is especially in terms of technology, even if it is somewhere older, but the amount of ammunition and equipment they outnumber us, and even under the conditions , i think that this equipment, which will reach us , the enemy will be resourceful, should we not forget that because exactly where will

the enemy hit him not yet grouped drums forces, we will see, the intelligence will show. i think it will be donbas donbas and it will be somewhat distracting, maybe the south or not . is it in order to distract some part of the population ? weather because it will be very difficult for them in such weather. if even if they make a decision on the roads, they will not go as fast as they did last year. on february 24, they hoped for something else, so we will watch. that is, you do you think that as it was on february 24 of last year, there will be no landing of troops and a breach of the borders? by the way , you just mentioned not only the south and the north. chernihiv region, the enemy

can do if they are seriously preparing an offensive operation for them, they need to do several. i think that they will make several directions so that we do not understand where the main attack will be and there already it is clear that they will want to develop success, so the question is, we have to be on all fronts now . it is important that our intelligence works very well and that our intelligence can detect it in time so that we can manage to maneuver our troops and say find out where the enemy is preparing the main strike and it is important in the war to know exactly where the main strike is being prepared against them, but just yesterday the publication of the nicer times referred to the adviser of the ukrainian army and they said that ukrainian intelligence knows for sure i understood that

intelligence that the invasion of the next invasion can take place within 10 days, well, i'm saying that in the next few days, in the next few days, i won't say when we will deserve the head of intelligence and the development of all three, and i think that tomorrow , the day after tomorrow, i will be able to give you more what is known to our intelligence , what can be said. what is not included in the secret plans, in particular, the committee , we communicate with them. the situation, namely, at this moment, the examiner knows a lot, but the question is that this is not the end and there is no such thing as the groups are already standing and tomorrow they will enter into battle exactly on the main directions, they can still regroup, they can still prepare reserves at any moment during the movement of our servicemen, they can change the direction of the attack in order to react to this , we can impose an initiative somewhere, so we will

listen to intelligence and then draw conclusions very roman kostenko, people's deputy of ukraine, faction, voice, secretary to the committee on national security, defense and intelligence, we talked about the situation at the front and we talked about the personnel appointment in the security service of ukraine, thank you very much . well, now about the situation at the front, in the situation around the bakhmut of donetsk region , any scenarios are not excluded, the head of donetsk region stated this pavlo kyrylenko , answering our question whether the occupation of the city is possible, but the ukrainian forces said , he is currently doing everything to prevent the city from being captured by russian troops, the correspondent of the channel zwistove vremya, our colleague borys sachalko

spent a few hours today with the military in bakhmut, his report from the city on the front line, we will show it later. glory to ukraine , bakhmut is a city in which war spares neither military nor civilian puppies. three hours before that, yuriy had no idea that he would save a human life, he is a soldier of the 93rd of the kholodny yar brigade, bakhmut has been driving carefully through the streets recently, he has been shooting through several streets with the enemy with direct aim, he works very quickly, he shoots and behind the trees , and a bomb flies straight from there. хорошее качество видео the point is that the battle is so intense and powerful that the ukrainian military agreed to

hold only one mine without an operator, and now we are in the city watching how the ukrainian minefield battery repels the assault of the russian military in bosnia and herzegovina, the mines are also foreign ukrainian soldiers explain that during the day, the enemy only on their part of the front lost an entire company of soldiers but continued the offensive simply. ten personnel, maybe more , the enemy inflicted fire damage in principle as in our previous region, so in the city, you can hear for yourself that the approach to the city is not far from us, the advantage of the forces is alive, those tanks are holding on if we do it from one position , the mortar does not work for a long time over the city

, russian drones are circling the enemy, says yura , he has established himself in the private sector on the outskirts cities, if they have already jumped into some private sector or into a building , it is already very difficult to knock them out of there, they are already running up , accumulating in different ways, but now there are already city battles, they are already there in the private sector so there are no local residents on the streets at all, they say that the russian military opens fire on any target that moves , it is dangerous to remain uncovered for at least a minute exit exit exit top what to fire back to yuri they are bringing new shells it is a 120 caliber foreign one with changes yuri was brought more something very important is good well, i will remind you that in the usa they believe that ukraine will have to move away from bahmut and wait for tanks, this was reported this

week by bloomberg, according to an unnamed official, the usa advises the ukrainians the forces, so to speak, are dragging their feet until tanks and other weapons arrive, and in order to gather resources for the spring offensive in the south of ukraine, they may also have to withdraw their troops from the city of bakhmut , american and european government officials said, and their words are referred to by bloomberg. well, and that we have another report from the front-line city of bakhmut, in particular the story of the military man and petr voloshchenko and with the call sign stone a-and on the eve of the new year, he took a family out of bakhmut, in particular a seven-year-old boy for whom he later became a godfather, we will show you this story, now we got to know each other, we went around the houses looking for people to help, what are the problems, who is sick, who to leave, and

near the same house. we went out and saw people, uh, i saw this boy, we got to know each other like that, and he was so brave, the boy turned out, his mouth was all in his hands, look at this, so he was helping his parents chop wood, and he and we went, he says, let's go, i 'll show you something, and he led me eh- and before that right before that, i literally don’t know how many hours the ammunition didn’t hit, i won’t say what uh right into the house, it’s under your right hand, but look at the new one, there’s a hole, we can all see such a good guy, what’s your name, and after that, he and i got married and i made a promise

what am i, stas? how can i take you from here? i don't think you belong here. you just understand. you see where the border actually is . dana is in the front. well, i know that we have stasik . do you agree? here i will live normally, somehow i agree, for that, a whole military operation was carried out, i developed it and told all about it , we planned it together with my brothers and we already took out a civilian bus in two military jeeps, in which the whole family of four was already sitting people and the cat marquis, and we were already taking them out in the direction of konstantinovka in this way, when

we had already left for konstantinovka , we missed this way. we correspond with call my parents and with him he will give everything to me smileys were coming i interceded i missed you i want you to be alive and healthy and we loved you very much you will get better you are my happiness oh well what are you happy look we were baptized in the church today with a stasik i stand

as the baptized they will be a father and in the future, now he has like an angel a guardian, the truth is on his belt for everyone, it was still possible, calm down, calm down, this is not audible, the husband exploded, he got a job well, i am waiting for martha, too , she promised, well, we will monitor the situation around the city of bakhmut, radio correspondents svoboda they work there and if you want to support our work, like this broadcast so more people will learn about e-e svoboda life well, first of all, i also encourage you to subscribe to the pages of radio svoboda in social networks instagram telegram facebook twitter and two channels on youtube radio svoboda and radio freedom ukraine svoboda life