[000:00:00;00] the beginning of the war kharkiv is really a ukrainian city of more than eight and a half thousand square kilometers recaptured, 2,000 kilometers less than planned, about 400 settlements liberated, almost 150,000 local civilians saved , the kharkiv offensive operation as a military masterpiece of a strategic level, we pass it on to the headquarters for consideration it is an honor to thank all of you for liberating our country from the enemy. the film third land kharkiv counteroffensive joins the community with ukrainian

look at the world, become a sponsor of the espresso youtube channel. and this is access to exclusive content, personal thanks, fixed comments, special icons and the possibility of personal communication with the espresso team , click sponsor and become part of the community with a ukrainian point of view. every week, saturday's political club helps to understand the processes taking place in ukraine and the world. vitaly portnikov host espresso and invite fact-based experts give their assessment and forecast the development of events want to understand how our today will affect our tomorrow see saturday political club that saturdays on espresso greetings is freedom life my name is vlasta lazur recruited officials security forces and networks of special agents all these components russia used against ukraine in preparation for a full-scale invasion in february 2022 says the report of the royal

joint institute for defense studies what went wrong why the recruited agents did not live up to the kremlin's hopes and how many russian agents still remain in ukraine and continue to work for russia, let's talk about the commission in the ministries today again they were not allowed to enter the premises of the kyiv-pechersk lavra for the purpose of accepting the transfer of property , believers began to quarrel with the commission, and the holy fathers used buckets of water against journalists and activists . month will head the un security council, this causes considerable indignation among ukrainian diplomats, and actually how does it turn out that a country waging a full-scale war will head the security council whose mission is precisely that

there was no war about it today svoboda life exactly one year ago the russian occupiers left bucha the city lived under occupation for 33 days during this time 1,400 people died in the bucha district, including 37 children more than 100,175 people were found in mass graves and torture chambers during this time during the occupation, the russian military committed more than nine thousand war crimes in the bucha district of the kyiv region , prosecutor general andriy kostin announced this today - president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi arrived in bucha today along with the leaders of slovakia, croatia, slovenia, moldova, who were visiting ukraine, my colleague yulia zhukova followed the current events in bucha , a correspondent of the tv channel przystvo vremya. on such a well-known street, the station photo of this street must have traveled around the world when, after the liberation of buchi

, they saw literally on this street russian equipment that was crushed in the first the days of a full-scale war by the ukrainian military, and you can see how this street looks now, the road surface, the sidewalk has been completely restored, and the most important thing is that you can see new houses in this place, literally in december, i was there. there was nothing yet, and now the facade is almost ready . work and they promise that sometime at the end of spring, people will be able to go there, there was supposed to be a promotion today. light a candle, but here it is. as you can see, due to the weather , the plans have changed a little, so far there are no people, but why there are still isolated cases when people walk along this street with umbrellas and candles, but so far there are no such mass events, but in the afternoon

the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi volodymyr zelenskyi and other leaders of the countries of slovakia, croatia , slovenia and moldova came here in the afternoon and honored the memory dead ukrainians during the russian occupation, these leaders arrived at the church of the holy apostle andrew the first-called, it was there that the place of the largest mass burial of dead ukrainians was found, and the leaders there during this ceremony, 77 names of people who would have been buried in this mass grave, as well as 11 military personnel who died in battles, were heard. headmaster volodymyr zelenskyi spoke during this speech about what exactly the tragedy in bucha revealed to the world eyes, and the president of moldova has sandu said that the russian military should

be punished for this, what the politicians were saying today , let's listen on the streets of buch, the world saw russian evil, evil without disguise , saw that the kremlin will bring the truth to other streets of ukraine, other streets of europe and the world. it is not easy to be in this place. it's one thing to hear about what happened here, it's another thing to be here and feel it, and when you feel it here, you think about many things, about

who my people are and about what. that's right, what no, we saw a lot of people today on the alley of heroes of the local residents, this alley was opened today and it is dedicated to the defenders of eh buchi and to the question eh, what do the local residents feel on this day, a year after the liberation of buchi they said only one pain eh pain because many of them have died dead relatives, someone went to fight at the front, let's listen to what they said today, pain, sadness, mourning, anger, hatred of the enemy , i don't know what to feel here, displacement, feelings because it's a war, yesterday you were a student, today you're already in the war of an acquaintance i just saw

the family, my father died the son died after 5 months, the father died . well, what can they do? thank you very much, the big fruit will take me too . they arrived in may, at the beginning of may , when i already came and saw the destroyed houses, cars. they say to build and buy, but it is human life, how many innocents have died. thank you to our boys for protecting us, if they did not know how, it is not known what would happen to us now, well, in principle, how did you hear such thoughts today in bucha, i will only remind you that according to the data of the kyiv regional prosecutor's office, only on 637 bodies were found on the territory of this city, most

of which were tortured by the russian military yulia thank you very much and on the territory of the entire buchan district i will also remind you once again 1,400 dead, this is the official statistic so far thank you very yuliya zhukova live from buche well, for the anniversary of the liberation of kyiv oblast, ukrposhta created a new series of stamps, we will not forget, we will not forgive buch irpin gostomel, photos of radio liberty photojournalist serhii nuzhnenka were used to depict irpen and buch on one of the stamps, the image that flew around literally all the world agencies, the column was completely destroyed of russian armored vehicles blocked the entire street of the city with scrap metal . this was the first russian column that entered buchi and was destroyed by the defenders of ukraine . photojournalists and soldiers of radio liberty serhii nuzhnenko took this photo on march 1, 2022. and two days later, the russian army occupied bucha and began

to commit war crimes there. well, to illustrate another stamp for the anniversary of the liberation of kyiv oblast , ukrposhta took another photo. serhii nuzhnenko was already stopping. it was taken on march 7. on the 22nd of the year, in this photo, civilian women and children cross the irpin river on the wreckage of a blown-up bridge, fleeing from the russian invaders. on this day, the ministry of defense of russia announced a cease -fire to allegedly ensure humanitarian corridors for the evacuation of the civilian population, although a day earlier, on march 6, russian troops opened fire on people who tried to cross irpin, and at least three people died, including two children. well, our colleague, radio svoboda correspondent taras levchenko, made a film up to a year after the deoccupation of irpin, where he collected exclusive footage and the stories of the battles for the city and life in the occupation made public for the first time, as it turned out during the work on the film, a third of

the city's residents had to flee from the russians for the second time the military, because according to the mayor’s office in the city, which had a population of one hundred thousand people, almost 30,000 were immigrants from donbas , a film called if irpin had not survived , there would be no capital, you can watch a fragment of this film on radio svoboda’s youtube channel, we will show you right now

in you have half an hour, tell me where i will take you all with me, keep it up, let's go out, go out, wait 5 minutes, shelling this way, let's go out, they all go out, chased , chased, take, take, yes, we'll take them all down there, hold on , guys, someone caught up with us 6 march we heard two explosions, my daughter herself, i don't know. it must be some kind of maternal instinct. i grabbed the little one and jumped out the door, and my husband started pushing me out. i came out next, and i don't remember anything else. the first daughter answered, i found her quickly, she said that with with her, after the little one, everything is fine, navkometsky was walking, just looking for the door

. and on the threshold, i found my husband , he was snoring a lot, he was not talking , there was some kind of iron coil wrapped around him. i tried to do something, it was very difficult, he was trapped because i i couldn't get him out, nothing, er, i called him, he answered, and then i heard my son, mom grabs little yanko and run away from the retreat, mom, don't come here, i shouted to him that , son, i will bring help now, be patient, be with dad, i will come back to you now, i found again, my daughter is in the dark, and she says, mom , there is no light there, there is no wall, there is no house, we will fall and we are barefoot. we came down from the 15th floor , little by little, as soon as we got outside, i immediately called people, gave my daughter

and grandson, said that i needed help and i was looking for some sheets, something. what i might need, and an old grandfather also went with me. he is a doctor. he has a daughter. he is also a doctor . when they came, the husband did not answer anything. open stomach he asked my mother to kill me, we hurt them, i can't, that woman and i don't even know their names because we were strangers before that, she gave him an injection on the uh-uh tried to apply tourniquets because his legs and arms were all broken so when she did everything she could. she left. i asked her to leave

me with my boy. you are very scary when a child dies . putin curses. i'm sorry. i was very afraid that the boys would remain nameless . how could she accept with tape? surname, name, year of birth, where is the address from, and i had these are probably the most important at that moment, so i said goodbye to them, now it's like deja vu for me . until the age of 14, i lived in the city of donetsk , i had a happy family there, we were able to work , we bought an apartment and lived there happily, but in in the 14th year, during the battles from the airport, we realized that this was no longer a joke, trouble came very close, it was dangerous, and we went there recruited officials, law enforcement officers, networks

of special agents, secret psychological operations , sabotage, intelligence activities , counterintelligence, espionage meetings at resorts , recruitment of nuclear forces, churches and sports clubs, all these components hybrid military actions that russia engaged in against ukraine this is stated in the report of the royal joint institute for defense research, which was made public the day before , the researchers claim that russia has created and used various means of influence in ukraine and in other countries long before the start of the full-scale invasion, although it did not give the results that the kremlin hoped for. many special agents and spy networks that have not yet been exposed continue to operate and provide russia with a constant flow of intelligence. researchers call moscow's internal agency a threat that, in their opinion , limited ukraine's ability to prepare the country

for war in 2022. the investigation of viktor medvedchuk, the former deputy of viktor cherny illikiv, who, in particular, previously pretended to be a russophobe and a radical ukrainian nationalist , while researchers claim that his task was to confirm the version about ukrainian nazism , according to the information of researchers of the institute of defense research of the fsb of russia, which took an active part in planning and carrying out the invasion, received an order to prepare plans for the occupation of ukraine in july 2021, for this they used networks of agents that had been created for decades and considerable resources of moscow were used to obtain instructions. the agents met with russian curators in the fall of 2021 during short vacations in the resorts of turkey, cyprus, egypt . the authors of the report note that the special services of russia , where possible, preferred the recruitment of high-ranking high-ranking agents on the ground directly in ukraine , so that in the future themselves developed and managed

their own networks, this method is recommended in the soviet secret manuals and in the instructions of the kdb, the study says that if these people occupy a political, economic or bureaucratic position in the target country, then they can snatch people not as russian agents, but as their personal clients, who in this way begin to unwittingly promote russian interests, this is one of the forms of recruitment under a foreign flag, when the agent can believe that he is being given a task on behalf of of an official of his own country, even if in the end the task was invented in moscow. agents who held high positions in the ukrainian government had their own large apparatus that was used to solve a wide variety of tasks, from the movement of cash to the organization of conspiratorial

apartments , the study says. and although this device was not of great value for invasion plans, it turned out to be extremely important for russia's actions in the occupied territories. carried out subversive activities against ukraine, were unable to fully contribute to the planned lightning occupation of ukraine, fatal for russia , two factors played a role in this russian agents overestimated their influence on the ukrainian state and the russian special services were ordered to facilitate the occupation according to the timeline and not according to the assessment of real events, while the russian army was practically unprepared and unsuitable for a long military conflict, how many russian agents still remain in ukraine, what can they count on and what is the difficulty of exposing all or at least most of them, this is what we will talk about right now valery kondratyuk head of the foreign intelligence service of ukraine 20 and 21 years

head of gur ministry of defense 15-16 years chief 14-15 year old sbu counterintelligence department joins our broadcast, my greetings to you. good evening and glory to ukraine . glory to the heroes. you were called that. what positions did you hold? i think it is convincing enough for our viewers that you have expertise in particular, and this report is worth commenting on because really very interesting information, and actually i would like to cite one of the quotes from this report, the content of the excerpt, it is specifically about the fact that despite the thousands of arrested russian agents and traitors who were created and recruited by the fsb, they are still present there is some of them in ukraine and they also provide russia with a constant flow of intelligence information . here, tell me what or from whom the discovery and exposure of all these agents depends and to what extent it is currently a difficult and overwhelming task for the state

. the main task of the security service of ukraine is the counterintelligence department and the reform which today is already planned and possibly already implemented, although there is no public discussion of this, it is precisely the strengthening of the effectiveness of countering the main russian special services, in turn, i want to remind you that in the 20th year, the foreign intelligence service was prepared precisely to inform society and to strengthen the resilience of society against russian methods and efforts formed in the formation of our state, a white paper was prepared by the foreign intelligence service, where we gave such an analysis of the external threats that today appear for ukraine and according to the results of nationalization , there was an increase, it is clear that in all directions, it is military and political, religious, and there are all directions, there are economic ones, and the rest . that is, all threats come from russia and precisely for

of these to implement this of these things russia, indeed, the russian special services created an agent network for a long time and built up their special services specifically for work in the ukrainian direction, and it was not only the foreign intelligence service, but it was also the main task of the fsb the fsb service that was responsible for the ukrainian direction and specifically the preparation for the invasion in relation to your question whether all the agents were exposed . society was politically divided and it was very easy for the russians at that time for the russian special services to recruit, let's say, local representatives of yanukovych's elite party of regions, but in the 22nd year, even those pro-russian forces who spoke from pro-russian positions were transported around, let's say, ukraine around our independence and did not get in touch with the russian special services, but this does not mean that the russians will not resort to methods of blackmail

, threats and the like in order for these people to return to their lavs again and this very thing the work that was done with them, let's say yes, no, well, it was unsuccessfully built, it would have forced them to turn to looting, let's say, those representatives of the bottom of ukrainian society . that is, it could have been officials of the second echelon there, some politicians or marginals . that is, this is what is being done today on the occupied territories, returning to the effectiveness of the security service in me, what kind of person am i, you know how she says, is it possible to add anything to perfect, because if it is possible, then it has already been perfected, and there is really a lot more that can be added and conclusions to be analyzed. so for example, we all know that at the beginning of the invasion, a large number of agents on the ground were involved in setting up beacons for targeting, including telemock-up strikes and air strikes and the rest, and the question is how many of them were exposed

on the eve of the war. and when you all, all the intelligence services there claimed that russia was preparing a we were there , there were still doubts or hopes that it would not be possible to stop or provide opportunities to implement this scenario through political and diplomatic steps. the preparation was carried out as part of the exercises, 150,000 troops were deployed around ukraine. you know this and they were expecting this order themselves, so i want to say that not a single such agent, although they were routed from the occupied territories , they were there for maybe more than a year to the exact location strategic objects of ukraine, military objects of critical infrastructure, who settled there under the guise of immigrants, received some work there and observed, and their task was to set up these beacons there for guidance blows and at least one would then be without involvement - well, detained, it was additional evidence that such things that today there really experience

warned, this is already, accordingly, already proof that it is already pressing that russia is really plotting a full-scale invasion of ukraine now regarding and the rest of the things, and the agents are cut down not only because , you know, there is an approach to roughing up in everyone - they are still people, and this one requires an individual approach, which is enough for a logical typhoid, which as there are representatives of pro-russian forces, and for the rest, it is possible finances or some individual, someone is offended by some manager or something else on the part of the state regarding him. he thinks there are unfair things, that is, you know, all this, as they say, has an individual character. but in order to undermine everything, we need to conclude that the state has these capabilities russia or many ukrainian citizens, first of all , today we need to consider the level of responsibility for this category, that is , article 111 of the criminal code, high

treason, and in my opinion, the highest, let's say yes, there today. and the punishment may be life imprisonment without a right in the city. this will give our counterintelligence agents the opportunity to recruit people because no one wants to go to prison forever without a right in the city, but it is also made to the russians for 3,000 uah or 5,000 dollars. to recruit someone there because people will feel that this is not the price of their whole life, which they may lose there as a result. do you have any idea how many such russian agents can continue to operate on the territory of ukraine and i now i will not talk about those who displayed beacons there or counted how many tanks passed through their village or city, i will now talk about people of the highest level who can hold high-ranking positions and sit in offices of power.

and the fact that they were scared because today they really have already become publicists of putin's bloody regime and they are also visible today for the deaths of many, many people of ukraine , i.e. those newsworthy children of women who are there today there are these civilians. they are there, and murders also took place in the occupied territories, and it is precisely because of this, let's say, the fear of taxis. they may be that some of them are now not contacting the russian representatives, but most of them still remain because they are under threat exposure is under threat precisely because of this blackmail. and today i am taking the opportunity to appeal to all those people who were involved in this activity , which is also called late, never too late , and the security of the whistleblower there with their let's put it this way. why, because tomorrow will be too late. tomorrow they will come to you and it will really be a completely different

responsibility. i'm sorry. once again , i want to clarify with you. to say that it was a mistake to believe that the deployment of russian agents took place only during the time of yanukovych and not because the kharkiv agreements regarding crimea were signed there, in general, the systemic work of russia was there, they were conducted there in general, but once the soviet power over the soviet union collapsed and in fact, from that time, all this time there were such people on the territory of ukraine, more of such a low operational level , it really intensified when putin already understood in 2004 that after our maidan , ukraine had announced euro-atlantic integration there, and today it will be the main strategy of our strategy there there m-m of foreign policy, and it was then that russia began to prepare for the invasion, it was then that operational tactical agencies were already deployed on the territory

of ukraine, which already provided on the ground such as without fish that appeared directly horlivtsi and others, but the agricultural agency really remains in office today, so i’ll just give an example that even the united states has already hinted to ukraine that yes , derkach, a former people’s deputy of ukraine , for a long time, for ten years , was a russian agent. yes it belonged to the russian network of the game there, and everything was clear there during its creation. as soon as it was exposed, that is, even the american ones there, as they say, the authorities already hinted at such things or showed that pay attention, but at that time derkach himself, let's say so, was in the territory of ukraine without any problems, even in addition, he also promoted his people there, and what you just mentioned there, he used the reports of people , including appointing them to leading positions

in the security services in those regions that were, let's say, key defense capabilities of our state, i am referring to the kherson region and the appointment of general kulinichen to this position , which lasted for a long time, because the assistant of the derkach precisely in the energy plant, well, they had already appointed nothing literally not so long ago in fact, it seems to be the 19th or 20th year, and here i have my own question, in the same report of the royal joint institute for defense research, it was also said that moscow's agency is currently an internal threat , which, according to researchers, has also limited ukraine's ability to prepare the country for war already in the 22nd year because you said that the 14th year and the 22nd year are two big differences in the 14th year society was politically divided in the 22nd year it was more consolidated but here i would like to ask you and how would you then rate the work on the detection of russian agents right