[000:00:00;00] who turned it into something that the whole world admires, the bulga, bulgarian sloppiness, it is interesting. well, i apologize to all the viewers, now i called the russians with journalists. well, they are not journalists, they are propagandists, leading to this fake. well, we continue the third fake. the kremlin mass media declare that in kyiv is going to kyiv is going to seize or destroy nuclear power plants and not just any and those located on the territory of the russian federation in confirmation of such an announcement they cite the words of the former first deputy commander of the special operations forces of the armed forces of ukraine, serhiy kryvonos, what he said on the air of one of the ukrainian tv channels, what did our military actually say, let's see more kyiv militants in response to the seizure of the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant by russian troops may carry out attacks on nuclear facilities

in russia writes the regnum agency, citing ukrainian reserve major general serhiy kryvonos. they also have nuclear power plants, and at some points it is easier not to liberate the zaporizhia npp, but to seize it or put it out of order nuclear plant on the territory of russia, to create this fake propagandists used an interview of the former first deputy commander of the special operations forces of the armed forces of ukraine serhiy kryvonos to the ukrainian fifth channel, among other things, the presenter asked about the zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, is it possible , for example, in the special operations forces, do you know all about it could they theoretically free such an object? is it too dangerous for the category? this is a theory . the answering expert suggested that if the question is raised and the correct task is set.

and the risks will be properly weighed, then we can also realize that their nuclear power plants are hidden, because in the war, if you blackmail us, then we will not be gentlemen to turn the cheek at the same time as a crooked official and gave an interview as a military expert, but with such fakes, the russians are trying to show that they are not they and we are the aggressor who threatens world security ruslan, did i understand correctly that this fake is being spread in order to somehow increase the fear among russians that there will be explosions at nuclear power plants on their territory and this it's scary, then why increase this fear? well, of course, they want to scare the russians themselves, and even more, it seems to me, they want to scare the europeans, and because in europe they are very afraid that, god forbid , some kind of nuclear disaster will not happen on the territory of russia or ukraine and that the europeans will not suffer from it that is why russian propaganda constantly thinks of some fakes on the nuclear theme or

related to the zaporizhzhia plant or related to some nuclear plants in russia and in this case they took a separate opinion of the ukrainian military, but a military man who is no longer in the service, and they were introduced that this is apparently the official opinion and position of the ukrainian leadership, this is such a very popular approach, and again, it is aimed at scaring both russians and europeans, well, a popular approach, but to me it seems that they already have some problems with imagination, because they already have topics that somehow, uh, do not appear at first zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, now nuclear power plants on the territory of the russian federation well , they can't find something new well, so that they are not there

they didn't talk, didn't write, didn't show, no matter how often they experienced these fakes, we have a stopfake of our partners , which we discredit all these fakes. thank you, ruslan, and your employees. they will be about ukraine, this terrorist attack , to which the leadership of russia must respond with all the means available to it, this is how the state duma of russia commented on the attack by two drones on the moscow kremlin at the moment of today the attack on the residence of the president of the aggressor country was recorded by surveillance cameras in the kremlin, they called this a planned attempt to assassinate putin, the russian media reported that the wreckage of one drone fell into the bathroom of the senate palace, but the office of the president of ukraine said that they have no idea who is behind all this stood wanted to catch him at his word, but it did not work out, a journalist from the russian propaganda agency ria novosti asked the speaker of the house of representatives

of the us congress, republican kevin mccarthy , to comment on why he does not support further providing aid to ukraine it happened during the visit of mr. speaker to israel, the journalist's answer is not a journalist, i didn't hear the answer i wanted to hear, let's listen to kevin mccarthy in direct speech because of sound problems. i didn't hear well. he said that i don't support providing aid to ukraine. for providing support to kyiv and at the same time do not support what your country is doing in ukraine, i also cannot support the killing of children, i am convinced that you should withdraw your troops from there because it is wrong and we we continue to provide ukraine with our support because the whole world sees that there is pressure on the russian economy, for this a new package of sanctions is being developed

, the key purpose of which is to close the loopholes in the previously introduced restrictions, that is , ukraine's allies intend to make it impossible to bypass the currently imposed restrictions. will be announced during the meeting of the leaders of the j7 countries in japan, among the proposals is a ban on the transit of goods through russia , personal sanctions against about 40 people are also being discussed. well and see more international news in our digest ukrainians are doing incredible this statement was made by the president of the united states of america, joe boyden. he believes that the world is currently at a turning point, and ukrainian military personnel are doing an amazing job. the head of the white house said this at a reception with american military leaders. his press service also joe biden noted that all the decisions taken now will determine what the world will look like in the next decades

of freezing the assets of the center of the bank of russia the federation needs to support ukraine this was stated by belgian prime minister oleksandr decro on thursday in the hague at a joint press conference with volodymyr zelenskyi and dutch prime minister mark rutte. the belgian prime minister also announced the preparation of a new package of military aid for our country. i also emphasize that as part of his visit to the netherlands, volodymyr zelenskyi also visited the senate of the states general in the hague and spoke before the parliamentarians. no aggressor will now think that he can burn values of our europe in the fire of russia's aggression, it seemed that europe was weak and now russia is trying to figure out how to hide its own weakness, how grateful you are that the hague, a place associated with international law in the world, becomes a real center of justice, becomes a center of justice, the name of all those who suffered from

aggression and other international of crimes, this is the year of our cooperation with you. the vatican is participating in a secret peacekeeping mission that will try to end the war in ukraine , pope francis said on his return from the pontiff also told hungary that he discussed the war in ukraine with hungarian prime minister viktor orbán, and also with representatives of the russian orthodox church , in particular with metropolitan hilarion . peace is always achieved by opening channels, you can never achieve peace by closing them i call everyone to open relations channels of friendship and it is not easy the same as i say now i discussed with the prime minister of hungary viktor orbán and the same i say

there are shots everywhere, the government of great britain must make more efforts so that ukraine can become a member of nato as soon as possible , ex-prime minister and good friend of ukraine boris johnson said about this during hearings in the country's parliament, and therefore at the summit of the north atlantic alliance in vilnius, it is necessary to provide ukraine with more guarantees regarding the accession to the opinion of the ex-head of the british government, the cabinet of ministers of the current prime minister of great britain, rishi sunaka , should contribute to ukraine becoming a member of nato as soon as possible. because it will be good not only for kyiv, but also for stability and peace in the whole of europe. on wednesday, the parliament of hungary extended the state of emergency in ukraine for the draft law of the ministry of justice. the majority of elected representatives voted for the state of emergency. the state of emergency was introduced because of the russian war in ukraine in may. last year, hungarian lawmakers believe that in this way they are trying to prevent a possible humanitarian disaster that may occur in the country, and they are also making maximum efforts to

overcome the economic consequences with which the opinion of parliamentarians is now faced hungary will be under a state of emergency until november 25 they are looking for an excuse the russian authorities are likely to use a staged drone attack on cream to cancel the parades in honor of may 9 this is what the experts of the american institute for the study of war think, in their opinion the kremlin is interested in not letting this happen to hide the degradation of the army, because most of the advanced russian military equipment is either used in the war in ukraine or was destroyed during the 14 months of the war in addition, in moscow they fear that the celebrations may cause a negative reaction of russians to the large number of casualties in ukraine and i continue the tragedy in bolgrad in one of the schools of the capital of serbia, a 14-year-old boy committed a shooting, at least eight children and a security guard were killed, six more children and a teacher were wounded in various ways degree of severity, later

the juvenile criminal was detained and two pistols were seized from him, according to the information of the law enforcement officers, the boy planned this crime for a month and even prepared for it a detailed plan of the school and compiled a list of the victims of the father of a minor criminal has already been arrested, he is accused of violating the rules of possession of a registered firearm and at the end , the russian embassy held its sabbath called the immortal regiment in the capital of the democratic republic of the congo to understand that this is central africa. svitova's propaganda video also shows that local residents were involved in the incomes, and all the action took place during the soviet war songs from the time of the second world war well, that's all for today in the column with international news, next week there will be more as there is more and in sports like ukraine ukrainian

version russia is going home the president of the czech republic peter pavel called on russia to withdraw its troops from ukraine he left a corresponding inscription on tank of the armed forces of ukraine during a visit to our country and published a photo of himself on twitter, he also expressed his support for the ukrainian defenders, we are with you, you will take revenge on the oppressed, you will defend freedom written by the czech president, general pavel was the head of the nato military committee, the second most important position in the alliance after the secretary general. well, it was spotlight ukraine, the ukrainian version. thank you for being with us. don't forget to like our videos, share them and also subscribe to our youtube channels. spotlight ukraine and espresso tv, my name is yuriy fizar. have a good morning and night, depending on

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the espresso tv channel , watch this week in the program judicial control with tetyana shustrova competition without competition why the government is increasingly politicizing the procedure for selecting judges of the constitutional court the risk of political influence ukraine's prospects for an official position are not diminishing i congratulate the european union and the venice commission. you are watching the judicial control and i am tatyana shustrova. last year in june, ukraine received the status of a candidate for membership in the european union, subject to the fulfillment of seven steps , the key of which is the implementation of judicial reform and the reform of the constitutional court, and if the judicial reform slowly but surely steps forward the reform of the constitutional court has once again

been threatened by another draft law, it is planned to increasingly politicize the selection of judges, and therefore not to disrupt the reform, but to roll back far back in the development of the judicial system as a whole, who and why is trying to prevent changes, we will tell you today, but first, to the news, one of the most odious judges in the country, the deputy head of the scandalous district administrative court of kyiv, yevhen ablov , has retired with honor, yes, the same ablov, the owner of the golden porsche and the one who is being tried in the case about attempts to seize state power and interfere in the work of judicial bodies, now wants to receive life support from the state at the expense of

taxpayers' funds, about uah 100,000 per let us remind you last month that the verkhovna rada liquidated the most scandalous court of the country, the district administrative court of kyiv. it is known for its high-profile decisions, including the cancellation of the new ukrainian orthography , the cancellation of the decision of the kyiv council on renaming moskovsky prospect to bandera prospect, the recognition of the illegal nationalization of privatbank, the suspension of the process of renaming the uoc of the moscow patriarchate, in particular, judge yevhen ablov decided directly the decision to disperse the protest on the maidan to install a new year's tree the european union and ukraine will recognize and enforce each other's court decisions. the eu has taken a step toward establishing contractual relations with ukraine within the framework of the hague convention on the recognition and enforcement of foreign court decisions in civil or commercial

matters. thus, the member states of the european union believe that there are no fundamental obstacles which could prevent the eu from entering into contractual relations with ukraine, this decision will make the convention an important tool for promoting international trade, head of obolonskyi the district court of kyiv became olena zhezhera, this judge had a loud scandal. of his colleague in the court, vladyslav nine, this is a very simple

procedure that took elena zhezhera six months , the judge postponed the case more than 10 times due to employment and vacations twice more on the grounds artificial statements about from the lawyer of the defendant in the case of the ex-prosecutor. on march 26, 2020, the victim mykola pasichnyk died at the age of 78 because of such a long trial. he did not wait for a fair trial. the accused ex-prosecutor's judge did not receive a serious punishment for alleged complicity and now she headed the court to 12 years of imprisonment

another occupation judge was sentenced in absentia crimea galina pereversiva was found guilty of high treason in 2014, the judge went to the service of the occupiers, assuming the position of a judge in the illegally established yalta city court of the republic of crimea. perversiva helped representatives of the aggressor country to organize the judicial system of ukraine in crimea according to russian legislation and also passed illegal decisions designed to suppress opposition to the occupation of the peninsula by citizens of ukraine was previously sentenced to 12 years of imprisonment by the crimean judge denys didenko involved in the prosecution of the deputy chairman of the mejlis of the crimean tatar people, akhtem chiegoz in 2020, the constitutional court of ukraine caused a real constitutional crisis, issued a decision to

close the public register of declarations and abolish criminal liability for failure to submit or falsify electronic declarations, this caused massive civil society protests, the president removed the head of the court oleksandr tupytskyi from the post of judge and soon released the problem - it did not solve according to the conclusions of the venetian commission to the advisory body of the council of europe on constitutional law, such a crisis situation became possible due to the excessive political dependence of the judges of the constitutional court and the lack of transparency of their appointment, therefore the commission called for the implementation of a real competitive process for the selection of the servants of themis as soon as possible . currently, the big seven judges of the constitutional court of ukraine

are appointed by the president, parliament and the congress of judges. although the constitution specifies that the selection takes place on a competitive basis, the procedure which is currently prescribed in the law does not provide for a real competition, each subject of appointment formally conducts its own competitions , which do not in any way ensure the verification of candidates for compliance with the requirements of the constitution, so the risk of political influence does not decrease . the chairman of the board of the de jure foundation, mykhailo zhernakov, told our journalists that and the ukrainian government is political is going to take over the constitutional court politically and b that this is done contrary to our european integration hopes contrary to the position of our

key partners from whom it depends of our european integration, ai, deliver weapons, and financial assistance at the end of last year. the verkhovna rada passed a law on changing the selection process of judges of the constitutional court of ukraine. the law creates a group of experts for the council. it will consist of six members, one each from the verkhovna rada of the president and one from the congress of judges of ukraine. a person from the venice commission and two persons delegated by international organizations that provide assistance to ukraine in reforms in the sphere of the rule of law. by the way , the group must analyze each candidate for compliance with the criteria of integrity and professional competence, and this is supposed to allow the appointment of worthy ones, but there is a significant point in the selection scheme, no participation of representatives of civil society is provided for, instead, representatives of the authorities continue to participate in the selection of judges. three of the six members

of the commission are representatives of politics and the congress of judges, and decisions are made by the majority, the votes of international experts are not taken into account as a priority. therefore, the threat of political involvement does not disappear, then the law was sharply criticized by experts and by public activists, and the venice commission refused to delegate its representatives to the expert group until the law is changed , and the eu joined this position after a high-profile scandal. deputy head of the president's office andriy smirnov assured that the issue will be resolved and the necessary changes have been made. now, one issue of the seventh member remains unresolved. in this group of experts, by the way, because in the adopted version of the law there are six members of the advisory group

of experts, this issue is, i really hope it will be resolved in the near future, or found an adequate compromise instead of a compromise or changes, a new draft law that increasingly politicizes the procedure for selecting judges of the constitutional court of ukraine, the text of draft law 9:25 was registered today, which seems to me to make the situation even worse, because instead of hiding the official position of the european union, in particular, where the european the neighbor demands that the members of this expert advisory group, what is its name, that is, a person has commissions, there were seven , and the seventh member was actually delegated by independent international organizations the most interesting thing is that out of these six members, five votes are needed in order to positively evaluate the candidate from the point of view of competence instead of expanding the group of experts on

the selection of judges and introducing a seventh independent expert into it quorum and the number of votes that allow the candidate to be recommended to the constitutional court, that is, in fact, we are members of the committee, including the chairman of the committee and the representative of the verkhovna rada they say that we don't care about what we propose for the official position of the european union and the venice commission, and we generally believe that eh has a decisive vote , it should be in political appointees in the process of evaluating eh candidates for the position of judge of the constitutional court, this is of course eh well, it’s sad and it’s very dangerous that the influence of politicians on the appointment of judges of the constitutional court will eventually lead to the creation of a pocket

judicial body to resolve political issues, and this can become a big problem not only for the further movement of ukraine towards of the european union, but it also poses a threat to the rule of law in general, because it has been a generation, there are many that the authorities plan to hold elections in the eyes of no or premature but at the same time, after the victory of the servant, we hope and believe, that is , after the end of martial law, the elections will be held at the same time for the presidential and the constitution specifically prohibits and dissolves the verkhovna rada at different times so that it does not happen at the same gate. this is a better uh well, this will have catastrophic consequences for democracy from the constitutional court right now depends on the fate of several key reforms, in particular

, the further implementation of the reform of the high council of justice, the reform of the land market, and others. after the end of the war, the constitutional court itself will consider the complex issues of reintegration of the occupied territories, so we hope that the verkhovna rada will ultimately not pass this absolutely harmful bill. for today , i had judicial control over all of this, and i am tetyana shustrova. if you are aware of the facts of corruption in to the judicial system of ukraine, or if you want to tell about a dishonest judge, write to me on facebook or to the e-mail whose address you now see on your

screens. we will meet in exactly a week. i wish you all the best on the air from washington. the program of the ukrainian service of the voice of america is time. i am yuliya yarmolenko. congratulations on victory day. in europe world leaders have assured support for ukraine , which 78 years after the end of the second world war is forced to fight again for independence and resist the russian invasion on victory day in in europe, we honor ukrainian defenders who fight fearlessly every day for peace and freedom throughout europe. this statement was published by the ministry of defense of lithuania. there will be no real victory until the land of ukraine is free from the power of the aggressor , state secretary anthony blinken wrote on twitter. today we celebrate victory day in europe when justice, democracy defeated dictatorship and oppression 78 years later, we still stand by the values ​​that triumphed on the day of victory in europe, we

will be with ukraine as long as it will be he should have written more about what statements are being made on this day and how he is being celebrated in europe, we are talking to bohdan tsyupan, who is in touch with london. bohdane congratulates the ukrainian president today volodymyr zelenskyi drew historical parallels and compared putin with the commission to nazi germany and talking about the role of the ukrainian military in the victory over the nazis then said that the ukrainians would also defeat the russian aggressors today do other european leaders talk about historical parallels today and how is this day generally celebrated? if we talk about the celebration of this day, then it is very, very difficult to generalize in general, because, for example , in france, today is a day off, er , victory day. and for example, in neighboring belgium - not here in great britain, where i am talking to you today day off but not in