[000:00:00;00] competition only in the subway , we want to show with this event that we will live for everything, develop and win. 27-year-old serhii gorskoi from krasnograd did not skid in the subway before. zakharev from the kharkiv oblast team, the two-time world champion now has an older brother fighting against the russians , so i understand how

difficult it is for everyone. and that is why in ukraine and orthodoxy . to our heroes, after three rounds, the judges declare zakharev the overall winner representatives of the kharkiv region won in seven matches, three more ended in a draw according to the press service of the regional police department , the tournament was attended by about 1,000 spectators dmytro grebinnyk mykyta olkhovsky yuriy

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on february 24, for many , that day began with panic, what to do, where to go, how to proceed, but you knew that millions of ukrainians are counting on you. do their work even when there is no strength, when it's been a month without getting off the train, when you know that it can be a one-way road on the railway, everything is from the state of trains, tracks, people , the actual path, the choice to move forward thanks to you, we are united by common pain, we are united

by art use, but it is impossible to heal pain where there is silence about it, open your eyes, come out into the light, say, like an exhibition, a conversation that is impossible without you, our citizens are not abandoned and we are not waiting for the end of the armed conflict and we perfectly understand in which unfortunately, our boys and girls are kept under the conditions. but from every exchange of our returned defenders, we see how scrawny they are, how wasted they are, and we understand that we cannot sit idly by, mr. bohdan, from the first let me congratulate you on the first channel of public broadcasting and thank you for visiting

today to us. congratulations, i am also grateful to be present. the coordination headquarters for the treatment of prisoners of war , whose representative you are, was created a little more than a year ago in march of last year, but the armed aggression of the russian federation has been going on since 2014, why is the issue of the problem of prisoners of war? well, as a result of the creation of the corresponding coordination headquarters, they were updated only after the full-scale invasion, i want to note that for the ukrainian nation, for the ukrainian people, the war began precisely in 2014, for the international society , for the world, this was presented by the russian federation as a kind of the internal conflict and therefore the issue of the war and everything related to it were

raised on international platforms, although the ukrainian side did not. was perceived by the society by the international society in the problematic quality that it was for the ukrainians, and only after the large-scale invasion that took place on february 24, 2022 became an issue of international humanitarian law during the armed conflict, the world saw the true face of the russian federation after all. and they realized that for almost eight and a half years , the russian federation had been following their noses, but we still paid attention in the first days of the war to the fact that it was a war and accordingly started to operate certain mechanisms provided for by the geneva convention. it was through the geneva convention that a national information bureau was established in ukraine as required by international humanitarian law, and accordingly , the next step was the adoption of resolution 257 there on the formation of a coordination headquarters for the treatment of prisoners of war

at that time headed by vice prime minister iryna vereshchuk in may 2022 , changes were made accordingly, they were taken into account as achievements, such are the steps that only the military can take to the highest military and political the leadership made a decision to make changes to resolution no. 257 and transfer the chairmanship of the coordination headquarters to the head of the main intelligence department kyrylo oleksiyovych building how did this free up the work of the coordination headquarters e-e it affected its work the military is a little different from the civilians there is a certain psychology and philosophy of their activities that is why a certain concept of the functioning of the coordination headquarters was developed in order to be able to integrate it and involve in this process absolutely all the necessary resources e-e which e-e as of today or on that day, the state had this and the relevant departments this and the relevant

law enforcement agencies this is the security service this is the ministry of internal affairs this is the ministry of justice this is the office of the prosecutor general and now, as a result of our joint activities, we have more than 2,000 people released from captivity this is 2,235 people this as of today, as of today, 235 of our defenders have been released from enemy captivity, the work does not stop, the work continues, and even now, at this very moment, when we are talking with you , somewhere in the offices, important decisions are being made negotiations are being conducted, information is being clarified, a certain negotiating position is being formed in order to get our boys and girls out of the enemy balloon. do you have information on how many more defenders are in good

captivity as of now? to enemy captivity . unfortunately, the war continues and even at this moment, as we are talking to you, maybe someone is captured at the front, that is why this number is constantly changing, the motto of the coordination headquarters, we will return everyone to it absolutely. every citizen of ukraine who is now captured or missing will return home . so here i would like to explain. we are actively working with the verkhovna rada commissioner for human rights with dmytro valeriyovych lubins precisely in the direction of civilians, this is his line of work, but structurally he is also included in the coordination

headquarters, that is why we are not limited to military personnel today, this is also a civilian, citizens emphasize that there are more than a hundred among those released, these are civilians , these are former, for example, law enforcement officers - these are former military personnel who took part in anti-terrorist operations, these are former military personnel, however, according to of the third geneva convention, they are not prisoners of war among those who are now in captivity, even the military is also incompetent , this emphasizes that it is our doctors, it is the medics, it is the orchestras that, unfortunately, for some reason are also and are held as prisoners of war under general conditions, moreover, they are violating all the requirements of the geneva convention, which provide for the creation of separate camps for the detention of this category, they are keeping our civilian and military citizens in correctional colonies together with those who are currently serving sentences for violations of the criminal code, and this is also a violation, and

in fact there are many such violations in the russian federation, and last week we were at a conference in the osce where the topic of non-compliance by the russian federation with the geneva conventions was raised conventions katun military servicemen are simply a mass of violations and i think that the time will come when the ukrainian side will reach the responsibility of the russian federation for the crimes committed and, by the way, how did the osce react to this information that you voiced there? well, let's talk as follows: the russian federation in the legal field positions itself as, after all, a country that does not seem to follow all international standards of international humanitarian law, like the geneva convention. well, in fact, at this conference in

the osce was quite strong. the ukrainian side was represented 80% of the time, and the events that took place outside the main meeting made it possible not to show the barbarism and abuse . by the way, we did not show the video. hm , we all know that, we all saw it. glory to ukraine, how they were shot . for these words of the boy, respectively, there are other videos that show the simply inhuman cruelty of the russian federation , we took screenshots and during our report we showed it emotionally, they were not ready for this, there were cases when i saw that people from other countries even cried when they looked at these materials and they were shocked that such a thing is happening now in ukraine, they thought that maybe they are shooting there sometimes there . simply human atrocities that were applied to them, did they not

forget about the prisoners who have been captured by the enemy since the 14th year, in our case , well, all the citizens of ukraine who are illegally detained by the russian federation that on temporarily occupied territories, which is a priority in the territory of the russian federation, and we actively communicate with public associations that were formed from members of the families of those citizens of ukraine who, since the 14th year , being in captivity or convicted illegally in the temporarily occupied territories of the so-called dpr lpr russian nevertheless, the federation is now trying to preside over these negotiations , restricting in a certain way the issue exclusively regarding prisoners of war, according to the geneva convention , the exchange of prisoners of war should take place after the end of the active phase. of an armed conflict in this case, the ukrainian side is doing it. it is simply impossible. there has never been such an experience in practice as ukraine is now gaining. as for

the exchange during the active phase of the armed conflict, no country has been, our citizens have not been abandoned and we will not be until the end of the armed conflict because we we perfectly understand the conditions in which, unfortunately , our boys and girls are kept, we see from every exchange that our defenders are returned , we see the traces of torture on their bodies after they are examined by doctors, respectively forensic experts and law enforcement agencies, we record their testimony, we record absolutely all the information they give us about their behavior, and we absolutely see the difference. institutions that were formed in accordance with the norms of international humanitarian

law of the geneva convention , i.e. a difference of 20-60 kg can sometimes be the reason. unfortunately, we understand that we cannot sit idly by, we perfectly understand that if there is a sharp weight loss, it will certainly lead to an exacerbation of chronic diseases and other health deterioration, but we also do not forget that among those who are in captivity, there are a lot of wounded, how many of our defenders did not live to see even one , unfortunately, there are cases when even confirmed by the red cross, this is the highest level of confirmation of being in captivity

, the bodies are returned to us, and in such cases, there is not so much happiness, but unfortunately there are cases when people, uh, who are in captivity due to exacerbation of chronic diseases , due to torture, due to other reasons, die , then join the already authorized to search for missing persons under special circumstances, it is easy, there are a few other mechanisms that have been worked out in relation to return of bodies, however , to date, i emphasize such cases, fortunately, there are not so many cases of torture, torture of ukrainian prisoners of war , the information was reflected in the report of the un monitoring mission, and indeed in ukraine and which was presented on march 24, in the specified un report, unfortunately, information was published about the negative aspects of keeping russian soldiers in captivity, but the positive facts, for example, about

telephone communication with relatives, because ukrainian prisoners are not even provided with such a right and have not had the opportunity for a long time to communicate with their relatives , i emphasize that ukraine adheres to the geneva conventions of international law and is open to international organizations and calls on the world and international organizations to help ukraine in issues of admission to places of detention of ukrainian prisoners at the same time, this report also noted that torture and ill-treatment of prisoners of war by the armed forces of the russian federation have been recorded and in ukraine we are deeply concerned about the arbitrary executions of up to 25 russian prisoners of war and persons who have stopped participating. in military actions, if they were committed by the armed forces of ukraine, to what extent is this report, to what extent is this report objective and impartial. and in general, how do you evaluate

the work of the international commission, the war continues not only on the battlefield, but in the information space, we understand that the united nations organization is an international organization that also includes representatives of the russian federation and their lobby, and in this organization there is no need to underestimate me, i can neither refute nor confirm these data however, today we are defending our territory , they attacked some country, we are not waging a war of occupation, we are defending our homeland, we are defending the land of our great-grandfathers , great-great-grandfathers, this is a war within a war. maybe everything whatever, but if a serviceman of the enemy army is captured by us, this means that he will definitely be moved to a special place of detention in a camp for the detention of enemy prisoners of war and , accordingly, then according to all procedures, a-a will be exchanged for our

prisoners of war because what happens on the battlefield, you know, this is not a matter for the united nations, here, first of all, the commander must ensure the safety, health, and life of his servicemen, we know and we have seen cases when seemingly enemy troops they seem to have raised a piece of white cloth and behind them, after the last person who came out, the machine gunners start shooting, this is again a violation of the geneva comedies, and therefore if there the monitoring group took the road these cases well, then we have to ask the question and are they aware of the insidiousness of that country from how ukraine is fighting today, and the battlefield is a rapidly changing situation where each serviceman must not only carry out combat orders, but first of all he must preserve his health

his subordinate or his brother and if even the smallest hint on the battlefield indicates that there is a danger to life or health, respectively , he will act to save his life and his unit. the information presented in this report of the monitoring mission and regarding those 25 executions that they speak of as if they recorded them and regarding the fact that almost half of the 29 russian prisoners of war we interviewed talked about torture or brutal treatment by servicemen of the armed forces of ukraine or sbu of prisoners of war were beaten

, shot in the legs , inflicted wounds to the limbs with knives, tortured with electric current, threatened with sexual violence or death . lard yes, i have repeatedly visited the corresponding places of detention and, believe me, they sometimes eat much better than our boys. in the trenches, i i understand the anger and certain vicissitudes of our citizens, whose loved ones are in captivity in our body, regarding how humanely we treat them, we must show the world that we are not like the russians. we are a civilized nation, and accordingly in our behavior in our relationship to the enemy, a-a, a certain impression is formed about us as a state, as a nation , about citizenship, because we understand each other

perfectly. international organizations and even from ukrainian organizations that there are hints of a violation of the geneva convention during the publication of interviews for prisoners of war of the armed forces of the russian federation in this regard i would like to ask you about the role of blogger volodymyr zolotin, who for the first time has access to prisoners of war of the russian federation the federation communicates with them often, these communications are very similar to an interrogation with threats . with an application after passing accreditation, you can be included in this work even you are public or there are any other mass media properly, if you apply according to the procedure, you will receive accreditation

, you will be able to take interviews, record and accordingly publish materials about the work of volodymyr rozolkin, for example. well, you you know, i don't model him. we don't have censorship . everyone may choose their own style of communication. so far, there have been no such violations , but if there were something like that, what would go beyond the norms of the current legal regulations? documents. i think his accreditation was suspended. i would like to test the recommendations of the committee of journalistic ethics, where they say that a journalist can resort to the insults of the interlocutor and his relatives, impose his assessment in response to the prisoner's story that he was beaten at some stage, the journalist comments well , nothing was cut off, for example, volodymyr zolotin , dmytro karpenko, they promise the interlocutor to arrange a call to relatives from golkin , he told that he requires the captives

to answer their questions, otherwise the call will not go home despite this, don't you see the risks that russia can use it against ukraine well, let's be honest, if we compare the situation in what conditions and how the enemy prisoners of war are kept and how our servicemen are kept, then it would be even more interesting to organize maybe i will not criticize the taking of certain comments there or being a lawyer for volodymyr zolkin, everything is a journalist, this blogger , you can also be accredited and conduct interviews with enemy prisoners of war yes how convenient would it be for you to comment here? unfortunately, i can't because i'm not involved in

this process, we don't give him access to the prisoners of war, and in this case, if certain materials are being coordinated with the coordination headquarters, it's not just a question of the main intelligence agency, this is the security service, this is the office of the prosecutor general, this is the ministry of justice, that is, any of these bodies is a subject of the coordination headquarters, and the use of the logos of the coordination headquarters is agreed with you in these videos on the youtube channel of volodymyr zholkin or no, i repeat once again about having received certain accreditation and agreeing to certain materials, so they can use the logo of the coordination headquarters. thank you for the answer, and returning to international organizations, we still have the international committee of the red cross , if you would appreciate their work, because there were complaints from the beginning of the full-scale invasion

a lot on them, well, look at the international committee of the red cross, it is well, this is a fact, it is in a certain way a mechanism for us to achieve our goals, it sometimes works poorly, sometimes not works in general and sometimes gives quite good results, well, the international committee of the red cross says that it is a neutral organization that , according to its charter and its mandate , has certain limitations when we demand certain actions from them, they begin to hide their possible inaction or incapacity by the fact that the russian side doesn't let them go there. but it's easier to find a recovery than to try to find ways to solve it. recently, we published information about the letter received from

of the international committee of the red cross, how he thanks us for the work carried out by the coordination headquarters in the direction of the return of prisoners of war, therefore, in any case , we do not have another red cross, we will either change it and force it to help us, or we will achieve the results we have today without it we are putting before ourselves. we are pioneers in this case, and based on our experience, we will build a different structure of collective security , maybe not only europe, the whole world. i have two more questions for you, one of them is about i want to live project, how effective it turned out to be. a lot of specialists in various fields were involved in this process, from psychologists of neurolinguistic programming to it specialists of the highest level. therefore, this project is complex. 36 million times this site was visited . 32 million are from the russian federation directly

to the phone. more than 16,000 people have applied, so i and the management at the coordination headquarters consider this project to be really effective, and there are people who have given up on this project, i cannot name the number and their names because this is primarily the safety of these citizens who did not want to take up arms to kill and take part in this insidious war, the question is that even among those who passed the i want to live project , they are ready to fight against the putin regime , and certain mechanisms are currently being worked out at the legislative level in order to provide them with such it is possible that the project has shown its effectiveness, and with the beginning of the counterattack, this project will give even more results, because many people will wonder who hesitated or

only thought about it, then many will accept i can already see the solution that recently the coordination headquarters is coming out and various levels of communication according to its target audience have been held with relatives of missing prisoners of war, what new platforms are you starting to master a huge number of individual techniques, a large number of group meetings have already taken place today with the families of the defenders of ukraine in public reception centers and in the regions. this is done in order to provide all the necessary e-rights, water , psychological assistance, family support in solving problematic issues with the military unit, with centers of recruitment with dna e-e studies, the national police , the main investigative department is also represented in our main reception area, there are representatives in the regional centers, they provide the opportunity to communicate with investigators who conduct cases of missing persons, corj headquarters, dot gov.ua, this

the ukrainian platform is a site where, first of all, there are useful links for relatives, whose loved ones were missing or were captured by the enemy, any information about their actions, in this case, the family can find media sites on the site, as well as the telegram channel. yes, it is possible that the information there is presented a little in such a dry statistical form, but we are working on changing the forms, we are open to criticism absolutely to any advice, therefore, in the direction of communication with the population, we are ready e- to adopt her best practice and there is our channel on the youtube platform and now we have started to shoot such short video instructions for families on one or another topic on tiktok.