[000:00:00;00] e heights well, further, proceeding from the general halt, decisions have been made, that is, either to go into a blind defense in the area of ​​bakhmut na, or to move behind the retreating troops, they can begin to pay off slowly if one of the directed breakthroughs will be allowed to push the northern donets to luhansk, and the russians will to understand that they will be in an operational or full encirclement, they will only go to popasna, and then it can be even deeper, in the region of the heights of donbass, that is, in the direction of luhansk , in the direction of donetsk, thank you very much for your comment roman svitan, a military expert, a reserve colonel of the armed

forces , was cooking, and in particular, about the situation at the front and about the attacks on m.m. on objects on russian territory. vremeny, in their report from the front-line zone, tell how snipers are trained in ukraine, report from donetsk region, oleksiy prodayvoda, distance 300 meters , wind error 3 meters per second, and we make a smooth descent, turning sergeant of the 80s oleg malinovskyi of the armed forces brigade at one of the firing ranges in donetsk region shoots a new ukrainian-made semi-automatic sniper rifle, ua10, it's simple, it's just super

, the fire line is already taken by andrii. and sergeant oleg is carefully watching how his fighter performs this shooting exercise. invasion andriy served as a stormtrooper, but for the second week he has been mastering sniper work, so his commanders decided, and he himself was not against it, he saw that everyone was shooting well with a machine gun try her sniper rifles named, it turned out something new every time, you know such a profession that she is never given, a great fighter will still work with that weapon in the future , so that there will be a reliable cover for people because people know him, people work with him for a long time and know that everything will be such a rock from behind that will constantly cover but georgiy and igor were called up only two months ago, they have not had any military exits yet, on the one hand, i do not strive, and they will fight and kill; there is no such thirst. i am simply protecting their families every day, young fighters learn sniper skills with experienced instructors. they already understand that the most important thing in their work is not to rush, not to make sharp movements, sharp movements are very noticeable from afar and

you need to take a position slowly, they say they are being trained as infantry snipers or marksmen , unlike the classic sniper who most often works alone or with other snipers marksman is part of an assault unit, as a rule, such an accurate sniper of the group constantly moves together with his assaulters, covering them with accurate fire on distances up to 800 m, all this according to nato standards, it is possible that we will occupy positions there for a long time. well, this is unlikely, in general, we will move together with the storm brigade, that is, they advanced, we advanced accordingly , we also changed positions, that is, we will lie there for several days as a sniper , that is, my mark smena. i carry with shooters nearby

, i can constantly hear larger calibers. here , a cossack flies into the training ground, firing at targets. they have been in battles. an armored car, as well as its crew. we went to bakhmut near bakhmut and it broke through and there was a hole too. then i didn’t have it in the tower, if i had, i wouldn’t be here . the task of the twenty-year-old contractor vladyslav was to hit light armored vehicles and knock out the enemy’s infantry from their positions. his weapon is a large-caliber machine gun. charging is also simple, shooting is also simple with it, the soviet machine gun can be said to be easy to use and reliable so that the weapon does not fail in battle on this front-line training ground, work is constantly raging

between combat exits, the fighters try not to to waste time i recommend to everyone who is currently at the training grounds there is an opportunity to study, study because here we will not have the opportunity to study because this is a war here you have to follow combat orders and do your job oleksiy sells water mykola rybchenko and oleksandr utchenko for radio freedom the supreme court of ukraine got a new head he became stanislav kravchenko was voted for by 108 judges out of 148. kravchenko replaced vsevolod knyazev, who is suspected of receiving a bribe of $3 million . the judge of the supreme court of ukraine is elected for a term of four years, and the supreme court is the highest body in the ukrainian justice system, it is interesting that a day before the election of the head of the supreme court, specialized experts wrote about the fact that there is already an agreement in the court to elect kravchenko, as noted by mykhailo zhirnakov, co-founders, chairman of the board of the dure foundation, this is an analytical center that monitors work in the field of justice in

ukraine, judge kravchenko has a negative opinion of the public integrity council because he made a decision in violation of human rights, which was recognized by the european court of human rights person, but he did not indicate this in the declaration of integrity and did not declare property. in addition, zhernakov claims that the judges voted for kravchenko because he allegedly promised them free apartments in exchange for votes. a worthy representative of the reformed judicial system and , in particular, the reform of the reformed supreme court of ukraine. we will talk about this now , nika kreidinkova , the advocacy manager of the de jure nika foundation good evening. good evening. you know natalya sokolenko, a well-known ukrainian journalist who very carefully follows all these judicial cases and

judicial reform. she said today that kravchenko is worse than knyazev. do you agree with this thesis? we actually agree because when the head of the supreme knyazev was elected to the court conditionally, and there were no such reasons to doubt his reputation, but with kravchenko, as you correctly noted, it is a different story because he has a conclusion of the public integrity council that he meets the criteria of integrity, but the judges of the supreme court decided otherwise and as is often the case in the judicial system between the election of two views, they invented nightmares in general, they voted for him, in fact, in addition to what you noted, you have what is in the conclusion of the public integrity council separately information that he participated in the alternative preventive measure to general pukach, who was involved in the murder of georgy gongadze

, in particular, he was part of the board that released him from custody, which allowed pukach to escape and hide from the investigation and authorities law enforcement tried to find him and bring him to criminal responsibility for 6 years. despite this, this is the background. kravchenko did not convince the judges not to vote for him . moreover, as you correctly said, there was information that he promised free apartments . well, this most likely applies to official apartments in use, however , it shows very well what kind of incentives the judges of the supreme court are actually guided by and what the head of the supreme court offers them to exchange votes. now we will get to the apartments this is an interesting moment, you mentioned the fart who served time in principle for the murder of journalist heorhiy gongadze, but

look even after this judge kravchenko released the fart, after that he somehow became a judge of the supreme court . today he became as the head of this court but before that he was somehow engaged in judicial affairs and there were no such big issues well, there were questions but that did not prevent him from working as a judge, unfortunately, because of what uh passed the higher qualifications commission is a body that uh accepts its own uh conducts the selection of judges and carried out the selection for the supreme court, he did not take into account at all the conclusions of the public council to integrity, simply on a systematic basis, the conclusions were overcome, they were not taken into account, and as a result , it turned out that, according to the results of two competitions , a quarter of the judges to the supreme court, i.e. 44 judges had the conclusions of the public council of integrity and unfortunately it may have shaken

this story with knyazev or with kravchenko, but the people there are like our, uh, analytical center that has been dealing with this for many years, it was not a surprise, none of these stories no, it is the election of kravchenko and so on shows this once again and the judges of the supreme court once again asked for the conviction that the reform of the supreme court did not take place and it is still needed and this reform took place, well, it is considered to have taken place in 2017. that is, it is a reformed court. tell me please, here you are saying that the alleged promise to give the judges apartments prompted them to vote for kravchenko. do we really only know about apartments, this is what was in public, we do not know the motivation , unfortunately, but it may be that we will find out

therefore it is difficult to answer, but as a result, we see that the supreme court is not ready to draw conclusions from the history of the prince and chooses someone . okay, then the question is, do you have any grounds, or signs? maybe you see that kravchenko has some political connections maybe his candidacy was approved somewhere in some other offices , er, something is exceptional, and then the judges sat down, they liked the promise of apartments and they simply voted, well, at the moment, we cannot talk about any such connections that we haven't noticed yet, but the important experience of kravchenko is that he was a judge and the deputy head of the high specialized court, it used to be before the 17th year, there were several specialized high courts that actually were

quite publicly known due to his loyalty to the authorities, in particular, to the yanukovych regime, and in particular , portnov as part of the yanukovych administration was such an architect, and to receive a position in such courts very often meant a certain loyalty to the political regime, and taking into account this background, it's possible to assume what this might be in the future. i will once again quote what is known from the official biography of judge kravchenko . in 2011, he was a judge of the supreme specialized court of ukraine for consideration of civil and criminal cases, and already in the 14th year, the deputy chairman of it. court, and the ideologue of the creation of this court was actually andrii portnov, the architect of the judicial system during yanukovych's time. everything is correct, yes, yes, then i am even more surprised how this judge went through

all these challenges and still remained working judge, well, this is really surprising. look, you said that some experts there had questions about him, in contrast to knyazev, the prince had questions, he seemed like an ideal candidate. well, do you admit that a person can, you know, corrected himself in an adult way reviewed some of my values. well, i don't know everything. anything could happen and now he will be a fair judge . there is no hope for that . of course, you can hope in a human way. therefore, it is possible to place these hopes in some personal life, but when we are talking about such a high position with such responsibility, i will remind you that the head of the supreme court is a part and ex officio member of the high council of justice, which decides on the disciplinary responsibility of judges

up to the point of dismissal i trust them, it's not a matter of hope. it's not a matter of what to hope for, what can or cannot be corrected. we see from previous experience that the integrity of this person is actually not necessary to hope for that , but the judges made such a decision of the supreme court and, unfortunately, this also shows that they do not consider his previous experience to be such that it does not meet ethical standards and norms of behavior, which tells you that the political standards of the judges of the supreme court themselves are not the same. okay, then please tell me what for you personally, as for people, well your analytical center and you personally carefully follow the judicial reform in ukraine , which for you personally will become a marker of the justice of the consideration of decisions there in the supreme court of ukraine, but really you are there

, maybe i will serve you as a proof that the decision was not bad, the judges chose a good candidate and, in principle, the court works so that what will be this marker will be a good marker, first of all, if in the future there will be no stories of such corruption scandals as with the princes, but not because there is no one to investigate and prove them to the court and make a decision, and because they actually won't be uh, will this supreme court actually be able to restore its reputation considering the way they voted now, to be honest, hardly because i don't really know if there was any the biggest corruption history uh during the time of the judicial reform there in the 16th year and before that it is probably equaled only by the large administrative court of the city of kyiv for its cynical history, therefore a good marker will be when uh the supreme court will not have a single judge to whom there is a question

in terms of integrity, in fact, this can ensure a good selection of judges, which will soon be carried out by the qualification commission of judges, which is actually now at the stage of final formation of its composition and the decision is before the supreme council of justice, this is because the pre-qualification commission will have the task of recruiting 2,500 judges. and this is approximately half of the judicial system of ukraine, and i will also remind our audience that judicial reform is one of the requirements of the european union in order for ukraine to become part of the eu. please tell me about the case with knyazev his bribe of 3 million dollars, this cash is spread out on the sofa, then this is the election instead of knyazev kravchenko, to whom there is a question, how visible are these processes in the european union, and what do they affect, or can,

relatively speaking, do you know if it will become like this as a note, when will ukraine be assessed as to how it fulfills all these obligations and can they put a minus because of this story with the supreme court now? in fact, everything will depend on kravchenko because, as i said, he became a member of the supreme council of justice , and the supreme council of justice now at the final stage of choosing a new composition of the commission, which is actually an update of which is actually one of the conditions for opening negotiations in the eu and considering that kravchenko entered the process already after the interviews, it may be a little to undermine the importance and credibility of the decision of the supreme council of justice, in fact, now everything will depend on him, but we still hope that the supreme council of justice will show itself as a worthy new body, which has also recently been renewed and elects agents of change to

the supreme qualification commission of judges and it will be done in the shortest possible time, thank you very much for your comment, nika kreidinkova, advocacy manager of the de jure foundation, we talked about the events that are happening right now in the courts of ukraine, thank you very much, and one more story that we want today to raise the company of the wife of the acting director of the economic security bureau eduard fedorov sells diodes to the repair plants of ukrzaliznytsia 1.5-2 times more expensive than buying them from the manufacturer . oblast, in particular , these facts were found out in their investigation by our colleagues from the bigus-info project, according to journalists, olga fedorova has more than 20 different businesses throughout ukraine

specializing in fuel and medicine trade furniture, fish, passenger transportation, well drilling, education, technical research, it is eduard fedorov who has been in charge of the economic security bureau in an acting capacity since april , just recently, until the 23rd year, and before that , according to at least the official biography , he worked for the sbu for most of his life and only once he was briefly absent from the kyiv customs office, let's look at a fragment of this investigation and then we will discuss in detail fedorov comes from sloviansk , donetsk region, judging by the family photos there in social networks, until recently, his parents lived and lived quite simply, this simplicity did not prevent him from arranging an apartment and a garage for his father in the capital, the co-residence residential complex, not novopecherski lypky, but at that time it was fresh , just from this business class, handing it to the center and to

a three-room apartment of 130 m² in holosiivskyi park should cost approximately 110 thousand dollars here, but the apartment was just flowers, don't you think that i'm walking along the banks of the dnieper just because it's beautiful here? in 2015, our father bought a piece of that island of almost 2 ha, which is still used for agriculture, but i suspect it will not be for long . are building tourist resorts, it is very difficult to put a price on such an asset because the plot on the island itself is already an atypical object. now we have found only one for sale and it is being traded for $8,000 per hectare, which means that the market value fedorov's piece can reach up to one and a half million bucks, so he bought

it together with some partner in half, but even half of this amount drives him into a stupor. $60,000. then a harley-davidson motorcycle, over time she changes it to a ducat xii, not that i am a purist, but also that i have never heard of the club of motorcycle grandmothers from sloviansk, to which i lead and to the fact that practically everything registered to fedorov's parents looks simple . how is it registered to them? well, the author of this investigation, lesya ivanova, joins our broadcast . i will start with the wife. so, in your investigation, you claim that his wife is engaged

in business in many areas of this business and that she sells diodes of ukrzaliznytsia 1.5-2 times more expensive than buying them from the manufacturer. tell me please, this is illegal, so what is the problem if ukrzaliznytsia is buying it, maybe ukrzaliznytsia should ask the question why they are buying it, only one of my editors said something like this that the worst nuance of corruption in ukraine is that it is mostly legal, that is, the laws are written and the procedures and regulations are written out, unfortunately, so there is always a way to attract some scheme so that you don’t sit down for it later and unfortunately, in this situation, the most likely situation is the same, that is, there is a manufacturer, there is a plant of ukrzaliznytsia , which one is needed and who needs these details a logical question arises why is it bought from an intermediary and not from a manufacturer, unfortunately, over the years there is such a tradition among various managers of budget public funds

to conduct procedures so that later they allegedly have no other choice but to buy from the right firm let's say this , for example, hold a tender twice open auctions should be held twice so that no one comes to them or one participant passes, then they will have to be canceled and then already for the third time you can conduct a purchase from one participant in fact what prevents you from immediately conducting a purchase in one participant, if those in china, one participant makes the necessary parts there, nothing forbids, but nothing also forbids turning this into a multi-pass, and as a result , we actually have a lot of these cases when it is purchased from some intermediary and then when they come to the manager of budget of funds and are asked in the communication question , for which cute one did you overpay by 2-3 times. if you could buy a supplier, then you could not offer to sell, then one more clarification, did i understand correctly what you

are assuming or suspect- suspect and to things, have you asked eduard fedorov himself? what exactly can he contribute to a successful business there, successful contracts with the ukrzalznitsa concluded by his wife? look, we suspect this work of law enforcement agencies, eh, regarding dord fedorov himself, of course we asked him questions, but he refused to meet with us in person . and speak to ours on the record . he sent a reply. i can’t call it an answer to the request. we asked all the questions about the family’s property and about the wife’s business, and in particular about this one. it’s difficult for me. call it business when you are just dealing with an inflated price. well, okay, let's call it business. we put all these questions to him in writing. he said that he would provide an answer . but instead of an answer , we ended up with such a subscription.

because i filed it with us. i fulfilled my duty to the laws regarding the business, so even if it is not mine . well, it is not legally yours. yes, we see that it is not legally yours, but this is an old tradition of law enforcement officers and not only there is the sbu, but also tax officials and judges, uh, how ancient it is it is a tradition for people who are prohibited by law to officially engage in business to simply register this business for some of their relatives, and then there really arises the question of the privilege of certain companies in tenders, would they have such great success or would they manage to raise such high prices and sometimes even arrange lesya understood the monopoly in certain areas if the official owners were not relatives of certain high-ranking people's deputies, law enforcement officers and the like. the next question is what

do we know about eduard fedorov himself? i wanted to ask you, well, we know now. he performs the duties of the head of the bureau of economic security, the bureau of economic security , by the way, this is such a newly created body . because the results of the bureau were recognized as very bad, eduard fedorov is now in the status of he is the head of this bureau of economic security, uh , before that, you said that he worked in the sbu and was absent from kyiv for a very short time customs office, what else do we need to know and understand, unfortunately, very little is known about him, and uh, that was one of the reasons why we still wanted to talk to him, uh, personally, because his biography is official, which is public, which is posted on the website bureau, she is a smoker as much as possible and you can't normally evaluate her

, er, some er, let's say the way of a person. so when you only have three lines there, the fact that he is from donetsk region, his family is really from donetsk region, from slavyansk, about what he is by education , economics, accounting, and more he worked at the sbu for 10 years and it seems a little less than a year at the kyiv customs, then he returned to the sbu again and from there he jumped into belarus - literally before the previous head was fired, and because of this it comes to mind that it is possible that in principle he was brought into the bureau immediately from the idea that melnyk will be eliminated and then he will be appointed to this is a very cool biography. i really wanted to ask mr. eduard what his profile was in the sbu , well, that is, there is already a very large and diverse structure there, what exactly did he do there? we were very interested in these questions, but he said that he is too busy, he has a lot of things to do and he can't talk to us a-a-c- besides that

, in his answer, which we will call this answer to the request, that reply, he said that he had nothing more to tell us read all that is on the website beb, but you know, this is the habit of law enforcement officers not to testify , it is very wrong when it reaches the highest levels of law enforcement, that is , of course, there is a certain secrecy of operatives, there is a certain non-publicity there what kind of personnel? are engaged in undercover work there. accordingly, we understand that i am in the nabu. agents, for example, and the same sbu may have some kind of agent network here, of course, it is clear why these people do not submit a declaration, why these people are not public, why do you not talk about them, but the head of law enforcement body is already more manager is an administrative position and

this person is obliged to and when such questions already arise to her, all the more she is obliged to be public and answer them publicly, but unfortunately so traditionally it happened in ukraine that law enforcement officers, even at the highest levels, think that it is better to lie down and not show off, and even when journalists come to them with specific questions . and not to say anything superfluous, i’m here, lesya, i’m here. i want to add that the bureau of economic security is there, i’m not ready to say the number right now, but a lot of money has been allocated for this reform, and i’m already asking our audience for understanding and this all the money of ukrainian taxpayers i just have to mention it because you say that the biography of this person is very kutsa and we have no idea what kind of person he is, what his background is, so this is all done with the money of ukrainian

taxpayers lesya, i have one last question, you said that melnyk was fired this is the previous head of the bureau of economic security, and fedorov was established, what does it mean to be established, well, it is metaphorical , you can say that simply er. before that, he had no relation to the web and even to the er structure that was the predecessor of the web and the tax the police, uh, he was with a different structure in general, and the idea of ​​creating a web, including that, was so why take away the functions of economic and financial investigations from other bodies , including the police, the sbu, which did not cope with it there? they didn’t want to. they couldn’t. well, okay then who started it, then who started it? i may not have asked the question in the right way, and now there is such an opinion that the web, like some other law enforcement agencies, is controlled by , let's say, the president's office in a political sense, who