[000:00:00;00] two realistic thank you mr. vitaliy vitaliy portnikov in the saturday political club program stay optimistic despite everything we tell you all the viewers of espresso this is the final news of the week with you anna eva melnyky the main topics of the issue in a short announcement on which part of the front are the fiercest battles going on which russian ob this week, the council

will not be able to legislate the activities of the russian church in ukraine and what can be evidenced by the wave of scandals with the participation of deputies of the largest faction of the parliament russian terrorist forces tonight again carried out massive missile strikes on ukraine, according to the information of the air force of the armed forces of ukraine, the enemy would use high-speed daggers in kyiv , zhytomyr, khmelnytskyi regions, and this information is not yet final. the missile launch was recorded, in particular, from the territory of belarus, and then about the situation at the front in a week the armed forces of ukraine repelled enemy attacks and pushed the russians away from certain positions in the east of our country, but this direction remains strategic for the occupiers

noted the military expert director of defense express serhiy sgorets, the invaders are trying to stabilize the situation in the bakhmut direction , however, the defenders of ukraine do not allow them to do this, the enemy's attempts to regain lost positions are observed in the kupyan and novoseliv directions, where the armed forces of ukraine also continue to maintain control, the enemy was forced to retreat to the stallion river, the fiercest battles are currently ongoing along the svatove krimina line , the most difficult section that is currently taking place it is precisely around kreminnaya where such active hostilities are taking place and the fiercest because, in fact, now there are ongoing battles in the sribnyan forestry, which were there before , but now the enemy is somehow trying to get closer to bilogoryivka and improve their positions there, but it is not impossible, but from old to the fact that there is a lot of enemy power there . this is precisely what determines the most tense nature of the hostilities. the enemy uses

armored vehicles, aviation, artillery of the vast majority, so in any case we understand that these actions in the serebnik the forestry of belogorivka will continue to be fierce enough. the forces of ukraine are conducting a patchwork of our earth where it is necessary to overcome the labyrinths of russian dugouts and an innumerable number of mines. soldiers of the 110th territorial defense brigade during the counteroffensive entrenched themselves in enemy positions in the village of novodarivka, and our film crew managed to get there as well. artem lagutenko will tell you in more detail.

new udarivka, the boys brought us here to show what was left of it. this village was liberated during a counteroffensive at the beginning of summer. the soldiers brought us to the place that was once a village. now in novodarivka , there is not a single building. further afterwards it is hard to believe that two years ago, there were no civilians living here in novodarivka. namely, the position where our unit entered, where we held the defense, this is here, this is the trench, and there were still orcs 80-80 m from us,

yuriy's unit occupied it hit the position of the occupiers at the beginning of june, its fighters repelled the attacks of the russians for several days, and the destroyed enemy equipment was used as a cover when the infantry went from that side, it was also a cover for them, but we bypassed it and piled on it from the very sides, i will be able to see this tank and this dugout, the trench from which we fired today, it is 4 km from here to the front line, but it is safe to move through the village only in the trenches left by the russian occupiers. and here was a small beet sleeping, an adult ukrainian would not fit here, it was very difficult to knock out the russians, yuriy tells the occupiers in they dug in dugouts even inside the houses

, which made their positions almost invulnerable inside, the frame is made of acacia, covered , plus more bags, this is what i am lying down, they asked me, plus the bags are laid out on top, and this everything in the house is simple, well, i live. i didn’t see anyone like that during the summer counteroffensive. yuri collected a lot of amazing stories , one of them happened at the newly captured russian positions, some kind of miracle comes from behind , and in pure russian, why are you sitting? well, why are you sitting here now? the introduction here is this, in general, buns are floating here and the boy is there, stories of odessa, that is, he is there, and he is russian type to him, there is a type. well, what kind of attack is there, yes , after an hour and a half, krut got stronger, and then

there was a senior lieutenant who had with him there and their walkie-talkie zelenka and a map with positions yuriy's unit recently returned from combat missions, now the guys have a short rest and will soon be sent into battle again to consolidate on new positions won from the enemy agreement, the army of the aggressor country is constantly shelling ukrainian ports, and not only the black sea ports. on the night of august 2, russia attacked the main internal port of ukraine in izmail on the danube, the russians destroyed almost 40 thousand tons of grain destined for africa and china, this port was the main alternative route for the export of grain from ukraine through the danube straits of romania, as a result of the attack , wheat prices in chicago, for example , jumped by 4% immediately after the attack and further increased during the day. overall, in

the last two weeks russian invaders attacked 26 separate port facilities of ukraine shelled five ships damaged or destroyed 180,000 tons of grain black sea grain corridor will resume operation in the future let the president of turkey understand recep tayyip erdoğan and his wife perdoğan made a statement to the press on friday and added that turkey plans to process the grain that will be sent from russia via the black sea into flour. in the future, the flour will be sent to africa. erdogan also noted that the date of the possible visit of the president of the russian federation putin to turkey has not yet been determined. ukraine has to defend its own security by creating inconveniences for the black sea fleet of the aggressor country. on the night of saturday , russian tanks were all attacked

by a water drone in the area of ​​the kerch bridge. the drone hit the engine compartment and the pump compartment, the tanker has been delivering aviation fuel from crimea to syria for a long time, for which the usa included it in the sanctions list, the head of the sbu, vasyl makyk, commented on the recent attacks on water drones on russian facilities, so any cotton what is happening to the ships the russian federation or the kerch bridge is an absolutely logical and effective step towards the enemy, moreover , special operations are carried out in the territorial waters of ukraine and are completely legal in general in the last two weeks on the temporarily occupied

territory and in russia, not a single day passes without fires and explosions, our army of drones shows effective results both on land and at sea. more about this in the next story. on araf, instead of the ministry of defense , there is only the ministry of attack, and while the russians are shelling ukraine en masse, it is already in their house, ukraine is becoming stronger, the war is gradually returning to the territory of russia to its symbolic centers and military bases and this is an inevitable, natural and absolutely fair process two times in a row every day powerful explosions are heard on the territory of the temporarily occupied crimea several times near the village of gvardiyske , where the air base of the russian air force is located, there was a fire in simferopol, feodosia , residents of novofedoriv were restless in balaklava and sevastopol, the occupiers blocked it for some reason traffic and the kerch bridge on monday, surface drones attacked three vessels, two patrol vessels, and a container ship that was probably carrying weapons

to syria. the defense of russia reported that without a successful attack was carried out, but an evacuation was carried out by helicopters on friday, naval drones successfully attacked the amphibious assault ship olena gorsky gornyak as far as novorossiysk just 45 km from putin's palace, the ship suffered a serious hole and is already on its way to meet the cruiser moscow , this is the street. at the beginning of the planned invasion, and it dragged an armada of six units into the black sea, and he was among them, he was assigned to

the northern fleet. it is not the first time that the head of the project of the institute of black sea strategic studies andriy klymenko noted that the caspian pipeline consortium terminal is located nearby. and this is about 7 million tons of oil exports per month. we are watching how many foreign tankers will continue to transport oil . in belegorod region, in bryansk region and in taganrosia. in short, different asphalt spread here , everywhere people came to extinguish it with hoses later что никото к нахотел ехать валаеяться коше бесполитных дороги проездов. in general, there is no reason why the russian public admits that the wreckage points to topor russian drones that are in service

with the russian aerospace forces, and ah, the rectangle of an ordinary building. well, that's all. yes, yes, keep going, let's go again we leave tomorrow мы не остајомся песня but the blow to moscow is not only rejoiced in ukraine but also in russia, now even many muscovites are painful, on the night of sunday, unknown drones attacked the business center of moscow city , they hit the skyscraper in which the offices are located of the three russian ministries, from the first the numbers of the russian federation burned on the 10th floor, and two days later another drone set fire to the ministry of economy already on the 21st

floor . even the largest airline in turkmenistan, which canceled all flights to moscow, does not believe in their effectiveness . natalya, the old right, the espresso tv channel, therefore, belongs to saudi arabia. to develop key principles regarding the end of the russian invasion of ukraine, president volodymyr zelenskyi expressed hope that this initiative will lead to a peace summit of world leaders this fall to approve the principles which, in his opinion, should be based on the 10-point settlement formula proposed by kyiv, focusing on food and energy security prisoners and deported persons, including children , environmental safety, as well as the possibility of creating a tribunal for war criminals

, let's talk with the diplomat about the key aspects the minister of foreign affairs of ukraine in 2007-2009 volodymyr orysk p volodymyr good evening, thank you for joining our broadcast to our contact thank you and first of all i want to ask how you assess the possibility of such a meeting, whether we can expect any practical results from it, uh, well, you know diplomacy does not always give practical results right away, that's why i think that we should not overheat the topic and think that today, tomorrow, they will meet there , they will talk, and the problem

will be solved. it is important to convey ukraine's position to the world public, especially when it comes to the countries of the so -called global south, where many, due to one or another political, economic , or other circumstances, do not want to spoil relations with russia, so i will emphasize once again. when your country tells others about what is happening, it is happening, as they say, first-hand, it is definitely important because we know about moscow's propaganda efforts to fake everything possible for this information so that the countries on which we in principle, we can at least count on those who will not be against this formula . although it is based on generally recognized norms of international law

, we are not writing a new statute here, obviously, but it is still important in order to orient them in those accents that are important to us. they invited russia because it rejected the ukrainian peace formula, earlier our diplomats promoted a condition without a word about ukraine without ukraine, and now representatives of several dozen influential countries are consulting on how to force the russian federation to respect international law without the participation of the aggressor country itself, which in your opinion is evidence of this fact, because we can see from today's massive missile attacks on ukraine with daggers, and today there were launches even from the territory of belarus.

caught er, they caught er, our er operations against er, russian amphibious ship and against a tanker, i think that jidu he er will swallow after noticing because for him international law er this is an empty sound er and he will er tell anything inventing yet another absolutely wild historical facts uh, drawing parallels with lesser-known ones, etc. uh, that's why i don't think that this meeting raised pressure on putin or anything like that, no, i think that uh, today's daggers and, in general, a massive attack uh this is because for the first time for many, many decades, they began to punish russia and the regions of russia. it is not a powerful, powerful collective measure. and how do they think

it is not for a country that did not take place eh? but the greater is eh this anger that reigns in moscow today, so i think that eh this reaction first of all, what our armed forces and special services are doing, that's why i think that such retaliatory strikes will continue, but this is agony . i believe that today russia is at its final stage, after which irreversible events and new internal politics and everything else will begin. thank you mr. volodymyr, for your clarifications and for your time, thank you , and i will remind

you that it is saudi arabia regarding peace in ukraine that will continue tomorrow. in ukraine, we have many initiatives to ban the activities of the church of the moscow patriarchate, local authorities pass decisions on such bans in certain villages, cities or even in regions, but it would be more logical for the verkhovna rada to pass the corresponding law. currently , 11 draft laws on the fate of the russian church in ukraine is more detailed about them in the article by kateryna galko. at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, there is a discussion about the need for a law that will limit the activities of churches in ukraine that are governed by in russia, since the spring of 2023, the country has been rocked by clashes around temples in the uoc mp, land is being taken away, conflicts and transitions to the ptu continue, however, such processes are taking place outside the law, as they have not yet adopted a law on projects that could normalize the situation

, we want to dismantle the structures of the moscow patriarchate, but we do not want to forbid believers to believe to practice one's religion, to gather with others in order to practice this religion , all that ukraine undertook under international law on december 1, the cabinet of ministers to propose to the verkhovna rada to ban the activities of the ukrainian orthodox church of the moscow patriarchate in ukraine and also initiated a review of the legality of the uoc mp's stay in the kiev-pechersk lavra , president volodymyr zelenskyi said this on the same day in his evening address to ukrainians , but since then, no significant changes have taken place , unfortunately, even russian and full-scale war did not convince some actors that it is worth

overcoming the temptation of evil. why should we create such conditions when any actors dependent on the aggressor state will not have any opportunities to manipulate ukrainians and weaken ukraine from within, the verkhovna rada has registered 11 draft laws that in one way or another relate to the uoc-mp , the main two of which are number 8221, the initiators of which are listed on the council's website by 34 people's deputies, and number 8371, which was submitted to the council by the prime minister. and the alternative pre-government number 8371-1 experts also allow the creation of a joint project that will contain the provisions of both documents according to the law of the project number 8221 in ukraine there must be one orthodox church and such changes are not will give moscow and the patriarchate the ability to manipulate the statute, it also provides for the early termination of all property transactions

concluded between residents of ukraine and a prohibited foreign religious organization and the peculiarities of the naming of religious organizations, in particular the use of the word orthodox, the whole problem is that the law that we initiated 82:21 on the prohibition of the activities of the russian church in ukraine , there is a government draft that has not yet been adopted, it is planned to be brought to the hall, but the government draft does not prohibit the russian church in ukraine, but drags out this process for many, many years, from my point of view, we will not let it pass . government law project number 8371 currently has the best chance of approval. connection with the russian orthodox church, however, the state service for ethnopolitics and freedom of conscience must first establish that a certain religious organization has its center in

russia, then the service issues a prescription to correct this situation, and if this does not happen, then the service must file a lawsuit in court, which must already make a decision on the ban . alternative 8,371-1 offers practically the same thing, with the key difference that it does not provide for the issuing of an order when our draft laws were evaluated in the world, including by our enemies yes, they were forced to conclude that only this way is effective and that will stop the activities of organizations whose centers are located in the country that carries out aggression against ukraine, the lawyer, however , emphasizes that the government draft law contains a number of disadvantages because it proposes a procedure that drags out the resolution

of the issue for years , primarily due to the large number of interim legal decisions such as a prescription or decisions related to expertise, which are the subject of an independent court appeal. there is no methodology and it is not even mentioned among all the e-e types of examinations conducted by the ministry of justice of ukraine, that is, in our case , it actually turns out that the court must conduct experts note that the struggle with russian churches does not end immediately after the adoption of any initiative. the fact is that in such churches for many years the consciousness of the faithful has been poisoned by russian narratives, and it is practically impossible to instantly get rid of such influence. the situation with attempts to open a religious foundation against ukraine and of course it cannot be solved only by legalistic such a key, however, many believers are already beginning to move away from

moscow's patronage, which some clerics, in particular, on july 23, priests of the ukrainian orthodox church of the moscow patriarchate appealed to metropolitan onufriy and called for immediate and final severing ties with the russian orthodox church in an open letter, the clergy called russia's aggression against ukraine satanic and condemned the support of the war by the head of the russian orthodox church, patriarch kirill, the letter of request was published after a hostile rocket strike to save the transfiguration cathedral in odessa it was signed by more than three hundred priests kateryna halko andriy verstyuk oskaryansons tv channel espresso during a year and a half of full-scale war, the verkhovna rada passed a record number of laws for the ukrainian parliament, 480, an average of one law per day, according to the voter committee of ukraine. even presidential or government bills, such as those concerning the russian

church, and that is why even people's deputies with a prohibited membership are involved in the vote in the case of the uoc -mp, as we understand it, this will not help about which serious problems in the largest faction of the parliament are evidenced by the wave of scandals in recent weeks in our next story, wait now, the investigator will approach accusations of corruption, fights and odious statements before the full headquarters invasion, dozens of servants of the people managed to shine in various scandals after february 24 - all this remained as if in the past life today the main claims against the deputy of the monomajority, the trip abroad is not related to the parliamentary activity at the end of july, journalists , investigators of the project, the investigation of info found out that during the month, in the midst of a heavy counteroffensive by the armed forces, the deputy chairman of the council's defense committee, yuriy aristov, rested in the maldives, staying

in a hotel on a private island, he went abroad, as it were, on a business trip to meet with his lithuanian colleagues in vilnius, aristov stayed for three days, and from there he flew to the indian ocean in a faction declared that the deputy should submit a mandate to the police, he agreed and wrote a statement, this is not the end of the story. falsification of documents, every intention of any official to go somewhere abroad , any deputy should be checked up to the second the border in january 2023 and has not returned since then, the verkhovna rada office stated that he had not been issued any business trips and that his salary had not been calculated since the beginning of the year, journalists found out that the cold

throughout the full-scale war repeatedly was in cyprus, where his family owns real estate, the deputy himself stated that the numerous departures from ukraine are related to the health of his family members, on july 31 he wrote a statement on the drafting of a mandate, which he probably sent by mail from abroad to take care of the health of his relatives, explained his a trip to sunny barcelona and the scandalous deputy oleksandr dubinsky, who is under american sanctions, says that his father is being treated for a serious illness and he should accompany him on the trip however, according to the serviceman and blogger anton shvets, the permission to leave the deputy was valid only until july 10. and he was still abroad on the 25th, and not with his father. sbu and dbr conducted a search of dubinsky and opened

criminal proceedings, although not all law enforcement officers and the french leadership are so strict. at the beginning of 2023, the servant of the people, mykola tyshchenko, lit up on one of the beaches in faraway thailand, the deputy explained trip with the desire to help several thousand ukrainians who live in an asian country and about whom the state seems to have completely forgotten tyshchenko was expelled from the faction, expelled from the party, but he still feels like a member of the team , although now from the diplomatic direction , he switched his attention to the fight against fraud this week i rushed to one of the capital's offices where, according to him , the so-called call center operated, a fraudulent organization that swindles money from ukrainians, according to tyshchenko, his colleague crushed the fraudsters deputy people's rumors oleg seminsky , in addition to seminsky himself, seals of a number of russian banks were found on the spot, promoting this place