of the case and canceled the confiscation of exnardep's property in favor of the state, which, according to the criminal procedure code, the supreme court does not have the authority to do. however, since the judges managed to exchange less than two months of the arrest, which can be spent on the implementation of the savchenko law, for more than nine years of imprisonment, shepeleev is already released from prison, and instead of the confiscation of property, on the contrary, he gained the prospect of a charge from skoda for excessive compensation. shepelyev, well, most likely, received this sentence in this form, in view of continuation of other criminal cases, i cannot understand the logic of the judges. savchenko's law, which should not have been applied to him in this case, is also a question for the judges. in another shepelev case, the murder of the donetsk banker serhii kyrychenko, committed to order. in 2003 and revealed only in

2012, the former people's deputy was sentenced to 15 years in prison in august of that year. shepelev's defense is also appealing this verdict, and the decision of the supreme court judges in the escape case opens up considerable prospects for significantly reducing the term of imprisonment, because it is believed that the supreme court actually establishes precedents on which judges of lower instances rely when making their decisions, decisions of the supreme court, they are binding for other courts, lower appeals, courts of first instance, and these are the requirements of procedural codes, that is, the supreme court has both legal and informal, huge, huge influences on how the judicial system works in principle, absolutely wild decisions of the supreme court in many cases, this is all an indicator of huge problems,

which are the supreme court, moreover, after, as far as we understood, how difficult and wild the situation is there, we called the judges of the criminal court of cassation to ask why they decided to nullify one of the terms awarded to oleksandr shepelev, it is undeniable that the prosecution pointed out, and all participants in the process did not deny that this person was detained on the territory of the russian federation, you, in accordance with the request of ukraine in this criminal proceeding, and the prosecutor personally confirmed this, therefore, in order to avoid the rights of a person are violated, which are then established by the european court, and in order for the state not to reimburse the funds, we left according to the law. however, in the decision of the panel of judges, it is said that the ukrainian side's mandate was specifically related to the extradition of shepelev to ukraine, which, let's remind, did not take place due to the refusal of the russian side to extradite

the suspect, so this is very similar to the manipulation of the savchenko law. shepelev's case turned out to be quite revealing. it well illustrates how the judicial system works in ukraine when a person is accused of serious crimes criminal offenses, can avoid punishment thanks to the skill of the servants of themis, circumvent the norms of laws and a kind of humanism. now free in conditions of full-scale war. with russia , a person may end up with alleged treason in favor of the russian federation, four contract murders, one attempted murder and embezzlement of state funds. and for today i have everything, it was the judicial control program and i, tatiana shustrova. if you want to report corrupt judges or illegal decisions, write to me on facebook or this one email address see you exactly in

a week. you are watching the program of the ukrainian voice of america chas taay. my name is maria ulyanovska. congratulations. us president joe biden addressed the american people from speech he tried to convince millions of americans that supporting ukraine and israel is important and in the interests of the united states. the president also appealed to congress to support new funding for programs for both countries. i know that these conflicts may seem far away, and naturally they are the question, why is this important to america? so let me share with you why.

of israel and ukraine is critical to us national security. history teaches us that when terrorists don't pay the price for their terror and dictators don't pay the price for their aggression, they cause even more chaos, death and destruction. they are not stopping, and the cost and threat to america and the world is growing. if we do not stop putin's thirst for power and control over ukraine, he will not limit himself to ukraine. putin has already threatened to remind poland that their western lands were a gift to russia, and one of his advisors, the former president of russia, called estonia, latvia and lithuania the baltic provinces of russia. that's all... these are nato allies. we know that outside of europe, our allies and perhaps most importantly, our adversaries and competitors, are watching, they are also watching our response in ukraine. if we go along and allow putin to erase ukrainian independence, aggressors around the world

will dare to do the same. the risk of conflict and chaos may spread to other parts of the world, the pacific region, the middle east, especially to the middle east. on the eve of this speech, presidents biden and zelsky had the opportunity to talk by phone. thus , volodymyr zelensky thanked for the long-awaited long-range atakams missiles provided by the united states and noted the visit of the us special representative penny pritzker to kyiv. at the same time, joe biden emphasized the continued bipartisan support of the united states. in his speech, joe biden also recalled the day he visited ukraine. let me end with this. at the beginning of the year, i stepped aboard air force one, on a secret flight to of poland there i boarded a train to kyiv with tinted windows, 10 hours each way, to support ukrainians on the eve of the anniversary of their courageous struggle against putin. i

was told that i was the first american president since president lincoln to arrive in a war zone unchecked by the us military. i had only a small group of guards with me. and some advisers , but when i got off the train and met with president zelensky, i did not feel alone, i brought with me the idea of ​​america, the promise of america, to the people who today are fighting for the same thing we fought for 250 years ago, for freedom , independence, self-determination, and as i walked through kyiv with president zelensky, to the sound of air alarms in the distance, i felt what i always believed in, stronger than ever , america is a beacon to the world, still, still, but time is of the essence, i know we have many differences at home, we have to overcome them, we cannot let petty angry party politics stand in the way

of our responsibility as a great nation, we cannot and will not allow such terrorists like hamas and tyrants like putin have won, i refuse to let that happen, we have to remember who we are, we are the united states of america, the united states of america, and there is nothing, nothing beyond our power, if we do it together we do already on friday, october 20, biden submitted a new request to congress for assistance, which includes more than 61 billion dollars for ukraine and 14 billion dollars for israel. we will talk more about the events in the white house with our correspondent yulia yarmalenko. yulia, hello. greetings mary, please tell us more about this new aid package, what exactly is planned for ukraine? you know, maria, indeed, president biden has submitted an official request for additional funding not only for ukraine, but also for israel and other national security priorities, that is, it is a package of more than

$100 billion, almost $106 billion, it does provide more than 14 billion dollars in aid to israel, also 2 billion dollars for security. of the region more than 6 billion to strengthen the security of the southern border of the united states, on what insisted the republicans for some time, we remember that as far as ukraine is concerned, it is really about more than 61 billion dollars of additional funding that president biden requested, including 30 billion dollars for the pentagon's arms programs for ukraine and for replenishing its own stocks, more than 14 billion for military intelligence. and other security support, more than 16 billion more for programs of the state department for economic security and operational support and almost half a billion dollars for support for programs to support ukrainians, who came to the united states under the uf program. also, in this large package for more than

100 billion, humanitarian aid is provided, immediately for israel and the gas sector and ukraine, we do not know exactly how much for ukraine. that is, a very large aid package for and if we are talking about the messages sent by the white house, as jake sullivan, the us national security adviser, said today, he once again explained to the americans that it is not just about nicknames. of course, help is needed for ukraine, so that there is uninterrupted support for the efforts of ukrainians to win back and protect our democracy, but also this aid package, he said, will be beneficial to the americans, because the aid provided for in it will, in particular, go to strengthen the american industrial base, and in particular, the money allocated will go to this, let's actually listen to his comment about why he thinks it's worth supporting ukraine right now. as the president said yesterday evening, we must

continue to resist tyranny and aggression and protect ukraine from the brutal russian invasion we know from history that if we stand back and allow someone like vladimir putin to destroy ukraine's independence, he will not stop there and it will encourage aggressors around the world. we must send an unmistakable message that in the 21st century, dictators cannot be allowed to conquer or take away part of their neighbor's territory. funding and authority that congress previously overwhelmingly approved is nearly exhausted, and we need action from congress to ensure that we can continue to meet ukraine's needs for battlefield and protect its people under attack. so while ukraine mounts a complex counteroffensive to defend against a new russian offensive with winter fast approaching, the world is watching closely to see what congress will do next. it is also about people in ukraine who stand for their state and those in the kremlin who seek to erase it. yuli, we know

the position of the white house and everyone followed the speech of the american president yesterday, tell us how it is being reacted here in the united states, did biden succeed in convincing the voters? you don't know, maria, we'll see about that a little bit later for sure, but if we talk about the initial reactions, there are mostly a lot of positive reactions, they say that it was quite a powerful speech by an american president, one of the best, say ... some commentators, but there are different opinions, of course, if we talk about commentators, such as, for example, john herbst, he is the former ambassador of the united states to ukraine, he said that he personally waited a very long time for this particular speech, because he said yes, the united states from the very beginning provided ukraine with military , economic aid, put pressure on russia with sanctions, but he said what was missing was for the american president to explain to the americans themselves why it was in the national security interests of the united states to support ukraine, and yesterday, john herbs, president biden did that, and john herbs said , that this speech reminded him, in particular

, of the times of ronald reagan. if we're talking about other commentators, particularly jena beniega, she's a representative of the atlantic council, she brought up another point, she says that biden hopes that his the speech will convince the americans, and indeed after that the congressmen, to approve this massive package of military aid to ukraine and israel, but a very important question remains, she said, whether this speech was enough for the republicans to actually make concessions to president biden and those who are skeptical now about pooling aid to actually give this big foreign policy victory to president biden, literally a year before the presidential election, and actually the comments that we've heard from lawmakers, they're just points out that opinions are divided here, nentsi polosny polosi, a former speaker of the house of representatives, a democrat, she thanked president biden, said that this speech was a very good example of why the leadership of the united states is very important, and jady vance is a republican senator , who is quite skeptical of anything

president biden is proposing, he said that president biden is using the issue of israel in order to, in order to help ukraine, which he actually opposes, and in particular jady vance called the speech, or president biden's attempts to make it, disgusting. yuli, and before other events in the white house, there is currently a yes usa summit, what is known about it? you know, maria. yes, this meeting has already ended, and the main messages that came out were, in fact, support for israel and ukraine, and all the leaders discussed this issue, and in particular ursela fonderlein, the president of the european commission, emphasized one important point, she said that the what is happening in the middle east will absolutely not distract, will not distract attention of the united states and the european union in support of ukraine, this is now the focus. thank you, yulia, let me remind you that yulia yarmalon worked for us from the white house. the presidential administration submitted a new request for financing aid to ukraine to congress, but it

cannot make a decision because the house of representatives still does not have a speaker. we will talk with kateryna lisunova, who joins from the capitol, about what is happening in the congress and whether there is support for the president's request. hello katya. greetings maria. in congress today hot, there jim jordan again for the third time did not get the required number of votes for the position of speaker of the house of representatives. please tell me if congress has a plan to get out of this crisis, the third round of voting for speaker turned out to be jim jordan's last, and he is no longer the republican nominee. he noted that at 8:00 a.m., jim jordan spoke to journalists, where he declared that he would fight for the position of speaker until the victorious end, but already at 10:00 a.m., that is, a few hours after his press conference, the very thing happened the vote in which he lost this fight by an even, even larger margin than before, yes, if it started with 20 republicans voting against their fellow party member, today

25 of jim jordan's fellow party members voted against him, after that, the republicans went into closed-door talks, into a closed-door meeting , where they decided they were withdrawing jim jordan's nomination to run for speaker because he wasn't getting the minimum required in his own party, which means now congressional republicans will go on recess and next week on tuesday, republicans will gather for a new closed meeting, during which they will try to choose a new nominee for the post of speaker, they will hope that it will be the person who will be able to get the necessary, already golden 217 votes of the majority in republican party. katya, thank you, please also tell us how the congress has reacted to this new request for help sent by president biden. in it, by the way, the association supports ukraine and israel, you already told us about how congressmen feel about it. what was

the reaction? basically, reactions and positions were divided politically and party-wise. if the aid to israel is supported. the majority of democrats and republicans, then regarding aid to ukraine, the positions are divided, the majority of democrats and the majority of republicans are in favor of it, except for a group of far-right republicans who are against it, and noted that with the withdrawal of jim jordan's nomination for the post of speaker, certain fears also disappeared , what if he becomes as speaker, he actually simply will not put to a vote additional aid to ukraine, which he categorically opposed all this time, journalists asked jimajor this morning. about biden's speech and additional help to partners, and in particular, then jem jordan mentioned everything and the need to help israel, but not about ukraine. i suggest you listen to what he said this morning just now. this is another reason why we need to bring the house back to work so we can consider

biden's request for additional appropriations, but we don't. can we do it can't vote for it can we accept anything in this package until we get the house back to work i need to see what exactly is in this package but of course we need to help israel i need to see the request itself but again after all, we can't do anything while the chamber is blocked. that's the end of today, as you can see, and so far the convention remains without a speaker and even without a republican nominee. thank you, katya, we will follow how will develop events, let me remind you that kateryna lisunova from the american congress was with us. we at voice of america continue to tell stories about ukrainians who found themselves at the epicenter of the war in israel. rebre moshe asman has been at the forefront of humanitarian aid since the beginning of the full-scale russian aggression. in the first days of the war, he rescued the residents of a jewish village near kyiv, then delivered humanitarian

goods throughout southern and eastern ukraine , and even came under fire near kherson. after the attack by hamas. he rushed at aid to israel. my colleague natalka churikova started the conversation with him by asking whether the ukrainian experience helped him. more in the interview. i could not stay in the same place as i did not leave ukraine. when there were crimes, so to speak, the russian army at the beginning of the war. also i could not, i took to israel. i ask, do what, what i have. to help morally and physically and the people of israel , the soldiers of the israel defense forces and the residents of the north, and i see through the window of your car that there is shelling, that you, you must

you can hear, for now i can't see, well, every day. under fire, i was on kolichny, kolichnyu friday, on kolichnyu friday, i was at midnight ashkilona, ​​this is between the gaza sector and shirginlon, there is a cemetery, my mother is buried buried there, and i then drove into the krodnym, and the heavy shelling did not begin and very, very it was very, well, how can i say, it was difficult, and miraculously, miraculously , we were not hurt either, so, yesterday, yesterday, i was driving from steel to the center... there was also shelling right as i was driving, there rockets fell directly into the center of the target not far from where i am

drove by, well, no one can be safe, now it’s a war, it’s a war , the ukrainians can, it’s like nobody understands what’s happening here, because in ukraine we are sitting under missiles, and a missile can fly at every crevasse, and here under the people are sitting, under the rockets, here is one fate, today is one fate of the ukrainian and israeli people, on the front flank of the fight against terrorism, with the theme, who is thirsty, those who are thirsty are killed, and we are thirsty to live, and we are thirsty , we want to build your own family, you moved it from ukraine to israel, when the war started in ukraine, and you published photos of your grandchildren, who are also hiding from the shelling already... in israel, are they safe, did they stay in israel, how do they feel about this war, especially children , i have several children, yes, i went here to israel, i went from one

to another, and children, children, how in general, a child, asks, his father, father, will they kill us, well that is, well that’s a question, the child's question, what, how small? the girl who was with us and near kiev at the beginning of the war, she is already here 20 km from gazy, there is such a person in one town, in a small town, and they are hiding like this, they are hiding in a bomb shelter, i was talking about people who survived these atrocities who survived, they are simply everything, in severe psychological trauma, and in ukraine, do israelis feel the support of ukraine or ukrainians, well, you know, i

spoke here, i spoke on television, on russian-language television, the ninth ninth channel of israeli television appeared on english-language second other television , i said that i was asked question that's all, i'm saying that the president of ukraine, the general staff of ukraine, the national police, the military unit, and, simply, simply a citizen of ukraine, i express my support for israel in thousands, i didn't even expect anyone, you see, today ukraine, so to speak, nobody no one is real, so to speak, real, here they send me many, many films, such videos, when they are soldiers, even from scratch.

what do you expect now in israel, how long will you stay, what can you do when you return to ukraine, how do you generally see the development of the situation, i am on two fronts, so что i, well, probably, i will have to come to ukraine soon, i, no, they are waiting for me there too, i have to there too, yes, now we have arranged some things here, now i will also come to ukraine, well, if possible, i will there and there, that is, it is important to me both there and there and that, this is to complete victory, i am sure that we will defeat this evil, it is so to speak, this is a creeping evil, we must win, there is a rocket flying, yes you see, here i'm going straight now.

we saw a lot behind your back, that's how the experience of ukrainians from their war becomes in occasion and in other countries and i will also say that mr. mosha asman, he switched to the ukrainian language after the full-scale invasion along with many others. so we wish him success in this as well and move on to other news: the additional supply of weapons from north korea to russia. this became the main topic of the latest negotiations between russian foreign minister sergei lavrov and north korea. at least analysts of the american institute for the study of war think so. according to the us state department, in recent weeks north korea provided russia with more than 1,000 containers of military equipment and ammunition. what kind of weapons pyongyang can provide to moscow and what russia can offer in return, andriy borys was looking into. evening, october 18. pyongyang airport. russian foreign minister

sergey lavrov is welcomed. hundreds of people, despite the rain, happily wave flowers and shout in korean: welcome. lavrov's last visit to north korea in 2018 was much more modest. meeting with the leader of the dprk kimchen, negotiations with foreign minister choi hong-hee, in official reports the parties talk about strategic partnership and the development of bilateral relations, and dry public reports actually hide other agreements on new supplies. of north korean weapons to russia, experts say. at this time, north korea cannot produce complex weapons in significant quantities, but they have a strategic stockpile of simpler weapons for 4-6 months that they can begin to use, at the same time they can begin to build up domestic production, from mines for large artillery ammunition.

last week, the white house released data...intelligence indicating that north korea sent 1,000 containers of weapons to russia. last year, the strategic communications coordinator of the us national security council , john kirby, reported that north korea also supplied weapons to the russian pmk wagner, and now the us and its allies are also concerned about the question of what moscow will give pyongyang in return. north korea is looking for various military weapons, surface-to-surface missiles, strike aircraft, armored vehicles, technologies for the production of rockets, advanced technologies. for satellites, we know that north korea already launched diesel-electric, tactical nuclear submarines in september, and that adds vulnerability to us forces in the region, so they need russian technology to improve their nuclear forces and their own missile program. such cooperation of russia with the dprk is a direct violation of the resolution of the un security council, for which moscow also voted. in response, the united states is stepping up military exercises with its allies

of south korea. and japan, tension in the region favors moscow, because it distracts the attention of the us and distracts from ukraine, experts say. putin will be very careful because he wants to hide the arrangements, but at the same time he wants to help north korea, because north korea is an additional factor that distracts the united states, so the areas where he can essentially help, but not expand too much, is just providing technology korea will need time, i don't think they will provide too much nuclear technology, north korea, also important intelligence information, and it does not have such resources, how exactly russia will cooperate with the dprk will probably be agreed at the next meeting with putin, this trip was announced in the kremlin last month, the last time putin met with kim jong-un in september in vladivostok. andriy borys, voice of america. and

finally, women from israel, taiwan, the philippines, peru, costa rica and other countries visited the ukrainian church in washington. representatives of various faiths and nationalities visited the ukrainian temple for the first time to learn more about religion and traditions of ukraine, as well as how to help and support ukrainians in times of war. details in the story of iryna shinkarenko and vyacheslav filyushkin. in the ukrainian church of st. andrew near washington, an unusual excursion. representatives of the washington international women's club, a union that unites representatives of various nationalities who emigrated to the usa, came here. most of the women visited the ukrainian church for the first time in their lives to learn more about ukraine. to see the church. i pray for

all ukrainians who suffer greatly, me i plan to talk to my countrymen who live nearby to help this community. if all countries help ukraine, it will continue to fight. the abbot of the church, father volodymyr told women from different parts of the world about the past of the ukrainian church and about current events that brought many caring people to the church. war shows the worst side of humanity but at the same time i saw the best side of humanity and that's my priority, that's what we focus on here, we focus on humanitarian work, on prayers, on support not only ukrainians, because in my opinion, it is not necessary to be'