[000:00:00;00] the answer may not have been given, but there are appropriate legal procedures, which are followed by both the law enforcement system and the judiciary , so i would like to note that, in general , more than 400 people, of which 33 are high-ranking officials and persons , who held managerial positions, 224 law enforcement officers, of which... 47 investigators, 22 prosecutors, 19 judges, and a total of 186 criminal proceedings and indictments against 334 persons were brought to court, this is what directly concerns office of the general procurator of the prosecutor general, with the force of law issued guilty verdicts against 34 persons , at the same time, as we know, that the events in 2013-2014

were developing... both throughout ukraine and in other regional centers and cities, therefore and the territorial bodies of the prosecutor's office in this direction also carried out appropriate work and during this time 136 more people were brought to criminal responsibility, including law enforcement officers, investigators, employees of berkuta and employees of state authorities, high-ranking officials, and 106 were referred to court indictments against 119 people, accordingly we have verdicts against 26 people, in the current year, only for the current year, we have continued active work aimed at completing, and effective, further investigation, completion of the investigation, and of course,

their consideration in court and assistance prosecutors and ensuring reasonable terms of their... consideration, about this also, i will provide certain, key data , ivan, and maybe i will ask you about such problematic, let's say, moments, because there is information that some maidan cases, which relating to serious crimes may not be reviewed in general due to the expiration of the statute of limitations, and that there are about 60 such proceedings, said the head of the department for maidan affairs, the office of the prosecutor general of ukraine, oleksiy donskyi, which cases are in general, which episodes and whether they are true. there is a great threat that these cases may not be considered at all, i want to make it here, well, clarify that they cannot be not considered, indeed, according to the criminal code of ukraine there is such a concept as the statute of limitations for criminal prosecution, the term yes , statute of limitations

the application of punishment to persons, and in serious crimes, this statute of limitations is 10 years, that is, it does not apply to murder cases, it does not apply to particularly serious crimes, where the statute of limitations is 15 years or there is no statute of limitations at all, it does not apply to those high-ranking officials who are evading and persons who are evading criminal responsibility and , in relation to whom we conduct a pre-trial investigation from court proceedings within the framework of the so-called special absentee proceedings, i.e. this applies to persons who are actually involved in of criminal liability, in respect of which the cases have been brought to court, and for example, uh, these are such crimes as, for example, the abuse of power and official powers by berkut employees there, as regards the events of november 30, literally in 10

days it will be 10 years and such persons will be sentenced by the courts, but they will be released from criminal liability with their consent, because if there is no consent, then the prosecutor must prove the guilt of such a person before the judge, and the court will pronounce a sentence regarding of such a person, he will be found guilty or innocent, and if such a person is found guilty, he will simply release him from the crime of responsibility and from punishment, from the very direct punishment, the same cases also apply to january 14th of the year, the statute of limitations, regarding which they will appear there in january or february next year, however, i want to repeat that these are not criminal proceedings connected with particularly serious crimes, with murders, and there are no criminal

proceedings connected with those high... ' by officials or persons who evade, from the court and the investigation and, accordingly, are wanted, mr. ivan, thank you for such procedural details, i would also like to ask you, we: there is a minute left, but many activists and journalists point out that even now the judges, law enforcement officers of those times remain working in these structures, many questions are raised, for example, the figure of oleg tatarov, during the revolution of dignity, he worked as the deputy head of the main investigative department of the ministry of internal affairs, and now he works in the office of the president, whether some people can somehow influence the term the trial of cases, on the trial of cases, is there such pressure from certain people or is there not? well, let's proceed from the presumption of innocence, and a person cannot, as a prosecutor, of course, i can only provide an assessment from the point of view of criminal law,

criminal process, a person is not considered not guilty until his guilt is established in the established according to the law of order by the court, that means theoretically, theoretically we can talk about some kind of influence. some kind of hindrance, however, i want to dwell on the problems that are real exists with a judicial, let's say, terms of judicial proceedings, because we have , for example, from the point of view of the exemplary process, the same process that recently ended the eight-year trial regarding berkut employees, where there were hundreds of victims, hundreds of witnesses, and the court investigated and organized the process in such a way that such a large body of evidence was investigated , witnesses, victims were interrogated and

a decision was made, at the same time we have trials where a one-episode crime is actually committed, where there are two or three victims or one victim and two or one the accused, last for years, for five years, there for six years and in such terms , and here it affects, first of all, in my opinion, it is the behavior of the participants in the process, i mean the side of the defense, where in not, in not infrequent cases, deliberate actions aimed at delaying the process are taken, if i briefly ask whether during this time you have observed or seen, witnessed the pressure of certain prejudgments there. investigation or any such processes? personally, personally, on me and on my unit, directly, i have not seen such such pressure, thank you mr. ivan, this is it the main thing is that we will also write about such things in the comments, unfortunately, there is no time

to discuss all this in more detail, but thank you for joining, ivan babenko, deputy head of the department for maidan affairs from the office of the prosecutor general of ukraine, thank you, this is svoboda ranok, my name is kateryna nekrecha, and in this stream we talk about the following topics: carriers will be sued due to the blocking of trucks at the polish-ukrainian border, the vice president of the international road transport association of carriers announced this, etc. trade representative of ukraine taras kachka called this situation before the crisis, because the strike could affect important supplies of energy resources for ukraine. so, will it be possible to find a compromise with the protesters, what damages the blocked border has already caused to ukrainian carriers. defenders of iryna farion held a rally near the lviv polytechnic the day before. fellow party members and colleagues at the department opposed her dismissal. the discussion about language in society continues, whether language determines nationality, which language in ukraine needs protection and whether

national minorities protected in the country, we will ask the conditional obtusman about this later. you can also participate in our broadcast, write comments, ask questions to the speakers of our morning show just under this stream on the radio liberty channel. a rally was held again under the walls of the lviv polytechnic, now with the support of iryna farion. about a hundred people, mostly party members, politicians from svoboda, demanded that the administration of the educational institution return professor farion to her post. shame, shame, the security service opens a criminal case proceedings against iryna faron for defending the ukrainian language. iryna faryuon herself said in one of her latest video blogs on youtube that she will sue, regarding what she considers to be illegal dismissal. in addition, she stated that she will

fight for the resignation of the minister of education oksen lisovoy, the rector of the lviv polytechnic, yuriy bobel and those who signed the order for her dismissal. human rights commissioner dmytro lubinets said on our broadcast that. she did not turn to him, perhaps the violated procedure for her release, however, if there is such an appeal, he said, he will deal with this case. earlier, lubinets himself appealed to the security service of ukraine with a demand... to verify faron's statements regarding the russian-speaking ukrainian military. the sbu opened criminal proceedings against faron on four counts, in addition to violating the equality of citizens and insulting military personnel, linguists are also accused of violating the secrecy of correspondence and violating the privacy of private life. iryna farion was dismissed from the lviv polytechnic precisely because of her statements in an interview with blogger inin sekulova that russian-speaking military personnel are not ukrainians. this was particularly demanded by the students. polytechnics who protested for the release of farion.

the administration of the educational institution initially promised to create a task force to find out the reasons for such dismissal, but then unexpectedly published a notice of such dismissal of farion. however, after a wave of outrage in the comments, this message disappeared from the website and social networks of the polytechnic. later it was returned. to taras kremen, authorized for the protection of the state language, joins our broadcast. i congratulate you. tarasa, thank you for joining. good morning, glory to ukraine. glory to the heroes, in your opinion, and why is the issue of language so acute in society, although, also, whether it is correct to speak in society, i do not know, because mostly there are so many comments and discussions online, and there are such two bright positions, some say that don't put pressure on us about the language, it doesn't matter what language i use, and that it's russian, i'm still a patriot of ukraine there, and another position about the fact that it is time to realize that language is very important and otherwise the enemy would not have destroyed it

for centuries, then whose side is the truth? the territory of the state language is the territory of freedom and dignity, and precisely with this protestors, including ukrainian students, went to ukrainian squares exactly 10 years ago. i myself was among the leaders of mykolaiv euromaymay and i remember very well that among our main demands was the approval of the ukrainian language and its introduction as an official language in all spheres of public life, and then there were the presence of students, and then there was the occupation of crimea. and other territories of our state, donetsk region, luhansk region, etc. at the beginning of a full-scale invasion, the language factor is not only a factor of freedom, but also of security, of our identity and culture. and this marker is someone else's, and the military from the frontline have repeatedly said that where you hear the russian language, the first reaction is a shot. that's why ukrainian has become a factor of security, a factor of coherence and understanding of who is in their own country. i will not comment on the statement. everyone, but i want to say

that this year we had a lot of complaints about violations of the language law in the university environment, let's say, this year alone we received 86 appeals, some of them concern universities in the south, east, center and west of ukraine, where students express their reluctance to communicate in a non-state language, but at the same time i want to say that a large number of military personnel today communicate in ukrainian, and regardless of whether it is combat positions or private communication, ukrainian has come to dominate, instead i want to say, that i am ready to help those military personnel who are just moving to ukrainian with better opportunities, but let's not forget that the struggle is taking place at the front and for what language we will communicate, and who, if not a military person, can understand all this perfectly, because actually through their mouths, which we heard from the occupied mariupol, which we hear from avdiyivka, or during the terrible battles near bakhmut, we understand what ruskamir is, what is the main goal of the russian occupier? this is not

only the destruction of our culture, language, identity, but also the destruction of ukrainians, therefore the genocide against the ukrainian people, condemned by the whole world, is one of those parameters that we see even today, so the struggle continues for the language, for our land and, of course, for our victory. taras, in your opinion, language does not determine nationality, and can russian-speakers be called ukrainians? there is no such concept of russian speakers, we are all citizens of ukraine, and this marker. which was introduced by the russian ideologue ideology, it is also determined by the decision of the constitutional court of ukraine. if it is necessary to create something better, then i am the authorized representative of course i stand on that side. we should have a state program to promote the mastery of the ukrainian language as a state language. ukrainian is mandatory for the armed forces of ukraine, for the development of bodies. ukrainian is dominant in all spheres of social life. and regardless of whether they are national communities or foreigners, everyone... must speak the ukrainian language on the territory of the ukrainian

state, because it is the language of the educational process, the educational trajectory, of course , the future of life, and it is a conscious choice of the language of an indomitable nation, in your opinion, what kind of today, the language of ukraine needs protection, russian or ukrainian? the ukrainian language is actually protected by law , but in order for it to be protected, it is necessary for everyone to communicate, it is clear that this should be facilitated as much as possible, let's say, at the beginning of a full-scale invasion, we organized more than 500 free locations for mastering the ukrainian language as a state and all of them are of a volunteer nature, it's about... hundreds of local programs, and regardless of whether it's the kharkiv regional council or the odesa regional council, they all have such programs, they are financed in a real way, but the responsibility, of course, is also on the part of the local government to control the process, and this process concerns the diversification of outdoor advertising , the announcement of signs, the sphere of service,

the activity of internet resources, media space, well, of course, this is the sphere of service, where violations occur to this day, but if we talk about the armed forces of ukraine, it is precisely thanks to... the successes of our combat units, and today is the anniversary of the creation of the airborne assault troops, we also approve the ukrainian language, we need to think today about how to return the language to the de-occupied territories, and the south and the east and the crimea, because it is extremely very important, the interest in the ukrainian language and the transition to ukrainian is a record for all the years of ukrainian independence, but in our unity, in understanding, in supporting each other , and of course, in the fierce struggle against the russian enemy, ours, our victory and our success. mr. taras, you said about some actions taken by the state that help ukrainians to learn the ukrainian language and use it in everyday life. in your opinion, are these actions sufficient? is the language law itself sufficient to say that this process is going on there, that the process of ukrainization of society is going on

, the authorities need to do something else, i don’t know, there is propaganda, advertising of the ukrainian language to encourage more people, use it in the future. i think it is the choice of each citizen to meet the factors of citizenship that he deserves. the authorities are doing everything possible, and our team of the commissioner's secretariat, which is represented in various regions of ukraine, we have representatives, we carry out daily monitoring for compliance with language legislation, but at the same time, of course, we need to communicate in the ukrainian language, because this is a matter of dignity and freedom and today, the beginning of the revolution of dignity is about what we are still fighting for today, and we are fighting we have the right to communicate in the ukrainian language on ukrainian soil, this is very important to realize and understand in the context that ukraine is fighting for itself, for europe and for a democratic future, free education, this is a principled position that we adhere to. mr. taras, i cannot ask you about the languages ​​of national minorities, given the situation

between hungary and ukraine, there, orbán accuses ukraine of oppressing certain people, and it is said about this norm that in the 10th, from the 10th grade, schools should only study in the ukrainian language, there are 1,000 ethnic hungarians in ukraine, for example , do they need protection in the language issue, is there no pressure on them from the ukrainian side, how can you comment on all this? despite the fact that i was born in mykolaiv oblast, i have transcarpathian roots, which i understand very well the situation with national communities, not only in zakarpattia, but also in odesa , volyn, bukovyna, etc., we were able to turn the situation around. indeed , they began to communicate more in ukrainian and it became the language of the educational process in schools with a compact residence of national communities. of course, the principals received certificates, the removals were replaced, the ukrainian language began to be taught in ukrainian, and the history of ukraine actually began to be taught in classes on the history of ukraine. but this process is constant, but i know

one thing for sure, and in particular, on your website, the website of radio liberty, a brilliant material recently appeared. and transcarpathian hungarians do not need security. and protection from the hungarian authorities, they themselves know what they need, that is why there are so many transcarpathian hungarians in the 128th hiva assault brigade, so many representatives of other national communities in the ranks of the armed forces and territorial defense units, they made their conscious a choice in favor of ukraine, because they are citizens of ukraine, so we are not needed to teach, but at the same time, it is necessary to create additional opportunities for the citizens of ukraine to master the ukrainian language, and of course to acquire the necessary skills that we need to fight against the russian army. thank you for joining our broadcast. taras kremin, commissioner for the protection of the state language, was a guest of svoboda ranok. next, let's talk about the situation on the polish-ukrainian border. before the crisis situation, the trade representative of ukraine taras kachka called it, and he said that this is the fact

that polish carriers are blocking traffic trucks, and this week kyiv hopes to hold tripartite talks with poland and the european commission. this is reported by reuters, according to kachka, the blockade may affect the supply of critically important energy resources for ukraine, which suffers from constant russian attacks, liquefied natural gas has already been most affected, gasoline and diesel fuel to a lesser extent, says kachka and adds that because of the blockade , imports from the baltic countries are also important, and not only imports from poland. meanwhile, carriers are preparing lawsuits regarding compensation for damages caused by the blocking of border checkpoints due to the polish protest, this was stated by the vice-president of the association of international motor carriers, volodymyr balin, on the air of the telethon, and according to his fame, ukrainian carriers have legal support in poland. meanwhile, for the transporters stuck at the border and blocked there for more than a week, a relief headquarters was set up to provide the drivers with food, drinking water,

medicine and fuel. it has already snowed in poland, so the weather conditions make it difficult expectation. this is what the carriers and protesters themselves say. i came from vdansk, and we have been standing here for a whole week. if we assume that the car arrived today, then if they continue to work at the same pace as they are now, then it will arrive home somewhere, well, just in time for christmas, yesterday they brought this name he, why does anyone need it, bring all the fuel, people are freezing, us thrown as if arbitrarily, we are hostages, hostages of the government situation, what more can you say, if the government does not decide, who should decide who us, who, who has to decide, and in our country no one decides here. good will is needed on both sides. now we have received a signal, as soon as a colleague called us, he says that ukrainian

truckers want to meet with our truckers to talk and agree on something together. there was a similar meeting in the spring where we discussed things because these are people from the same industry who have to come to an agreement. ukraine and poland held talks on the blockade last week, but both sides reported no progress. on sunday. the authorities stated that on on the polish side of the border, about 3,000 mostly ukrainian trucks, including those with fuel and humanitarian aid, were stuck. volodymyr balin, vice president of the association of international motor carriers, joins our broadcast. i congratulate you, mr. volodymyr. thank you for joining. you stated that the carriers are already preparing lawsuits for compensation for damages caused by this blocking. can you tell me here what amount is involved in this lawsuit and which court you will go to. to be submitted, taking into account that you

also noted that there is legal support and poland, good afternoon, a very important question for us, i want to comment in this way , we are really preparing lawsuits, and it's not only carriers who are preparing, we are currently working with our exporters, importers, literally on the 11th i will have a meeting and the following is obvious to us today, first, the lawyers must find out... the reasons for the blocking, whether they were legal, i as a person, not legally, no, not even having a legal education, but i understand that certain laws and treaties of ukraine of poland, and this is part of the legislation, certain treaties of the european union, they are violated, and accordingly those who claimed and those who allowed these actions, in my opinion, should answer according to the law, but the lawyer... have two tasks today, task number one, to find out all

, weed out all the excuses, all the grounds for blocking and cancel them in court, this is the first part, the second part, everyone who will have the desire to work with lawyers in court, regarding compensation for damage, then they will work individually, that is our task today as associations, together with by other associations of exporters and importers to unblock the border, and given that there is currently no perspective, until we unfortunately do not see through negotiations, it will most likely be in court, and then these same lawyers, i think, who will have all the reasons to complain that indeed, if my words are confirmed, that there was still no reason to issue such a permit and block the border, they will work with carriers, exporters, and importers, including polish ones companies that suffered from this conflict. mr. volodymyr, do you coordinate your actions here , for example, there with the authorities, because this week we know that

tripartite negotiations with poland and the european commission are to be held, whether such lawsuits will not interfere with the agreements. well, i, as long as no one told us that we are doing something wrong , in my opinion, we are helping the authorities here, because the tripartite negotiations were on wednesday, the position of ukraine is clear and accepted by the polish government and the european commission, as far as we know, today we hope they will additional negotiations with the european commission between our ministry of infrastructure, yesterday we know that the strikers communicated with the european commission, defended their positions, that is, there is a discussion, but today we have the fact that today the cars are blocked, the drivers are blocked, the goods are not moving, respectively, and carriers, cargo owners bear certain losses, for this they should answer, in my opinion, we are working precisely in this direction, that is, those who are in favor of

the strike, so to speak, wrote statements that they want to hold a strike , and here the main question is, personally, i am not against a strike, if it were a strike and the cars were standing somewhere on the side and obstructing the movement of trucks, well, no question, we would drive and see that they are on strike, they are against us, they are against permits and yes, that we have an unauthorized situation, but we have a blockade, and we have a blockade of the border itself, and this is precisely the violation, and violation not only of ukrainian and polish... agreements of european legislation, and we will work on this, therefore that the polish authorities are not yet canceled the permission for these actions, but i think that we will have grounds to cancel them in court, i do not think that it will interfere in any way with the negotiations, because as far as we know, the official position of the ministry of infrastructure of poland, they are against the strike, they have

repeatedly appealed to strikers so that they don't strike in such a way , don't block the border, but we have what we have so far, in your opinion, the situation is really pre-crisis, as taras kachko says about it? well, the situation is very simple, if the movement of trucks is not unblocked by december 20, then we already finished, we can say on november 5, the fiscal year and carriers, exporters, importers, all those who are oriented to the transportation of their goods by trucks, that is, in fact, we were made minus two months in the budget under... in the budget of ukraine, and this will be a really big lack of income to the budget and revenues to the company, which counted on certain revenues, and today every truck that stands, it loses, the carrier loses 350 € of revenues, count it on those for these already 16 days, that is, there is a problem, yes, trucks

are moving, plus or minus little by little, but in fact they stand much more than they stood with... usually, and in this there is also a violation of the rights of our carriers, our, our drivers, a violation of the rights of our cargo recipients and cargo senders, and i think that the courts will give a legal assessment of this situation. volodymyr, and finally, why do you think it is still not possible to find a compromise with the protesters from the polish side, those who blocked the border, as you indicated, well, i am sure that among the squatters there are carriers who want to get certain preferences, for example, there is waiting in line, not to use the electronic queue when leaving ukraine to poland, but there are carriers who stand here and came from a white background and the longer they stand, the more money they get, i do not rule out that it is money aggressor, i thank you for joining our broadcast , we will follow the news, volodymyr balin, vice-president of the association of international motor carriers, was a guest of svoboda ranok, we talked about the situation on

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tomorrow. it's 10 o'clock, it's time to find out what 's happening in ukraine and the world at this time, khrystyna parubiy works in the studio. russian terrorists hit a hospital in selidovo in donetsk region with rockets, injuring seven patients. near at midnight , two s300 rockets hit the premises, partially destroying three buildings of the medical facility. the rescue operation is still ongoing, because there may be people under the rubble people - said the minister of internal affairs of ukraine ihor klymenko. they also targeted the kotlyarevska mine in the novogrodivska community, a miner was killed. four