and they have several other people there, it is very difficult, they all love to comment, like, on facebook, they often communicate there, they have dialogues, they have been from the first days, then they go to the front together, then they quarrel, this difficult questions, to be honest with me, that's why i told you, it seems to me that we all need to give results to the state every day, and we'll have time for a selfie. mr. colonel, this is the third time i am listening to valer maryan, and to be honest, this is just a monologue for me, it's really annoying, i don't know how you are as a person the military, how do you generally perceive it, is it generally appropriate during the war to put it on the level of the head commander and some mariana, so to answer correctly, well, yes, it looks terrible, i think that... one should not conduct

dialogues like that during war, even if he thinks that he has achieved something there, he is directly me, i am the representative, it is all mine, no, it is the ukrainian people and everything they have now, including what positions the president has in the world and in the country , it's all thanks to the ukrainian people, it's thanks to the chairman, it's thanks to his deputies, thanks to everyone soldier, and every person who , let's say, does something, gets involved in order for our... country to be and for the president to be able to give press conferences, and i think that whatever the relationship is with the commander-in-chief, respect for just the fact that this person protected the country, this person, well, even if we are just talking about generals, not even during the war, a person who wasted his life, he first graduated from the military military institute, i graduated from it myself, it is not just that , this is not an ordinary institute when you are four years you live in... from the army, then from

the platoon commander and azaluzhny went through all the stages, and he is a very respected person in the troops among the military from soldier to general, he passed all these questions, he rose to the rank of commander, he has been at the front since the age of 14 , and now he is fighting, then this is a respected person in the whole world, and it is so disrespectful to speak there valera, marianna, well, it is very ugly, believe me, i talked to many today, including colleagues... my and there my international colleagues , then everyone rated it as such disdain, after that he says that everything is fine with us, this is quite wrong, so i think, no matter what, that the president is here, i don't know why i emphasized that the relationship between the chief and him is not the best, thank you, colonel, for the conversation, it was roman kostenko, colonel of the security service.

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money will affect the russian-ukrainian front, and in particular, how, in your opinion, will putin and the occupying army use this whole story? well, first of all, i will not say clearly now how long this situation can be delayed, yes, there are some insider sources who generally indicate that there is no higher than a 30% possibility of receiving such a level of aid of 61.4 billion dollars, which have been laid down for ukraine, and political advisers. and biden is advised to give up support for ukraine in favor of, strictly speaking , his political interests, because there is a very powerful political struggle there, to what extent it is

really, so to speak, the final decision, i do not undertake to judge, but the challenge, it is really the number one challenge for 24 th year but, let's face it, there is already a shortage of ammunition, as he mentioned two days ago, general tarnavsky, speaking about the direction, south and east, and, above all, he spoke about the redistribution of ammunition, and above all, the shortage of ammunition of post-soviet calibers, i.e. 122-152. millimeters, these are the ones that ukroboronprom previously said it started producing in 22, but it seems to me that i exaggerated a little with the statements, and now it is just as difficult with this, for the 24th year, i will remember another interview

of the general gavrylyuk, deputy minister of defense, bbc, who noted that in the 24th year... we will try to do, so say, to produce enough ukrainian ammunition to cover the deficit or the difference between the ammunition that the western world can provide us, and we expect 2 million a year, a million ammunition from the united states and a million from european nato countries, eh, but well, from the european union , rather yes... but the fact that only 480,000 were crushed, that is, by the state, by the autumn state, by the beginning of winter, is evidence that there may be major delays with this issue, and therefore,

the ukrainian leadership itself, the ukrainian the government, well, began to respond positively to this the situation, and positively, just like that, this was also announced in principle by... gavrylyuk, that it is necessary to compensate for fpv drones, and actually speaking, during his press conference, president zelenskyi said that a million fpv drones will be produced, and then it was supplemented by the minister of strategic industries oleksandr kamyshyn, who noted that this is before the one thousand will be produced. drones with a range of 1,000 km and 10,000 strikes of medium- range strike drones, apparently by medium-range he meant between the range of the battlefield and operational range, i.e. up to somewhere 400-500,

500 km, how realistic is all this, well, let 's hope that, well, first of all, this step and... the movement of the ukrainian authorities is absolutely true to the principle, because a year of very big challenges is coming, and you need to rely on yourself as much as possible, and i define the issue of own production as the third challenge out of five that i and my center have determined for the 24th year, the 93rd separately. cold yar mechanized brigade is in dire need of drones. to effectively hit the enemy and increase losses of living and non-living forces of the occupier. to get closer to the victory that all of ukraine is waiting for. glory to ukraine. glory to heroes.

greetings, friends, the live broadcast of the espresso tv channel continues with the verdict program, my name is serhiy rudenko, we are talking about the most current things, about what you... unity of power or real usurpation, why can't president volodymyr zelensky disband his team? ukraine is on the eve of a major recruitment for the armed forces, what should it be like and what is the role of local self-government in it. the invaders will fight to the end, imperial putin's ambitions, is russia ready to end the war in ukraine? friends, throughout the broadcast we are conducting a survey, today we are asking you about the following: is peace with russia possible?

yes, no, if you watch us on youtube, it's pretty simple, vote yes or no, write your comments below this video. if you are watching us on tv, pick up your phone or smartphone and vote. if you think peace with russia is possible, call 0800 211381, no, 0800-2113. 72. all calls to these numbers are available free of charge at the end of the program, we will sum up the results of this vote. viktoriya ptashnyk, deputy of the kyiv city council from european solidarity, is visiting the verdict today. mrs. victoria, i congratulate you. good evening. vitaly kulyk, political scientist, director of the center for researching civil society problems. mr. vitaly, good evening. i congratulate you. andriy smoliy, lawyer, political expert, public activist. mr. andriy, thank you for joining. to our broadcast, good evening and happy birthday, today is your birthday, it is nice that you celebrate

your birthday in such a company, it is an honor for us, thank you, thank you for the greetings, well, we have to work, we have to convey information and our views to people, so at any time, even a birthday, i am always ready to add thank you for joining, so let's talk about what volodymyr zelenskyi's team is like now, because... yesterday there was a big press conference of the president of ukraine, a lot of different things were said, but the most important thing that was said for me was about , that he has a team, and if he loses its command, then ukraine will lose everything, including air defense. let's listen to what zelensky said. if i get rid of my team, i have a small one, five or six managers, then we become with you with... weaker, there will be less air defense, there will be less help, with all due respect to your rhetoric, i can't, i just can't to allow

this, as far as the deputies are concerned, they are absolutely right, they should do their work exclusively, be moral authorities, unfortunately, this is not happening, what can i do as the president, i cannot them dissolve, because then there will be elections, elections for... can be held during the war, well, ladies and gentlemen, it turns out that the ukrainians are hostages of these five or six managers, because the president cannot release them, despite everything, re-elections can be held , he cannot the verkhovna rada, well, what does this mean, it means that this narrow bench, it is so narrow that we did not even imagine that it turns out that all important issues are decided only there... five or six people, as he said president zelenskyi. mr. andrii, what do you think, in the conditions when

zelensky is forced to work with these people, because he says that there may not even be air defense, what does this mean that if he fires andriy yermak, then andriy yermak will leave the president's office through air defense systems? well, i generally wonder why the president's team consists of five or six people. the president's team is actually the entire president's office, the government of ukraine, ministers, vice prime ministers, the prime minister, the president's team are basically hundreds of people's deputies in the verkhovna rada, these are the people with whom he went the president who often densely appointed these people who proposed the president, so when we talk about five or six people there, well, is the president talking about them, so i don't quite understand... well, why so few, because in fact, let's say, there are a lot of positions in the government, and a lot

people are responsible, must be responsible and make decisions, the same people's deputies who were also received by the president of the country, in fact, they are also the president's team, they press the buttons, they register bills and they, accordingly, are also the president's team. yah if, again, we are talking about the letter of the law, it is written in the law that these people make decisions, at the expense of five or six people, well, most likely, we were talking about such people closest to zelensky, who drive there, who conditionally speaking , they make some certain, conditionally speaking, decisions, we also know this well, but the question also arises , well, if, for example, someone got into trouble there, or someone got into some kind of scandal, or in the end someone does not like the president personally, whether

someone is needed strengthen, someone there, conditionally say, take away some powers or... gardens, well, really, because of this , let's say, the air defense systems that we already have, and which our international partners help us to get, will disappear, will it , let's say, reduce the support from the united states states of america, support there, we see, does not entirely depend on, relatively speaking, how ukraine and the usa communicate there, this is also important, but now it also depends on domestic politics. the situation in the usa, as well as the european union, we see that indeed in fact, it is unlikely that we will be deprived of funding, military support, political support , etc. , if we need

to do some technical things, the government of ukraine is actually there for that. therefore, i emphasize once again, all these people are the president's team, and we see that in the end certain people are replaced from time to time, from time to time there are some changes, well, formal, maybe small ones there is, but i say again, if there is public distrust of certain people, if journalists have questions about certain people, if certain people are involved in certain investigations, then i think that here it is necessary to... make decisions, and vice versa, if such people interfere, if such people are involved in certain cases, investigations, or have a negative trail, then it seems to me that, on the contrary, their replacement, which will do, will lead to greater trust in international partners, in other states, who provide us with help, because they

will understand that the ukrainian state, the ukrainian president, the ukrainian authorities react, in fact, to... to this, and even during the war they have the opportunity to change people and the bench, as you correctly said, is not small, but large, in principle, as it should be, therefore that we are currently at war, and i think that in principle, in general, we should probably talk about the involvement of people, maybe from other political forces, maybe people in general, who are, relatively speaking, technocratic, who are technocrats. which uh, relatively speaking, could help out of the point from a political point of view, and from an economic point of view, from the point of view, thank you, mr. andriy, ms. viktoria, you are a representative of the european solidarity party, you represent the interests of the european solidarity party in the kyiv city council, could your party

contribute with personnel potential and help zelenskyi, so what can't be... the whole nation is held hostage by five or six people in any case, no matter what party he is from, i imagine that there in 2019 petro oleksiyovych said that five six people solve some issues there, all the rest are simple they don't do that, because the situation then was completely different, even between the representatives of the coalition between petro poroshenko's european bloc and the people's front, and there was some kind of... i worked in the parliament of the eighth convocation and i remember completely different battles and discussions , convictions, and well, i saw with my own eyes how the system of checks and balances worked, which should generally operate in any legal state, and unfortunately, it does not exist

today, yes, if you start with european solidarity, it seems to me , what every ukrainian knows and... has seen the statements of representatives of european solidarity at the national level, when at the beginning of a full-scale invasion, and not even at the beginning, but long before the full-scale invasion, the representatives of european solidarity actually proposed to first meet with the president of ukraine, even behind closed doors, to discuss and perhaps a possible full-scale war, because you remember us, then our international partners warned, and actually the position... of eysk solidarity was such that we need to prepare for this full-scale invasion, and not go for barbecues. well, actually, both then and now, and people's deputies. and well, in general, politicians from european solidarity are of course ready to join and the only question is that

they do not join the diplomatic front, european solidarity, you see, petro poroshenko may not be allowed abroad to meet with senators, with congressmen, just as recently ivan klymposhtinsadze, former neither is the vice prime minister for european and euro-atlantic integration released, but that's why you know, it's... more of a rhetorical question, i think, but at the press conference, if you remember, the question about the possibility of creating a government of national unity was raised, it was on condition, the idea of ​​such a government was meant, which was created in israel, and it seems to me, judging by the president's answers, that he didn't even understand what was being discussed, he started talking about some rotations in the cabinet of ministers, but well, it's not about rotations, not about individual ministers are being replaced, but what about... unification of absolutely all pro-ukrainian politicians in order to win this war, and not to think about elections. as for the excerpt from the press conference that you showed

so briefly, but very revealingly , i think it is necessary to pay attention to the fact that in this passage it is about five or six people, and also about the impossibility of dissolving the parliament, because it is not possible to hold elections to spend there and so on, in fact the president, to his great regret , showed, first of all, neglect. the constitution of ukraine and laws of ukraine, neglect of democratic values, public demand for changes, including the fight against corruption , the cleansing of various state bodies from collaborations in power, i want to explain why, well, if we start there with the parliament, yes, but i want to remind the president that it is not his good will to dissolve the parliament at some point , when he wants it, the constitution provides for you... the list of cases of corruption-parliament can be dissolved, and if the president once managed to do it with the parliament of the eighth convocation, in which i worked in an absolutely illegal way, then

this does not mean that you can continue to not read the constitution, disregard these norms. further, what concerns five or six people in general , well, to be honest, i am very surprised, in general, how it can come to anyone's mind, even, even if so, yes, in fact, it is. but still, i would like to remind you that we are a parliamentary-presidential state, and the parliament must be key in such a state, and the parliament has key functions to perform, and when there is a monomajority in the parliament, it is more than 226 deputies elected from the people's servants, and not including them to the president's team in a parliamentary-presidential state, well , it simply means that even these norms of the constitution are not actually taken into account. and you know, there is such a feeling that someone thinks that he is a king, he has a mace, and he can absolutely do anything at any moment

, surrounded by these five or six people. and as for this request for the fight against corruption and so on , well, look, there were clear, specific questions at the press conference, including, and they spoke, for example, a journalist, you remember, the mirror of the week, she raised ... the question of the so-called lazovo amendments, for the audience, i want to explain that this is an absolutely possible manual mechanism, how to close criminal cases against, including top officials, and including corruption cases, simply by not doing anything, here goes criminal case, it has been initiated, the investigator may not investigate this case, may not collect the evidence base, then the terms prescribed by law in our country coincide, and then the investigator shakes hands. shrugs and says: well, oops, the deadlines have coincided, we have to close this case, and this is what actually happened with one, i i understand, from the people of the president's team, mr. tatarov, against whom

a criminal case was initiated, and it was closed precisely at the coincidence of these terms. so, when the journalist dzela tyzhnya asked the question, what are we going to do with these norms, and our european partners call us to make appropriate changes, because we don't want corruption cases. after all, they were investigated in a manual mode, someone was given the actual green light for the investigation, someone was blocked by someone, but i would recommend everyone to watch the reaction of the president, but not really, let's put it this way, to put it mildly, it was a restrained reaction, i didn't like it very much, mr. zelensky didn't like the question very much, but i think it's very telling, actually, thank you. this shows that criminal cases are very much wanted to be managed manually, despite the society's request to fight corruption, despite the fact that this is one of the key

demands. of our european membership, thank you, thank you, ms. victoria, mr. vitaly, what conclusions did you draw from yesterday's press conference, and from what i know in general, the situation in the state, including volodymyr zelenskyi, because it is clear that such a large state cannot be managed by a small team, and what dangers it poses for society and for the country during the war, well, let me guess from feelings.

on the one hand, in relation to those statements of the president, the first is about the team , yes, well, we perfectly understand, the team was meant, it was meant about the bank, first of all, the bank consists of two such groups, friends of the president and conditionally systemic, which includes the shurma and the same tatars, there is a contradiction between these two groups, sometimes there is a conflict, a black cat runs by, but as a rule, this system, which has now formed on the bank, is the support of the president in making certain decisions, he believes that if he refuses the services of one or another deputy, for example, shurba or tatarov or , god forbid, yermak, then this will glorify him personally, even if there are specific questions in society against these figures. and there are

suspicions about what they are doing on banks, which decisions are pushed to the president , even pressure, external pressure on the president in terms of yermak's stay there as the head of the president's administration or the replacement of some deputies there, the direct, direct speech of diplomats is not an argument for the president to do it, because he thinks so that external factors affect him, push him to some decisions. he is being weakened, so he will not pass at this point, and it is already obvious that in the short term, he will not pass any of the deputies, and there will be no rotation on banks, regarding the coalition or technocratic government, i think that almost everyone read vernikova's article on the introduction of the technocratic government by the president, at the bank it was worn by the entire cabinet with selected ones.

in some places, that is, the essence of the idea is known, and this idea was discussed on the sidelines of the cabinet of ministers, the meeting place of the people’s servants, and there were even some sound proposals that from this position, and the alleged signing of a memorandum on not holding elections in transcarpathia, it is some kind of abres maybe a coalition government. and gave, gave reason to say that people who signed, or rather the political forces that signed this memorandum, it may indicate that precisely these political parties, factions in the verkhovna rada, can enter the technocratic government, or delegate one or other candidates there, but this was also not accepted by the president, on banks believe that at the moment it is possible to talk about mouths'.

to the active cabinet of prime ministers and blocs related to economic policy, a certain rotation of changing surnames, but a substantial restart of the cabinet of ministers as a technocratic government, not a monomajority, not about the governmental one, not about the one directly connected with the loyalty and with and with the political support of the servants of the people and the majority that...votes, namely the technocratic one that would really be empowered, at the moment, at least for the next quarter, there is also no question is coming, i do not exclude the fact that, including our western partners, and the situation in the country, this strategic disunity, which i mentioned earlier, they will influence the president, push him to nevertheless form such a thing.