or means that surprise the russians, well, it is true that it is the last time in their lives, and if we forecast how the situation in the kurt region may develop further from the point of view of drones, because after all, it is not the territory of ukraine, there may be nuances some kind of connection, to what extent we can hope for our dominance, that is, in unmanned systems, or vice versa, to have something in relation to the russian attempt to dominate there and... if we supply drones to our military in time, if we collect, inform and help, the state will help in this direction, there will definitely be no problems, and we will be able to actively knock out enemy positions, even if only at the expense of the same drones there, because in fact this is a high-precision weapon that allows you to work at long and short distances and hit the target with precision, independence from where the operator is located, therefore... in principle

, the prospects are very great and this is a promising direction that will continue to develop, new opportunities will be created in order to counteract, for example, enemy means of radio-electronic warfare and actively work, despite the work of active means of radio-electronic warfare by enemies. i am very grateful to anatoliya khrabchynskyi for joining us and telling us about these nuances. i hope we will meet again on this matter, we have a short break now and then we will move a little more to kursk. greetings, this is svoboda live on radio svoboda. we have already come to the snake itself. the following shots may shock you. news from the scene. live drone attacks, kamikaze. political analytics. objectively and meaningfully. there is no political season. exclusive interviews, reports from the hottest points of the front. freedom life, frankly. and

impartially, you draw your own conclusions. this is how we continue the chronicles of the war, and we were joined by vasyl galamai, the platoon commander of the third battalion of nakhtyagal, well... directly from

kushchyna, as far as i understand, i congratulate mr. vasyl, good day, well, first of all, thank you very much for being able to to join us, well, and secondly, tell me more about your impressions, so let's probably start with the fact that this operation has been going on for two weeks, and surely you can somehow tell how it is changing, as it looks now, the resistance of the russians is there, there is no, strong, not strong. who exactly appeared there in the kursk region, with whom do you have to deal? first of all, i want to mention the organizational points, because it is important to plan how the operation will begin, how it will continue in the future, in my opinion, the first stage was very successful and planned, i hope that since none of us know to the end what the goal is ... the final operation, that

the plan of the higher military command is very interesting, powerful, and its implementation will be successful accordingly. many prisoners of war is an extremely good aspect in our case, because they can be exchanged for prisoners of war who have been in russian prisons for a long time, in particular, boys from azov and other units. this will allow us to make up for what we lost, because in order to return the boys , we need an exchange fund, no matter what, and the higher the quality, that is, in terms of ranks, type of troops, the better for us, because the russians will want to return them, the surprise is pleasant fairly ukrainian-speaking population of this territory, i thought that despite the fact that these land... 100 years as a part of the russian

federation, there will be no ukrainian speakers here, but no, there is quite a lot that happened personally, in principle. for now, in short, this is it. well, er, these prisoners who are there, and in general those with whom we now have to fight, are mostly conscripts, can we already say that some other units appeared there? our unit has not yet taken prisoners directly in terms of its activities, but all the prisoners encountered by other units are of a different plan, there are definitely officers there who... if conscripts are with them, then they do the greatest resistance, the guys with whom we talked were also taking prisoners, they were representatives of the chechen republic, yes , their republic, the akhmat unit, and we also talked

with a guy who said that they were captured by the fsb , so what is this plan, well if you can you... compare it with some other elements of the front, as you would say, in terms of the work of, for example, the russian artillery, russian aviation, how does the ratio of our capabilities to theirs look, in short, i mean, if you compare in in that regard, as for me, as for me, there is more here cabs than in that part of donetsk region where we...were, there were a lot of cabs, yes, but it turned out that it was not a very large number, there in a day or in an even shorter period of time that can arrive, it is from unpleasant moments , eh, then, just

recently fpv enemy drones have appeared, their number is growing so dynamically, today even we almost got into trouble with them. we were lucky with them, then the artillery fire increased significantly, and in general the resistance of the infantry units increased, that is, i understand that a significant, very significant replenishment in these types troops, weapons approached the enemy in these areas, which added a little difficulty to the advance, but i want to... make it clear to our viewers that every brigade, every battalion that is advancing here is making the greatest possible efforts to make it happen efficiently and quickly , and to say that it is an easy walk, there are moments when it is easier for the guys, there are moments when everyone works

together, you have to work well against the enemy and after that one or another defender appears, who is very well prepared, unfortunately, not so , like many of us areas of the front. and tell me, is there such a staggered defense there? what i mean is that some defense lines have been strengthened, or was it exclusively along the border, that is , in what conditions are you actually fighting, do you have to take some kind of defense line every time, or is it just already happening? well , there in the houses, in the plantations, what is it? the borders were strengthened the most, so at that time, because systematic work was carried out there for a long period of time, these are not only engineering structures in the form of a ditch, anti-tank, there barbed wire threats, the so-called

dragon's teeth, this is a multi-level system, video recording, various security measures of a more complex type. more simply, these are very large, powerful underground strongholds with concrete fire points, completely with a branching system of corridors, premises, warehouses, well, that is, very, very large, in the future, this is already with advancement to the level that it is now, these are already newly created in most of the system of fortifications, and there are places where they set up ambushes, it has already been dug up on... dug up accordingly by the soldiers quickly, on at such points, when they flowed, you can see a large amount of ammunition, a very large amount, which is interesting that among the ammunition they had winter gloves and winter hats, i don’t know why, but they thought

they would sit there until the winter, well no i know, i can only state the fact that certain types of weapons were thrown. they ran away from it, well, how , how, where, and in what area, i say, over time the resistance only grows, because according to all the data we hear, there is a transfer of valuable ukrainian sources of manpower and equipment, i would very much like, to be here a very large number of military personnel from moscow and equipment from the donetsk region, in particular, is estimated, in order to reduce the burden on those units that are persistently fighting the enemy further there. well, we from your kurdish direction now directly received such a large number, when it is clear that the russian... equipment is impressed there, but can you see that there is really a lot of it there, but not

very much, but how about you assessed, again, comparing with other directions, well , now, now more and more appears, and the enemy is gathering forces, this and logistically, it is noticeable when a larger number of trucks appear, and that is, we will only see fierce ones in the future. battles, as far as i'm concerned, that is, in fact, everything you think is just beginning, it's just the beginning, no way, not the end, right? well, i think that we will see new stages of the development of the operation, and it will be reported from official sources. and i will note once again that thanks to a certain regime of silence and secrecy, few people knew about the beginning of the operation, when everyone was transferred to this aspect. and i hope that the final goal is us it remains to be seen whether it will also be a surprise

for everyone. and what about your personal impressions of the war on the enemy's territory, what are your feelings about it? let's put it this way, ukrainians once again showed the whole world that when you were attacked, it has already been three years, yes, 2.5 years of a full-scale war, not counting. of regular enemy expansion during the atos era, we can not only defend ourselves, we can boldly enter the territory of a nuclear state, make such a lightning offensive, lock in and continue to advance, at the same time we do not violate any international norms, which is very important, because our world partners would then block aid, without which we would be greatly affected. niche, and the fact that the commandant's office is now being introduced in the territory of the kursk

region, it will help to comply with all international norms, rules, the conduct of wars and, in particular, the treatment of civilians, because ukraine, which recently ratified the roman statutes, which will help us to quickly condemn the enemy, and ukraine has always emphasized that we wage war honestly, we did not attack anyone, we were attacked, and we are forced to defend oneself, one of the most effective forms of defense is an attack and unexpected, courageous operations that inspire society and support the army, because the army needs these successful cases, they only add motivation. well, by the way, we already have such a plot from the territory of the kursk region, in particular, what did your defense structures look like there, let's take a look at them, maybe we can even discuss something there, let's go. this is

the first line of defense of the russians in the korsk region, now everything is under the control of the armed forces of ukraine, let's see what's going on here inside, last. they fled in a hurry, leaving behind everything that was here, including their belongings, and detailed plans, and surveillance schemes.

there are indeed many russian military personnel in the kursk region, but there is a nuance: they are either captured

or just like that. well, that's what you basically said when you said that, in principle, a lot of digging, a lot of kilometers, but well, as far as i understand, for now it's about digging into some new frontiers, it's not going yet, yes, now there are still battles, there is no stabilization

of the front line or anything like that, the armed forces ukraine is trying to expand as much as possible. bridgehead, i emphasize, and we do not know the final goal, if it has a much more interesting plan, which i hope, we will all do our best to advance and implement it. at this stage, there is more and more running and every day, but i learn from my brothers that they are taking prisoners, of course not in the same number as in the first days, however, there are advances going on, battles are going on, and it is important now to carefully and correctly follow all plans tactics, well, to protect personnel, but to perform tasks. well, i thank vasyl galamayu, the platoon commander of the third battalion of nakhtygal, who joined us from the kursk region, and i also want to tell you that we

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its practice? the case clearly shows that there are problems with the supreme court. but who is unscrupulous? can remain in office, a number of judges who are can be so sensitive, important for the judicial mafia. congratulations, judicial control is on the air. institutional rebooting and personnel renewal of the judiciary on the basis of norms of professional ethics and integrity, this is the basis of the judicial reform currently being carried out in ukraine. its successful implementation is the main requirement for our further path to the eu. today, we will talk about how successfully the transformation is taking place and whether the moral and professional qualities of justice officials meet high standards. in the framework of the judicial reform in ukraine, a lot of attention is paid to the personnel issue. to overcome corruption among judges and to increase the trust of citizens, every servant

of themis must pass a qualification assessment. this applies both to new candidates for positions and to current judges. specially. a body created for this purpose, the higher qualification commission, conducts evaluations and recognizes representatives as suitable for the position or unworthy to work in the judicial system. however, the qualitative evaluation of the servants of themis was under threat. the grand chamber of the supreme court made a decision that could significantly affect the system's cleaning and the course of judicial reform in general it is about the case of the judge of the economic court of the kharkiv region vitaliy usatoy, who challenged the procedure. qualification evaluation, he received a negative conclusion of the public integrity council, what was the conclusion, the beginning is of course, as is usually the case with property, but he had valuable property. what was the question of the declaration, the question of where the money came from, in particular to him and his wife, the second was that he received a prize weapon from minister avakov, er, and gerde

submitted an opinion on this, this opinion got to commission despite the conclusion that mustayo did not meet the criteria of integrity and professional ethics, the panel of three members of the previous composition of the supreme court decided that the judge was fit for the position. this decision was preliminary and... should have entered into force after consideration by the plenary composition of the vkk, i.e. by its 11 members, and this is exactly what usat didn't like very much. he objected to the next review, believing that the decision of the troika about his suitability for the position was quite sufficient. judge mustachio, he indicated that in his opinion, actually, he has already been recognized virtuous of course, it would always be desirable for judges that when... three of my colleagues recognized them as suitable, then it should continue to work like that, but the actual practice, the reading of the law, its interpretation was such that

everyone always expected this plenary composition, so that 11 people gave its conclusion. vitaly usatiy went to court and the country's highest judicial body supported his position. in the anti-corruption center, it is emphasized that the grand chamber of the supreme court broke its own practice and manipulated the law, because the procedure... of evaluating judges with negative according to the conclusions of the general assembly, it was in the plenary composition that it worked for almost eight years, it was followed by the previous and current vkk. the great chamber also recognized this. in particular, in the decision regarding the ex-judge of the solomyan district court of kyiv, maria zelinska, and the judge of the economic court of the kyiv region, pavlo gorbasenko. we counted at least five decisions of the grand chamber of the supreme court, which were earlier in the same. the same great chamber indicated a completely different position, they indicated that it was really necessary for such a decision to be supported by the entire plenary

of the higher qualification commission of judges, and the decision of the board is actually not enough. the decision of the grand chamber of the supreme court contains a number of dangers for judicial reform. according to preliminary estimates, it can help about 180 judges stay in their positions. which have already received negative conclusions from the public council of virtue. this decision of the grand chamber helps these, specifically 180 people to avoid this procedure now, and in fact they already automatically remain evaluated, if this practice and this decision of the grand chamber, the higher qualification commission and the vrp will now take it as a basis and say that we must apply this decision to everyone. these judges, it means that these people are automatically considered to have passed the qualification assessment and everything is good about them, this is a guarantee of their future. in the professional community

, the decision of the grand chamber is called harmful, because there are dozens of odious names in the list of unscrupulous judges who will now be able to avoid evaluation. these are, in particular, nataliya prytula, judge of the shevchenko district court of the city of kyiv, judge of the maidan, volodymyr serdynskyi, judge of brovar city district court. kyiv region exposed a bribe of 4,000 dollars. victoria dzharty, a judge of the commercial court of kyiv, loves luxury items and owns luxury real estate. oleksandr lutsenko, judge of the obolon district court of kyiv, judge of the maidan, serhii chvankin, head of the kyiv district court of odesa, his family's firm owns luxury apartments in miami. pavlo gorbasenko, the head of the economic court of the kyiv region, owns elite real estate, sky-high properties. fortunes and practiced fictitious divorces, made illegal decisions that had signs of raiding. judges dmytro kostenko and andriy fedorchuk,

kyiv district administrative court. fedorchuk, in particular, is known for canceling the nationalization of a private bank and suspending the renaming of the uoc of the moscow patriarchate. it is the same, for example, judge dzyuba, about whom there is information that his wife has russian citizenship, this is judge otrosh, who is at a hearing in kvalivka. the mission allowed itself to say that these are actually ukrainian bodies are not guilty of not ensuring the inviolability of the borders in crimea, which has millions, well, millions of unexplained property and so on, all these judges with such a position will be able to avoid the end of the qualification evaluation and keep their positions to themselves. there is no doubt in the anti-corruption center that by making a decision in the case of judge usatoy, the grand chamber has attacked the entire so-called judicial mafia. in 2017, the judge-rapporteur in this case, oleg kryvenda, himself received the conclusion of the state administrative court on non-compliance with the criteria

of integrity and professional ethics. everyone this did not prevent him from receiving a positive decision of the vkk. mr. krivenda also received a negative opinion from the public integrity council, ah, which also included a number of questions regarding the origin of his property and assets, and of course, it is clear that with such an approach, the presiding judge in the case - must, let's say, well, at least be biased . to according to this category of case, and therefore here we can talk about a certain type of such a conflict of interests, where the judge, being dissatisfied with his own conclusion of the public integrity council, is ready play along and help other judges who have the same problem. the grand chamber of the supreme court tried to explain its

decision, but... it is not very convincing. in particular, the judges indicated that they are changing the practice due to the fact that the legislator has changed the law, and the sccc has its own regulations. such reasoning is a manipulation by the grand chamber , the anti-corruption center insists, because in this way, with each new change in the law , the decisions made in the old version will have to be recognized as illegal. unfortunately, we are now seeing the result of this when, in particular, the reporter in the usatoy case, who had a negative conclusion. the kgd adopts, well, writes a decision, the grand chamber approves, agrees, and issues it accordingly, and we see a situation where they turn their position by 180°, at the same time, it is very unfounded and does not meet their own criteria, which were previously established when possible to change the position, because all the previous decisions were completely different in similar situations. by now,

the qualification evaluations should be close. 1,800 ukrainian judges, including representatives of the odious oask and pechersky kyiv district court. according to the anti-corruption center, certain dubious members of the supreme council of justice and the supreme court of justice may try to interpret the decision of the supreme court in such a way as not only to help the unscrupulous servants of themis, but also to undermine future qualification evaluation procedures. it is very important, in fact, that these two institutions continue the qualification assessment in the same order. as it was before that, and the decision in the case of judge usatovoy was considered an individual decision, specifically in this case, which should not be applied to absolutely all cases, but well it is already clear that in these institutions there are also members who believe that this decision should be applied to the rest of the judges, so there will be a kind of struggle here, and what will be

the result. what will be the consequence, in fact, it is currently difficult to predict. the precedent set by the grand chamber regarding a drastic and groundless change in its own practice indicates that there may be other decisions of the supreme court ahead, which in the end will simply bury judicial reform, be taken over by the anti-corruption center, and therefore clean the supreme court and restore trust to it should become an urgent issue for society, because in recent years the supreme court has been distinguished by numerous dubious practices and... unscrupulousness of its individual representatives, in general, i consider this a signal that both the supreme court and the grand chamber, in principle, need to be cleansed, on the contrary, since, if such an approach to work takes on a systemic character, then in the future it will be possible to start making such strange decisions, depart from practice and interpret it as the law, in fact, as you like, because the big chamber actually has a lot. this

resources and opportunities. we hope that individual members of the supreme judicial council and the supreme council of justice will be able to overcome their desire to play along with the so-called judicial mafia, and will not automatically apply the decisions of the grand chamber to all judges with negative conclusions of the general court, giving them the opportunity to retain their positions. be that as it may, this will be a real test of both institutions' integrity and ability to work impartially. and for today i have everything, it was judicial control and i am tetyana shustrova. if you know the facts of corruption in the judiciary system, or you want to report an unscrupulous judge who makes wrongful decisions, write to me on facebook or to the email address you see on the screen. it's all good, we'll meet in exactly one week.