by law enforcement agencies, stefanyshyn is on trial, and it is ongoing, but on october 3 another session is to be held in the higher anti-corruption court, we are talking about the period when lukash was still in charge of the ministry of justice, and there this case has been going on until now, it is about disbursement of state budget funds by abuse of official position, how correct it is, how about you, as a former prosecutor general, i will ask when the ministry of foreign affairs. is headed by a person against whom the higher anti-corruption court has complaints, her case is being heard there, she is one of of the accused, it is wrong, i will say it very simply: a person who, of course, not directly, but has a certain influence on the courts, because in fact the minister of justice influences, cannot influence every judge, he does not have such a function, but he influences institution, for the financing of judges, for their formation, merger, reorganization, the recruitment process there,

and many other things, uh, and at the same time be in the process of not just any district court, but a higher anti-corruption court, and also with corruption charges, well, it's wrong, why couldn't we wait for at least the completion of this process and appoint him to the position after it, i don't know, the fact that it contradicts any european standards, which it now has in terms of functionality, to be implemented in ukraine, that's it. it is obvious, but, well, what can we say here, it is already possible to create a deputy group in the servant of the people faction, well, you already know in our legislation, in the parliament, if you have 18 people, you can create a group, it is not a faction, but there, for example, there, or a separate deputy group, or an association, yes but already within the servants of the people it is possible to create a group of szo, there are already exactly 18 people who have suspicions, some have already escaped. everyone else calmly

goes to work with accusations of anti-corruption and other crimes, so if a faction independently forms a government, then it is logical that they should send their own kind, well, that's normal, and matvyi bidnyi, whom i spoke about, this head of the ministry of sports and the ministry of youth, or the ministry of youth and sports, there were also stories about how he extorted money from athletes and destroyed... military applied sports and banned activities to prepare young people to serve in the armed forces of ukraine, there were also questions about him, well, about him and his father-in-law dashutin, dashutin in general, well , you know who dashutin is here and the whole country knows, but in reality of course you can't make a person guilty for the actions of your relatives, but i don't know anything about this person, i honestly don't know anything, listen, well , ministers should pass some kind of inspection, not like with... with the chief of staff of the

unmanned forces , i don't know anything about this minister and i believe that in recent years, well, there hasn't been a normal minister of sports for 10 years, and unfortunately, the influence of the regionals on this department has always been very high, since the days of brozov and his huge group of influence, which were scattered throughout all federations, throughout the ministry itself. therefore, unfortunately, sports in our country must be revived almost from scratch, the fact that this person is not capable of this is obvious to me, the fact that the verification of these candidates was carried out in the same haste as the examination of them during the voting in the verkhovna rada , that is, two minutes each the presentation of the program and the answers, but here it is an imitation, everyone perfectly understands that look, these ministers do not mean anything by themselves, all decisions are made by others... in nato.

we remember such a system during yanukovych's time. in principle, except for two or three ministers, the country did not know anyone, because everyone understood that all decisions are made in the administration of president yanukovych, by the appropriate supervisors. and today, around president zelensky, people who thought differently have fallen away, and those who came from that system have remained. tatarov, and others like him. accordingly, they form the system to which they have been accustomed since they were young, when they were still. runners around, now they form themselves the same thing that they saw then, why, or rather, were part of then, only then they were in the middle rungs, and now they are already at the top, and they have formed the same vertical system, where the cabmin is just a scapegoat ssuttaylom, look, you and i have been talking for more than half an hour about the complete imitation of the process, i am not criticizing, i just want people to understand perfectly, there is no point in asking questions to... the minister of sports

whether to the minister of agriculture or to the minister of energy or to all issues are resolved in the office of the president. at the very end of these personnel appointments, questions arose for the chief of staff. forces of unmanned systems of roman hladky, his wife seems to have a russian passport there, his daughter spoke for russian, for russian athletes at competitions, now they say, well, we need to conduct an additional investigation, the sbu has to give some kind of verdict, how can a person be appointed to such position without a verdict of the sbu, is it possible, it is still half question, there is another question, and... what does he know about uavs, what a person who served in the crimea in the navy all his life can know about, a modern type of weapon that actually appeared 2 years ago, well, let's say 2.5 years ago, and to which he had practically nothing

to do in his service, well, except that he knew that the shaheds were attacking the ukrainian odesa, so these are two halves, that is, the person does not know for sure. did not go through with her hands, feet, head, the system of using uavs, but on the other hand, among his relatives, well, it is so a lot of questions, i apologize, well, chief syrskyi could probably find a better candidate, i am certainly not out of touch with the details, and this should be done by the apparatus of the general staff before signing all the papers , the security service of... the country, military counterintelligence , but it seems to me that even taking the lens in hand, well, it is clear that it is better for such a highly sensitive unit like the uav, in fact, we understand that today the entire defense of ukraine is based, unfortunately, not

on artillery and not on rockets, i got it. that's right it is here that a 100-times -tested person with practical experience of application should be appointed, and not just a desire to be, well, to have more. friends, i would like to remind you that we are working live on the tv channel, as well as on our platforms on youtube and facebook, and throughout our broadcast we are conducting a survey, we are asking you about whether you expect an improvement in the work of the government after the replacement of nine ministers , yes, no, everything is quite simple on youtube, if you have a separate opinion, please write in the comments under this video, if you watch us on tv, pick up your smartphone or phone and vote for the numbers if you want the government to work better 0.800 211. 381 no 0800 211 382 all calls to these numbers are free. yury vitaliyovych, the month of the kurdish operation zelensky, speaking today during the meeting of the ramstein defense contact group, summing up the results

of this operation in kurshchyna, said that russia lost 600 soldiers during the kurdish operation. what else did zelensky say? let's listen. today from the beginning of our operation in the kursk region of russia, this the border from which putin was preparing to spread the war to ukrainian territory, he was preparing to launch a new offensive against our city of sumy, and we overturned, overturned the game and... are forcing the war into the territory of russia thanks to our counterattack, our counteroffensive. today, we control the territory of more than 1,300 km in the kursk region, which includes, in particular, more than a hundred settlements. a large part of this territory was simply abandoned by the russian

troops, they simply fled when they saw the approach of our troops. of course, significant part of the territories was taken under control by our forces in battles. well, oleksandr syrskyi, the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of ukraine, in an interview with cnn, called the kurdish operation a success, as it prevented the enemy from launching a new attack on ukraine from the kursk region, helped to stabilize the situation in other directions, in particular pokrovsky, we will hear more from the commander. we are doing everything in order not to lose pokrovsk. we are strengthening the defense in this direction. for the last six virgins. the enemy did not advance in the pokrovsky direction not a kilometer this is how our strategy works. yuriy vitaralovich, how do you assess the year, or rather, the month, i wanted to say, the year, the month of this kursk operation, because i can

say so, since i am from the sumy region, i know that the number of arrivals both in sumy and in the sumy region, there , where my relatives live, have increased, significantly increased. just what did the kursk operation give, what did the kursk operation give in ukraine? you know, the first thing i think about is how to answer, because who am i to give comments to the whistle. pyrrhovnoy and to the commander-in-chief, well, you are the captain of the armed forces of ukraine, you can give an answer, so i immediately say that the previous two synchronizations were given by those people who have all the information, i do not have it, i can only speak roughly, from such a soldier’s view from the trenches, well, that is, i roughly imagine how such actions are deciphered, but it is clear that i do not have all the information, well, first of all, we have reasons. the entry of our troops into kursk is constantly changing,

it is obvious that the authorities somehow could not find a public explanation, at first they said that we were taking the territories in order to exchange them for ours, but sergey, we are now in control 1,200 km, and only on the left bank of the dnieper the occupiers captured 44,000, today the armed forces control four. percentages of one region of russia, so that we understand, uh, that is, this reason disappeared, although they talked about it for a very long time, then the second reason that we took many prisoners of war there, yes, it is true, they say about 600, and even more ee of russian troops, and of course, each of them will exchange for our hero - this is a big deal, but we have in captivity, well, an order of magnitude more, even more, of our ee... they say that at first they said that this was done in order to withdraw the troops from donbas, in fact, the withdrawal

practically did not take place, they moved a little from kharkiv there, mainly from the deep territories of russia, the grouping of the sever troops, and today there are already about 50 thousand of them there. today i heard from the president that they were going to attack us from there, then excuse me, but why were all the battles with conscripts, yellow-mouthed, and where were those... agents for the invasion. it seems to me that the president at his press conference actually named a very correct reason for this invasion, but that the question with the tatar drove him out of his mind and actually killed him. it said very simply: ukraine entered the territory of russia in order to create a buffer zone in order to stop the shelling of its territory. at 30 km, because usually the cannon hits 18, well, the long-range one hits 40, the fivichki fly there 20. that is, we control the zone in order to stop the terror against sumy region and kharkiv region. and if we stretched it

from bryansk, kursk all the way to the belgohorod region, such a corridor, then this would be what many countries do in such cases, for example, israel created a buffer zone in lebanon against terrorists who shelled the territory, and many others. and it seems to me that this reason is completely clear to everyone. another question is that with this offensive... from my soldier logic, no, this is engineering logic, we put ourselves in an uncomfortable situation, let's talk about the positives before that: the kursk operation gave a very serious boost to the ukrainian spirit here, especially under at the time of independence day, ukraine was not dead yet, it sounded different, the world understood that we have military potential, and not only defensive, but these retrogrades who continue to draw red lines and de-escalations, well... in general, at the beginning, because they have no arguments why ukraine is not given normal weapons, and this is the merit of the kurdish

operation, but we are also minuses, we independently increased the line of engagement by 320 km from khaykov to glukhoi, and the distance from glukhov to the border, if i am not mistaken , is 10 km, and from sumy it seems to be 30 km, and from okhtyrka, it seems there is also not much, and from shostka, so therefore, we now need this line of 320 km. keep not the contingent that was before, well, the teras and the border guards, already seriously expecting a corresponding blow. of course, a country with fewer resources is interested in not expanding the war zone in this war of attrition. we expanded it. it seems risky to me, but maybe the military and political leaders have their own reasoning, but we don't know it completely, because we don't know the final goal of the operation to this day, and the president says that everything is going according to plan, that is, it leads to something. tim

at times, it is impossible to consider kursk separately from kharkiv, or rather, the kursk situation separately from the kharkiv front or from donetsk. on the donetsk front, our forces have obviously become smaller. now it is no longer a secret, already on the websites of the relevant airborne assault brigades there are statements that they work in the kursk region, but before that they worked in donetsk, and accordingly ours. line on the number of these brigades, i am not a drone of maryana, so i will not say how many, quite a lot, the number of defenders has decreased by this number donbass, and if you add... the fortification plan, i won't say it's to zero, but it was implemented very little and very, well, let's say it was poorly built, not in the wrong way and in the wrong place, and in the wrong place. problems with mines, problems with artillery and so on, then you will understand why we have success there, we have

problems in donbas, because you understand that our invasion forces are not just a certain number of assault brigades. the best, well, it’s logistics, it’s artillery, it’s a racket, it’s guys, and everything was taken from somewhere, and look, if it is a measure to fulfill a certain function, i have already said about the advantages, and then we calculate what is happening in donbas and know in time how to strengthen it, then it is one story, if not, then we have big problems with maintenance and kurakhova, and selidova, and... the main thing is pokrovsk, pokrovsk is the gate from the dnipro to donbas, it is a key city, and in zaporizhzhia, yes, and it stands on a hill, and in fact everything below it, and kurakhov, selidovo there, it is actually shot from these heights. now we are in our strength, but the enemy is 8 km away

the outermost streets of pokrovska, and this is a lot, and the road to chasiv and krematorsk is blocked, at the same time. no panic, because ukraine currently controls 40% of the donetsk region, and we have pokrovsk in our hands, and such large places, i spent my four months in bakhmut, i know that it is a much smaller city, it can be held for a long, long time, that it concerns the hub of the even larger city of kramatorsk, sloviansk and druzhkovka, these are these. such a strong district that i now, well, i say once again, as a soldier, i do not pretend to be a commander here, because i am not one, but from what i see and hear from my brothers, and they are with me in the kursk region, in the donetsk region, in the kharkiv region, and on the southern front, kherson-mykolaiv, whatever i would do now, i will do it today, without any panic , i say once again, but i would make a serious line

of fortifications along the administrative border of donetsk region, capturing pokrovsk. suchin, then, er, druzhkovka, kramatorsk, slavyansk, and build fortifications along the entire line, at the same time 30 km deep, evict people, cut off all landings, sow everything with mines, so that the enemy, even in in the event that we, well, at a certain moment we will make a decision to retreat, were not able to cross this border, but it must be done today, and not later, as it was in avdiivka, when the enemy is advancing, and so... the whole question is for me , why does this constantly bother me, why the government, which is actually responsible for this, because the troops are responsible for zero, well, for the first trench, and the first is on the line of defense, the second line of defense corresponds to the regional state administration, and to whom they are subordinate, the cabinet of ministers of ukraine, according to the constitution, according to law, in the life of the president's office, so take care of this line, well, in the end, build what

the moskals are building before our eyes several times already, they even built the railway before our eyes, they don't say... or about the suravikin line, so now it's not about criticism, but now it seems to me, about the urgent need, without spreading panic, to build a line of defense along the administrative border of the donetsk region, capture, well, including in it the large cities we have, well, hold the enemy, but if the monument to leontovych was already removed from pokrovsk, he went to rear. then this means that we have a big problem there, and to say that it is not it is too late to panic, it is necessary to build fortification lines, and not of the imitation type, as unfortunately happened after avdiyivka, as a result of which the enemy stands so close to the key city, reliable, serious and equipped with new technologies, so that there is rap, and enough fpv, and

scout drones, and strike drones, and artillery systems, and survival pods for soldiers and... steel buried in the ground and much, much more, filled with concrete, 30 km of landings cut out for you to shoot them , and then we can be more calm than our prospects. today , the 24th meeting between us and our western partners took place at the american ramstein air base in germany, and zelenskyi was there, he said that we are waiting for the lifting of restrictions on ukraine's use of western long-range weapons, let's listen. what zelensky said, now we hear that your policy has not changed to a distant impression, but we see changes in attacks.

so as to motivate russia to seek peace. well, before that, john kirby, white house spokesman for national security, said that the united states of america will not change its policy regarding strikes by american missiles against military targets on the territory of russia, even after the russian strikes on poltava and lviv. let's hear what john kirby had to say. 90% of the planes that russia uses for guided aerial bombs and long-range missile strikes, we count. 90% of them are located beyond 300 km from the ukrainian border, deep inside russia, so the statement: they say, we will just give them the attacks

and say ok, and they will be able to hit most of the russian planes at the air bases, where the strikes on ukraine are coming from is false, this is a false argument, but this false argument appeared after we started saying: give us long-range weapons, and our drones flew there, our partners... americans were thinking about whether to give this permission or not? why don't they want to give us that opportunity. well, first of all, ramshtein is a gathering, to put it so rudely on a boy's mind, of the deputies of the rear of the nato troops. they don't make decisions there. there they will discuss the logistics of implementing the decisions already made by the managers. therefore, the presence of the president, he has been there twice already, well, in fact , he cannot reach other decisions than have already been agreed upon. but president zelenskyy is doing the right thing by using this opportunity to press on these mythical red lines, on these arguments against the so-called

prevention of escalation, here i am completely on the side of the commander-in-chief, while of course there is another side of the coin, well if our drones blow up russian oil refineries in siberia, so why can't they hit? on these airports, why after all, they can't hit the railway that russia stretched from mariupol to chengar in front of our eyes, of course this is also an interesting question, but the president has no other option if the missile programs have been frozen since the 19th year and now we have only one the long-range rocket that was launched, although it is a great success, it is really a great success, and if our neptunes, well , to put it mildly, are not so many, it is exactly 300 km, then he has two options, or to build up his... missile program, so that there were neptunes, well , many times more, i am in his place, in the west i would ask the allies for money for the development

of the missile program, and that scumbag who, during the sequestration of the budget, used seven or eight billion from the missile program of the relevant ministry, well, just publicly, do you mean the 20th year or now, now the budget was voted in at the first reading, 8 billion pdfs for missile programs turned into zero. the one who allowed this, from my point of view, should answer with all severity, and then we will know that we are building our missiles for 300 and 500 km, but nevertheless continue to put pressure on washington in the first place, because other countries, which hesitate to give or not to give, nod to america's position, because they are equipping their missiles, why is this happening in washington, unfortunately, the old school is now ruling in washington, as it had the experience of the unsuccessful war in korea, unsuccessfully, even more so the failed war in vietnam and the successful, they believe, the war in afghanistan, when

their adversary collapsed the ussr, because of the strategy of a long, exhausting war, and they operate according to this pattern, a long, exhausting war for survival, knowing that the american resources are more than the soviet , well, even more so of the russians, we are, unfortunately, hostages of this strategy. the decision-making elites, for the most part, do not want to look for other ways, the world has changed, and they have not, and therefore, unfortunately, we will return again to diplomacy, so the minister of foreign affairs has the first task, to change the approaches of our strategic opponents, because i i open foreign affairs, this is the main, well, publication of american diplomats, where putin is written in black and white. it is impossible to overcome, so our strategy is to wait until he dies. well, for the world gendarme, this is a pathetic strategy,

but we cannot take offense at them, because... our strategy before the war was even more irresponsible, we have to work with it, change it, prove it, if the fair is not capable of doing it, and it is already obvious that in two years of it, well, let's say, complete domination in our foreign policy, this did not happen, to the official diplomats of our ukrainians, we need to add the influence of politicians, public figures and just ordinary people, for example, who, for example, take 10 families. in which children died in the war, for example, women's organizations, for example, veteran organizations, religious organizations, politicians, i have already said this 100 times, if not only zelensky flew to washington, with all due respect, because he now bears all the responsibility for the situation, but if he came together with president poroshenko, president yushchenko and even by president kuchma, it would be an event for american life, because four very different

presidents who... have a very difficult relationship with each other, united by one, give us weapons, and we will do the work that the whole world dreams of, but only we can, that's it agree that it would have sounded a little differently than just another drive by ermak, so you have to stop thinking about ratings, that's what i'm talking about, because all this whistling around the government, around even armshtein, unfortunately, as it seems to me, shows that the president... is thinking about the next elections, about his ratings against the background of what is happening, and then about victory, from my point of view, this is unacceptable, today only irresponsible persons can think about ratings, as he promised one presidential term, look, don't say that in front of me, because i i can talk for another hour about what he promised, well, no, conceptually, he said, conceptually, he promised us so much that

the ungrateful people are still, until now... not enough and we have to promise more and more, it was already after this was already an explanation, that during the war he cannot leave the country, and if he is asked, listen, all the presidents indulge in this, and on their own, even viktor andriyovych yushchenko, knowing exactly his rating, nevertheless left from my point of view himself spoiling the finale of his, in principle, not bad the presidency, i would say, in the principle of a good presidency, and by the way, why did yushchenko become president then, because he was told that sociologists lie, the people love me, so do all presidents, as soon as they leave any country.. . they take a trip with them then there was no sale of selfies, they take pictures with them, they take autographs from them, they kiss them, certain people who, in principle , respect this president, always stand in the front rows, a woman with a flag, well, how can you not leave and how can you leave these people? look, i wouldn't want to now, well let's say on to emphasize this, every person, including president zelensky, has the right to run for office, but first let's win the war, and then we measure ourselves by ratings, because when you see

that zaluzhnyi has a rating twice as high as yours, then... you remove the commander-in-chief, and then problems begin at the front, not because the syrian one is worse, but because the new head of the army has to learn a lot of details, learn, deploy people, and when you find out that your rating has decreased even more, you start shaking in lukashenko's style of government is not a change of government, it's reinsurance, as lukashenko said, it doesn't change anything, it's just an attempt to raise the rating, nothing will come of it, let's win the war. and this in itself is already the greatest award to the current president, on this optimistic note we will put an end to our conversation, yuriy lutsenko was a guest of our program, thank you for participating in the program, and throughout the broadcast we are conducting a survey, friends, we ask you about such, do you expect the government to improve after replacement of nine ministers, interim results 2% yes, 98% no - these are the results of a television poll, then we have news from the bbc, and in 15 minutes we will be back in

the studio with mine. colleagues andriy yanitskyi and bohdan butkevych, stay with us, the month of the kurdish operation, on august 6, the armed forces of ukraine quickly entered the territory of russia and captured populated areas one by one. what has been achieved during this time? what conclusions can be drawn from this offensive and most importantly, what 's next? we will try to analyze this in today's edition of the bbc. i am olga polamaryuk a lightning strike, an operation that can change the course of the war. this is how the breakthrough of the armed forces of ukraine in the kursk region was discussed in the west. thanks to the effect of surprise, the armed forces captured the russian population one by one.