news time on the espresso tv channel. kateryna shiropoyas works in the studio. one drone was destroyed near the building of the verkhovna rada during a night attack in kyiv. no damage was found, it was reported on the telegram channel of the verkhovna rada. also, due to falling debris , a fire broke out in the pechersk district of the capital. in an open area, the fire with an area of ​​50 km was extinguished, fortunately, people were not injured. the air alert lasted more than eight hours in the kyiv region. all night long, air defense forces were shooting down russian shaheds. due to falling debris three private houses were damaged by drones in one of the districts, the head of the regional military administration, ruslan kravchenko, said. outside several settlements, grass has grown. the fire was promptly extinguished, fortunately no one started it.

was waiting and in the morning, the occupiers hit the market in kostyantynivka in donetsk region with artillery. it is known about three dead men and the same number of wounded, said the head of the regional military administration, vadym filashkin. according to local telegram channels , up to a dozen explosions rang out in the city, all the details specify ukrainian drones are capable of hitting objects in russia at a distance of 1,800 km, the head of the intelligence department kyrylo budanov said. according to him, the entire enemy military infrastructure will suffer losses. thanks to the successful operations of our scouts, ukraine has complete information about the valuable objects and bases of the russians. and in kyiv these days there is a book fair. in particular , the book of the presenter of the espresso tv channel khrystyna parobiy was presented there.

our correspondent yulia zubchenko already works at the book forum. julia, congratulations. so, what are visitors' impressions of the book? i congratulate katya, i congratulate the viewers of the tv channel. today is the third day of this festival, and this book by our presenter khrystyna parobii, a woman at war, was presented at it. as khrystyna pointed out, this book is about 20 female military personnel who... took up arms to defend our country, visitors actively approach the book, are interested in it, we spoke with two girls who said that they were very glad that women in the war are actively talked about, v the books contain qr codes, which, if you click on them, you can also see stories and interviews with the heroines, which our journalists did, as khrystyna noted, they published a total of one thousand copies. so hurry up and

get your own library. for now, that's all the information, katya, i'm transferring the ether to you. thank you yulia, it was our colleague yulia zubchenko, she is currently in kyiv at the book forum, where the book of our host khrystyna parobiy is being presented. and ukraine's international reserves grew by almost 14% in august, the national bank reported. more than 42 were counted there billion dollars such dynamics are associated with a significant amount of income from international partners, about 8.5 million dollars went to foreign currency accounts last month, so ukraine paid more than 700 million dollars for servicing and repayment of the state debt. the current level of reserves allows to cover the needs of ukraine for 5 months, the department noted.

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today in the program is the verdict with serhii rudenko. 1300 km of ukrainian victories. in ramstein, zelensky boasted about

the territorial gains of the armed forces of russia in the kursk region of russia. do the evaluations of the results of the operation of the ukrainian leadership and the western partners coincide? lack of missiles and cooperation. in ukraine, western long-range is necessary not only in the occupied territory territory, but also in the depths of russia. results of the 24th meeting of the contact group on the defense of ukraine in the ramshtein format. new energy of the government. after the reassignment of nine officials, zelensky expects the work of the cabinet of ministers to be intensified. in the areas of defense and european integration, what has changed in the amount due to the change in the places of additions? glory to ukraine, this is the verdict program, my name is serhii rudenko, i congratulate everyone and wish everyone

good health. for the next two hours, we will talk about ukraine, the world, the war, and our victory. let's talk about zelenskyi's new personnel appointments, to be more precise. of the verkhovna rada or zelenskyi, well , in zelenskyi's word, it is obvious, and about how the current cabinet of ministers will cope with the tasks facing ukraine, the peace plan or zelenskyi's victory plan, which he will present soon in washington, and about the course special operation. we will have several guests throughout the broadcast. the first part of our program will feature yury lutsenko, former prosecutor general of ukraine in in the second part of our program, which starts in an hour, there will be two of mine colleagues, journalists andriy dyanitskyi and bohdan butkevich, traditional friday journalism club, we will discuss the most current topics of the week. however, before starting our big conversation, i suggest

watching a video of how ukrainian defenders repelled another assault in the pokrovsky direction, fighters of the 21st separate special purpose battalion of the presidential brigade defeated the enemy. column, in this way the defenders did not allow the enemy to surround our forces, let's see. glory to the armed forces of ukraine and death russian occupiers. friends, we conduct polls throughout our broadcast. today we ask you about the following: do you expect the government to improve after the replacement of

nine ministers? yes, no, please vote on youtube with the button either yes or no, if you have your own opinion, please leave it in the comments below this video. if you're watching us on tv, bring your smartphone or phone and vote by phone if you hope things will improve after the replacement of nine ministers in the current cabinet 0800 211 381 no, 08021382, all calls to these numbers are free, vote, at the end of the program we will sum up the results of this vote. i want to introduce today's guest of this hour, he is the former prosecutor general of ukraine, ukrainian politician and statesman, captain of the armed forces of ukraine, yurii lutsenko, yuriitech, i congratulate you and thank you for coming to the studio, so what, let's start with the big bed , as it is now called, the change of beds in the government of denys shmygal, you understand

why these efforts were needed in the first place, personnel efforts, concentrated, if it was possible to change these ministers easily throughout the year, because some ministers were. with her prefix vo, well, to begin with, let's ask sergius, how many of the nine removed ministers can you, a person of education. can you call a politician by his or her last name? i can name vitaly koval, i can name the removed irina veryshchuk, yes herman smitanin, who was appointed, you are very advanced, yes herman smitanin, well, and probably, and probably stefanishina, who has some criminal case, well, but she remained, she was removed from one position and assigned to another, look, actually. this is a small test for our viewers, it immediately explains what happened, nothing happened,

simply nothing happened, if, well, who expects a change in the results of the ministry's work, if a person who has been an acting stavistor for six months, and we do not appoint karandeev as a minister, who expects a change in the ministry, if a brilliant diplomat with many years of experience suddenly... becomes the minister of culture, who can expect normal work from a person, it the former head of the regional state administration of my native region, who in a year changed the position of the head of the regional state administration, the state property fund, and now went to the mines of the pc, this is just an imitation of the stormy activity of the president, which will not solve any of the serious issues, especially since... . no serious ministry, to which there are a lot of questions, remained untouched in principle,

for example, the ministry of energy, 2 billion euros were buried in the ground, fittings and concrete for the protection of energy facilities in ukraine, how are they protected, now the whole of ukraine feels, no way, 2 billion euros is still protected from the shaheds in some places, but not at all from missiles. nearby, for example, is the ministry of finance, a key ministry that prepares the budget, and suddenly it turns out, in the summer, that we do not have half a trillion dollars to finance the armed forces of ukraine, and today there is news that from september , the payment of combatants, our heroes , there are questions for the minister, no, there are none, he continues to work. i can list all these ministries, well, for example, who is generally responsible for fortifications, you know who,

ministers, well, this is a wonderful country, even more so the chudorenad management system, but what about the fortifications, we see in the pokrovsky direction, and not only there, you can list endlessly, but this is just an imitation of the chaotic activity in the style of the show of the 95th quarter, for a week of information. there are enough excuses, what are you and i doing now, we are discussing nothing, imitation, profanation on the show, let's listen to what zelensky says, what he expects from changes in the government, and what active work it should be, please sync zelenskyi, government replacements took place, i am grateful to the parliament for support for relevant candidates, it is very important that government institutions now work as actively as possible, even more actively than before at all levels... more investment by partners in the defense industry of ukraine, more active progress in

the negotiation process with the european union, and this is preparation the future accession agreement, more interaction and mutual understanding between the central government and the communities, this government, there is still a prime minister, who has been working for the fifth year, and has not been there since the beginning. of the government program and approved by the verkhovna rada council of ukraine, well, there is a war, everything is clear, but the government as an institution is a war, everything is clear, so why should the government work without a program? that we have been working for the third year without a state defense order, and the ministry of defense does not plan what the troops need, it buys what you mentioned, do you understand this story at all, it is the chaotic work of an unrelated person. by the rules of the government, look, the president, with all due respect, may have said something that i can believe in this phrase:

activation of the eu accession negotiation process. i really don't understand why stefanyshyn is like that the vice-prime minister became the minister of justice, she added the ministry of justice and this is the addition of new energy, i doubt it, but okay, okay, they say that we need to increase the production of our own weapons, while removing the minister of strategic sectors of the economy, well, what. .. is actually responsible for this, last year with great fanfare a large part of personal income tax was handed over to him, you know what happened now, they removed them like those. only this ministry launched the first long-range missile after all these adventures with the freezing of missile programs in the 19th year, finally they launched a missile that gave a result of 500 km with a serious load of explosives and so on, 8 billions of personal income tax were withdrawn from this ministry, zero. i understand that no one reports this to the president. i understand that he is not at all interested in this, but

some kind of show is just happening, that is, this week is full of news, they appointed. nine ministers, who, why, for what? but i agree with you absolutely, we have a prime minister, because in any government there is a conductor, a manager who is responsible and instructs the government, sets them tasks, controls and so on, this is the prime minister, again, maybe the president will hear us with you, the idea of ​​creating a new kind of armed forces, uavs, unmanned aerial vehicles. was nominated by the hard-working general, he wrote a report to the president's office, they waited until he was removed, and also, by the way, they said that this was a reboot and new energy, well, how did it end after his resignation, we also see all of us every morning, watching on the map, a presidential decree is issued instructing

the government to create an appropriate regulatory framework and create compliance, four months. the cabinet of ministers wrote regulations on the new type of troops, i guarantee that any captain specializing in record keeping in the armed forces, as it is called specifically, would have written it in a maximum of 5 days, but the government spent four months developing the bill and accepting it on its own, after that another two for months they were looking for a commander, they appointed him, and for another four months after that they were looking for the chief of staff of this type of military. sbu and to date, the law on the armed forces has not been amended and there are no uav troops, no. there are uavs, and the type of troops is there is no law. tell me, can the government act effectively? no. this is not an effective government. and the person who heads it, even after the decree to the president, who

organizes its implementation for six months or more. those related to war, it is completely ineffective. i would say it is an inhibitory factor in the work of the state apparatus, why is this happening? and here we come to the point, because the issue is not that we don't have a prime minister, we have the scumbag yermak, everyone has known that for a long time, but why does it happen that the most important documents drag on for months, and sometimes not at all are performed for example, funding does not go anywhere at all, and some crazy decisions are made about burying money in concrete, and what is needed is not purchased, everything happens because the constitution of ukraine, in general, has not been opened by the current government for a long time, because according to the constitution, the cabinet of ministers is formed by the parliamentary majority, and is fully responsible for his work, and the office of the president helps the president to carry out his two main functions: work on the defense

of the country and work on the international level, period, but everyone knows that any government coughing sneeze, the more the piece of paper, well, the more the funding with the subsequent decomposition is agreed upon by the president on the street of the bank, and this process is managed by the head of the president's office yarmak and five or six effective managers who have no responsibility, in most of them they even they are not office deputies, they are advisers, they do not sign anything, and they really hope that after that they will not bear any responsibility, because there is no signature, there is no responsibility, really... what can the adviser of the president, who was the curator of large-scale construction, they poured billions of dollars before the war, not into rockets, into concrete, who will be responsible, he is an adviser, because there is an article for exceeding authority or for failure to fulfill official duties, he has no authority adviser, his mouth was closed, the workplace is cleaned, that's all, and they

hope that it will be so, and they manage ukraine and the entire government. uh, from the office of the president without any prescriptions of the constitution, well, that is, ministers who are appointed, these are the next goats served in the current system of power, this is a sham, this not even the movement of the beds, because the beds are actually the same, well, some were moved, some were moved apart, yes, but they put new ee characters there, whose surnames say only one thing: nothing will change, because this is half of the former acting duties, that is, those themselves... the people, the other half, as usual, people who have nothing to do with the industry in question, and above them are the key supervisors, these five or six efficient managers from the office of the president. which, in principle , manage all processes, how they manage, we see, well, in our everyday life, on in your opinion, why didn't they change the wheel? after, well,

let's say this, those backroom conversations in the parliament that are happening now, and not only in the parliament, they wanted to remove him for a long time, but the head of the servants of the people faction, david rahamia, stood up for him. the continuation of his premiership due to their long-standing close relationship. he proved to the president that it is not yet time to drop this ballast from the balloon of power. shmygal's long-standing relationship with arakhamia or arakhamia with akhmetov? this should not be addressed to me. in this case, arahamiya is a serious political figure. he is the leader faction, he has access to the president, he... has access to the prime minister, he influences his faction, he simply has the opportunity to say: i don't have votes for this in the faction, and this can lead to relations with

any official , in this case we are talking about the prime minister, regarding the results of his work, well, from my point of view, he proved his inefficiency a long time ago, a long time ago, and we are not talking about akhmetov, by the way, sergey, because you can never confuse a person with a place , where he once worked, well, someone, each of us somewhere. i, for example, at one time was an assistant to the prime minister, that does not mean that i am a good person, i remember that you were with oleksandr moroz, once with ba chas, so look, the one who works where , well, he worked as a manager at one of akhmetov's energy facilities, of course he has some contacts, but this does not mean that akhmetov appointed him, well, in fact, these are myths, it does not happen in life, he has been an independent figure for a long time , but knows the rules of the game in today's ukraine, first of all, does not put forward. does not show any of its rating, any of its own publicity and clearly fulfills not what the country demands, but what is demanded from the banking street, and he fulfills these rules, but

look, i want to end with something, but at the same time , mr. yarmak sent to his government, well, let's say, a very trusted a person who seriously proved himself among these five or six managers, it was obvious, no, no. no, this is the minister of regional development, kuleba, not the former minister of foreign affairs, but oleksiy kuleba, his namesake, who will be mastered in the governmental corridors of the cabinet, in order to probably take the post of prime minister. what would i comment if the president really wanted to reboot the government with more energy and more responsibility for the task. tasks, by him, by the parliament, by society, i would combine the office of the president and the cabinet, of course it would turn out a bit autocratic, but at least honestly, and i would appoint andrii

borysovich yeermak, who already manages everything, prime minister, for him to manage these processes with full responsibility, not from behind the scenes, not from behind the scenery, in his government office, that would be fair, but yes... this team is not working, and now i will allow another story, because we talked about efficiency, and now about political responsibility. it was not for nothing that i reminded that according to the constitution and laws, the government is formed in the parliament of the parliamentary majority. as you know, the majority of people's servants are in the parliament. according to the law, the head of the faction, by the way, this is about rahami's influence, makes a submission to the prime minister about... the removal of certain ministers and the appointment of certain ministers, only they deputies are authorized to take this action, after that the prime minister submits these nominations to parliament and

they vote it. yes, now it's simple, because i there was a time when it was necessary to coordinate the candidacy with two factions, with three and even with five, but now it is simple, there is one faction, formally simple, but are there votes, yesterday's and the day before yesterday's voting in the parliament showed that... these ministers did not receive votes, sufficient votes of the servants of the people, from 170 to 167 votes, with the required 226 received by all ministerial candidates, where the rest of the necessary votes came from the opzh faction and its fragments, so in fact we can debate for a very long time about the qualities of individual ministers and this government but... servants of the people and opz. after two maidans and in the third year of the war, this, as for

me, is terrible. moral degradation, terrible political cynicism, but it was actually yesterday, well, it was just openly demonstrated on the scoreboard of the verkhovna rada. servants of the people - 167 for the same kulebu, opzzh there are 20 of them, 10 more, seven, eight, as a result, you have 240. this society must know and must understand that we are dealing with the government today. which actually represents two political forces - servants of the people and opz. and therefore, they will be responsible. why did dmytro kuleba leave the post of minister of foreign affairs? oh, here's a separate song. dmytro kuleba was always a white crow in this government. well, like his predecessor, by the way, the minister of foreign affairs, prystayka. take it easy they were professionals. with

long-term, serious work. in his field with achievements, with certain, well, plans, strategies and so on, representative, i well remember that i met more than once in a diplomatic position, it was clear that a person is intelligent, ambitious, and this is normal in principle, especially for a young man, and he has his own vision of ukraine's actions on the international arena, and when he became a minister, well, for me he was such a bright spot in... in this gathering of dilettantes and populists, but the rules were the rules, and little by little they forced him to put on sneakers and a sweater, instead of a diplomatic suit and a cot, it was obvious how unpleasant it was for him, because he, well , it is clear that he is such a diplomat in life, he devoted himself entirely to this profession, but he entered this story, well, then he realized, that it will be done simply... provide furniture, because under

during the war, already in the second year of the war, it became clear that foreign policy would be managed by andrii yarmak, and at first they traveled together, and then it became simply obvious that the minister of foreign affairs, who bears all the responsibility, who by law must implement all policies in priorities , which are displayed by the president, are simply used as furniture during visits. the head of the president's office, who in principle does not have any constitutional powers regarding international affairs, and then mr. yarmak in general became openly without the minister of foreign affairs affairs, to dictate policy, what i mean, for example, passed, well, about a year, the entire diplomatic machine of ukraine was engaged in forms of peace with great energy, it was

not the only one, which... we remember in switzerland a few months ago, there were four more, heads of various states were gathered in different countries, and the task was one: to gather more than 100 heads of states and governments in switzerland, for what? in order to proclaim the formula of peace, they gathered, proclaimed, yermak actually led this process, the photo from that forum shows everything, i.e. the vice president of the united states of america, somewhere behind his shoulder, he looks like... in the center, he is the main, key event, but what did this conference give birth to, we, you and i, sergey, we talked about it here, this huge swiss mountain only gave birth one molehill, to the next forum, where the russian federation should be represented. what do we have for today? today we have the president's statement that there is no point in conducting any negotiations with russia. that is, a year of diplomatic efforts went nowhere. meanwhile, the same president absolutely

rightly says that we have problems. western allies, regarding the supply of weapons to us, the question, yes, maybe it was necessary to spend a year with all the diplomatic machines of ukraine, not the decorative peace forum, scaboverde and san marino, which still do not supply us with either money or weapons, maybe it was necessary to spend forms victory with those who give us money and missiles, and in these negotiations, in the offices, if necessary, in public ones, to achieve what... is needed for victory, that is the difference between a professional minister of foreign affairs and a populist figure, who knows how to organize a show, a film producer. now it became clear that all these forums are talking about nothing, well at least for the time being, and it is necessary to find the culprit for the fact that the work with our partners in the supply of weapons and the way in which the minister of foreign affairs dmytro was shot was blocked.