and this makes no difference, the main thing is that there will already be certainty in the united states and already with an understanding of what the course will be, we can talk very seriously about very serious things, knowing who will be the president of the united states for the next years. well, but in any case, if the election is held on november 5, then the inauguration will already take place early next year, so theoretically represent the united states? there will be a representative of the democrats, yes, but to talk, if it will be trump, president zelensky openly says that he will also meet with trump, and with biden and work with the others, because at the moment it is very important for ukraine, you cannot divide who to work with now, you have to work with both, but, according to him, he will bring this plan not only to joe biden, as well as to kamala. and to donald

trump, before somehow communicating with the ukrainian people. look, you also mentioned this today, volodymyr zelenskyi said before that russia will be invited to this peace summit. please clarify why? why? in order for that position which there are functions in the peace points of president zelenskyi of ukraine, which. concerns, there are several blocs, as you know, the humanitarian bloc is, well, we will focus on those, on specific things, for example, the exchange of prisoners, these are very important things that can be achieved actually, when russia will go to the talks, the second issue is energy security, and after that we can also get closer to talking about, i hope, a line about... but what form will it take,

will russia be ready to hear it, they we see that they are trying now make the operation in the kursk region in order to show the world that they are supposedly taking it back, that we ukrainians supposedly cannot hold it, but this is not true, we are holding it within the framework of our defense and offensive, the situation at the front is difficult, but we need it keep. you understand, elizaveta, as practice shows, the peace summit does not guarantee peace, maybe it is because the majority of countries supported us and said that we are capable of defending ourselves, just including for the peace summit, in order for long-term work, but did i understand correctly , you admit that in november this year, volodymyr zelensky and vladimir putin may sit at the same table during the peace summit, i think it will not be at the same table, most likely it will be if... if

everything goes well, this will be the position that will be presented from ukraine , some kind of coalition of states will act as negotiators for russia. i think, in this format, it is possible, but whether it will be 100%, no one can say now, yes, not at more than one table, at different tables, i think that at one table it is currently impossible, let a couple personnel matters, because you and i did not talk about it with the representatives of the servant of the people, did you find a position for... kuleba, the former minister of foreign affairs, whom you dismissed last week. i think this is a question that no one has an answer to yet. we do not have information today, we do not have a plenary week, the plenary week will be next week, i hope that there will be more information on personnel. currently, it is not known, it is not known if he is still in your team or not in yours anymore? i think that he... the last many years in the team

representing ukrainian diplomacy, i never considered him as a part of our team or not our team, this is a joint team that, he worked for many years on important missions, so i am grateful to him for his work, and then the last question, i will kindly share with you what about this is written by the western press, such as politiko publication citing unnamed sources, today they wrote that dmytro kuleba was fired because... he annoyed the head of the office of the president andriy yarmak, who wants to have more control over the ministry. do you share this point of view? i will honestly tell you that not only the western press, and western diplomats, indeed, including me and other colleagues, ask kuleba's candidacy more than anything why he was fired, because they don't understand, because it really wasn't communicated why he was fired. we know that the position was voiced. that he does not have such strong

energy to further develop this direction, that renewal is needed, that was the position expressed. the position of the president, this is the position that was voiced at the meeting, so with our faction, it concerned several ministers who, who were either fired, or they transferred to other positions, for some informal reasons, they are unknown to me, but as we know that the appointment of the minister of foreign affairs is the responsibility of the president, and we as the servant of the people faction support the position of the president. thank you very much, yelyzaveta yasko, people's deputy, servant of the people faction and representative of the foreign policy committee, was on radio liberty. well, divens, in addition to announcing, to put it mildly, a controversial vision plan for the end of the war, also mentioned corruption in ukraine, and we will also talk further, in particular, about

corruption, in particular, because it is precisely corruption that is used as an argument by opponents of supporting ukraine, they say, why help them, they steal everything, so that’s why i was recently informed about... the ex-head of the dnipropetrovsk region valentin reznichenko, his former deputy, heads of departments, as reported in nabu, detectives and prosecutors exposed a large-scale fraud in the road sector, as a result of which , during a full-scale war, the state budget suffered more than uah 286 million in losses. what is it about? in the fall of the 22nd, actually two years ago, journalists from radio liberty's schema program found that since the beginning of the russian invasion, dnipropetrovsk region has spent the most... public money on road repair and maintenance than all war-affected regions combined. journalists established that the private firm budynvist inzhenerg, which has spent 1.5 billion hryvnias on reconstruction in the region, is directly connected to the head of the region, reznichenko, who actually decides, decided, to whom

and in what amounts to allocate money. journalists discovered that half of this company was recorded to a woman, her name is yana khlanta, and she is a professional athlete, and most likely, valentina's girlfriend or common-law wife. the head of the region, and the other half of the company, which used billions for reconstruction, was connected with businessmen who were officially declared wanted by the united states on suspicion of financial fraud. this is such an interesting story, it was november 22 of the year, and it would seem that after such a high-profile investigation, volodymyr zelenskyi will immediately dismiss reznychenko from his position, or at least suspend him during the investigation, but instead the president, for example, soon took raznichenko with him to the newly released in russia. from russia to kherson as part of his then small delegation, as if emphasizing reznichenko's own, we don't surrender ours and so on, and only 3 months later, at the end of january 23rd, zelensky fired reznichenko, and only the day before, in fact 2 years later, reznichenko received

suspicion, nabu exposed a corruption scheme for the repair of roads in the dnipropetrovsk region, as i have already said, for uah 286 million. according to the investigation , the suspects artificially increased expenses for using. execution of works, money was transferred to the accounts of companies that were connected with top officials of the region, the court will be next, and what preliminary conclusions can be drawn already now, in particular political ones, or what conclusions have already been made in the president's team, that is that's what we'll talk about now, olena shulyak, head of the verkhovna rada committee on state power, self-government, regional development, joins the broadcast, i greet you, good evening, good evening, ms. olena, didn't today's news confuse you? more precisely yesterday's news. that a person from the vertical of the president was declared a suspect due to the alleged embezzlement of money for reconstruction during the war. well, let's go in order, first of all, riznichenko and other officials of the dnipropetrovsk state administration were searched back in april 24, so we all perfectly

understood that the question of these people receiving suspicion is only a matter of time, so for me personally it was not a surprise. a... comrade, it should be noted that the anti-corruption infrastructure that has been built in recent years, and i emphasize that it the concerted work of nabu, sap and vaks, it just shows that the corrupt, regardless of what positions they are in or have been in, they will still be punished, and the example of mr. roznychenko just confirms it, i think that... it's very good because there's no untouchables, there shouldn't be, especially in matters like that, i probably wouldn't want to divide there particularly or not particularly in any matters that have to do with abuse, with regard to the use budget, and it does not matter whether it is a state-level budget or is it the regional budget, is it the local budget, is it

all the money of our taxpayers, or is it the money provided to us by our international partners, and of course it is very unfortunate when there are unscrupulous...officials who embezzle it, abuse it, i hope that this example, it will be so clear, visual for other officials, and... inspiring, well, i wouldn't say inspiring, but, but for sure, and how will it show that this is not what should happen in our state, but what do you think, you personally, and why, for example, the president and the powerful team for a long time, even three months actually did not react to the probably dubious schemes of reznichenko, are those who say that they just covered their own in the office right, i do not think that the president is concerned with ... covering reznichenko, we know that in the office of the president there are always deputies

who are responsible for regional politics, we saw that kyrylo tymoshenko was also then kyrylo tymoshenko, yes, yes, well, it was definitely the period of kyrylo tymoshenko, this is the 22nd year, i will remind you that we are now talking about that suspicion , which refers to abuses in 2022, just when the full-scale invasion started then... so i think there are a lot of questions that need to be asked to those people who are responsible for regional policy directly in the office, but with mr. kyril tymoshenko, we also see that the president fired him, and that's just it is also a sign that the president was reacting to the troubles that occurred in the regional sphere. ms. olena, but now kyrylo tymoshenko works in the ministry of defense, so to say that he fired him, well, he fired him from the office of the president and assigned him to the ministry defense, well, it's definitely not the president. it was arranged by the ministry of defense, let's go there buderov arranged it, well, maybe, let's be honest, the most important thing is that abuses,

they do not go unpunished, i will remind you that these abuses related to the operation of local roads of local importance, i will remind our viewers what kind of roads of national significance, the responsible reconstruction agency or the former ukraftodor, regional troops are responsible for roads of local significance. administration, precisely these violations were connected with the fact that the company that you have already talked about will be an investment, by the way, it was among the top leaders in general throughout ukraine of such construction companies that received relevant contracts, and from the information that we see now, and what is said in the official channels directly nabu, more than uah 286 million in damages were caused to the state and... it is suspected that the money was simply transferred to some fictitious companies that did not perform

work, and this has already been confirmed directly by detectives, because there is already a corresponding amount there , about which we can read in relation to the state's losses. tell me, please, was this story somehow considered by your committee, did you conduct some kind of your own, perhaps a separate investigation or study? well, people's deputies, they can't check the estimates there, they don't have them. of the relevant competences, we can only work with corruption risks and make appropriate changes to the legislation. for example, recently the anti-corruption committee headed by anastasia radzina, they registered the relevant bill, which obliges publishing all estimates for all construction works and for works related to the construction and acquisition of roads, including, it will not solve this problem, because the estimates are only a part, let's say, where they can be of... use, there is also the question of the direct execution of the works, there is the question of how much, for example, the volumes are overestimated, there is

the question of whether these volumes are really performed by the contractors, and here it is necessary to directly make appropriate changes to the legislation, which would increase the criminal liability of all participants in the construction process and the contractor directly, and experts who approve the examination, well , in general, all those who... take part in this or that other construction. by the way, if we are now talking about anti-corruption safeguards, i think that our entire international community, our international partners and already our communities have started working with such a dream system, you probably also heard about it, where all the information about projects related to recovery from the start of project implementation to its completion, it is in digital system, and there is information about who wins tenders, there is information about. who provides the money, how this money is spent, which contractors, which

terms, for which amounts, and the most important thing is that this system is a dream, and that its use is mandatory, unfortunately, today we have not adopted the relevant legislation , which was discussed that this system is mandatory for use, and this system is currently in such an experimental mode and works in such an experimental mode that they can use at will, as far as i understand, but let me you can talk endlessly about reconstruction, because i know that you are involved in the development of the legislative framework and oversee many areas at once, but this example of reznychenko, he is very revealing both in terms of size and what the political reaction was, and i here i would like to dwell on one more personality, because we know that, for example, one of the curators, or as he calls himself, the ideological inspirers of the great construction, was yurii golik, he once worked as an adviser to reznichenko, without holding any position. and that's it what investigative journalist yuriy nikolov says,

that in principle, one of the members of this group was the coordinator of the great construction, yuriy golyk, but because... he did not receive suspicion, because he did not hold any position, plus it is also possible that somehow he received leaks from the nabu. tell me, please, is yuriy golyk somehow related to the reconstruction processes in ukraine, do you and he cross paths, do you work together or not? no, i do not work with yury golyk, he is definitely not involved in the activities of our committee, he never takes part in any meetings, not in working groups, and i think that the committee would not allow this, and regarding the fact that... is yuriy golyk involved or not in the schemes that you talked about, i think that naboo detectives are definitely with it will be sorted out, and we already see such a tandem, when journalists work, as was the case with the budinvest inzhenering company, then relevant investigators join in, and we see how the relevant court cases end, which we wanted to

end with relevant verdicts, so that everything after all, the responsibility was catching up. people who steal, let's say, and abuse, especially during a full-scale invasion of reconstruction, restoration, and other processes related to the development of our state. thank you very much, we will be glad to see you in the next broadcasts. olena shulyak, head of the verkhovna rada committee on state power, self-government, and regional development, was on radio liberty. that's all we have for today, i urge you to subscribe to the pages of radio liberty on the internet, like this broadcast, this is how you support our work and regardless journalism in ukraine until monday. in september, there are discounts on relief, 10% in the pharmacies of psyllium, bam and ochad. in the frantic flow of various events, it is sometimes difficult to determine what is most important.

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welcome to voice of america in ukrainian, our program chas time, my name is ostap yarysh. british prime minister keir starmer arrived in washington for a meeting with joe biden. the day before, information appeared in the media that the leaders may discuss granting ukraine permission to strike with long-range missiles on the territory of russia. however, answering questions to reporters, white house communications adviser john kirby said. does not expect any announcements in this regard after the meeting between biden and starmer and added: for now, the policy of the united states has not changed. we will ask our correspondent in london, bohdan tsyupin, how they comment on it in britain. bohdan, i congratulate you. greeting. bohdan, so what does london say about the purpose of cyrus' visit starmar to washington and, in particular, about discussions on restrictions on the use of long-range weapons? along with how the british prime minister kersthamer

was leaving, or already? flew to the united states to washington downing street, the british prime minister's office issued an official statement announcing the visit and the purpose of the british prime minister's trip to washington, which clearly states that the issue of aid to ukraine, support for ukraine will be one with the leading, with the leading, in that statement, in that there is no document. there is no mention of long-range weapons or missiles, or any specific types of weapons, but on the other hand it is emphasized that the visit of the prime minister is taking place together with the minister of foreign affairs, who the day before together with the secretary of state anthony blinken was in kyiv, and it was there in kyiv that the topic

of ukraine's appeals, er... to western partners, so that ukraine had the ability and actually agreed to strike targets in russia, that this issue was the main one, so we can safely assume that even to claim that this topic will be one of the issues of negotiations between the british prime minister and the american president today. bohdan, in the context of this news, we also heard repeated threats from putin that such a permit would, they say, mean direct. nato's participation in the war, this is not the first time we have heard this from russia, but nevertheless, how was such rhetoric perceived in the west now? putin's threats, the threats of the leader of the country that started the biggest war in europe since the second world war, are obviously taken seriously, but they also understand very well that putin is trying to achieve his goals with his statements, to influence,

manipulate, and in particular about this now. said one of the leading british analysts from the chadhamhouse center. this is a carefully planned statement by the russian president, aimed at creating an effect of fear and deterring actions or preventing what was creating problems for russia, which is waging war. and it has influence. we know it has an impact. there are indeed people who would like us not to strive for a ukrainian victory. disasters that intelligent people think about and serious people in the us administration, for example, zaghi also knows that putin is manipulating him, he is not stupid, and therefore, when putin talks about the war between russia and nato, it is taken seriously, but at the same time, everyone understands very well that it is more of a game, rather than a big bluff. i say this because, as i have already

mentioned, in russia i still believed that it... is at war with nato, but this is definitely intended to restrain the west in its support for ukraine and in its desire to achieve the defeat of russia. in addition, moscow also revoked the accreditation of six employees of the british embassy, ​​who were in russia. is it somehow related to the answer that putin was talking about? on the one hand, it is obviously related to the fact that the announcement was made today, that is... russian special services, russian government official mass media accused british diplomats of espionage, but at the same time in london they note a very important and very interesting detail, which is in the fact that a group of british diplomats was actually deprived of diplomatic accreditation.