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alleged corruption worth tens of billions of hryvnias in the enterprise, which until recently was under the control of gur. we talk about this in the second part of the program, and we start with the withdrawal of ukrainian troops from the ugladar, the loss of which creates new threats for ukraine. this is svoboda life, my name is sashko shevchenko and we are starting. russia seized the spotlight by exposing ukraine's critical vulnerabilities. a publication on the website appeared with this title. american tv channel cnn. the material emphasizes the role of the advantageous location of ugledar, which is primarily located on high ground, and is actually at the junction of two fronts: eastern and southern, and this creates additional opportunities for the russian army to advance further. the fact that russia was able to attract enough reserves to encircle the city underscores the manpower advantage it still has, cnn writes. also, the author...

of the material emphasizes that the loss of the employer is happening at an unfavorable time for kyiv. the third winter of the great war is on the threshold, and the country's president has just returned from a trip to the usa, which was remembered for a political scandal due to accusations by republicans that zelensky is allegedly interfering in the us presidential election. today, zelenskyi himself commented on the withdrawal of the armed forces from the ugladar and explained the reasons why it happened. without the appropriate weapons, we... cannot stop the russian federation, which uses the appropriate weapons against us, destroys everything, and when they destroy the positions of our fighters, they have to save their lives, because they much more important than any buildings. so, what is the strategic importance of the coal miner, who was just forced to leave the ukrainian troops, says olga armenishyna.

russian troops reached the center of the coal mine on october 1, 2024. the city was considered a strategic bastion to withstand a russian attack after the full-scale invasion began. the battle for the city has been going on since the fall of 2022. so how significant is the coal miner's admiration for russia. vugledar is a mining town in the donetsk region, built in the mid-1960s. has two mines with significant coal reserves. moscow sees control of the coal miner as an important step, but why? for a long time, the city was considered one of the most difficult fortifications in ukraine. it is located on a hill, which for quite a long time gave the armed forces of ukraine an advantage over the attacks of the russian army. also, control of the coalfield is key, as it is located at the intersection of the eastern and southern fronts. the capture of ugledar opens the way for russian troops to attack in other places. now the main threat is facing the city of kura. and later in

the city of pokrovsk may also be in danger. the russian army gradually surrounded the ukrainian military in the city, in addition to storming the city, there were guided aerial bombs. also, the armed forces of ukraine repeatedly confirmed the superiority of the russian army in the number of personnel and weapons, but the ukrainian armed forces themselves had a shortage of both reserves and ammunition in this direction. as a result of the enemy's actions, the encirclement of the city was threatened. the higher command has been given permission to carry out a maneuver to withdraw units from the coal mine for the purpose of preservation personnel and combat equipment and taking up positions for further actions. previously, russian troops made at least four major attempts at... ughledar, they were repulsed by 72 separate mechanized brigades, none of the sides reported losses during the battle for ughledar. after the loss of control over the coal mine, the question arises, what could be the further actions of the russian army and what should the ukrainians prepare for?

ivan stupak, military analyst, former employee of the sbu, will talk about this later with us. good evening. congratulations, thank you invitation. thank you for joining. so, let's start with predictions, already. expert opinions were expressed that russia may probably try to advance to such regional centers as dnipro and zaporizhzhia after capturing the coal mine, or on the contrary, it will set itself the goal of first occupying the entire donetsk and luhansk regions within the administrative borders, what is your forecast? well, listen, the forecast is such an ungrateful thing, we do not know what is in the heads of the russian commanders in the higher command, in the lower command, do not forget that in individual leaders there... there are links, for example, great ambitions, someone dreams of becoming a general, he needs general epaulets, and he is ready to do everything possible and impossible for this, to invent tasks for himself, what to take, what not to take, in order to , in order to receive the rank of general, someone there dreams of the position,

someone of the star of the hero of the russian federation, someone of this kinostas on the chest in the form of orders, so once again everyone has their own ambitions about whether it will be russian. to move in the direction of zaporizhzhia-dnieper, well, me i assume that no, once again, this is my personal assumption, i did not sit in putin’s head, i did not see him, or the chief of the general staff of the russian federation, it was rightly said in your broadcast that, well, in my opinion, it is most likely an attempt to capture, go to the administrative border of the donetsk region, seize the city of kurakhove, cut the road connecting kurakhov, pokrovske, not pokrovsk of the donetsk region, but pokrovske of the dnipropetrovsk region. oblast, and of course, the city of pokrovsk itself, in order to go beyond the limits and close this issue. but we wanted to really try to figure out on this air, how realistic is this attempt to continue the offensive on large regional centers for russia, and

obviously this makes sense, both politically and militarily, in particular, the dnipro is such a large logistical hub for the front , there are also hospitals where the wounded from the front are taken. in this sense, in your estimation, how great is the threat to this city now and to its further role in supporting the front. see, you're right, it's a big hub, logistics since 2014, a hospital mechnikov plays a simply crazy role in the treatment of our soldiers from the donetsk and zaporizhia regions, the first wounded, in the first hours, they go to this hospital in the city of dnipro, where they are simply put on their feet, as far as possible, stabilized. their lives, and then they are sent for treatment in various hospitals of ukraine, this is for understanding. i'm not talking about the military, it's insanely large. official russian propaganda, or rather, official russian officials, at least did not announce plans to enter in the direction of the city of dnipro, but nothing prevents,

for example, to go out there tomorrow morning and say: we are ready to go, we looked here, scratched the nose, the back of the head, decided to move in the direction of the city of dnipro. the city of a millionaire until recent events. but once again the threat is insane for him, if it is convenient to show the map now, you can see that if the russian federation, i assume, tries to attack the city of dnipro, then the city of zaporizhzhia, the left bank of zaporizhzhia, the left bank of the zaporizhzhia region, it will simply be in such a bag, and this is still a city of a million people, well, almost up to a million people, and the zaporizhzhia region is still large. the number of people, a large number of the ukrainian group can simply be cut off and remain semi-surrounded, this is also a really big threat. but actually, i'm looking at the map now and it's important to note here that zaporizhzhia is already attacking, is already within reach of at least russian

aircraft and which can release guided aerial bombs, that is, the front line really, it's closer to zaporizhzhia now, if we're talking about the southern front, and in this i want to understand what are the obstacles in the russian army for such further advancement, where maybe, i don't know, other characteristics of the landscape, right? will be more favorable or, on the contrary, problematic for the russian army, if it decides to go in one direction or another. well, look, i won’t tell you about the landscape, because it is absolutely diverse there, somewhere there, for example, it seems to be a plain, but here and there on the sand i walked, drove, well, the less densely, densely planted territory, the more visible russian first offensive units appear, it doesn't matter if it's infantry, it's tanks, they're simple. the more you hit them, the more difficult it is to maintain defense there, so i once again

hope that the local authorities of dnipropetrovsk oblast and zaporizhzhia oblast will still not skimp on fortifications, as they did, for example, in the city of pokrovsk, as they did in bakhmut, in avdiivka, and will invest in investments, well, invest in your future and in the future of the whole of ukraine, the same applies to the central government, and do we know for example, what about the fortifications... well , right next to the front line, taking into account the fact that the armed forces of ukraine actually withdrew from the coal mine, the official communication says that they withdrew to fortified positions, unfortunately, we have to state that earlier , when such formulations were expressed, it did not always turn out to be true, at least, at least doubts about it were expressed by authoritative sources, that is what is clear in this situation regarding the readiness of the next settlements, the next boundaries near coaler, we don't... frankly, no one will tell you now, because this is a big state secret, the only thing is that when there will be problematic

moments, but unfortunately, they will be, then only your colleagues, journalists will try to express it without to show, but look, for example, there, for example, let’s fantasize, the big novoselivka, yes, and look here, from the south to the north , insanely simple fortifications in the form of a simple trench, well, of course, this will be a hint for the russian federation, if will be called, then in general the direction... point out that there are problems, but once again there are problems, we saw, for example, in the kharkiv region, when in may the russians were able to go deep, well, in the direction of the cities of vovchansk, liptsiv, and i know for sure that our military said , that the civilian companies that were responsible for the construction of the fortifications, they simply, as they say, washed their hands and left, because they say, we got the money, that's it, we shouldn't complete, you don't like something military? do as you see fit, meaning the military in one hand a machine gun, a shovel in the other hand, and they begin

to complete the constructions that were thrown by civilian companies, for which, by the way, a lot of money was paid, and at least i will add here that it is possible that it will be clear how prepared these frontiers are from further events on front, since it will be possible to judge it, in particular, about the possible further advance of the russian army, in this context i want to ask - what can be said about this speed of advance, in particular , back in september, shoigu said that the russian army butsimto captured 1,000 km on donbass in two months, so is it such a marker that progress is really happening faster than before, what does it even say? well, look, i will tell you the key indicators, which are even so, the key, the key tactics, which are used, which are used by the armies of the russian federation, which are really. working, the working scheme is called: the first is guided aerial

bombs, unfortunately, this thing works, it is not a secret, they just hide the ukrainian defense like a can knife, no matter how it is built up, concreted, flew in the target is the first bomb, the second will arrive, the second has not arrived, the tenth will arrive, this is a stupid weapon, but the stupidity is compensated by the weight of the ammunition, these bombs weigh from 200 kg to... a ton, so once again, well, they just burn the ground and there is no banal there is even a square meter of concrete left there, this is for understanding, once, the second tactic that works is no longer meat assaults, as it was when there hey-hey, there you remember how in the movie there is for the motherland, for stalin, 100-500 russian invaders ran, no, they move in small groups, three or four, on foot, but there are a lot of them, they just crawl along the landing, using light... a variety of equipment in the form of chinese-made desert cross, in the form of motorcycles, they are called disposable

motorcyclists, and this thing also works, they just disperse, they just it is impossible to see everyone and hit everyone with artillery or fpv drones, and the third component is already tactical, when they push through the flanks, if before, for example, bahmud, the russians simply took them in a shovel, they go and storm, they raped him for nine months, beat broke through lost a lot of wagners, broke through, now they, if they see that there is a frontal defense, it is impossible to break through it, push through the flanks, from the left, right, from the north, from the south, where there is a weak flank, they push it... and enter behind our troops, that is, unfortunately, these are all schemes, they work. and finally, i want to ask you whether you expect the further advance of the russian army already now, or whether it is likely that some kind of pause in the offensive is possible, in particular, taking into account the fact that from many sources we have to read and hear that such a long, such a long offensive, it has been going on

for more than a year, and in particular, that there are many people of this living force, so to speak. the russian army is losing in these assaults, as they are called, and i will also make this reference to the ministry of defense of britain, that is, they also say that record losses in the last four months, the russian army is experiencing, in this context, can we expect that sooner or later this offensive will end, in particular due to the fact that resources are running out, see, you correctly noted that this offensive action has been going on for a year, that is, if it was earlier there for six months, then a ukrainian counter-offensive, then a russian one, it was expected that it was possible... in march, april they should suspend somewhere there or reduce the intensity of their offensive actions, it did not work out, but there were different circumstances, maybe they thought there at first putin's election, and then putin's inauguration, then there will be a stop, no, this is not happening, this activity has been going on for a year, and no one can

predict how or when this offensive operation will end there . in the russians, where i will tell you so, russian soldiers, they write a lot on this topic, if you read their messages very much between the lines, they write like this: we do not know how our offensive operation will end, there can be two options here, first, or we took such a pace, at this rate, we will simply destroy the entire ukrainian defense, they will simply run hundreds of kilometers deep, and we will jump in the fields, in the forests, or we will break our own arms, legs, heads, necks. and the ukrainians will regain all that we conquered in a matter of weeks for months or even years, they themselves don't know how it will end, and i really wonder which of the two scenarios you just outlined will come true, thank you for contacting us and commenting on the situation on front, in particular, we talked about the possible future plans of the russian army after the

russian army captured the city of ugledar. military analyst ivan stopak was in touch with us. the ukrainian state could lose billions of hryvnias, as well as precious time for the procurement of shells and mines due to the alleged corruption in the state-owned company, which until recently was under the control of the general directorate of intelligence. this was the conclusion reached by the ukrainian pravda publication, which published an investigation into the disruption of contracts for the supply of weapons, in particular artillery shells, as well as contracts at inflated prices in the state. the spetskhenoexport enterprise. on october 1, defense minister rustem umyerov announced that the company was being transferred from the management of gur, headed by kyrylo budanov, to the direct control of the ministry of defense. in the commentary published by umyerov explained this decision by the fact that the auditors, who tried to investigate the causes of financial violations, were denied access to the necessary

documents. as it follows from the investigation, the ministry of defense is even suing special technology, special technology. exports due to disruption of supplies and debts, for which the company's accounts may be seized. so what is corruption and illegal enrichment in defense procurement, or is it banal inefficiency? and what could be the role of the leadership of gur, in particular kirill budanov, and also why for the purchase of weapons middlemen , special importers, are still used, if the ministry of defense has a defense procurement agency, which in theory could purchase these projectiles for... we will try to answer these questions later, and now i propose to deal in more detail with what exactly the journalists of ukrainian pravda managed to expose . interestingly, a number of controversial and unfulfilled contracts between the defense procurement agency and special technology export were concluded on the same day. for example, on the same

october 27, 2023, another state agreement was signed for more than uah 4 billion. for supply 24 thousand units of 125mm high-explosive fragmentation shot, the price per unit is about 4 thousand euros. as of september of this year, the contract was half completed. according to ope interlocutors in the defense sector, a similar ammunition is offered by a ukrainian manufacturer at a price of about $2,400 per unit. accordingly, the potential overpayment within... the contract is about 2 thousand euros, on the entire contract of 24,000 units, the potential loss of budget funds can be more than 40%. currently, the defense procurement agency 2 billion and

almost 700 million hryvnias were transferred to special technical exports. why was this contract not fulfilled on time? done ugh. that is, the fact that she is now approaching the border, these are exactly the conditions that were included in the contract. no, not like that. he is not paid. it comes without postage. that is, we will bring it now, and then we will ask the non-resident to settle the money. huh, isn't it profitable, using your logic, for the russians to buy for the specified amount of funds, roughly speaking, not 100,00 units of weapons, but 60, 50 are not there, uh, well, that is, the question is, either they are, or they are not, or they are not, another, well, either they are, or they are not, the second question, the market value, you compare with the ukrainian manufacturer, thank god, and the president of ukraine emphasizes this, that the ukrainian... defense industry is already moving forward and we ourselves can produce something, but not in such a quantity. spetstechnoexport and the defense procurement agency sign another state contract for the supply

of 150-millimeter projectiles for the d-20 howitzer for the total amount of almost uah 9 billion. number of ammunition is almost 50,000, the price per unit in recalculation is about 3,960 euros. as of now, according to sources of the up, only 20,000 shells have been delivered to the sphere, that is, less than half. according to other special importers, the specified ammunition of bulgarian production is supplied to ukraine at a price of 2,300, 2,500 thousand euros, that is, almost twice as cheap, which means that the potential loss of budget funds on this contract alone may amount to about 80 million. the lawsuit is currently being considered defense procurement agencies to of special technical exports in the amount of uah 42 million. in the spring of this year, we brought 100

wagons of the 152nd projectile. we have information that less than half of the products were delivered, 5,000 in total, yes. 50,000 in total, we contracted, we brought the amount for which we were paid, we brought, now we are waiting for another, another production of another, another batch. and it is not so easy to manufacture it, and our suppliers are also there, this is the same company scalibur, presents us with forcemajora documents, that they do not have time, a complex projectile. december 18, 2023 with spetstechnoexport signs the next contract for the supply of 70,000 155 mm rounds, for more than uah 9 billion, and again the cost is overestimated, and again the contract is not fulfilled. special technical export. should have delivered 36,000 units, but delivered only a few thousand shots. according to this contract , the lawsuit

of the defense procurement agency against special technology exports in the amount of half a billion hryvnias is being considered in the kyiv economic court. that is, you believe that the cost was not inflated within the framework of this contract. it was not overstated. ugh. and she answers in principle the average price for which it is purchased. why is there a link to the average cost? well, this is also manipulative. meets these conditions. for which we brought this product, of course the fault is also that we could not convince the ministry of defense in time and draw their attention to the fact that we had to pay for the fact that we did not make the payment on time, it was not us, but the ministry of defense did not agree, they sent the force majeure of the state of virginia about the fact that the kovalsky press was out of order there was not accepted by the ministry, it does not accept it. ukrainian truth turned to the head of gur kyril budanov to hear his comment about the alleged corruption in the company under the control of his department, but as of now bodanov

has not yet commented on the publication. yuriy nikolov, journalist and founder of the project our money, good evening, is in touch with us. greetings, good evening. the history of the purchase of shells at probably inflated prices is not new, and it is often explained by the fact that the arms market is very dynamic, if the demand exceeds the supply, then the prices. grow rapidly and immediately in everyone, as you think, but specifically in this one stories with purchases, special technology export purchases, there may be such a simple explanation that the prices are inflated because they simply do not sell at a different price, it may be about, but the question is how this inflated price was formed, because you know, such formulations are very convenient that the price is growing, because the demand is growing, well, excuse me, our demand grew back in february 22, and the demand grew catastrophically, and immediately reached the maximum of all. as much as possible, from that moment on our demand no longer increases, we buy everything that is available, everything that moves, eh, and, ah, another the story absolutely begins to look like when to

the same manufacturer... more people who agree to buy it just come running, that is, the market has not grown, but the number of people who want to buy has grown, and these people are already starting to tell, come on from those, sell the projectiles for thousands of euros, and for me, for €1,500, and i will buy them from you, that’s how the price accelerates, and the demand is the same, all those projectiles will still explode on the line of combat between ukraine and russia, there is no place in the world now. so hot points, where would it all fly, so, unfortunately, according to the words that the demand has increased, and this has led to an increase in the price, the fact is that it is not the demand that has increased, but the number of people who would like to raise the prices has artificially increased, well, leaving from this, it is logical to assume that if you remove one more buyer, so to speak, an intermediary in this case, then there should be no problems, or at least even with... and

in any case, then there would be a situation when the plant produces shells, he should be sold to him in any case, but to him already not three, not four buyers come running, but the defense procurement agency comes there on behalf of ukraine, says: we will take everything you have, everything you do, let's negotiate a price, and that's it, the seller is no longer here who to refer to in the sense that oh, wait a minute, i'll talk with them, see what price they will offer, no, man, no one will come to you anymore. so let's work like this and somehow i have the impression that in such a situation the prices could not be as high as they are now, but can you then explain what in general here is the procedure for why the defense procurement agency buys these projectiles from special importers, which are also state-owned enterprises, well, why not directly, the agency just for the last six months, well, when maryna bezrukova went there as the head, just as she started to take these steps, they started to go out

on ... western producers, well, western ones, i mean, outside of ukraine, started to work for them, but unfortunately, in some cases, they began to meet with such a story that ah, the agencies simply refused, and sometimes these rejections were still inspired there from within ukraine, certain power structures there began to raise violence, to write all kinds of letters that aos could not cooperate with such structures there, but had to buy from others, and well... in such cases, it later turned out that the production of the same projectiles all worked just fine for ukraine, but the projectiles just went through a longer chain, and aos no longer bought directly from the factory, but from some intermediary, including special technical export, so this is actually a story about the fact that, well, everyone in ukraine had to come to terms with and accept that which is better direct contract with manufacturers, but this did not

happen. this cossack freewoman of some kind has been preserved, i don’t know how to even say it like that, this is a walking field, everyone is running, offering something, and unfortunately, in ukraine, well, as in a country with deep corruption traditions, well, too much for a long time we lived in that atmosphere, about the ukrainian arms trade there, even hollywood made a movie with nicholas the younger in the lead role, but unfortunately, too many people sympathized. er, marina is sleeveless, but they did a lot in order to maintain the existing scheme with these intermediaries and so on. well, but, if you summarize this story with special technology export, it turns out to be a story, well, if i understood you correctly, it is a story about corruption, and not just some banal bureaucracy, inefficiency of the state apparatus and so on. well, here it should correspond exactly to the investigation, it's just that i am always inclined due to the specifics of my work.

well, to consider even such things from a corruption angle, i very often hear in other spheres that there was no other way, well, there are force majeure and so on, but you know, these words very often turn out to be just a screen to hide the true intentions, in this case naboo is definitely working on this case, i will hope that the official investigation will show who is in what true, but what is the role of the ministry of defense and ministers in particular? you criticized him before, in particular the department of the ministry of defense for trying to unite the defense procurement agency and the state operator tyla, and now we see that the special importer was also taken away from under the leadership of gur and transferred directly to the ministry of defense, and that's all links of the same chain, i think so, and unfortunately, well, the whole story is much more multifaceted, that is, look, on the one hand, the special importer is being sorted, well, what...