ukrainian drivers... with whom rfe/rl correspondents spoke with their polish colleagues on the day thedo not agree with the carriers, what is for the poles , what will happen to us, the poles are leaving ukraine the same way we were, we were not going to let them out , such a situation could be similar. done in ukraine that the poles will not enter ukraine, they were also allowed to have a permit, i really want them to take a permit to us then, well, according to there is still a queue, well, by the way, what they have is ours, it is ours, officially ours. they want their military command to be called or something, or they are a warring party, they, they want to have a green corridor for them to drive, and we, if we stand, our logistics would be lost, or something, this is impossible here, because then, i i don't know how the higher-ups will react, because sometimes there is no work, then there will be a whole mess, the strikers say that they will block the border around the clock until fulfillment of their demands, how long... the action is unknown, however, according to them, the per

andriy yusov, a representative of the gur ministry of defense, commented to rfe/rl, according to him, mariana aleksandrivna budanova was indeed poisoned by heavy metals and is currently undergoing a course of treatment, which is already being completed. thus, the ugurs for the first time officially confirmed to radio liberty, information that was previously published by the media with reference to sources. more data on the uygurs were promised to be made public later. i will add that budanov previously told radio svoboda in an interview that his wife lives with him in his office, although she does not work at gur. since june 2021, she has been working as an adviser to the mayor of kyiv, vitaliy klychka. well , let me remind you that in gur it was reported that since 2014 there have been attempts on the life of the head of the department, krylo budanov, at least 10 times. one of them happened already during the full-scale invasion of the russian federation into ukraine, when russia fired a missile at the building of the main intelligence agency. blow well, as i already mentioned, more

meanwhile, a rfe/rl correspondent working in the city reports that fighting is ongoing in avdiivka, and the russian army is trying to storm the positions of ukrainian troops. we will talk further about one of the hottest points of the front on the map of ukraine. without financial support from partner countries, ukraine may face an economic crisis, said the minister of finance of ukraine, serhiy marchenko. it is about an alleged hole in the budget that will amount to 29 billion dollars. where does kyiv plan to get the money and how serious are these threats. the operational command of the south states that a civilian ship flying the flag of liberia came under russian fire in odesa. russian forces hit a kh-31p anti-radar missile in the direction of one of the ports of odesa. there are dead and wounded. we will find out all the details of this incident. your comments and likes are important to us, and also share this video with your friends so that quality content can be seen by as many people as possible. battles are taking place in avdiivka, in gunshots and explosions can be heard every

journalists, and i also note that rfe/rl is on all social networks, you can subscribe and receive. information and see interesting and important stories, including from the front, from the russian-ukrainian war. our correspondents work to so that you understand what is happening, my name is kateryna nykrecha and our entire svoboda ranok team, i wish you a peaceful day and see you tomorrow. it's 10 o'clock, it's time to find out what 's happening in ukraine and the world at this time, khrystyna parubiy works in the studio. russian terrorists hit a hospital in selidovo in donetsk region with rockets, injuring seven patients. near at midnight , two s300 rockets hit the premises, partially destroying three buildings of the medical facility. the rescue operation is still ongoing, because there may be people under the rubble people - said the minister of internal affairs of ukraine ihor klymenko. they also targeted the kotlyarevska mine in the novogrodivska community, a miner was killed. four buildings were partially destroyed. 19

rfe/rl today requested a comment from the state special communications agency, they replied that they will be able to provide comments, i quote , only from monday. it is interesting that at the meeting where a preventive measure was chosen for the goldfinch, two deputies from the servant of the people came who wanted to bail him out, they are oleksandr fedienko and mykhailo kryachko, and volodymyr zelenskyy meanwhile excluded the ex-head of the state special forces from the supreme commander-in-chief's staff yazu yuri shchyguly and instead, he introduced the minister of digital transformation mykhailo fedorov to his personal staff. well, oleksandr fedienko, people's deputy of ukraine, servant of the people joined our broadcast. it was you, oleksandr, who wanted and came to take yuriy shchygol as a surety. please tell me why? you know, a lot of journalists, i'll say that, people who followed. on this topic, they called your act and the act of your colleague shameful and said that you need to remember these names, the names of deputies, servants of the people, who, they say , came to ta

ivan antipenko, correspondent of rfe/rl in kherson joined our broadcast. i thank all our viewers, for being with us, our team collects news, expert opinions for you, we discuss the important military and political situation in ukraine, we do it. on the air of the tv channel, join in the comments , share this video, it's very important, i'm katya nekrecha and our whole team is freedom of the morning, we wish you a peaceful day and see you tomorrow. it's time for operational news on the tv channel, kateryna shiropoyas works in the studio. one person died, another was injured. these are the consequences of shelling of the kherson region over the past day, - reported the head of the regional military administration oleksandr prokudin. in total, the enemy launched 53 attacks, firing 279 shells from various types of weapons. the russian occupiers aimed at the residential quarters of the settlements. the russians hit kharkiv, according to the regional prosecutor's office, the enemy targeted the shevchenkiv district, previously with s-300 missiles that flew from t

ukrainian children and those who spread propaganda, it is proposed to expand the export and import bans , rfe/rl has a draft document, the eu may still refuse russian diamonds, both raw materials and finished products with diamonds, the ban will be implemented gradually from january until september 2024. russia may no longer sell drone engines, among other things, machines, thermostats and more, and it is also proposed to strengthen monitoring of compliance with the russian oil price ceiling, as well as the struggle of the members will be approved when they reach a unanimous agreement. well, that 's all we'll say goodbye, thank you for your trust and see you, as always, on svoboda life air, tomorrow, we'll hold on. day, night, in the forest in any weather, the soldiers of the national guard of ukraine train every day to use drones in order to effectively work with them at the front. here in these frames. completion of the task by the national guardsmen, with the help of an ordinary mavik to find enemy pilots and destroy them, they attach explosives to the bird and go in search. in order to find

report on ukraine, an internal document of the european commission, which ended up at the disposal of rfe/rlat the eu considers fulfilled and what not, and how this will affect the start of negotiations on joining the european union, is what svobodalai will talk about today. we start our broadcasts with a report by radio svoboda from the city of gulyai-pole. the residents of gulyai-pol in the zaporizhia region are preparing for the second front-line winter. in the city has neither electricity nor centralized gas and water supply. russian military positions are only 5 km from the city. and despite this, more than 1,500 people, mostly pensioners, do not even plan to move anywhere. how do they survive in such conditions and how do they prepare for the first frosts? watch our report. what do you think, will you drown it with this? yes, i will heat it, i will prepare it for the winter, because there is no coal, and what they give from the seeds , they clog a lot. far away, well, somewhere i walk almost a kilometer, what i need to prepare for the winter, i heard a shot, i know, there is probably a

rfe/rl talked to the director of the education center about all of this. on the non-proliferation ofweapons in washington, henry sookolsky. in a recent financial times article, reporter max sedin reported that the united states, along with great britain and france , have threatened russia with certain consequences if it uses nuclear weapons. it was, as the financial times writes, a year ago. currently, according to journalists, the russian federation seems to be resorting to the topic of nuclear weapons when trying to restrain further military support. countries from the west. do you think the kremlin is still thinking about using nuclear weapons against ukraine or its allies, and how does the west perceive it now? i would say that russia is using nuclear threats very effectively to scare allies and stop supplies to ukraine. long-range weapons that it has been asking for since the invasion began, and we are trembling with fear that if we do anything too fast, world war iii will start and it will go nuclear, a fear that the russians feed into every day. how do you rate nuclear russia'

stop russia's war crimes, a picket was held in prague under the building of the russian embassy, ​​rfe/rlorts. several dozen people came out with the flags of ukraine and the european union. the rally was organized by the czech-slovak community, which is engaged in countering russian propaganda. according to the organizers, the main goal of the action is to draw the world's attention to the war in ukraine. robbery or murder. in turkey ukrainian man killed robbers who stole money from him. this is reported by the turkish media. the incident happened in alanya district. two men on a motorcycle, threatening the ukrainian with a weapon, broke the side window and took €35,000 from the car. after that they tried to escape. however, ukraine. overtook the robbers at the intersection and hit them with a car. the men died from their injuries at the scene of the accident. currently, the ukrainian is in prison. law enforcement officers are investigating the circumstances of the crime. the 105th anniversary of independence was celebrated in poland. over the years, poles were repeatedly under occupatio

confirmed that the wife of the head of the gur kyryll budanov, marianna, was poisoned, that he told rfe/rlg more details to follow. marianna aleksandrivna budanova was indeed poisoned by heavy metals. now she is undergoing a course of treatment, which is already ending. let's talk now about how dangerous such poisonings are, and about it with taxilogist volodymyr sarkisyan. mr. volodymyr, i congratulate you, thank you for joining our broadcast. glory to ukraine. we don't know, we don't know the details of what exactly happened, we are waiting for information from gur when it comes, when it is possible make public. but let's talk about the very fact that it is clear which side from the conflict likes to use poisons, if we talk about heavy metal poisoning, what it can be, what the russians use in particular, what are the symptoms, what is the danger, please know here it is rather difficult to say exactly what exactly was used and whether it was actually used, because the spectrum of such poisons, heavy metals, is quite wide, and er, the spectrum of toxic doses of these drugs is also quite wi

however , rfe/rl writes that a legal framework is needed at the eu level. 150-180 billion. aggressors are located in belgium, in just 9 months of 2023 , frozen russian assets yielded 3 billion euros in profits. polish transporters have currently completely blocked the passage of trucks at two checkpoints on the border with ukraine, namely yagodyn dorogusk and ravaruska grebenne. at the same time, it is still possible to leave ukraine in kraków, but it is not possible to come to us - deputy minister of infrastructure serhiy derkach said. he noted that despite the blockade , humanitarian goods and passenger transport are allowed through. the day before, polish drivers began to block three. border crossings with ukraine, their main demand is to return the system of issuing permits for work in the eu to ukrainian carriers. the minister of youth and sports of ukraine, vadym gutsaid, has written a resignation letter. the document has already been sent to the parliament, said the chairman of the verkhovna rada , ruslan stefanchuk. people's deputies will consider the application in

in december, such a decision will actually be adopted, at the same time today , with reference to rfe/rl'ss reported that the european commissioners will announce in tomorrow's report that four recommendations out of seven have been implemented by ukraine. at the same time, hungary. says that he will block the opening of negotiations with ukraine, the political director of the prime minister of hungary orbán stated this, for the dutch publication nos, he said that it is necessary to adopt a law on national minorities in the way that hungary actually sees it, let's hear the minister of foreign affairs of ukraine, regarding this statement. as for the blocking, well, i think it is no secret for anyone that the issue of national minorities is fundamentally promoted by hungary and precisely in the hungarian vision, but you know, let's to experience problems in the course of their arrival, i will emphasize once again that at the moment we see that we are going to december for a decision on the decision of the european council to open negotiations. regarding ukraine's membership in the european u

pavlyuk, the head of the press information department of the ministry of defense of ukraine, was on rfe/rlmission considers that four of the seven criteria that accompanied the granting of the candidate status to the european union to ukraine have been fully fulfilled, this follows from the report on ukraine, which is an internal document of the european commission that was at the disposal of radio liberty. my colleagues who work in brussels have already heard about the report, olena abramovich is joining the broadcast. elena my greetings, what criteria, to what extent were ukraine fulfilled. and what else can kyiv do to start negotiations on ukraine's accession to the european union? greetings vlas, literally 15 minutes ago we spoke with the ukrainian minister of foreign affairs, dmytro kulebo, who had a meeting with the european commission, and he was not very happy with the fact that information about fully and incompletely fulfilled requirements appeared in the press, he said , that this is an attempt to turn victory into treason and that in general the essence of the issue is actually

thank god, we are working further, regarding the hostages, as soon as rfe/rl published the news, with permission, i will quote, israel announced that it had released 10 of its citizens and two foreigners. as a result of the new exchange, hamas, in turn, must release 30 palestinian prisoners from its prisons. radio svoboda, a few minutes ago, literally, a message appeared. tell me, please, how hamas can use this truce, but not only that and, on your part, there is a preparation that maybe there is some intelligence on this? of course, this is not the case. with the secret information that hamas is also using the cease-fire in order to restore communication between units, in order to bring in some more ammunition, rockets, in order to provide maximum resistance to the israeli army, we know this, we understand this very well, it was a forced step, understanding which, understanding the consequences of which the israeli leadership went to this forced truce, we will say frankly, they twisted our hands, but the situation with the hostages, look, there is a commandment, redeem the captive fr

for your comment, oleksandr samarskyi, ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to iran, was on rfe /rl2010-14. thank you very much. like this broadcast, support our work and independent journalism in general. svoboda live will be back on the air tomorrow. oh, there are no potatoes, you will bring a back, something it's taken, i remind you, you have the comfrey of dr. theiss and you get up to work again, the comfrey ointment is a german ointment for pain in the joints and muscles. returns the crumb. from pain in the joints and muscles. matz with comfrey from dr. tice. also try dr. tice's comfrey warming cream. proven tool. i flew and flew, and the cough stopped me. cough is a symptom of a respiratory disease, so we treat it respiratoryly. we do inhalation. lordegial is an inhalant for cough. lordegil is a direct way to expel phlegm. see this week in the program judicial control with tetyana shustrova. reform of the constitutional court. who is running for office? anna blazhivka acted as a representative of this unscrupulous judicial corporation, and why the previous conclusions of the s

next four years, as well as the 12th package of anti-russian sanctions, the european commission, rfe /rl also noted the draft of her document is preparing to ban trade in diamonds of russian origin, including those in transit, as well as stones processed in third countries, although they come from russia, these decisions, however, threaten to be blocked by hungary, so the summit promises to be dramatic dmytro kuleba's next stop in brussels is the headquarters of the alliance, where the nato ukraine council will meet tomorrow for the first time at the level of the heads of the ministry of foreign affairs, and secretary general stoltenberg is convinced that the allies will not back down from helping ukraine and sees the continuation of support as a challenge facing them now . we're seeing intense fighting along the front lines, we've seen waves of drone attacks on ukrainian cities, and we need to be ready for more combat, and more air and missile attacks on ukrainian cities. this makes it all the more important that nato allies continue to support ukraine, and i welcome recent statements.

write, write your comments and even suggest a topic for discussion on our broadcasts, as well as join rfe/rlth the words, glory to ukraine on its 18th anniversary. bohdan yermokhin, who was deported from mariupol by russian forces, returned to ukraine, he returned across the belarusian-ukrainian border. in minsk , bohdan was met by his sister, who was officially the boy's guardian. at the border , bohdan was met with festive balloons and gifts by his lawyer and journalists from the radio liberty tiyak project, who exclusively managed to communicate with bohdan at the time of his return home. bohdan, how are you, say a few words. are you happy that you are in ukraine? very, we met nine months ago, and this struggle was our common one, nine months, we fought with him, and finally he still returns, it was his dream and it came true, and on his birthday, all dreams should be implemented, i will tell you that this story of bohdan yermokhin, i believe that it will become an impetus for us to unite even more... not only ukraine, but also the world, so that children, all children ukrainians were ret

rfe/rl today asked the state intelligence agency for a comment , they replied, they said they would bete only from monday. it is interesting that two deputies from the servant of the people who wanted to take him as bail came to the meeting where a preventive measure was chosen, oleksandr fedienko and mykhailo kryachko, and volodymyr

riots in makhachkala are not the only case of anti-semitism in russia in recent days, as reported by rfe/rl october 28 in the dagestan city of khasavt, ostensibly gathered near the flamingo hotel due to rumors that israeli citizens had allegedly settled there. the participants chanted chanted anti-semitic slogans and threw stones at the building. the video was released to the local telegram. channels, the next day in nalchik, the capital of kabardino-balkaria, unknown people tried to set fire to an unfinished jewish center, due to unrest in the north caucasus, the kremlin may be preparing new repressions and restrictions, according to analyst harold chambers. this is a very dangerous situation for the kremlin because this is a case of violence that they have no control over. mass arrests will take place in the coming days, and there are early signs that digital restrictions will be tightened. i think, that we will see stronger attempts by the state. russia has not officially condemned the hamas group for the attack on israel on october 7. at a press conference, the spokeswoman of the russia

promised million to ukraine and what countries are the bloc members ready to help now, details of rfe/rlondent zarina stepanenko. military aid, at least 8 billion euros. ukraine is preparing to allocate so much to its budget for next year's defense needs. thereby doubling the initial figure, which was sufficient primarily to finance already given promises. for the new project, the funds were minimal, so the plans were revised in favor of ukraine, at least this is what the government is currently proposing word for the german parliament. defense minister boris pistorius called the initiative a strong signal of germany's continued support for ukraine, and hopes for more help from other partners. as for the idea of ​​the european union as a union before ukraine by march 2024, a million shells, commenting on it, the german government official became the day before the first high-ranking official of an eu country to publicly call it unattainable. we can safely assume that the goal of a million shells will not be achieved. there were voices that called for caution, because it is easy to determ

rfe/rl received confirmation from the security service of ukraine and the national police regarding thegation, while they noted that they would be ready to provide official comments only tomorrow. for the previous one information, law enforcement officers suspect that alatram works in the interests of the russian federation and systematically promotes kremlin narratives among ukrainians. i noted that previously people's deputy inna sofson wrote that members of the sect arranged telebridges with russia, to which they invited deputies from united russia. and the people of alatri comment on the torture and murders in buchi at their events with the words, we kill each other. well, just now inna sovsun, a people's deputy from the voice faction , is in direct contact with us. inna, good evening. thank you for joining. good evening, sorry about the car, eh, thank you for finding the opportunity, let's first understand , here is alatra and this charitable society, they are one and the same, because there is a lot of talk about the rebranding of alatra, that is, the big boards of the charitable

georgia , which has a european perspective, will be assessed tomorrow on their progress towards the eu, rfe /rl writes that negotiations on accession may be open for ukraine and moldova, and for georgia may be granted membership, sorry, candidacy, candidate status in the studios. thank you colleague. information, it was our correspondent valery pashko from brussels. ukraine has implemented four of the seven recommendations eu, radio svoboda writes about this with reference to its own sources. so, in which spheres the reforms were supposed to take place and what still needs to be worked on, we will understand further. that year, in june , ukraine acquired the official status of a candidate for joining the european union. along with that , seven recommendations were put forward to her, reforms that must be done in order to move to the next stage, opening... talked about membership. it is about the reform of the supreme council of justice and the supreme qualification commission of judges of the bodies that select, appoint and dismiss all judges, the reform of the constitutional court, namely the

rfe/rl near avdiivka, the use of ffp drones in the avdiivka direction by the ukrainian military became one of the main types of weapons that stopped russian convoys during the offensive. currently, the russian military does not use equipment during its attacks in this direction, only a living resource. russian infantry storms daily, only one ukrainian calculation of attack drone operators uses about 30 warbirds daily. then there are shots of the pilots. in the shock bplla of the 47th separate mechanized brigade of the armed forces of ukraine on the outskirts of avdiyivka, yes, thank you, thank you, thank you very much, all your weapons are clean, are there already identified targets, or do you have to find them? there are so many that you just fly in with a mavic , saw a comedian rise and go forward , don't even live, it's an plow, there will be more infantry approaching today, we are finding targets, it could be alive. the enemy's strength can be equipment, there can be some kind of fortification, artillery, ages, machine gun, everything, we find what can interfere with our infantry,

well , russia's attacks on marienko, in donetsk region, do not stop, rfe/rl correspondents spent a day at the positions of soldiers of the 79th separate amphibious assault brigade. how the ukrainian military manages to restrain the russian. as well as under mar'enka, later in the report of evgenia kitaeva and hanna kudryavtseva. we are going to the suburbs of donetsk, we will show you the beauties. how is the situation there now? almost every week there is an assault, the equipment is moving, drones are flying, now there are a lot of them, also in the middle of the year, a lot appeared, they are not far behind in this. we have an assault every week, or even two, or even one. three, but the technicians got stuck in them, i don't know, they get it it's constantly, but there are enough people, they go with these zaks, well, they let them in like meat , you go there and that's it, they give them four shops, six shops for an assault, well, there's a one-off like that, and not everyone takes it , because again, in 1963, one grandfather came to storm me, well, i'm begging you, they themselves

on this topic, about the difficulties of calculating the victims of the holodomor, a journalist rfe/rl'sa tereshchuk spoke with historian andrii kozytskyi. you can read the full interview of this conversation on the radio liberty website, watch it on the youtube channel of radio liberty and radio liberty ukraine. i suggest you listen to an excerpt from this conversation. the debate about the number of victims is, to a large extent, a consequence of the fact that the soviet authorities did everything possible to hide their crime, and later to destroy even the traces of its commission. according to the definition he proposed. sociologist paul conerton, what happened to memory of the holodomor, we can call it a tactic of forced erasure. for a long time, the soviet authorities did not allow us to talk about it at all, falsified demographic information, and therefore attempts to recreate the real number of victims began late enough and there were no source materials that could accurately allow us to determine this number of victims. the numbers you mentioned appear in the scientific environme

however, he insisted that a legal framework at the eu level is needed, writes rfe /rl. 180 billion eurosthe aggressor country are in belgium, frozen in just 9 months of 2023. assets yielded 3 billion euros in profits. belgium has set a precedent, a very good precedent for excess profits. we now need a broader legal framework approved at eu level to allow all member states that hold russian sovereign assets to use them in a legally compatible manner with the aim of restoring ukraine. ukraine handed hungary over. proposals for solving the issue of national minorities, said deputy prime minister for european and euro-atlantic integration olga stefanishyna. according to her, it was important for ukraine that the report of the european commission did not have a hungarian trace and that the report itself was impartial. stefanishyna emphasized that ukraine continues to actively work with the hungarian side. an accident, the main version of the death of the assistant commander-in-chief of the armed forces of ukraine , gennady chastyakov. the adviser told about it from the communications departme

as the officer of the 59th brigade named after yakov handyuk told rfe/rl, the invaders are also continuouslyyiv koksokhim. as for their offensive, then yes, the third wave went more intensively, it is visible from all the signs of their actions. so, then. it never ended at all, there was not a day when certain actions were not carried out on their part, but now the intensity has increased, it means that something is burning in them, something is there, you can see deadlines are waiting for them to press and so on. as vitaly barabash, the head of the avdiyiv military administration, said on the air of the telethon, the occupiers did not reach either the koksokhim plant or the promzona, but fierce battles continue. at the same time, the minister defense of the united kingdom, with reference to intelligence data, claims that over the past few days, the occupiers have made, albeit insignificant, advances in the adiivka area. in general, since the beginning of october, the russian military has advanced the front line there by two kilometers, and this is one of their greatest achievements on this

about the inevitable increase in tariffs for consumers, oleksiy chernyshov, head of naftogaz, told rfe/rlto him, this will happen after the situation in ukraine will stabilize and the moratorium will be lifted, chernyshov added, everyone who does not belong to the vulnerable population has to pay the market price. the latter will receive subsidies from the state, and the increase in gas prices will not affect them. volodymyr amelchenko, director of energy programs. the razumkov center is now in touch with us. mr. volodymyr, we congratulate you. let 's talk about tariffs right away, because the prime minister of ukraine denys shmyl said that until the end of the heating season, the tariffs for gas, heat, and hot water for the population will remain unchanged, but what the population is now vulnerable, that the industrial producers who are trying in any way to keep the business afloat, this too, they can already be called vulnerable, or not? will you say that i am manipulating something, and the population and business are, after all, different levels of responsibility and opportunities, i

more details in the material of rfe/rl's european correspondent olena abramovych. at the meeting at the nato headquarters, the ministers of foreign affairs of the bloc's member countries began to arrive at eight in the morning, dozens of journalists were already waiting for them at the hanka. the most common questions are what to do with war fatigue and the situation at the front, which seems to have reached a dead end. the ukrainian minister answered briefly: there is no dead end, and he advised those who are hinting at territorial concessions to ukraine in exchange for membership in the alliance to start with themselves. let them offer it to their governments, to give up their territory , to surrender their people, if they will do it, i will be ready to listen to their arguments, but somehow it turns out that it is always easy to advise someone to make concessions, first they will do it themselves. the strategic task of ukraine remains unchanged, to restore control over its territory in the borders of 1991, he emphasized that now is not the time for negotiations

more details in the material of the european correspondent of rfe/rl olena.eting at nato headquarters, ministers foreign affairs ministers of bloc member countries started arriving at eight in the morning, dozens of journalists were already waiting for them on the porch. the most common questions are what to do with war fatigue and the situation at the front, which seems to have reached a dead end. the ukrainian minister answered briefly: a dead end...