valery ryabikh, a military expert and editor of the information publication defense express, was on rfe/rl. thank you very much. as early as this week, the verkhovna rada plans to vote on the bill on mobilization, it may happen tomorrow, it may happen the day after tomorrow, at least this is what rfe/rl's sources in the verkhovna rada claim. some deputies, who have been working on the document all this time, claim that the process of mobilization itself will not be affected by the document. well, because the mobilization in ukraine is still going on, it has been going on since february 24 , 2022, but this draft law can strengthen the mobilization on the condition that, for example, it eliminates... living with deferrals, or establishes responsibility for the ears of evaders, you remember here, there were just a lot of discussions, even the commissioner for human rights had to intervene, or, for example, if this law will provide additional motivation for the military in the form of payments or vacations, in short, this law should also ideally lay down the principles of fair mobilization, fo

a source familiar with the situation informed rfe/rl about this. according to his information , su-24, su-24m and su-34 front-line bombers were located on... droma. russia uses them to drop guided aerial bombs on positions of the armed forces of ukraine and front-line ukrainian cities. the interlocutor of the journalists also added the following. at least six military aircraft of the russian federation were destroyed, and another eight were significantly damaged. in addition to equipment, about 20 military personnel arrived became 200. it is interesting that the local residents , in addition to the sound of the engines, heard a melody coming from the drone. social network users identified it as a german song. drone with music. radio liberty cannot confirm or deny the authenticity of these footage in wartime conditions. anastasia potapenko, radio liberty. valery romanenko has already joined our broadcast. aviation expert and leading researcher of the state aviation museum of ukraine. good evening. yes, good evening. let's start with what, in princip

yermak, well, i addressed podolyak live on the air with the fact that rfe/rl has a request at the interviewith zelenskyi and yarmak, and dasha zarivnaya, also during the interview i remarked that i would like to talk with mr. yarmak, and... he has , in addition to the interview with mosiychuk, or conversations , i don't know if it's an interview, it's the right name, there's nothing, there are a lot of questions, and i want to, once again, return to the fact that these conversations are uncomfortable. also not much , really, but still, it is probably a manifestation of a certain power and a certain status to have an uncomfortable conversation with journalists, whom you definitely cannot influence there, and this a very necessary conversation, it is especially possible that the reason will be to get into this such a respectable rating, and in fact, probably, well, we all see it from various facts that the influence is so large-scale. i wonder if this will become a certain trigger, as a trigger, as you noted, for president zelenskyi, because andriy yermak is one of the several main managers o

, it should be operational in june, the spokesman of the ministry of defense dmytro lazutkin told rfe/rl update the data so that the tsk knows who is reserved, who can be mobilized accordingly, and so on, whose family circumstances have changed, who has the right to postponement, and it is obviously also about justice. if the conscript's electronic account does not work, then it will be impossible to implement the law adopted by the council. it is possible that after may 18, the queues at the tsk will become even longer, and they will not be able to physically cope with the influx of visitors. a separate issue is military conscripts with the status of limited fitness. the parliament obliged them to re-pass the vlk within nine months in order to receive a new status, which has yet to be determined by the ministry of defense. but whether it will be necessary to confirm the disability of the second and third groups, received after february 24, 2022, which was reported earlier, is now unclear. the court-legal newspaper drew attention to the fact that the announced norm did not make it to the

main production facilities were damaged, a representative of the main accounting department told rfe/rldriy yusov. in the morning, russian telegram channels wrote about strikes on the territory of the training aviation center in borysoglipsk. it seems that air defense was trying to shoot down drones, but there were two hit. instead, the ministry of defense of the aggressor country reported the destruction of four drones over the voronetsky and bilhorod regions. and also the downing of the neptune missile over the black sea. as always, no consequences. she was preparing new strikes on kharkiv oblast. the security service of ukraine exposed an enemy accomplice. a local resident monitored the geolocations of ukrainian fortified areas and the directions of movement of military equipment by railway. denmark handed over to her brother, who serves in the occupation forces. also had to report on the consequences of the strikes, but law enforcement officers detained the collaborator in time. she faces up to eight years in prison. an 18-year-old driver drove over the death of a four-year-old boy

a journalist of the scheme project , georgy shabaev, who was following the case of bohdan lviv on rfe/rl. thank you very much. this is the end of svoboda live, subscribe to radio svoboda's social networks, youtube, instagram, and join our telegram. not miss all the latest and most verified news there, do not forget to visit our website radiosvoboda.org, there is also a lot of interesting and high-quality analytics about what is happening in ukraine and the world. well, svoboda live will be back on the air tomorrow. turn on well - it's when everything is as you want. click and now you're running the game, bird and you're on a tv show. oh, what is needed, megogo. turn on hundreds of channels, thousands of movies and sports. try flebodia 600, pink french pills for acute hemorrhoids. 600. treat hemorrhoids without any side effects. there are discounts on pulmolor tablets, 15% in pharmacies plantain, memory and savings. didn't see the classics in the underpants or something? i wrote a children's poem here, will you listen, the tractor in the field is dir-dir, so why are we for peace, there ar

it is worth noting that at that time, some sources interviewed by rfe/rl in intelligence circles agreedh chervinskyi's opinion. the suspicion announced against chervinsky involves punishment, imprisonment for a term of eight to 12 years. consideration of the case itself began on april 12, but the preparatory court session was postponed four times. that's how the meetings were held. april 12, 17, 18 and 19. at that time, actions in support of the accused were taking place at the kropyvnytskyi court. on april 19 , chervinsky's term of preventive measure, namely detention, expired. on the same day, the fourth court session was held. the lawyers say that they went to all of them, but on the last day they did not have time to return in time to the courtroom after another air alarm. sit down lasted only three minutes, ukrainian media reported with reference to chervinskyi's lawyer. according to her, at the meeting, the prosecutor announced a request to extend the term of detention, the court announced a break and said that the time of the next meeting will be announced later. on april 22 , a

yermak, well i also addressed podolyak live on the air with the fact that rfe/rl has a request at thenterview with zelenskyi and yermak, and dasha zarivnaya, also during the interview, i remarked that i somehow wanted to talk with mr. yermak, in addition to... an interview with moseichuk or conversations , i don't know if it's an interview, to call it correctly, there is nothing, there are a lot of questions, and i want to return to the fact that these conversations are uncomfortable, there are also not many of them in truth, but still, this is definitely a manifestation of a certain strength there and also of a certain status to have an uncomfortable conversation with journalists, whom you are definitely not you can influence there, and this is a very necessary conversation, especially if it will be an occasion. in this such a respectable rating, and in fact, probably, well, we all see it from various facts, that the influence is so large-scale, it is very interesting whether this will become... a certain trigger, a trigger, as you noted, for president zelensky, because andriy yermak

ukraine's movement to the european union, because no signs that bratislava the experts with whom rfe/rlspoke may start something similar, but today they have not yet observed the officially newly elected president. we talked about the presidential elections in slovakia and actually what such a voting result would mean for ukraine, whether it would change relations with slovakia, with slovakia and whether piligrini is really pro-russian, well, how was such an opinion voiced, for example, according to the opinion of the former minister of foreign affairs of ukraine pavlo klinkin, the distribution of roles was agreed in advance, and there will be success, success of relations with slovakia. depend on the prime minister's coalition, so the key to relations with slovakia is still with fico. he does not consider pelligrini, that is, klimkin does not consider pelligrini either pro-russian or pro-ukrainian. he is somewhere in the middle - says the former ukrainian minister. listen. i do not consider pelligrini a pro-russian candidate, although i also do not consider him unequivocally rigid and

comment, oleksandr bogomolov, the director of the national institute for strategic studies, was on rfe/rl, we talked about the consequences of iran's attack on israel and ukraine. that's all, subscribe to radio svoboda channels on the internet until tomorrow. there are discounts on dolgit cream and dolg up to 30% in the pharmacies psylasnyk bam and shchadnyk. vasyl zima's big broadcast. this is the great ether, my name is vasyl zima and we are starting. two hours of airtime. two hours of your time. we will discuss many important topics today. two hours to learn about the war now we will talk more about the war. serhiy will be with us, and what the world lives on. and now yuliy fizar will talk in more detail about what happened in the world. good evening. please, you have the word. two hours to keep up with economic news. time to talk about money in wartime. oleksandr morchivka is with us. alexander, congratulations, please. and sports news. review of sporting events by yevhen pastukhov. two hours in the company of your favorite presenters. thank you very much to elina chechenii for the in

facilities were damaged, andriy yusov, a representative of the main directorate of intelligence, told rfe/rlorning, russian telegram channels wrote about strikes on the territory.

there was thunderous applause, but my colleague, the editor rfe/rl's rikard jozwick called the decisionthe european parliament political theater, according to him , it is a purely technical matter of closing the accounts of the council's budget. of the european union for 2022, of course, this is the insistence of the european partners and our western partners that, oh, we can't help you, we can't do it, we can't provide you with air defense systems, we can't provide you additional funding, we cannot provide you with long-range weapons, long-range missiles, taurus that fly at 500 or more. kilometers, because we are afraid of an escalation with the russian federation, that is, that our relations will deteriorate, and we will generally quarrel with... and putin can use nuclear weapons, how to conduct politics and how to appease terrorists and aggressors, we saw in the night from april 13 to 14 of this year, when the western partners of the state of israel used all the weapons they had, including planes and air defense systems, and the israelis themselves use them. air defense systems in or

today, rfe/rl correspondents visited one of the trade centers in the city of kyiv closer to noon. there not, and those who remained told us that in the morning there were from 50 to 100 people under the military guards, mostly people came to update the data, what they told us, listen. in 20 minutes where i was in the 75th, people are queuing at 5 in the morning to update the data in the military ticket, after all, of the 80-90 or 100 people who came to do it, the military mother can physically accept, probably heaven. for about 10 minutes, for what reason did you contact the data against the vlk today and to be ready for mobilization in 90 in the morning, i was already here only on the first day and why so long, what is the problem, only one employee accepts a certain category of military servicemen, they received a certificate of passing the vlk correctly yes, i'm healthy , i'm fit for service, i'm going to sign a contract to serve the people of ukraine and go to war. because men run out, i 'll tell you, my husband fought, unfortunately, he died and i have such a goal to take revenge j

meanwhile, rfe /rl's source familiar with the situation reports that the hit did take place. and... the attack itself was a joint operation of the security service of ukraine and the main directorate of intelligence. a ukrainian long-range drone hit the primary oil processing unit at the refinery in nizhnekamsk, after which a fire broke out there. the capacity of this installation was 8 million tons of oil, which is 2.6% of the total annual refining of the russian federation per year. in 2024, drone attacks on a russian refinery became more frequent. however, this is the first time that ukrainian drones. flew to tatarstan, the distance from the border with ukraine to yelabuga and nizhnyokamsk is more than 1,200 km. let me remind you that the day before the minister of digital transformation mykhailo fedorov said that ukraine already produces unmanned aerial vehicles that can travel over 1,000 km. anastasia potapenko, radio liberty. ivan karychevskyi, an expert of the defense express military portal, has already joined the broadcast. good evening. good evening, ivan, what is publicly

facilities were damaged, andriy yusov, a representative of the main intelligence directorate, told rfe/rl. in the morning, russian telegram channels wrote about strikes on the territory. educational aviation center in borysoglipsk. it seems that the anti-aircraft defense tried to shoot down the drones, but there were two hits. instead, the ministry of defense of the aggressor country reported the destruction of four drones over the voronitsa and belgorod regions, as well as the downing of a neptune missile over the black sea. as always, no consequences. and before the operational events , as a result of the russian attack on... zaporizhzhia , four people were killed, eight more were wounded, - said the head of the regional military administration, ivan fedorov. the enemy attacked populated areas with drones, artillery and aviation, 34 artillery and aviation messages were received. 34 reports were received about the destruction of residential buildings and infrastructure facilities. in poltava oblast, the number of injured has increased due to... a residential building was hit, 12 people w

iryna sysak, rfe/rl's correspondent from the courtroom, in fact, where a preventive measure was chosenfor szczecin minister mr. solsky, but we know that he has written a resignation letter, which should be considered by ukrainskyi parliament. difficult question. yes, the representative of the us state department in brussels , daniel. saizek commented on the suspension by the ukrainian consulates of providing services to men of draft age. he said this in a comment to radio svoboda. there is no decision by the american government to return the ukrainian men or not. however, they respect the right of the ukrainian authorities to define their own policy in this matter - saizyk said. it is important that europe and to some extent the usa also welcomed ukrainians who decided that they and their families needed to leave. with of ukraine. at the same time, it is correct that the government of ukraine needs to intensively and seriously study the situation and the situation of people for the armed forces, this is natural, and the us government respects the right of the government of ukraine to d

they show the wreckage of drones. allegedly fell on the territory of the station, rfe/rl cannot guaranteecity of these shots, but official kyiv, as i have already said, rejects the accusation. let me remind you that zaporizhzhia npp is one of the largest nuclear power plants in europe, and it is occupied by russian troops since the spring of 2022, the ukrainian authorities previously reported that the russian army used the zas to store military equipment and deploy its servicemen, well, according to raphael grossi, similar attacks on the armed forces, such an attack, or rather... had not yet happened from november 2022, this is a serious escalation of threats to the nuclear safety and security of the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, such reckless attacks significantly increase the risk of a major nuclear accident and must be stopped immediately. well, we will now talk about the situation in the armed forces literally in a few seconds. i will remind you once again that zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant is one of the largest in europe, it was occupied before. at the very beginning of the fu

ihor joins tokar, correspondent of the crimea realia project of rfe /rl. igor, hello. hello! well, in the same interview that we just broadcasted, malyuk also said that the city is hardly used for military purposes, that before these attacks were carried out there, more than 40 trains were passing through per day, they transported, including and weapons, and ammunition, and now, says the kid, four or five, and most of them are passenger goods, or they carry some goods of general use, is it possible... we can at least somehow indirectly confirm it, well, and in principle track how the load on the kerch bridge changed after the attacks? well, unlike the special services, we don't have data intelligence, we don't have our own agency that could constantly monitor us and somehow we could draw some statistics or a picture. we do not have such data. we can talk about what is in open sources and in some way rely on the information that we can see there or in the publication. or on youtube or some other through our journalists, also from crimea, what information they provide, i can sa

rfe/rl's sources report that the provisions on demobilization have been completely removed from the textthe draft law. deputies also write about it in social networks. it happened all this allegedly due to the request of commander-in-chief oleksandr syrskyi and defense minister rustem umyerov. there they plan to initiate a new, separate bill on rotations and demobilization. the corresponding document is published by people's deputies from the national security, defense and intelligence committee, for example, mariana bizugla and oleksandr fedienko. narde of the servants of the people, oleksandr fedienko, also published a text that names the final version of the document among the main proposed changes, that is, it will be possible to resign from service after being captured, men recognized as limited fit. we are obliged to re-examine within 12 months, military personnel in the event of concluding a first contract have the right to compensation of 50% of the first installment for a loan secured by a mortgage, consular services are supposed to be limited for men aged 18 to 60 without milit

rfe/rl's correspondents talked to people who have already taken advantage of this state program, let's see their stories, and then we'll discuss it in more detail on the air. this is our house, we bought it on january 11. purchased for a certificate, come in, see, my name is nataliya, i am an immigrant from the donetsk region, from the city of slovyansk. i have two boys, 16 and 11 years old, tiryusha and ilyusha, and i have a husband, artem. left from sloviansk in april of the 22nd year, we moved from sloviansk to dnipro, we couldn't find a job there, so somehow the choice fell on the white church. on september 11, 2022, at my grandfather's. where i used to live in slovyansk , a rocket landed, a five-story building was completely destroyed, i already had photo evidence, and on the same day i submitted information that my home was destroyed, a year later on august 23- in the th year , i got a call from slovyansk from the commission of the survey report and said that they would look at ours the apartment, the inspection took place without me, because there was really nothing to inspect t

will advertise everywhere, wherever possible, and this will not continue, 45-year-old andriy told rfe/rlhe has been living in the czech republic for 20 years, and he has been in line for 3 hours. we perfectly understand, everyone understands what they want to say and why, but we do not understand way, we will not see the way forward, you understand, this is the way to... absolutely nowhere, they want international scandals, they want this, that will be all, this is all waiting for them, you understand, but it is so easy, so easy to wipe their feet on us, for what , it won't happen, in the meantime , posts about so-called intermediaries who sell coupons in an electronic queue began to appear on the network, the state migration service called to beware of the services of fraudsters, radio liberty sent a document to... the state-owned enterprise about the situation in service centers, however, no response at the time of publication received, if i don't do it, i will come here again, and then let god's will be done, as it will be, as it will be, there is no point in going here to stand there

traditionally, you watch us at 9:00 here on rfe/rl's youtube channel, and you also watch us on espressoi will note that we started with a topic that is very important for discussion today, we are waiting for an official reaction from the ukrainian side, in particular, we are waiting for a reaction from the main intelligence agency, which according to data sources, in particular rbc ukraine, allegedly attacked the shahed factory. in tatarstan, 100 km from ukraine, we cannot quickly verify this information in war conditions, this is a real-time mode, it is a live broadcast, so we are waiting for official positions, i will only note that it is at this... factory in tatarstan in special economic zone, from the time of the large-scale invasion it is officially known that the production of kamikatz attack drones was organized, the russian media were the first to report this strike, we are waiting for the reaction of the ukrainian side, and thank you for that, that you are with us, stay with radio svoboda on all platforms, my name is oleg galiv, this is the svoboda ranok project, we will meet

thank you very much, hanna, take care, hanna chernenko, rfe/rl correspondent from kharkiv region, abouthe situation in the region as a result of russian attacks. well , on easter, the pope called on ukraine and russia to exchange prisoners - vatican news reports. in a traditional address, the pontiff mentioned the war in ukraine and expressed wishes for an exchange in the all-to-all format. meanwhile, the un mission from... recorded the execution of 32 captured ukrainian soldiers in the period from december 1, 2023 to february 29, 2024. this is stated in the published report of the un human rights monitoring mission in ukraine. analysts interviewed 60 ukrainian soldiers released from captivity. they spoke about the terrible treatment of the prisoners, the occupiers, the impossibility of communicating with their families, and the lack of adequate food and medical care. the report also mentions the practice of torture, which continues the russian army. interviews were also conducted with russian military personnel, who did not claim torture in official places of detention, but gave quoted

hanna chernenko, rfe/rl correspondent from kharkiv, about the security situation there. well, i remind you that in the comments, write to us from where you see us, what is the situation in your region in terms of energy infrastructure, russian forces this morning, as well as during the night, struck the territory of ukraine, we are talking about different ukrainian regions, but for example zaporizhzhia, kharkiv, lviv region, kyiv region, these are for the money. those of power the regions that were affected and where the hits of various types of own weapons used by the russian army were recorded, we are talking about both missiles and drones. nataliya gumenyuk, head of the joint coordination press center of the southern defense forces, is joining our broadcast at this moment, ms. natalya, i congratulate you, glory to ukraine, congratulations to you, glory to the heroes, thank you for finding the opportunity to join, please tell me , what are the results of the night and morning attack specifically in the south of ukraine, what can we say as of now and to what extent... i