during russia's war in ukraine, shoigu and gerasimov were repeatedly criticized by pro-war supportersr inability to root out widespread corruption in the armed forces. this dissatisfaction reached the point that in the summer of 2023, the founder of wagner prigozhin initiated an unsuccessful uprising against the military leadership. interdepartmental rivalry runs deep in russia. shuigu's execution may have given the investigator of the facebook investigative committee an opportunity to clean up filer of criminal cases against the upper management, trying to get promotion and praise. however, the purges of the vrf do not end there; in just one month , four high-ranking defense officials were arrested on charges of corruption. this is considered the most significant repression in the ministry of defense in recent years. the purge began on april 23 with the arrest of former deputy defense minister timur ivanov on suspicion. in receiving a bribe - writes a british newspaper. the kremlin, of course, denied any assumptions about repression in ministry of defense. the fight against corruptio

therefore , a few weeks ago, kremlin dictator putin dismissed shoigu from the post of defense minister. appointed andrii bilousov, who is called a curator, in his place economic bloc in the government. he was tasked with reducing corruption and optimizing military production for the protracted war against ukraine. at the same time, as the guardian writes, shuigu's resignation and his loss of protection allowed the fsb , russia's security department responsible for internal investigations, to eliminate influential officials in power. john foreman, the former defense secretary of great britain in moscow, believes that putin has been invaded. therefore, further arrests may continue. shuigu and gerasimo acted as a buffer, but now putin decided he needed to do something. shuigu mostly kept the fsb out of the ministry throughout his tenure, and there were very few records. if the fsb gets angry, who knows how far they will go. during the russian war in ukraine, shoigu and gerasimov were repeatedly criticized by pro-war supporters. dacha armies and their inability to root out widespread corru

everyone knows that timur ivanov was shoigu's wallet, shoigu himself was putin's wallet, and all theselions went into the pockets of putin's group. therefore, it is funny that he suddenly found out that there is corruption in the army. he is preparing two things: the first is to tear up this temporary draw agreement and sell it to the public. blame corrupt generals for the failure of the grand goal of capturing ukraine and europe. andrii andriyovych, well, no one will be able to sell in the west, you understand, any honorable draw that putin would like to come up with our... it will not fit in any western cabinet, that is , everyone will renounce it, that is, putin's plan, well, it is simply falling apart up-and-coming, but he has no other, grasping as if for the last straw for trump. trump is basically proposing the same thing, and i have a simple question: why is trump doing this? look, here's his last suggestion, which you voiced at the beginning. brings him nothing political, it contradicts the position of the majority of the republican party, the reagan wing of the republican part

it is known that timur ivanov was shoigu's wallet, shoigu himself was putin's wallet, and all these billions went into the pockets of putin's group. so it's funny that he suddenly found out. he is preparing two things: the first is to tear out this agreement on a temporary draw and sell it to the population, blame it on the failure of the implementation of the great goal of capturing ukraine and europe corrupt generals. andriy andriyevich, well, no one will be able to sell in the west, you understand, any honorable draw that putin would like to invent at our expense, it will not fit in any western. but he has no other, he is grasping as if for the last straw for trump. trump is essentially proposing the same thing. and i have a simple question. why is trump doing this? look, here's his last suggestion, which you voiced at the beginning. it does not bring him anything politically, it contradicts. biden for insufficient support of ukraine and demands the complete defeat of putin. she does not add a single voter to him. those trump cattle that go to his rallies and congratulate him, they should

everyone knows that timur ivanov was shoigu's wallet, shoigu himself was putin's wallet, and all these... that's why it's funny that he suddenly found out that there is corruption in the army. he is preparing two things, the first is to tear up this temporary draw agreement and sell it to the public. blame corrupt generals for the failure of the grand goal of capturing ukraine and europe? to andrii andriyovych, well, to sell in the west.

everyone knows that timur ivanov was shoigu's wallet, shoigu himself was putin's wallet, and all these billions went into the pockets of putin's group. but he has no other choice, he is grasping as if for the last straw for trump. trump is essentially proposing the same thing. and i have a simple question. why is trump doing this? look, here's his last suggestion, which you voiced at the beginning. it does not bring him anything politically, it contradicts. positions of the majority of the republican party, the reagan wing of the republican party, which criticizes biden for insufficient support for ukraine and demands the complete defeat of putin. she does not add a single voter to him. those trump cattle that go to his rallies and congratulate him, they should sneeze. they don't even know what ukraine is and where it is. trump stubbornly continues. without any apparent political reason, harms his political prospects. this proves what many analysts have been saying: there is a kind of frightening dependence of trump on putin. do you remember that scene after the summit in helsinki, whe

everyone knows that timur ivanov was shoigu's wallet, himself. therefore, it is funny that he suddenly found out that there is corruption in the army. he cooks two things. the first is to tear out this agreement on honor draw and sell it to the public. blame corrupt generals for the failure to achieve the grand goal of capturing ukraine and europe. to andriy andriyovych, well, to sell at the event. no one will be able to, you see, any honorable draw that putin would like to come up with at our expense, it will not fit in any western cabinet, that is, everyone will reject it, that is, putin’s plan, well, it simply fell apart on the fly, but he did not has another, grasping at the last straw for trump, trump essentially offers the same thing, and c i have a simple question, why does he do this... look, this is his last proposal, which you voiced at the beginning, it does not bring him anything politically, it contradicts the position of the majority of the republican party, the reagan wing of the republican party, which criticizes biden for not sup

scale the international criminal court has issued arrest warrants for former russian defense minister shoiguand chief of the general staff ger. who else could be charged and what could be the actual punishment? house arrest for the deputy. the court chose mykola tyshchenko as a preventive measure after the scandal involving the beating of a former military man in dnipro. who will bear political responsibility for the dubious actions of politicians from the president's team. well, it's me again, i remind you, my name is vasyl zemakhtel, who has now joined our broadcast, this is a program verdict, but today i will be its presenter, and during the next two hours we will discuss many important topics, well, we will , of course, report on what will happen during our broadcast, but we will start with what on june 25 as part of the next exchange of prisoners with ukraine managed to return 90 soldiers from russian captivity, we are watching a poignant video of the return. to the home of our defenders, glory to ukraine, glory to the heroes, glory to ukraine, glory to ukraine, good evening, welcome, l

, the international criminal court has issued arrest warrants for former russian defense minister shoiguef of the general staff gerasimov. who else could be charged and what could be the actual punishment? house arrest for the deputy. the court chose mykola tyshchenko as a preventive measure after the scandal involving the beating of a former military officer dnipro. who will bear political responsibility? for the dubious actions of politicians from the president's team. i remind you, my name is vasyl zemakh, he has now joined our broadcast. this is a verdict program, but today i will be its host, and during the next two hours we will discuss many important topics, well , we will, of course, report on what will happen during our broadcast, but we will start on june 25 within the framework. exchange of prisoners, ukraine managed to return 90 soldiers from russian captivity. let's watch a touching video of our homecoming defenders glory to ukraine. glory to heroes. glory to ukraine. glory to ukraine. of course, i would very much like all our military personnel to return from captivity as s

then austin spoke on the phone with shoigu. we will proceed from what is in washington, god forbid. you see, in order to please a russian propagandist, it is enough to simply call someone from the west, and that's it, and there are already pants full of joy, well, as usual, they have schizophrenia, on the one hand they shout, it's the americans who were scared of something and something like that , they will now be afraid, and on the other hand they say that no, they will use it for their own purposes and it will be even worse for us, well, of course schizophrenia, i mean people. who are somehow very worried that they are not spoken to to the west why did the americans decide to call immediately after shelling the sevastopol beach. it is absolutely logical, not based on emotions, but rationally to wait for an answer. it seems that the united states of america is very afraid of this answer. what answer are they afraid of? i think they are afraid of the answer that our president talked about. expectations of consequences are unkn

then austin spoke by phone with shoigu.e will proceed from the fact that in washington , god forbid, they realized that their drones over the black sea and not only after the attack on sevastopol became legitimate targets. but new the escalation stage washington, judging by everything, does not scare. well, washington might not have noticed the escalation stage, i don’t know, maybe loy dostin somehow conveyed greetings from belousov’s ex-wife, who is in the usa, who knows him, it’s hard to say, well, but you know, it takes a little, you see, to please the russian propagandist, it is enough just to call someone from the west, and that's it, and there are already full pants of joy, well, as always , they have schizophrenia, on the one hand... they shout, it's the americans who were scared of something and something like that, they will now be afraid, and on the other hand side they say that no, they will use it for their own purposes, and it will be even worse for us. well, of course, schizophrenia, i say, of people who are s

the hague awaits shoigu and gerasimov, just like putin.ternational criminal court issued arrest warrants ex-minister of defense. of russia and the chief of the general staff of the armed forces of the russian federation on charges of war crimes in ukraine. beach vacation, despite air worries, the holiday season in odessa is in full swing. about all this and much more at 21:00 on espresso. every week, the saturday political club helps to understand the processes taking place in ukraine and the world. vitaly portnikov, khrystyna yatskiv and invited experts based on facts give their assessment and forecast of the development of events. do you want to understand? how ours today will affect ours tomorrow, see saturday politics club, every saturday on espresso. free political club, we are returning to the live broadcast, today we are talking with vitaly portnikov for two hours, discussing and discussing the most resonant and important topics for our country, the debate between biden and trump, no less. an important topic for the world and for uk

in 2016 , serhiy shoigu created his version of inhumanity from sticks. army is a separate type of troops under the ministry of defense of the russian federation. children's units are tied to the deployment of military units throughout russia. together with adults, child soldiers march. at the kremlin parades, saluting the dictator. initially, entry there was voluntary, if the child reached the age of eight years later, all the disobedient began to be sent to the youth army. in particular, this... became one of the ways of re-educating those who went to anti-putin rallies. children are taught not to use a compass, hold a weapon, shoot, fight, attack, and eventually die. determine your path. of course, you are all very different. some of you will probably decide to connect your life with the armed forces. in almost all the temporarily occupied territories of ukraine, russia has created putin units. of the army, according to the almenda center for public education, consists of there are more than 35,000 recruited children in the so-called russian military c

shoigu, gerasimov, and in a situation where the state is ruled by war criminals who have already beenfied by the international criminal court, there can be no peace negotiations, well, you see, even with terrorists they are negotiating, and they can also negotiate with them when the opportunity arises, well, such and such realities, i don't like it either, just as i don't like the fact that all these legal mechanisms, courts, they are so slow, wars and only now shaigu accused of war crimes, although in general it is already time to add to this cohort in... including andrii bilousov, the new minister of defense of the russian federation, because nothing has changed in terms of the methods of waging war, so here, if we say, will to judge them, well, everything will depend on the results of the war, now there are a lot of options for the further development of events, and the president says that we cannot wage war for years, then the question arises, how not to wage it for many years, or inflict it on russia appropriate damage, substantial and effective, for this we need weapons, and the

finally, i would like your opinion on the decision of the icc to issue a warrant for the arrest of shoiguwho is the former minister of defense of the russian federation and gerasimov, this is the head of the general staff of the russian army, in connection with the situation in ukraine. there are sufficient grounds to believe that they are suspected of being responsible for the missile strikes carried out by the russian armed forces against the ukrainian energy infrastructure, at least since october 10, 2022. at least on march 9, 23, during this period , the russian armed forces carried out a large number of strikes on numerous power plants and substations in various places in ukraine. will this arrest warrant mean that they are not will be able to move in the territories that have actually legalized so, that support the international criminal court in gaza, and for them crossing the border of this or that country will mean their detention. well, i think so. that it was the same situation before that, that they did not particularly go anywhere where they could be detained, they understand

the international criminal court has issued arrest warrants for former russian defense minister shoigud chief of the general staff gerasimov. who else could be charged and what could be the actual punishment? house arrest for the deputy. the court chose mykola tyshchenko as a preventive measure after the scandal involving the beating of a former soldier. in dnipro, who will bear political responsibility for the dubious actions of politicians from the president's team? i remind you, my name is vasyl zema, who has now joined our air, this is the verdict program, but today i will be its host and for the next two hours we will discuss many important topics, well, plus we will, of course, report on what will happen during our air, well, but... let's start that's why on june 25, as part of another exchange of prisoners, ukraine managed to return 90 soldiers from russian captivity. we are watching a poignant video of the homecoming of our defenders. glory to ukraine. glory to heroes. glory to ukraine. of course, i would really like it as soon as possible all our military men have returned fro

the hague awaits shoigu and gerasimov, just like putin. the international criminal court has issued arrest warrants for the ex-minister of defense of russia and the chief of general staff of the armed forces of the russian federation on charges of war crimes in ukraine. beach vacation, despite. wind alarms, the holiday season in odessa is in full swing, about all this and much more at 9 p.m. on espresso. so. good health once again, my name is mykola september, as i promised, ivan lishchyna, commissioner of the european court of human rights from 16 to 21 years, lawyer, lawyer, this is the most important thing, good health, mr. ivan, good, good day, look, i have you such a question, very similar, is not clear to me, i hope you understand, look, the european court of human rights said that... that the occupation of crimea is an illegal act, the beginning of this occupation on february 27, 2014 , that is, if russian thugs someone was literally beheaded on the 26th february, then it is not their fault, well, if the occupation begins on the 27t

arrest of the head of the russian general staff valery grasymov and former minister of defense sergei shoigu accordingly, the statement was published on the court's website, warrants were issued at the request of the prosecutor's office. fomida believes that the suspects are responsible for missile strikes. occupiers of ukrainian energy from october 10, 2022 and at least until march 2023. also, shaiguy grasymov is suspected of crimes against humanity, causing great suffering, significant bodily harm and damage. mental health. let me remind you that in march 2023, judges of the international court of justice issued arrest warrants for the head of the kremlin, putin, and the commissioner of children's affairs, maria lvova bilova. today's decision is a clear indication that justice for russian crimes against ukrainians is inevitable - commented the leader ordered by president volodymyr zelenskyi. the news team talked about the most important thing at the moment. i'll see you soon. i will wait for you on the air at 2 p.m., then my colleagues from the big air will work for you. tingling, numbness

budget goes through the ministry. defense, and this is a nice piece of money, and if one family of the shoigu squander all this, then it is necessary to distribute it somehow and in a different way, and you see, putin personally sent his relatives so that the funds of the ministry of defense, well, they somehow diverged in the right pockets, and it is also great that it was putin who gave his relatives the opportunity for such a privilege. left and to distribute such a monetary sphere, this is the very housing, i will simply remind you that the minister of defense, the previous one, who was in this place before, and who was a relative of putin, timur ivanov, he was arrested, and for what he was arrested, and he was arrested precisely for frauds with housing, and for these very frauds that are around... this, because he just stole billions there, so now it will steal, it will not be stolen by a person close to shogo, but by a person close to putin directly, because there is no reason to arrange any transfers, you know, and it is obvious that none of putin’s relatives are from the position, so

foreign minister sergei lavrov, russian defense minister andriy bilousov, who recently replaced sergei shoigu in this position, open. negotiations, kim jong-un expressed full support for the russian government in carrying out a special military operation, translating it into understandable language, kimchin declared his full support for the war that russia is waging against ukraine. after signing the agreement, the head of the kremlin said that the new agreement provides for mutual assistance in case of aggression against one of the participants. what does signing this agreement mean? how will this affect the war in ukraine? we will talk about it later. i only note that during the war. with ukraine , russia sharply increased military cooperation with the dprk, this, in particular, was due to the fact that after the beginning of the invasion, the russian military faced a shortage of ammunition, and just north korea has become of the few countries that were ready to supply these ammunitions to moscow. the first reports that russia was buying north korean weapons appeared in the fall of 2023, af

the hague awaits shoigu and gerasimov. as well as putin.rnational criminal court issued warrants for the arrest of the former minister of defense of russia and the chief of the general staff of the armed forces of the russian federation on charges of committing war crimes in ukraine. beach vacation, despite air worries, holiday season in odessa in rozpala. about all this and much more at 21:00 on espresso. we are returning to the live air of the espresso tv channel, the saturday flight club, and we have a little less than 10 minutes left, we have one more interesting topic, we will talk now about india and the visit of the prime minister of india mr. modi to moscow. why is this important, because india is one of the largest countries in the world, a state. which actually, relatively speaking, has such a rather neutral position, a position the position it takes, that is, to be on the side of... the west and not to break off relations with russia, but here really is such a visit to moscow, by the way, for the first time in 5 years, which is t

the icc warrants will remain in effect until gerasimov and shoigu are arrested.at the same time, they do not recognize it in the kremlin jurisdiction of the court in gaza. just like the previous two warrants issued for the arrest of volodymyr putin and. in the affairs of children in the russian federation maria lvova-belova. in just 10 years , the european court of human rights recognized russia's systematic violations against ukrainians in the occupied crimea. the government of ukraine proved that since the beginning of the annexation of the peninsula, the russian federation practiced cruel treatment and illegal detention of people, introduced forced russian citizenship, conducted systematic searches persecuted and discriminated against the crimean tatars. authorized in court cases, margarita sokorenko emphasized that this is the first decision in which an international court found the russian federation responsible for violations in crimea. let me remind you that kyiv filed the first complaint in this case back in 2014, and again in 2015 and 2018. only in decem

defense of the russian federation, and now the deputy chairman of the russian security council, sergei shoiguief of the general staff of the russian federation, valery gerasimov, what does this mean, does the world at all abandon the prospect of peace negotiations with the current leaders of russia, because i will remind you that putin also has an icc warrant , and now in moskalkova, who is a children's shoemaker in... lvov moskalkova, please, who is accused in the case concerning the deportation of ukrainian children, the abduction of ukrainian children on the territory of the russian federation, well , now what... and heresies, in a word, such a spectrum of our topics today, well, let's remember, of course , the case of mykola tyshchenko, because it is indicative of the current government and for how the marker is for the current government and what the verdict will be in this case, obviously there will be a verdict, an election verdict regarding the servant of the people party, and president zelensky, in a word, we will start in 10 minutes, and the big broadcast vasyl winter continues, vas

it exists, maybe it doesn't, well, in any case , we saw that the minister of defense of russia , shoigu, was thrown out of office and someone, in principle a cybernetic economist, was installed in his place, we understand that a certain redistribution is taking place now influences and possibly the new so-called military logistics of the russian federation, i do not know how it will all turn out look, well, the situation is quite serious, because we understand that the russians have not proposed anything new, but... meat assaults, mechanized convoys, i don't know how much equipment they have and a new minister of defense who has to fix that what is called the russian economy or the russian military economy and russian military logistics, what could be the scenarios on the part of the russians, and what should be the counter-response from our side and from the side of our western allies, it is interesting that the comments that appeared after all these changes , show that we still... very much understand what is happening in russia. analysts consider two explanations. on the one hand, th

scale, the international criminal court issued arrest warrants for former russian defense minister shoiguf of general staff gerard.

minister austin spoke to his a russian colleague, then it was the minister of defense of russia sergey shoigurch 15, 2023 . march 15, 2023. now we have them, they haven't talked for a year and a half, so what... they will obviously never talk again, and she, he is suspicious, there is already a warrant for arresting him , what to talk to him, he needs to be delivered to him march 23- oh, it was still, i remember now about the situation at the front, well actually it was always difficult, i remember, it was in my opinion even before the explosion of the kakhovskaya hydroelectric plant, if i i'm not wrong in front of this just like that, but here 's why, because people who, let's say, don't know these subtleties of diplomacy, politics, what you always have to have. the communication contact between the nuclear states, the largest nuclear states in the world, they will say that this is treason, now they will agree with our backs and that's all, this is what needs to be explained, please explain, i worked in washington for more than one year as the consul general of ukraine, therefore, i will not

jennifer trehan, in her opinion, is, in addition to shoigu and gerasimov, an international criminal thearges against other officials of russia. jennifer, what does the decision of the international criminal court mean regarding new arrest warrants to establish justice in ukraine. we don't have details on the allegations yet, but they definitely relate to the russian attacks. to the ukrainian electricity industry and likely damage, this actually led to arrest warrants of this level. in the short term, i don't think arrests can be expected, but it is unknown if there are also additional hidden statements tied to to these arrest warrants, there may be other persons whose cases the court is considering on the same charges. it will be difficult to bring these people physically to the hague, the icc does not have a procedure for trials in absentia, so the accused must be present there. fixing by the court the inadmissibility of such attacks and of course, hostilities continue, and this is also the targeting of civilian objects, they are also accused of crimes against humanity. given the fact

on the other hand, there are those who claim that shoigu was removed because he is too much. krade, several generals were involved in corruption, therefore, with on the one hand it's a big war, on the other hand it's the same war, but putin can't allow so much to be stolen probably because he wants more money to go to his friends who encroach on defense contracts to profit from the war . in both scenarios, the goal is to keep the money flowing because people are making very good money at it. i do not think that there is an economist in the ministry. defense will be able to dramatically influence the situation. if he was capable of this, we would have heard about it by now. he doesn't have the skills to change the system training, or the supply system, or to understand how the generals deceive him, because one should not forget that all russian generals lie to the minister. this is standard russian practice. no one tells the truth there, it is a land of lies. so, he will be fed a bunch of nonsense, though. how wonderful everything is, which will make it difficult to implement any meaningful

in russia itself, president putin has appointed his former, long—standing defence minister, sergei shoigul infielder tucupita marcano has been banned for life for placing hundreds of bets on the sport, including on his own team's games. he was was found to have placed 387 baseball—related bets —— he was found to have placed 387 baseball—related bets while he was a pittsburgh pirates player. marcano denies that any outcomes in the games on which he placed bets were compromised. some of the last surviving veterans who fought in the second world war are in normandy to commemorate 80 years since d—day. it was a turning point in the war, as allied troops landed on the coast of northern france and began the liberation from nazi occupation. john maguire reports. for many of these veterans, their departure from the shores 80 years ago, all as very young man, was theirfirst ve ntu re overseas . cheering excitement and a sense of celebration will, in coming days, turn to commemoration. stan ford survived as his ship was sunk by a mini submarine, but many other members of the group were killed. as y

on the other hand, there are those who claim that shoigu was removed because he steals too much. several generals were involved in corruption. so, on the one hand, it's a big war, on the other hand, it's the same war, but putin can't allow so much to be stolen , probably because he wants more money to go to his friends who encroach on defense contracts so that to profit from the war. in both. scenarios, the goal is to keep the money flowing because people are making a lot of money doing it. i don't think that an economist at the ministry of defense will be able to somehow drastically affect the situation. if he was capable of this, we would have heard about it by now. he does not have the skills to change the training system, or the supply system, or to understand how the generals are deceiving him, because you must not forget that all russian generals lie to the minister, this is ... standard russian practice, no one there tells the truth, this is the country lies, so he will be fed a load of nonsense about how great everything is, which will make it difficult to implement any m

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former defense minister sergei shoigu and military chief of staff valery gerasimov are charged with warfor targeting ukrainian power plants. the pair are unlikely to be detained, as russia doesn't recognize the court's jurisdiction. russia's security council blasted the decision, calling it "part of the west's hybrid warfare against our country." a state department spokesperson says the u.s. supports any and all prosecutions of russia's actions in ukraine. >> we have made clear that there have been atrocities committed by russian forces in their illegal invasion of ukraine and that there ought to be accountability for those atrocities. we support a range of international investigations into russia's atrocities in ukraine including the one conducted by the icc. stephanie: meanwhile, european union officials started membership talks with ukraine today, as well as moldova. it's a major milestone for both nations, though the talks could take years to wrap up. ukraine hopes to be a full eu member by 2030. a north korean ballistic missile test appeared to end in failure today, according to mi