this time, according to storch, they received 63 statements of theft. the same time , the pentagon says that 12% of military aid sent to kiev since the beginning of this year has disappeared. without god in the soul. in poland, they opposed christ; the warsaw city hall banned catholic crosses, but ordered respect for transgender people, the wyborcza newspaper reports. warsaw is the first city in poland to ban the use of religious symbols in city hall offices. however, the restriction does not yet apply to wearing chest straps. crosses. at the same time, officials are urged to more often use feminives, impersonal forms, gender-neutral terminology and respect their rights. these measures were taken to be recognized and accepted. attention, social diversity. a monument to the hero of belarus nikita kukanenko was unveiled in polotsk. it symbolizes the courage and the highest level of skill that pilot andrei nicheporchik and nikita kukanenko showed in the baranovich area, sending the plane away from residential buildings and avoiding the loss of life. flight

military aid to ukraine is the inspector of the defense department, robert storch. thanks for being here. guest: a pleasure to being here. host: what is the role of an inspector object or -- inspector general for the u.s. government. guest: there are 75 in the statutory group under the inspector general act and basically we do independent oversight over the programs, operations and personnel of the departments and agencies we oversee. that means one, audits and evaluations that look at department programs, determine whether they are complying with the law and requirements, and how they might achieve their mission better and then we give recommendations. and we do investigations. we have administrative investigation groups that looks at the conduct of senior personnel and the criminal investigative service which has hundreds of law enforcement officials that do investigations. host: with respect to ukraine, there has been a lot of discussion that we have sent a lot of money over there but we don't know how it is being spent and what is being done. what is your role i

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europe, conclusions from the pentagon report to the us congress, according to inspector general robert storchvernment remains opaque, and the military situation has only worsened the situation. bribes, kickbacks, inflated costs in purchases for the ministry of defense, all this flourishes in kiev under the guise of military operations, and it is difficult to track corruption due to the fact that the process of the same purchases for the armed forces of ukraine is limited by a secrecy regime, so it is not surprising that in the west more and more opponents of the military assistance to kyiv. the pentagon only confirmed the obvious, especially since what remains after ukrainian corruption is successfully destroyed by the russian armed forces. they thank you for your perseverance and warn you that you will soon have to learn to do without light, one of the so-called letters of happiness that kievans received today from local energy workers. residents of the ukrainian capital were pleased that the electricity would be turned off, well, at best, for half a day. they explained this by the need for

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highest in europe, and these are not our words, but the report of pentagon inspector general robert storchthe american military department says that 12% of the aid sent to kiev since the beginning of this year has disappeared. we are ruled by moral and incompetent monsters who steal with blood. incapable of making decisions, unable to give positive motivation, capable of only making the situation worse, things are getting worse and worse with incompetence, theft and inability to give positive, well, positive motivation, explain to people why they are fighting, give hope for the future and so on, everything that worsens, kills business, persecutes groups of thinking and dissident people and so on, that’s all, that’s all, this is a diagnosis, and this is a diagnosis for the whole country, incapable stand up more. the state as an apparatus, uses it as an open apparatus of terror and violence against this entire population, consider this population. money, begging from the west, which is very profitable from this war, on the other hand, the destruction of the entire population as biomass for c

the eighteenth, in a few days the eighteenth will come, yes already. such inspector general robert storchnted it to the public congress of the united states of america on the state of corruption in ukraine, he wrote a lot, in particular, he writes such a thing, it’s like that for me, you know, it’s like that for me, but he writes that corruption in ukraine, unfortunately, is one of the highest in europe, the level of corruption, yes, and further he writes, bribes and kickbacks are practiced, and the ministry of defense inflates food prices. and the last ones, well, that’s it he writes, the reason, naturally, the main thing is that russia attacked ukraine. i’m sitting and reading again, in ukraine, he writes that there are, you know, bribes and kickbacks are practiced, comrade storch, so here we have always lived on this in the nineties and the 2000s and so on, what does the svo have to do with it, little moreover, on the contrary, during the svo it increased, this is the amount. the number of bribes, and most importantly, the price tag has increased, now regarding the price tag, specifica

in a report to the american congress , the inspector general of the military department, robert storchd to state that the level of corruption in ukraine remains one of the highest in europe. according to him, the military conflict with created incredible opportunities for corrupt officials who profit from bribes and kickbacks. in state defense procurements , the ministry of defense of ukraine regularly inflates prices, and it is impossible to ensure transparency of transactions due to the high secrecy when concluding contracts, and this has been observed for a long time from the very beginning of the conflict. there are concerns that if we are not seeing improvements in this area, this is leading to a lack of transparency or a reduction in said transparency, which is a serious concern. the americans have already opened 12 cases related to fraud, corruption, and also by stealing military and financial aid. in total , there are more than 60 allegations of theft, while according to the pentagon, at least 12% of the military aid transferred to kiev since the beginning of the year disappear

the ministry of defense are inflated price, the report says. and pentagon inspector general robert storch the imf suddenly woke up and generally says: good personal relations between leaders, let's remember the cold war period, then after all, all the objective factors were in place, and the objective thing, here is the subjective factor, the soviet union and the people's republic of china opposed american imperialism at the ideological level. china then needed the soviet union even more economically than let’s say, now we continued to remain neighbors, these are the personal relations between us. property of foreign states, realize that retaliatory actions in this case are absolutely lawful, what does this mean? here is europe, why hasn’t it confiscated ours yet? assets? precisely because they are afraid that if our assets are seized, china, india, and other countries will give up on the euro, say: guys, this is an unsafe thing, they will start leaving, and the european financial system will crack, in this joint. statement china says, you guys are right to be afraid, yes, and there for a