Newspeak. Kateryna shirokpoyas works in the studio on espressu tv channel. The enemy is trying to seize the Strategic Initiative and break through the front line in the kharkiv direction. The Defense Forces prevent the enemy from penetrating deep into our territory. The spokesman of the khortytsia troops group, nazar voloshyn, said this. According to him, the occupiers concentrated their main efforts in several areas and created superiority in forces and means. However, our soldiers are causing significant losses. The enemy in manpower, restore positions in certain directions, have tactical successes. Russia may launch a new offensive on sumy in the sumy region, kyrylo budano, head of the main intelligence directorate, suggested in an interview with the new york times. According to his forecast, the attacks in the Kharkiv Region will continue for another 34 days. Next, the Occupying Forces will strike in the direction of sumy. At the same time, budanov assured that on. The defenders will be able to strengthen their positions and stabilize the front in the Kharkiv Region over the next few days. And in the morning, russia hit kharkiv with two drones, both of which flew into a densely populated area. Two people were injured, a 52yearold man and a 66yearold woman. This was announced by the mayor of kharkiv igor terekhov. According to him, at least seven residential buildings and an Educational Institution were damaged, cars were destroyed. As a result of russian shelling in the kherson region, one man was killed and two others were injured. According to the head of the Regional Military administration oleksandr prokudin, in a day the enemy attacked 10 settlements. The russians targeted residential areas, damaged a highrise building and 16 private houses. There are also hits to a Critical Infrastructure object, an administrative building, an Educational Institution, and port infrastructure. Air Defense Forces at night. Destroyed two strike drones over the region. We convert all our anger due to enemy shelling into donations for our defenders. Join the collection for the repair of heavy Armored Vehicles in the combat zone in the soledar and zaporizhzhia directions. Repair and restoration regiment works mainly on the line of scrimmage or in the gray area, in the open sky in all weathers day and night. So for emergency recovery and return to the battlefield. Damaged military equipment, in particular tanks, bmps, armored personnel carriers, needs a minibus that will deliver mobile repair teams and equipment to the combat zone, as well as pneumohydraulic jacks for prompt repair of foreign equipment. In general, our goal is uah 630,000. Thanks to you, we have already collected almost uah 200,000, so we will not delay, your help is very important. You have all the details now see on your screens. Today, starting at 4 00 p. M. , there is a possibility of Power Outages for industry, the ministry of energy reported about it, there they note that electricity consumption in ukraine increased by 8 last day, and Emergency Assistance was received from poland, romania and slovakia. This summer, ukraine will be able to use a new longrange vehicle at the front. Weapons, exdeputy us secretary of state Victoria Nuland said. She emphasized that the task of the us and western allies is to prepare kyiv for negotiations with russia from a position of strength. In their own interests. Russias offensive in the Kharkiv Region was not unexpected. This was announced in the pentagon. According to the spokeswoman of the Us Department of defense, sabrina sinh, ukraine was ready for the escalation of russian aggression. The spokeswoman of the pentagon emphasized currently, the United States is doing Everything Possible to make sure that ukraine has everything it needs to protect and repel attacks. King charles ii of Great Britain imposed sanctions on companies that continued to operate on the territory of russia during the war in ukraine, the newspaper telegraf writes about this. We are talking about an American Corporation that produces products for health care and personal industrial hygiene, as well as south korean samsung, which still sells equipment to russians under gray schemes. Despite the statement on the termination of activities on the territory of erefia. The british monarch decided to deprive. These corporations of honorary orders. Russian dictator Vladimir Putin will go to china on may 16 for talks with xi jinping. This is reported by the russian media. He will discuss the issue with the leader of China Partnership and strategic interaction. Separately , opinions are exchanged about the most Current International and regional problems. A childrens playground was opened in the Mountain Village of kryvorivnia in prykarpattia, it was built on the basis of a preschool institution, the red cap, now about 30 children spend time here, until now there was a lack of such equipment for the needs of children, so the parents together with the management of the kindergarten asked local deputies to equip such a playground. Funds were raised with the help of german partners, and in this way the children will receive them from now on positive emotions on. Joy for parents, such a happy and cheerful smile, as on such colorful childrens play facilities, we probably will not see a child anywhere else. In addition, here children develop physically, children communicate, children communicate, thanks to the financing of our german partners, the Public Organization international and peoples deputy mykola knyazhytskyi, we managed to organize this idea, to build a playground, we understand that. We need to direct all our efforts to the protection of our state, to direct to victory, but we must also understand that we need a healthy nation, healthy children, both physically and mentally, and therefore we need to invest money and funding also in such creation of such spaces of places where children can spend their time. On may 14, in ukraine, for the fourth time, at the state level, the memory of people who saved jews during the Second World War is commemorated. Officially, there are more than 2,500 ukrainian rescuers, but many still remain unrecognized and unknown. About righteous people of the world in the material of emma stadnyk. From 5 up to 6 million. Thats how many jews, according to various estimates, died during the Second World War; more than 1. 5 million jews were killed on the territory of ukraine alone during the German Occupation of 19411944. Since 1963. Israel awards those who saved the jews in those years with the honorary title of righteous among the nations. This award is given by a special commission consisting of historians, lawyers and survivors of the holocaust. The righteous people of the world are given a name medal, a certificate and the right to inscribe their name on the wall of honor in the garden of the righteous in jerusalem. They will also receive honorary israeli citizenship, and in the event of their death memorial citizenship. For the first time , ukrainians received this title in 1991. According to the righteous people of the world, our state ranks fourth. After poland, the netherlands and france. According to the data of the israeli embassy, as of january 2021, 2,673 citizens of ukraine have this distinction. However , according to the director of the Ukrainian Institute for the study of the holocaust ihor shchupak, these figures do not reflect the real picture of the order of the jews. One of the main symbols of the holocaust and mass grave for many stavinyar jews. In two days, september 29 and 30, the nazis there killed almost 34,000 jews who lived in kyiv. It was impossible to leave the city. Therefore , all that remained was to hide. The fighting continued for two years, until the soviet army began to move towards kyiv. Over 100,000 people, including jews, roma, ukrainian nationalists, and soviet soldiers, were killed in the babyn yar tract. The german administration, on pain of death, forbade helping the jews in any way, but these ukrainians the ban did not stop. They saved jews from the nazis, hid them, or passed them off as their relatives, provided temporary shelter, clothing, medicine and food, and at the same time the robes themselves. Not only with their own lives, but with the lives of their relatives. In order not to forget those whose names are still unknown, a day of remembrance of ukrainians who saved jews during the Second World War was introduced in ukraine. For the medal that will receive rights. A phrase from the talmud is written he who saves one life saves the whole world. Ema statnyk, espresso tv channel. To to find out more interesting and uptodate information, follow the updates on our website espresso. Tv as well as on our social networks. We will see you tomorrow, take care and stay with the press. Today in the verdict with Serhiy Rudenko new front in Kharkiv Region, the russians have tactical success in the gray zone near vovchansk. How did the enemy manage to penetrate our defenses and is there a threat of a major breakthrough . Preparation for a protracted war. Instead of being mired in a corruption scandal. Shoigu putin appointed a civilian as minister of defense technocrat bilousov. What has changed in the russian olympus of power. Reformatting of the government. One of the president s favorites lost an influential position in the cabinet. This is evidenced by the resignation of kubrakov and the plans of the president s office to dismember the ministry of reconstruction. Glory to ukraine, this is the verdict program, my name is Serhiy Rudenko, i congratulate everyone and wish everyone good health. In the next two hours, we will talk about ukraine, the world, and our victory. The russians are storming the Kharkiv Region, the fortification of the front, for which oleksandr was dismissed kubrakova . We will talk about this and other things during the next hour with the politician, with our guest, the former prosecutor general. Roma of ukraine by yury lutsenko. However, before starting our long conversation with the former prosecutor general, i suggest watching a video of how ukrainian soldiers hit russian equipment in the avdiiv direction. The explosive video was shown in the 47th separate mechanized brigade. Lets see how it was. Glory to the armed forces of ukraine and death to the russian occupiers. 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I would like to introduce todays guest of our studio, this is yury lutsenko, captain of the armed forces of ukraine, ukrainian politician, statesman and former. Prosecutor general of ukraine. Mr. Yuriy, i congratulate you. Thank you for being with us today. Good evening. Well, how would you answer this question about the influence of the office of the president , on the other branches of government, as we ask our viewers and television viewers. It is obvious that the horns and legs of democracy have remained in ukraine. It is also obvious that the office of the president , which consists of yanukovychs people, operates as it did during yanukovychs time. Because if tatarov served as a prortnova in yanukovychs team, he now manages in the same way. Courts, if shurma worked in the party of regions, then he also manages economic processes and corruption related to this, if yarmak himself. Er man with a rather dubious past and connections with russian proputin circles, he manages all this, so he is rebuilding the authoritarian model that exists in russia, but there is one nuance you ask, is there excessive influence of the administration . Uh, from the point of view of its constitution and democracy, it is so excessive, and from the point of view of the result for survival in. Ukraine, i do not see any results of their intervention at all, because of the systematic work to transfer the economy to the real war and help the armed forces of ukraine there was no office of the president before the war, and there is none now. Yuri tech, well tell me, where is the limit, where the office of the president should intervene during war, martial law in some processes, and where he should not interfere in. Conditionally speaking, where is this power appropriate, in terms of application, and where is it inappropriate and threatens democracy . When such questions arise, i recommend opening the constitution of ukraine. Everything is written there. It says that the president is responsible for international policy. And there is no end to the work there. Because this monthslong failure of western aid is exactly what the president and his team did not do. The next function of the president is this is the leadership of the defense of ukraine during wartime, for this the instrument of this leadership is the position of the Supreme Commander, at this position, of course, he can call, for example, the minister or the Prime Minister of ukraine and ask why there are no fortification lines, yes why are there no drones, and why hasnt the production of missiles been launched, and why and there are a lot of such whys, but instead we see that the interests of the office. Appear to be completely different, they are mainly reduced to sweet, economical and often suspiciously smelling of corruption question, but not at all what worries the armed forces. Well, by the way, what worries the armed forces of ukraine, the armed forces of ukraine worries about the situation in the kharkiv direction, and this situation remains quite difficult, the enemy has wedged itself into our defenses and has tactical successes in the vovchansk region, the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine reports. Kyivans involved up to five battalions in the attack on the city and do not count their own losses, the invaders lost more than 100 soldiers in a day just by those killed in this direction, and president zelenskyi in yesterdays address stated about the brutal battles on a significant part of the border strip in the Kharkiv Region, the attempts of the occupiers to gain a foothold in some villages, lets listen to what the Supreme Commander of the armed forces of ukraine said. Our task. Obviously, it is necessary to inflict the greatest possible losses on the occupier. In particular, on the outskirts of the city of vovchansk, the situation is extremely difficult, the city is under constant russian fire, and counterattacks are ongoing , our military is in the city, local residents are being helped. And it is very important that the maximum efficiency is shown now by everyone who directly does so. On Kharkiv Region, in the military forces, in the security forces, in the local authorities, in the communities. Against the background of what zelensky is saying, there is evidence that in some areas of the front , russian columns entered the territory of ukraine on a march without encountering resistance, but at least the analysts identified the area of the ukrainian settlement of strylecha, which is several hundred meters from the border and 52 km from kharkiv. Well, it means yuri vitalivych. That these districts were obviously not too fortified there, if they marched into the territory of ukraine, and the question arises, where were those fortifications, about which during the last, well, at least six months , including president zelenskyi, you know, i would like me to answer not only criticize the president , unfortunately, i will have to criticize, but first i started with what i am worthy of with him, first of all, as they say in odessa, panic, the usa, no military disaster occurred either under avdiyka, or under the abyss of time, it is not happening, it is now and under vovchansk. The russians obviously took the plan disband the armed forces of ukraine. They are advancing on the zaporizhia offensive, they are advancing in the maryanka region, they are advancing in the ordiyivka region, they are advancing in the chasuva yaro region, and now they have opened another front near vovchansk in the direction of kharkiv. I suspect that next they will open the same front in sumy oblast, and will continue to look for the place where we are weakest and from which we can wedge ourselves in the most. Why is this dangerous . The stretching of ukrainian troops is dangerous, because, unfortunately, mobilization in our country was the unloved child of all powerful politicians. Despite the fact that the constitution is the exclusive function of the president to establish the scope, terms and order of mobilization, he removed himself from this, the law that was left in the parliament for four months, er. Dangled, turned into a show, and in fact, i i dont see that he did anything special for the equipment of the armed forces of ukraine, in which there is no kit, i have no right to say which, but believe me, it is very high, and today at spshka, that is, at the forward obs