and we are discussing not only the f-16, the list is very huge, as i said at the beginning, there are no limits on the transfer of technology, working with various platforms, systems and weapons, and how do businessmen react to this, because they will use their own funds in is to invest, in what way do they want to... to the ukrainian victory? well, look , first of all, we have a plan for the 24th year, now, as i said, we are working on medium and long-term programs for armed military equipment, we have shown that we can make commitments, we can invest money and be partners, together with them, together

with the ministry of industry and trade, therefore... we are currently working with the ministry of industry and trade on such a deal team, that is , this is a working group that will work to discuss these issues in more detail ee joint ventures. tell us, please, we launched, today arsen jumadilo joined us from the agency of the state operator tylu, how satisfied are you with how this structure works and whether our colleagues from... the united states are satisfied with the fact that the procurement system was not just cleaned, but was completely replaced and started from scratch. yes , i want to explain that we have, ah, a deputy who deals with development, that is, we have a lot of equipment that comes to us, it must be put into service, we call it, take into service or development, the second deputy deals with only by tenders and cru.

two new agencies, one of which is headed by arsen, we have a lethal agency for lethal weapons and an agency for non-lethal weapons, which are now headed by arsen, we have another 100 days, as i am appointed, it is not over yet, so we all practices, criteria have been prescribed, according to nato rules, they have already been implemented, therefore... in this regard , we are currently working on three tracks, the first is direct procurement, the second is production, which i just told you about, and the third is international technical assistance , in this regard, we will soon make a presentation after 100 days of our priorities, and one of them will be public procurement, which is headed by arsin. mr. rustem, probably one of the important questions, look, today we

had, in addition to arsen jumadilov, military experts who they said about a large influx of drones on the front, and actually the only protection that exists against them at the moment is physical protection, did you see any technologies there that would allow you to plant these russian drones, which could either be borrowed already or bought , or invest in their production, and so that they are on the front line as soon as possible, and... air defense systems are a priority for us, and in accordance with the agreements we reached, we are now justifying the systems of reba, rera, and hybrid systems, that is, we are working on so that not only to shoot them down with missiles, and uh, by other means and forces, that is, we have worked in this regard, now we are already purchasing directly and...

we are contracting and will continue to do so through international technical assistance, which helps us to do this in the focus of these air defense priorities. i don't know if you can say, but if so, then whether it was about cleaning the final water area of ​​the black sea, or some technologies that will help us deal with carriers of calibers in the black sea, in addition to those drones that have shown themselves effectively in. .. we showed the whole world that we can succeed, despite the fact that we do not have such a powerful fleet, we forced russia to withdraw from the temporarily occupied crimea, ah, these developments that we are preparing for the 24th year will give us a very good capacity for them to withdraw e- e forever from our crimea. mr. minister, please tell me, we

are now starting a big conversation about how the mood of the united states is changing, whether it is changing, regarding the support of ukraine, regarding the victory of ukraine, i would like to hear your own feeling. how did you feel the mood in the pentagon, how much they believe in what they are doing, how much they believe in the power of the defense force, how much they clearly understand there , thank god, we will already hear about the fact that benhotje is actively talking specifically about the kerch bridge, which should open the issue to deoccupation, your feelings of the mood in the pentagon, first, and the american people, and the government and congress support ukraine. and the fact that they are now spreading treason, allegedly that they do not support us, this is more of a russian narrative, a feeling of not only support, there will be support, there will be support not only from international technical assistance,

there will be support and the transfer, as i said, of technologies, and there will be financial support, in this regard we need to have a one voice policy in this regard. russians are used, any trip to the united states, unfortunately, is sometimes perceived by society as a burden, it should not be like this, we must be strong, and in this regard, the united states, together with our other european and other partners, are close with ukraine, as long as we need it, and until we liberate all our people. it is not only felt one hundred percent, there are commitments that exceed not only one year, the next year and other years, that is, financially, technically, and strategically. thank you, mr. minister, rustomerov, the minister of defense of ukraine, was with

us in the nationwide marathon. thanks! mr. yehor, can i give a couple of examples of what the minister was talking about, your feeling, perception... of the states of the large ukrainian delegation, you did not go there alone, you were in many states, you held many meetings, well, honestly, after all that, what we read, to believe about what everyone uniformly perceived and carried on their hands, it probably doesn't work either, but the americans have always been famous for their pragmatism, which you heard now from those you met with, come on, i agree with mr. minister that there really is a lot of support, maybe not unanimous, but definitely a lot, we ... we know there's a group of trumpists out there in congress who have been against it from the beginning , marjorie green or senator vance or others, aa congressman, so there's really some part of it that doesn't support it, and we, when

we get to washington, they don't support in principle, whether out of their own political interests, isolationists, this may change. exclusively, they talk about the fact that america is for americans, relatively speaking, and make america great again, maga, huh, yes, that is , they talk about the fact that we do not need to spread our resources abroad, we need to concentrate here, and there, somehow the world will deal with the problems it has, so they are more in favor of directing resources inside the country, and they, for example, bring such examples in your media that look, we have a problem there with the school... buses that are there, because of the pandemic we lost a lot of drivers, we can't recruit drivers, the fleet there is broken, and now our children don't drive 20 minutes , like a pandemic, it takes an hour and a half to get there, and it all costs 20 billion dollars there, so

why are we spending 60 billion now ? , which are pumped into society, although... who does not say that separately there is a defense budget, and it is protected, and it , well, it is here, and it cannot be allocated there or transferred or somehow considered differently, that is why our congressmen, who support us with an absolute majority both among republicans and among democrats, they said: guys, go to the states and talk to our voters, and when we come to the states, again , the local government will absolutely support us. absolutely understands why this is being done, absolutely understands that this is not charity, that it is actually an investment in their safety as well because of creation or not even creation, but there for the protection of the world order that currently exists, but when you go down there,

the perception is really different among cross-bred americans, they talk about what and why we are there, well, actually they perceive them as benefactors . reliability, and when you tell them listen, these are not ships that cross with cash, with cash, that cross the atlantic ocean and come to us and give us this money, 80% of the money stays here with you, i was in the state aha, where the abrams's are made, ugh, i say that's how you got the money that is allocated, relatively speaking, for ukraine in order to produce these same abrams or there are shells for them, and you get additional funding, you get additional jobs, you get economic growth there, when you you prove this to them, they say, what is the problem, and another story is that because of what we constantly hear, it seems that... well, half of the federal budget is spent on ukraine, when you give them in

in absolute numbers or as a percentage of them of the military budget and they say, look, it seems to me that it's a pretty good investment , less than 5% of the defense budget to destroy half of the russian army, and you and her with that half, american soldiers will never come into contact, uh, they say, well yes, there is logic, but it is not necessary. the question is not whether we need to help ukraine, again, the absolute majority, i repeat, in the congress and the senate support us and there is no question whether we need to continue this aid, now the question is completely different, about the border, again well, it's an internal political issue, but i think we'll talk about it, we'll talk about it, but first let's look at the traditional evening address.

dear ukrainians, first of all, i want to recognize our defenders of the sky, during the missile attack in the morning, a significant part of the russian missiles was shot down, but not all of them, there were hits in kharkiv, also in the dnipropetrovsk region, all the victims were provided with the necessary help, they died. one person, my condolences to family and friends, we are actively working with partners for strengthening ukrainian air defense forces. we continue this work, and now almost every week gives ukraine new agreements and new opportunities. this russian regime repeats the evil it has already done, but tries to make the blow more painful each time. we are aware of this, and i thank each and every one who... defends ukraine from the shaheds, who repels russian missile strikes. thanks to our intelligence and each of

the partners who have already made a decision to support the ukrainian air shield and who impose sanctions against the terrorist state precisely in such a way that they are able to limit it. and let everyone, from terrorists to terror propagandists, does not doubt russia, they will all be responsible for every strike. the meeting of the stake, as always, the head of the commanders by directions reported on the operational situation, kupyansk, lyman, all donetsk directions, the south, i thank all the soldiers and commanders for their steadfastness and courage, the tasks of our state and now in winter, no matter how it was difficult to show strength and not give the enemy, to seize the initiative, not to let them gain a foothold. i thank everyone whose actions ensure exactly... this for ukraine, ours the opportunity to take your steps. today, i would like

to especially mention the soldiers who showed themselves the most now. thank you. the 47th, a separate mechanized brigade, junior sergeants, yury svyatenko and dmytro semennyk, together destroyed an enemy sabotage group near the avdiiv factory. well done, 23rd separate mechanized brigade, junior sergeant. roman lutsenko, thank you for the powerful combat results, 704th regiment of radiation, biological and chemical protection, senior soldier maryan portsyna, thank you for your courage, soldiers, for exactly such courage, which has become a symbol of the ukrainian defense, spoke today with the prime minister of estonia and about maintaining support for ukraine, partners in general and about very specific things that our state, our soldiers need, which... in order to achieve the necessary results, i am grateful for understanding, for help, of course, they also discussed the issue

of the unity of the european union, primarily in the context of the opening of negotiations with ukraine regarding the accession to the eu. ukraine fulfills all obligations. we have already proved it many times. today, by the way, the verkhovna rada of ukraine adopted the necessary laws, in accordance with the recommendations european commission in the areas of a. anti-corruption and rights of national minorities. the conclusions of the venice commission, specifically regarding national communities, are taken into account. we expect that the efforts of ukraine. will be properly evaluated by the leaders of the european union and the corresponding european promises of ukraine will be fulfilled. we had seven recommendations, we did everything that was expected of us for december. and we continue our active foreign policy work in order to approximate the positive for ukraine both

in terms of defense and macro-finance, in terms of political and motivational power. everyone who for... defends freedom, needs to feel that he or she is not alone. the free world must be united, and to be truly successful, ukraine must be a donor of unity. every step of our foreign policy is aimed at this. in particular, the first meeting of the participants of our new international coalition regarding the return of children who were deported to russia from the temporarily occupied territories was held in kyiv today. we... unite for the liberation of children and the state and international organizations and public leaders from different countries of the world, legal experts. i thank everyone who joined this work already, who ensures concrete legal results, already, in particular , the warrants of the international criminal court against russian officials, and of course everyone, whether

mediation and influence help to return children home to ukraine. one more thing, our intelligence, our diplomats continue to evacuate ukrainian citizens from the gas sector, the evacuation of our people to safe territory continues all day today, almost 40 more ukrainian citizens are safe. thank you, thank you gur, thank you to our diplomats, thank you to our friends in the region glory to all who fight and work for ukraine and ukrainians, glory to our powerful people. glory to ukraine. well, actually, mr. president spoke about our movement towards the european union, i want to definitely discuss this in the second part of our program, when we move on to european politics, let's still first deal with the united states, where the great landing party worked, mr. maxim, your vision , are the positions of these two american camps starting to converge, because biden already seems to have already started

to say that, okay, partly the topic of the wall, which she also became like that, you know, not as a pretext, not as a reason, but as a pretext for blocking. ukrainian issue, i am ready to go to the meeting, do you see that the american politician is getting closer to making decisions on the continuation of systemic support to ukraine. you know, i think that in the global dimension, the understanding of both republicans and democrats regarding support for ukraine is absolutely the same. these are the parties that understand that american funding for ukraine's defense, first of all, is an existential issue for ukraine's survival, because of this it becomes automatically critical to the adoption of both. chambers and both parties, it is another matter that individual representatives, in particular from the republican party, are trying to politicize this case as well , the case of voting for the decision to allocate funds to ukraine in the senate, when there was a briefing before that, at which the democrats said that it was okay, we are voting for a wall, we will build a wall,

we are ready to change the legislation on the treatment of illegal migrants, you all got your advantage here, let's vote. for this decision, and at this moment republicans are starting to walk out of the room , not to vote for this decision, solely because they didn't get enough media coverage from their recent victory on the mexican border, and you 're right, the fact is that biden came into office on theses about the fact that these are inhumane methods, the wall is not needed, the behavior does not need to be revised, these are republican actions that are completely unjustified, but now due to this radical rhetoric of the republican party... the senate, they are forced to go, well , let's say, on occasion, ready for this vote, in addition to voting for a decision for ukraine, so i have a deep conviction that this vote, which was held yesterday, is far from the last and final, so it's going to be revised , it's just that both parties want to play their, let's say

, chess some, you know, media parties in order to get a result from it, because it's important to the republicans, they get some from it. political dividends, on the other hand, democrats understand how much the issues of ukraine and israel are important for them, including taiwan, which are coming as a package, it seems to me that there is some kind of deadline, yes, december 17 or december 14-15, something like that, when is the next one, they went on a vacation, vacation until the middle of january, yes , the middle of january, money is currently being negotiated between the senators, the representatives of the democrats, murphy and lancroft, and regarding this question in general, but there is a question... i understand, not even about the border anymore, but about immigration politics, and i understand that they, well, as they say that they are ready to spend the whole weekend on it, in order to be sure. to come up with some kind of solution , the question of china, how are you now, how far are you in this political conflict that has already begun, apart from the israeli-ukrainian card, is

the chinese card playing there, is it playing on our side, or is this kozar, or is it a joker unknown in in whose hands, because the meeting has already taken place, sijipin has already returned to himself and theoretically, you know, the first steps to implement those agreements that happened there should already begin, what do you see, lady? positive or from the negative or realism? we are for realism, look, the latest events are the negotiations in china between the delegation of the european union and china. if we go from the positive side, then they did not agree, for us it is positive, i will explain why. china agreed, realizing that the world has become bipolar, that china has taken the place of russia, and this was evidenced by the g20 summit, which was held in the 22nd year. and now xi jinping's last meeting with biden, which took place, and where they tried to avoid confrontation, that is, to reduce the dynamics of escalation that was unfolding

there since the 13th year, it escalated in the 18th, when the trade wars started and in the 21st , the technological wars went there, but they moved away from, let’s say, the edge of the abyss, they said, let’s establish additional channels of dialogue so that we could correct this conflict, because the regimes are ideologically opposite, they will... well, they will conflict, but it must be managed, they agreed, it was a precedent, a signal for europe that it is necessary to agree as well, because the world has become bipolar, the camps have split, but the dialogue should be saved for that reason charles michel went to xi, and so did charles michel , and there were many delegations , europeans also went to china to negotiate trade issues there, because they have a huge imbalance in trade there, so... the europeans came, but they also did not agree, did not agree, because the imbalance between china, what were the key issues, the trade imbalance, 400

billion, which are there, they trade there for 840, minus 400 billion dollars they have, and they say, well, we do not have equal access to your market, you have to the european market access, you even buy a party , deliver products, you have the initiative, this shock way, one belt, one way, you are already in europe, and we cannot... technologies, that is, we are building something, transfer modern technologies, and for china to also build a similar plant , for example, otherwise they will steal , well, otherwise they will copy, yes, let's say this, that's why, this first issue was trade, the second issue, so put pressure on russia to stop the war, china, said that russia is a very independent country, we we cannot press, they act. in their own interests, it meant that, that china will not pressurize, if you look at the statements of xi jinping, what he said, he said, the world has become multipolar, i, we

stand for the multipolarity of the world, and this is putin's slogan, we stand for globalization to promote world trade, and we stand for diversity, what is written in the program, which in the 13th year of the strategy was adopted by china, the implementation of which will allow china to become the number one country in the world. in fact, china between the lines, if anyone understands eastern politics, he has declared that he is in favor of a multipolar world, and this means that places the united states as a hegemon does not exist there. the second statement, you and i are two civilizations , that is, the chinese say to the europeans, you and we are two civilizations that are responsible there, well, relatively speaking, for humanity, and let’s negotiate, and then where does the place of america go to the place of euro-atlantic solidarity, that is, he separates the united states . says: let's negotiate with you, because you are our largest market, in principle , the united states is also a big market, there is about 690 billion trade per year on average, in europe

840, but in the united states of america, china, in order to avoid criticism from the leadership of the united states of america for this deficit, there is also a trade deficit of about 300 billion, they buy securities of the united states for these 300 billion in order for them to say, that's how we help you cover. budget deficit , you have a problem there in the ceiling of the deficit, we cover it, but it creates a financial instrument of pressure, in fact, in europe they don’t do it, in europe they don’t do it, europeans do it, well, because they have a market there, for them europe is the main one market, if there are no sales markets, then china has become the world's workshop, it needs highly liquid markets in order to make money, these two highly liquid markets are in the other camp, and are now collapsing. did they end up or is china trying to separate them into different camps? and no , well, the geopolitical structure has developed in such a way that two camps have formed, look, democratic countries and the camp headed by

china and this... as we say, yes they have formed, then it is impossible to talk about globalization, now the defragmentation of globalization is going on regionalization, that is, they will trade within these camps, the democratic camp and the camp of countries with personalist regimes, and there will be exchanges only for critical materials or products there, because there is no trust, trust is decreasing, the gap between these two unions is increasing, so the fact that they did not agree for ukraine is good, that is... on the other hand, it is bad for geopolitics, for the big one, because the conflict, it is postponed, let's say, a big conflict, but there was not, there will not be something that china, and europe, and the united states states will be they are putting pressure on ukraine to settle, so that we sit down at the transition table and cede some land there, for example, there is peace in exchange for land, there was no such thing, there will be no

such structures. and this is very positive for us, the negative is that china said that it will continue its policy, it said directly when it was addressed to him by sidzenpin and said: put pressure on russia, you have direct levers of pressure, well, in fact, russia has become a proxy for china , china said no, we won't do that, that means that the escalation of the confrontation will continue, well , it is beneficial to china, they have said this more than once that you will finish with russia, come to us, well, tell me, please, and china hears ukrainian arguments, in particular, what... happened to bam, they do they understand that they will have to deal with ukraine sooner or later, communicate in some way? what i read about the results of the negotiations between the europeans and china, i saw that the statement was, when they appealed to the chinese side so that they would somehow not help circumvent the sanctions there, put pressure on russia, he said: that you you are pressuring us, you are the west, not ukraine, you are the west, sit down with russia and negotiate, that is,

we are not a subject. ugh, this means that we are not seen as a subject, unfortunately, i wonder when china will see us as a subject, although if he does not even see russia now, he says that russia is a strategic partner , a friend forever, but he takes practical steps such that he does everything, everything, whatever he needs with russia, but at the same time, china would be very happy to sit down with ukraine at the negotiating table as a result, together with other countries to sign some kind of agreement , which should be, that is, they consider it... a global force that, however, tries to influence the international agenda, signed agreements, we signed a declaration on strategic cooperation in 2011, in 2013 , before the revolution, we signed a large friendship agreement and cooperation with china, they were not canceled by anyone, but speaking in addition to that, in addition to everything, china is very interested in the further reconstruction of ukraine after the end of the war, that is, they have their own piles there projects, do you remember how they

built hospitals there literally in a day or there... in a couple of days, how does it fit together, well, this is a misconception, in fact, i will explain, we are alone there hundreds of puzzles that china has , in china's strategy of dominance in five regions, there starting from latin america, ending with the asia-pacific region, this is africa, and the middle east, and the asia-pacific region, and all these regions it dominates at the expense of investments, and which binds to himself, he pays. huge investment, plus infrastructure builds, just like in africa, he pushed out the europeans from there and pushed out the americans at the expense of this policy, he went there with peacekeeping missions, with international ones, he understood that in the un, how to use peacekeeping missions, first the chinese came as intelligence , and then the yakoon ones business came in and began to invest and develop, all these regions in five regions it dominates, ukraine, among these five, well, look, africa 55.