of american support, as well as why it actually needs to be done right now, yes, that is, to hear that, say, the statements that came from some members of the administration, that without american help, ukraine can lose this war, that they are not exaggerated, if we also note that zelensky's visit began yesterday, and he first met with the military. in your opinion, this is an important point and whether these plans are precisely with the us military, for example, there was talk of joint production of weapons there with the air defense, can they such arrangements to be strong, durable and lasting, regardless of the results of the us elections next year. well, look, it depends on what, in fact, we really offer to the united states, if we only offer to receive help, yes, albeit in a large amount, that is, a de facto analogue'. as it

happened at the end of last year, yes , that is, a similar amount of aid, and accordingly, as we have seen this year, it was enough for about just the calendar year, that is one thing, yes, it is, as they say, it a powerful story, but it is not really long-lasting, yes, that is, conventionally , it directly depends on who controls the white house, who controls pa'. and the senate. if we propose, for example, the conclusion of a bilateral security agreement as one of the possible forms of security guarantees from the united states, then that is another matter, yes, then it is still, so, as they say, a long-term commitment, and it makes support of ukraine by the united states is not a theorem that must be constantly proved to every convocation of congress, the new administration there and so on, and there in five. 10-20 years, and this makes

it an axiom, and accordingly, why, for example, such a relatively high level of support for the state of israel, precisely because israel accordingly has the status of, for example, the main ally outside nato, from the united states, also has a number of additional agreements and memoranda in the field of security, respectively, this also creates a certain institutional memory that israel should be helped. and, accordingly, the discussions around it, they relate there to the volumes, time, conditions of aid, but in principle, how it is they say whether it is necessary or not, there is really no such discussion, especially at the political level. if we talk about the issue of ukraine, is it at all key for us politicians, or is it all an element of such an internal political confrontation? well, again, of course, it's... an element of really domestic

politics, because, as they say, compromises between parties, yes, it's primarily about domestic politics, and by extension, in parties as a whole, uh, and uh and uh congress, in particular, has much more opportunities to influence compromises within the party, yes, that is, if we are talking about this administration in general and their interactions with congress, for example, it was very difficult for them to advance a bill on supporting americans during the coronavirus pandemic in the first year of the administration, it just seems that way, that it was so long ago, but it was still under this administration, and so there's this kind of compromise, and there's an infrastructure bill there, basically, which joe biden is now using as his success story, criticizing the republicans that those who they voted against, now from... respectively

, they go to those states where certain infrastructural changes have already begun, and on this they earn political points, just this week president biden said about it, that is, there were many such precedents, when the administration and congress agreed in the last hours and did it not publicly, of course, and here already to some extent such a pattern can be traced that it is not clear until the end whether they will really come to an agreement, but in the end they still come to a compromise, i honestly , exactly thanks to this, i am optimistic, and i believe that, after all, a compromise will be adopted in the end. vladyslav, and here is another story, please comment, we have a little more time left, the house of representatives of the united states on wednesday, here on december 13, may vote to formalize the investigation into the impeachment of president joe biden, what does this mean, how serious is it? well, look. it is not the first time, as

they say, in the last few years , they can start the voice procedure of impeachment, but in fact the idea that was in the constitution in the... constitution by the founding fathers of the united states was that if the president did something like that , then he deserved to be removed from office, then that should also be approved later the senate de facto impeaches the president, but this has never happened once, and impeachment, we have already seen two impeachments of trump, they actually do not have any legal and political consequences, unless there is this element with a successful vote in... in the senate, that is, it can affect political campaign, depending on what the rhetoric is from the republican side, during what accordingly they can voice it during this impeachment, but again,

he is de facto the only candidate from the democratic party, and it is unlikely to make a significant difference on his nomination, on the general election, depending on, again, when it happens, if it happens and... how will it affect the presidential campaign? we will also monitor the dynamics of relations between the united states and ukraine. thank you for joining, vladyslav faraponov, the chairman of the ngo institute of american studies and an analyst of internews ukraine was a guest of our broadcast. thank you. this is svoboda ranok, my name is kateryna nekrecha, and further on this broadcast we will talk about such topics. the leaders of the hungarian community of transcarpathia appeal to the prime minister of hungary , viktor orbán, with a call to support european integration. minister of foreign affairs kuleva met with his hungarian colleague siatro for the first time since the beginning of the great war, and whether to wait for relations, what awaits relations between ukraine and hungary, whether warming awaits and whether orbán will eventually support european integration of ukraine. in ukrainian social networks, there is a discussion about the monument to the murdered ukrainian

soldier oleksandr matievsky, it was installed by the armed forces of ukraine in kyiv one day after another, and some say that the sculpture is impressively realistic and very strong, others call it... cheesy and inappropriate, how to properly perpetuate the memory of heroes and whether there are any rules at all and why it is important for society. we talk about what is happening in ukraine, what is the situation at the front, every weekday morning from 9:00 a.m. on youtube on the radio liberty channel, subscribe, put comments, share these videos, i will also remind you that we talk every morning on the air of the espresso tv channel. the hungarian community of transcarpathia calls on the government. hungary and the eu leadership should support ukraine in joining the european union. the letter with the appeal was made public, in particular, by the director of the institute of central european strategy, dmytro tuzhanskyi, and the democratic union of hungarians of ukraine. this issue will be considered in brussels at the end of the week of december 14-15. and the authors

of this appeal note that ukraine has shown progress in the last year implementation of the recommendations of the european commission on ensuring the rights of national minorities. this also applies to the new law approved by the verkhovna rada the day before. happy the letter hopes that all norms of the law will be integrated into normative documents of the ukrainian legislation , taking into account all the proposals provided by the hungarian community in ukraine. we strongly urge all leaders of the eu member states to continue supporting ukraine on the path of european integration. this progress in ensuring democracy and the rights of national minorities is an integral part of the copenhagen accords membership criteria and we believe that ukraine deserves to be supported in its efforts in this direction. even during full-scale invasion of ukraine by the russian federation, which began on february 24, 2022, ukraine continues to implement the necessary reforms and remains true to its european integration values. hungary systematically blocks positive decisions in the european union regarding ukraine, such

as the provision of financial assistance or european integration aspirations. prime minister viktor orban stated that ukraine cannot start negotiations on joining the eu. under during volodymyr zelenskyi's visit to argentina, he spoke with orban. calling this conversation as frank as possible, neither the hungarian nor the ukrainian side made public the details of the conversation. meanwhile, ukrainian foreign minister dmytro kuleba met with his hungarian counterpart peter siyar for the first time since the beginning of the full-scale russian invasion. that day, the diplomats met at the meeting of foreign ministers of the eu member states in brussels. our european correspondent zoryana stepanenko will tell you all the details. hungarian official in the ukrainian summit agenda. the final preparations for this event are on the finish line. the degree of tension is surprisingly high in both brussels and kyiv. the european union's decision to start membership negotiations with ukraine and moldova, the latter in the same package, is at risk of disruption. it is missing, from one capital, at least one only declares

its unwillingness to say it publicly, it is budapest. the negotiations between the top diplomats of ukraine and hungary, which took place here in the field of the minister, were not crowned with a breakthrough, no one announced it. meetings of participating countries the european union, where dmytro kuleba was also invited. by the way, this is their first bilateral meeting during russia's full-scale war against ukraine. i would like to note that, for example, with serhii lavrov, peter siya'. saw each other several times during this time. having discussed preparations for the summit with his ukrainian counterpart, the head of hungarian diplomacy made it clear on social media that hungary's position has not changed. he noted that budapest is waiting for the return of ukrainian laws on national minorities to their 2015 form and again criticized the proposal of the european commission to start negotiations with ukraine about its accession to the eu. the proposal for a decision is unprepared, the european commission has almost no idea of ​​what... influence ukraine's membership in the eu will have on the entire association. we can mention at least the unresolved

problems caused by the previous decisions of the european commission regarding the transit of grain or the cancellation of permits for ukrainian heavy trucks. the conversation lasted an hour and was sincere, honest and thorough for the first time since the beginning of the full-scale war, this is a review of the negotiations already from dmytro kuleb, who previously stated that she fulfilled the demands put forward to ukraine, in particular, regarding national minorities, the corresponding law was approved. ukrainian... the minister noted that ukraine and hungary really have questions for each other. the intrigue of whether or not negotiations will start at this summit has not disappeared. anticipating a similar question, kuleba asked for some time. he should inform volodymyr zelenskyi, the hungarian minister, the head of his government, i.e. viktor orban, respectively, about the results of the negotiations. the start of negotiations on ukraine's accession to the eu is the only issue on the ukrainian agenda of the summit that cannot be bypassed of hungary any other country, a consensus is needed and only consensus, there are no alternative plans, those who try

to claim that it is directly about ukraine joining the eu tomorrow, this is manipulation, because it is only about opening negotiations, and then more 35 rounds, 35 chapters must be completed, and secondly, those who believe that now ee... if negotiations are not opened, it will stop european integration, no, it will not stop, ukraine will still be a member of the eu, i still once i emphasize this, it is only a matter of time and prices there are other issues hanging in the air because of hungary, for example, 50 billion euros of macrofin ukraine for the next four years, but here it is possible to bypass the veto. officials who spoke with journalists on the condition of anonymity the day before, do not rule out plan b, the implementation of which will be undertaken by 26 participating countries. providing loans to kyiv on a monthly or quarterly basis under the guarantees of their national budgets. regarding the financing of military

aid. negotiations are ongoing. hungary is not the only country that is not satisfied with the scheme to pledge 20 billion euros for the next four years to of the european peace fund for the needs of ukraine. regarding the 12th package of anti-russian sanctions. in brussels, reuters reported, citing diplomats familiar with the progress of the discussions, who are close to his approval. zoryan stepa from brussels. radio svoboda. this is svoboda ranok and we will continue to talk about hungarian-ukrainian relations. could there be improvements here? tibor tompa, head of the hungarian community of kyiv and kyiv region, joins our broadcast. i congratulate you. thank you for joining. good morning, ms. kateryna. glory to ukraine. glory to heroes. tell me, do you support the decision of the hungarian ukrainians to turn to the authorities of hungary, or did you sign this letter? not only have i signed the letter,

i have already addressed the hungarian government, viktor orbán, the head of the hungarian parliament, peter ayarto several times in person and in absentia, i even personally met with them and told them about it face to face it is necessary to support ukraine in european integration'. their movements, and ukraine fulfills and has fulfilled all the necessary conditions for the start of negotiations for joining the european union, the only thing i want to emphasize is that until the autumn of this year, before the meeting in china with the kremlin leader, the hungarian authorities, orbán-viktor personally, supported and continue to support the european integration of ukraine, even they spoke

several times about the fact that this is absolutely necessary for ukraine, because it is very, very beneficial for the hungarian minority and for the whole of hungary. yes, of course, they were against the entry of hungary, or rather ukraine, into nato through hungary, there they came up with all kinds of fakes, all kinds of reasons, which had no foundation. and i really hope that he will still hear from the hungarian community in ukraine, the hungarians who turned to him and still turn to him in hungarian. language, that this is our homeland, and we deserve to start negotiations and be, the sooner, the better in the european union and nato. do you positively assess the aspirations of ukraine, let's say, all these disputes, perhaps, or the criticism of the hungarian side, to be somehow corrected, yes, or

in your opinion, everything that is needed is currently provided for the rights of national minorities in ukraine, or at least. here on the right path, very, very right path, ukraine has done more than even many countries of the european union have done. for decades, ukraine has been fully complying with the requirements set out in the european charter for the languages ​​of national minorities and regarding the protection of the conditions of national minorities. i will give only one example. in ukraine, the hungarian minority has more than 100 schools, it has a guarantee and children study from kindergartens up to universities, can you imagine, several universities, in transcarpathia, in hungarian, a full cycle, full system, and is studied, are taught exclusively

in the hungarian language, there is not one in hungary today. a full-fledged school, but there is only a sunday school, and there are hungarians, forgive me for saying so, they have food, they have the right, it is sometimes to dance the hopak and cook borscht, these are interesting details , we have not heard such a thing yet, but tell me, how do you assess orban's position and what can change it, for example, yesterday yevgeny magdo, a ukrainian political scientist, was on our air, he says that orban is not so much against the european integration of ukraine, as he is for... money of the european union, but with all that he says about the corruption of ukraine, about the fact that ukraine can bring war to the european union, what exactly can change this position of orban? all this is contrived, her blackmail from orban and manipulation, and nothing more, the main two

reasons why he is blocking ukraine, the first, of course, is that, gro. and he wants to extract the maximum amount of money from the european union, which has been withheld as a result of the policy that he has been pursuing for the last 10-12 years and violates all the principles of the rule of law in hungary, all regarding the media, universities and everything else was adjusted exclusively to his dictatorial wishes, and the second is, of course, the kremlin's hand, because... hungary is the only country that has not yet diversified its gas and oil supply from russia. minister of foreign affairs dmytro kuleba held a meeting with his hungarian counterpart peter szijarto. he says that they spoke frankly and will pass on the information to the president, we saw how the president talked to orbán, yes. and here, in your opinion, we can talk about the fact that there is some

warming and possibly such communications at the highest level between there. and orban, they can lead to the fact that hungary will not at least block ukraine's path to the eu. well, i really, really want to hope for that , but forgive me, just before the broadcast, i looked at orban's hungarian press, so they criticized our letter from the hungarian community and said that we, the hungarians of ukraine, demand from orban the hungarian from. government is simply impossible, i think that the most correct way would be this certain relations of the european union, because of the same funding for orbán, and of course it is necessary to follow and maintain

ties, what mr. kuleba started and continues to do, our president and... i think that orbán and his authorities should support ukraine with the beginning of these negotiations, because this is a need not only for ukraine, not only for ukrainian hungarians, for all of hungary, because we are defending, including hungary. if you can briefly, how do the hungarians themselves react to this whole story, their position, well, the position there in the country, society, is it similar? on the point of orbán's position is that ukraine and hungary are very, very divided and not only on ukrainian issues, in other words, budapest unanimously supports us, that is, and... the intelligent capital supports ukraine more than two or two million people, and the provincials, outside budapest they support orban. i thank

you for joining and sharing such interesting details. tibor tompa, head of the hungarian community of kyiv and kyiv region, and we talked about possible changes in relations between hungary and ukraine on ukraine's path to european integration. this is svoboda ranok and here we go let's talk about the topic that was announced, the topic is not simple, nevertheless, it causes a lot of discussion, at least in ukrainian social networks, the sculpture of the executed soldier of the armed forces of ukraine oleksandr matievsky was installed in kyiv, it is realistic and is almost an exact copy of him, then it was installed on the territory of the national historical and architectural museum of the kyiv fortress, the main military clinical hospital is also located there, a full-length sculpture of a soldier, for realism the clothes of himself were used... this figure itself is in a transparent box, the author of the sculpture is oles tsyos, but it was opened before the day of the armed forces of ukraine on december 6, and for a week there have been discussions on the network

about whether such a sculpture is appropriate, whether it is in the right place, and what its author wanted to show and how in general to perpetuate the memory of the fallen soldiers and tragic events now during the full-scale war of russia against ukraine, and here are some arguments in defense and against the sculpture of matievskyi i suggest you listen to. in my opinion, the monument is very creepy and weak, because it should be a symbol, and not an exact copy of a person, like a wax figure. this glass mess will get dirty very quickly, and it will look even sadder. for days i walked around with the thought that this way of commemorating the feat of soldier oleksandr matsievsky was not okay. it is kitsch and the most realistic figure, as if with the wax of father halabud around, how could such a thing even be thought of. i think if this sculpture stood in a more appropriate place. place in the company of similar sculptures of iconic personalities of ukrainian history, the perception would be different, although maybe it is really too early in time, but if mom supported the creation of the sculpture

now, so what? people are simply not used to this, because the monument is really very, very realistic, it is frightening, and i also clearly understand that it is a very new feeling for everyone who has never encountered such a thing. i will remind you that the video of the death of oleksandr matsievsky appeared on the internet in march of this year, and on the video he is unarmed... being shot after the words "glory to ukraine". the investigators of the security services of ukraine established that this happened in december last year and that the sniper of the 163rd battalion of the 119th separate tro brigade of the chernihiv region, oleksandr matsievskyi, was indeed on the video. and the artist, sculptor and author of this monument, oles, oleg, i'm sorry, tsyos, joined our broadcast for this discussion. oleg, i welcome you on the air, thank you for joining, and for starters. i want to ask you, tell me, whose idea exactly was this implementation of this monument, what was your idea, how do you explain it, and how do you now react to the criticism

that is on the internet about this sculpture, that it is creepy and inappropriate, well, thank you for the question, first of all, it was oleksandr vintselevich's idea, he came to my workshop. i was in the museum before that , in the museum of the established ukrainian nation, where i and my team made sculptures for this museum, and he suggested making matsievsky in this particular technique, i liked the idea, i don’t see anything wrong with it, i.e. this... was offered to you, you saw that it was appropriate, implemented it, and please tell me if these reviews that are there, well, you probably saw them on social networks, or if it is you

does it surprise me, does it bother me, no, i am not surprised, because reviews are always such reviews, there are good reviews, there are bad reviews, well, why should i be surprised, but can you comment on such one of the events about... that , that this sculpture is allegedly used in advertising for commercial purposes, is it true? i don't know, if you ask oleksandr vintsylevich, he will explain the strategy to you, because i, as the author, was busy with the emotionality of the sculpture itself, and i don't interfere in where to put it, first of all, it's a sculpture, as far as i know , has now therefore... a temporary place, this place is temporary, because he simply did not find another one, as far as i know, he went around, searched, asked a lot,

where is this place where he was allowed. that's all, whose reaction is important to you, well, for example, in the same comments, in numerous posts, there is such a logic that if the family, there, if the mother of the deceased, this idea, this sculpture, this the monument, well, it suits, and there is no criticism, then ok, then the society has, well, if only to come to terms with this and simply agree with the opinion of the relatives that you say here? well, in principle, yes, look, first of all, one person came up with an idea, invested his personal funds, which, by the way, were not very large, into the sculpture, agreed with my mother, my mother liked the idea, because my mother also saw my works, and she i understood that it would be

, well, an artistic work and... and so, well, how to say it, well, we studied it, because here we are not talking about stylization, but it goes exactly, well, in the opposite direction, we went to maximum similarity, so that this image and this look, well, he was looking at it in the future, well, you know, it's not for... you can't forget about it now or later, well, i just don't understand what the question is, but oleg, i thank you for joining, so-and-so, i thank you for joining, because when you know, something is being discussed, then we just want to ask a lot of opinions, and even more so from people who are related to this topic, emotionally, emotionally he, i am very satisfied with the sculpture, because it is this view

that, which... on certain reflections, for some these reflections are unpleasant, and for that, i think there is such a one, but this, this is what is happening every minute now at the front, every soldier looks into the eyes of death, that is, in your opinion, this realism is worth depicting, and in your opinion, these are such works and in general such an immortalization as it should take place of ukrainian heroes, that is, in such a form of sculptures , monuments, or should it be in some separate place, you know, like a museum , well, that is, how can it be, i reject the word altogether, it should be, there should be nothing at all, well, somehow this will be discussed now, maybe decided with they will find some other place, maybe, maybe they will ban it like that, well, well

anthem of the world you see, lighting is important in a sculpture, and the place where it stands , but i no longer have any influence on it, and i think that somehow over time it will be resolved, and it will find its place in a place where everyone will be fine, i just don't understand how to comment on what someone says, it shouldn't be, ugh, that is, your position here is not so, not so radical, let's say. oleg, i thank you for joining and explaining your position, this is important for maintaining a healthy discussion, oleg tsyos, artist, sculptor, joined our broadcast. i also thank all the viewers of freedom mornings for being with us, every weekday from 9:00 a.m. on radio liberty youtube, subscribe, like, share this video, it is important, my name is kateryna nekrech, and i and the whole team freedom morning, we wish you a peaceful day and see you tomorrow.

greetings, it's news time on espresso. kateryna shiropoyas works in the studio. that night, the russians launched shahedis from the temporarily occupied area. klavs in crimea, nine shaheids were destroyed by ukrainian defenders. in total, the occupiers launched 15 attack drones - air force spokesman yuriy ignat said. according to him, not all drones have achieved their desired goals. at the same time, to shoot down an air attack.