native arrest warrant, and this does not change in any way, so lukashenko , whose attitude is still ambivalent, is trying to convince everyone that this victim is guilty of aggression, that they tried almost to save ukraine, vladimir zelensky is almost his son, whom he there, i don't know how he is trying to save, and so on, that is, it 's just an attempt, really, to save himself, asking as if... andriy, you mentioned that lukashenko continues to be a rear ally of the russian federation in aggression against of ukraine, and how do you assess the probability as of now the fact that he will become an ally at the front, that is, that belarus will directly join the russian full-scale invasion of ukraine with the help of its soldiers, or provoke, perhaps, some conflicts on the border with...

that is, how to explain to a simple belarusian soldier that he must to go and die somewhere near chernobyl, well, it's impossible, so i rate it as a very low probability. thank you very much for your time, andriy kureychyk, member of the coordination council of the belarusian opposition, researcher of yale university, was with us on a direct video call. starting accession negotiations was not an easy decision for the leaders of the european union. long hours of negotiations behind closed doors. and eventually the politicians found a way out, it became possible and an important sign of political support. the further process of accession may last several years and may even be blocked by any member country along the way, but how long will our road to the european union last, how much work still needs to be done and who will determine the speed decision making? olena chernyakova will tell. positive news from brussels for kyiv, the opening of negotiations with. it has already been called a historic

victory in the west, and we are returning to the european bureaucracy with an emotion of joy, and our first, next step is the screening of national legislation, this is a process when the european commission will analyze the conformity of ukrainian laws with european norms, then we need to hold an intergovernmental commission and agree on a negotiating frame, which will be expensive to specify, the nuance is that to complete all we need these processes until march, because we are under pressure... since internal political processes will begin within the european union. it is very important to actually do it before march, because then the election campaign in the european parliament actually begins, and then the change of the european commission, and then the actual presidency of hungary, that is why we have to set such high deadlines for ourselves, and as far as i know, the first meeting is already on monday between government negotiators and representatives of the european commission and only.

then the actual negotiations will begin. for a long time, but no, it's record fast. in croatia, which recently joined the european union, it took about four years. everything will happen according to a clear eu enlargement algorithm, which was last updated in the 20th. it provides for negotiations on 35 chapters, currently divided into six clusters, that is, sections. here are all of them: for example, the ninth - financial services, will regulate the activity of banks - insurance. and the 12th - food safety and phytosanitary policy, will adjust the rules for the production of products, animal feed and fertilizers for plants. there are norms for energy, and for the rule of law, and even for fishing, and 35 sections will need to be opened and closed. the first chapter of fundamentals, i.e. fundamental rights, opens first and closes last. it is obvious that by de'. by what process, about some decision,

we will ask, and we will ask for a transit period, such a transition period, and we will also expect from the european commission. their adaptation, that is, from the members of the european union. 40% of the adaptation of ukrainian legislation will apply specifically the agricultural sector. this was previously stated by the minister of agricultural policy during a meeting with his french counterpart in kyiv. the agar potential of ukraine is 25% of the entire european one. it's a lot. and we have already seen what disputes with member countries can be, when even some of our neighbors opposed ukrainian exports. another important thing here is that it is france that is ready to help us adapt. the number of issues that will have to be worked on is actually significant, the standards that need to be implemented, and these are the directives. it will also be important for ukraine to join and comply with standards in the field of ecology, but

france is ready to accompany ukraine on this path. the speed depends mostly on the work of the state, and eu leaders can either facilitate it or block it. and i will try to do budapest. to hope that orbán will leave the room again and not vote in vain, and his political adviser seemed to hint that at the next entrance he will be able to block another 70 times. they often used as an element of a certain possible blackmail, the question of support or voting for ukraine there support financially, or sanctions policy against the aggressor state of russia, within the european union now... discussions, how to change, and procedural points, so as not to be held hostage in the future in making such important decisions by certain leaders, i will say so, not even sometimes not countries, but leaders or political forces that sometimes play, maybe not even

for the eu. eu reform may become the second factor that will slow down our movement. what else will need to be addressed, and seeing it in such a helicopter viw, so in a wider focus, is a... the reform of the european union itself, because everyone is talking about it in such a way that internal procedures must be reformed, and secondly, how will the european union move with other countries, in particular with the western balkans, and also with moldova, with which negotiations have also begun, so in fact we they started at the same time, but whether we will come to the eu at the same time is a question, analysts in europe call the approximate date of the expansion of the european union 2030. olena chernyakova maksim... khlopotov we are ukraine marathon, the only news. chevrons,

that bring victory closer. but we arrived normally. nothing broke. that's all, mom, come on, i 'll dial later.

step by step, they move from one danger to another, step by step, they liberate our land from invisible death, fields and forests, homes that have been visited by evil, without sappers, life will not return here, without the courage and dedication of these people, we we will not return home. we thank the sappers of the state emergency service of ukraine for your work and our safety. three times the prime minister this week in the presidential palace in warsaw, the new government headed by donald

tuskom took the oath before the country's president. for the first time in eight years , poland's ruling party law and justice was replaced by the opposition coalition. the new prime minister of poland donald tusk during speech in the diet emphasized the importance of further assistance to ukraine and called on the event to fully mobilize, which tusk will primarily undertake as prime minister, whether it would be right and fair to demand revenge and. how global internal changes in the neighboring country can affect you and me darina dobrovolska further continuation: 6-year-old donald tusk is celebrating a great return to polish politics, after 10 years he is back in the prime minister's chair, and this is a historic third term in power for poland. donald tusk's political party - the civil platform took second place in the parliamentary elections in poland. the politician managed to create a coalition with three other opposition parties, and they nominated him for the post

of prime minister. this is effectively the end of the era of the conservative political power of jarosław kaczyński, who has ruled poland for the past eight years. this party is represented the country's president andrzej duda and former prime minister mateusz morawiecki. the poles watched the events in the sejm as if they were doing business. blockbuster in cinemas with popcorn. so much bad stuff has happened in the last eight years that i'm not surprised it's finally over. our violent reaction is a sign that we are moving in the right direction. donald tusk is called the most influential person in europe, and also the wind of change. we cannot, we have no right to spoil this great revival. the time has come for a happy poland. correct political relations with... the european union is a strong point of the newly appointed prime minister, because in 2014, when tusk resigned from the post

of prime minister of poland, he was elected head of the european council. he held this position for five years, in the council he was responsible for holding eu summits and represented the european union at the meetings of the g7 and the group of 20. in principle, tusk will, you know, listen more carefully to those warnings that were and are still being heard from the sidelines. of the european union, but look at certain fundamental issues there will be no radical changes, for example, look, well, the key point, i am not sure that tusk, for example, will change the migration policy that poland follows. we are talking about migrants there from african countries, from arab countries, who, in principle , go to the european union and try to somehow distribute them by country. tusk can and would like to make certain changes. but i think he won't dare to do them, because i'm just presenting then the protests that will start around the country, and that's not the only thing

tusk will have to find compromises, because the previous ruling party law and justice took first place in the parliamentary elections and remains in the diet, besides, it is still supported by a third of poles, of course he will have obstacles, in particular we must understand that the party law and justice is not going anywhere happened, she from... is in the parliament, and obviously, being already in the opposition, she will create obstacles, and it is worth understanding that president andrzej duda also remains in power, who can also promise certain initiatives, here it is worth to understand that quite often the issue of ukraine will be raised in one way or another, and obviously there will also be some kind of search for compromises, let alone. during the full-scale invasion of the russian federation on our lands, the poles, like no one else, realized that it is extremely important for them to preserve

unity, so while predicting global splits in the government, experts do not undertake, instead they celebrate tusk's pro-european and pro-ukrainian team. this coalition includes many deputies who know the problems of ukraine, who have been to ukraine, who travel to ukraine, in particular, well the new old minister for... border affairs, rodoslav shikorskyi, he was very often in ukraine, he helped in ukraine during military operations, the head of the commission for foreign affairs, pavel koval, the diet, he was also just a few weeks ago in to ukraine, leading a delegation to events commemorating the victims of the holodomor, that is, these politicians know ukraine very well, i think that they will continue to support this trend. and donald tusk himself is a friend of ukraine. he supported us in the war with russia back in 2014. he repeatedly came to kyiv and spoke in

the verkhovna rada. he always emphasized that kyiv is a key partner of poland. after russia's full-scale invasion of ukraine, tusk used old contacts to boost aid from european countries and criticized the west for being too passive about the war. and these were his words about ukraine during a speech in the polish diet a few days ago. i hear some european politicians from other western countries talking about being tired of the situation in ukraine. i want to say, that the task of poland, the task of the new government, but also the task of all of us is loud. resolutely demand from the entire western community full determination to help ukraine in this war. i will do this from day one. a symbol of ukrainian-polish relations , the border is currently partially blocked by polish carriers. according to tusk, solving this problem is one of the priority tasks, and even before the approval of the government, he created an interdepartmental group on this

issue. he just needs to solve a few problems, the same problem of blocking the border, for example, yes, he needs to solve it. so that a, unblocking the border, and b) it did not turn against him, he will have to show that he did not solve the problem, but at the same time did not betray, that is, polish carriers, his main problem is balancing, so it is clear, somewhere, i will have to work for the electorate of law and justice, well, a fairly conservative electorate, and look for some such solutions that will be a compromise, but he is an experienced politician, a second-time prime minister, so i think that everything should go well for him. so even global changes in poland's domestic policy should not affect our relations with the neighboring country, because firstly, it remains our main strategic partner and ally, and secondly , poles understand better than anyone else that ukraine is the shield of europe. daryna dobrovolska. we are ukraine, marathon, single news. the white house once again

called on congress to pass a decision on aid to ukraine. coordinator of the us national security council. john kirby emphasized that the events in ukraine are not someone else's war, but a decision to secede money can no longer be saved. vladimir putin said at his annual press conference: "there will be peace when we achieve our goals." we all know what that means, but i hope that those house republicans who have held critical aid to ukraine hostage for months have heard putin's message loud and clear. instead, they go. holidays, and the ukrainians are back in the fight, they need our help now, not after the eggnog. dmytro abramson, a political commentator from the united states , is in touch with our studio america, blogger. dmitry, we congratulate you. greetings, glad to join you. dmytro, regarding the questions related to

the adoption of decisions, which are necessary for ukraine to receive a large aid package, which is possible for us. characterize as vital, what in this context is important, what has happened to you recently? well, the situation is really not very optimistic, i will tell you honestly, because our house of representatives went on winter holidays on thursday, did not accept, well, no matter how i solved the problem with support for ukraine is related to the fact that the democrats are trying to pass a bill in the senate, that is, related to it... israeli money and money to the pacific region, to taiwan, and money to the southern border, that is, they passed and simply went on vacation they won't be back until january 9 , while the senate stayed to work, despite the fact that they were also supposed to be on vacation, they stayed in washington and they are trying to negotiate to really find some kind of compromise that will settle everything

parties, and propose some version of the bill that can at least pass through the senate. the problem is that even if they can agree, that's a big question, it's not a fact that the house of representatives, when it comes back on january 9, it's not a fact that they'll agree to it, and even if, let's say, they're asked to agree to it, there is the following problem, not the fact that the ultra-right wing, the trumpist wing of the republican party will never try to remove its speaker again, so the situation is not very good, let's be honest, but... but this is not only bad for ukraine, well, first of all, we are just in ukraine, we take all this for granted, but we constantly hear the assessment that these are domestic political issues, and ukraine is not a participant in domestic political affairs for the united states of america, why is that bad for the united states as well? yes, it is actually

a political crisis. yes, of course, well, it’s not only a matter, indeed, it’s not only ukraine, there, i listed israel, taiwan and the southern border, we can again the government will shut down, on january 19 part of the government will stop working if the congress does not extend, well, does not pass the budget or does not extend the existing budget, therefore , of course , we have a crisis, because the parties cannot agree, and they cannot, i think they cannot agree , first of all, because the trumpist wing... and the senate and the democrats went to the ledge and the white house, so yes, this is indeed a problem, and well, i can tell you a little bit of the background of the whole thing, as we can the last story,

the last events that led to this , there was this wing in the republican party that opposed any money for ukraine, and president biden proposed a compromise option, he proposed in one bill money for ukraine, 61 or 62 billion, which we talked

these big political conflicts are being resolved precisely with an eye to how that resolution will affect the election race, what do you think is the global goal for them in

the confrontation with the democrats and in the confrontation with their future candidate joseph biden. you know, i'm going to oversimplify now, they do what trump demands. trump, well , today he has 60 or so percent support within the republican party, that is. very likely, unless some force majeure happens, he will be a candidate, and he demands from them such and such steps, all the rest, as if all other calculations are simply thrown away, politically, non-politically, geopolitically in relation to ukraine, internally, this everything is thrown away, because he demands that they take such extremist positions, he spoke against the aid of ukraine, in fact , since february 22, 2 days before the full-scale invasion, he gave

it if ukraine loses, it will be perceived as a loss for the united states of america itself, this is the first thing, it is the democrats who send the republicans to that wing. second, the republicans are now very active in criticizing biden, precisely because he is pursuing some wrong policies regarding the motivation of americans to serve in the american military, this is what newsweek recently wrote, citing tommy taborville, this is a republican senator who bluntly said: "biden is to blame for that." that americans do not want to serve in the american army, and here we have another interesting fact about the record budget for defense, that's all, if you tie it into one, what is it all about?

says, this is just some kind of pre-election controversy, also, i did not read this news week article, but i suspect that if this is senator taberbel, you said, yes, i suspect that yes, i suspect so, i because he blocked for several months , he did not give rise within the american armed forces the senate will put the son to a vote, this is routine, the son should just vote, someone was promoted in rank, and this usually happens. automatically, why? because he believed that the army had become too, well, not in line with his ego, his policies on women, women's abortion rights, lgbt rights in the army, and he used, so to speak, his position in the senate to, well, blackmail the army , and i suspect that this is what you are talking about in this article, i suspect that it has to do with the fact that he thinks, что как бы...

with the allocation of aid for ukraine, it does not look too optimistic, what processes in this matter for you cause pessimism, what is your, let's say, priority scenario of the development of events, and what, in principle , scenarios are possible for you opinion, but the problem is, again, there are several problems here, because , again, they are helping ukraine, the republicans are already in the senate, too, although in the senate they mostly supported ukraine, they now also tied the southern border to immigration reform, and i do not have confidence, even in the senate, democrats and republicans will be able to come to an agreement, because again, one side is demanding some colossal concessions on a completely unrelated issue, for the fact that they will support ukraine, although before that they seemed to say that they also want to support ukraine, maybe they are bluffing,

that is, they are indeed trying to squeeze some additional concessions from the democrats, but if it does not work out, they will probably support the allocation of money for ukraine, this is how they used to support it . the next, the next problem that they need after this is that they will pass some bill in the senate, it has not yet become law, they have to come to an agreement with the house of representatives. and here, here, here, as it were, this is even, this is an even more complicated step, in fact, because speaker johnson, on whom it generally depends, what he presents. on the vote, he himself voted against ukraine for one and a half years, the positive thing i can offer is that he seems to be trying to satisfy interests in the role of speaker different factions, and maybe that's why he will still agree to something and put this version, let's say, put the proposed version of the senate to a vote, but then the third problem is that this republican trumpist block is in his own

coalition. .. who categorically, openly stands categorically against any money for ukraine, he has grown, about half of them now, they can, if he does it, they can demand his resignation, here are three three things that can happen in one or in another party, he really can, even with his resignation, they can vote for the draft law for ukraine, but this threat to him can also somehow affect him negatively in this sense, so the situation is very difficult, i will tell you what will happen. .. well, anyway, we are extremely grateful to you, mr. dmytro, for the as always very interesting analysis, dmytro abrams was in direct contact with us, he is a political observer of the united states of america, a blogger, thank you, and i urge you, dear viewers, perceive what is happening not with from the point of view of optimism, is it pessimism, and from the point of view of political realities, and today , as we see, the ukrainian issue has become...