who was detained in crimea more than two years ago, as well as our colleague dmytro hillyuk, who is also still in russian captivity. please tell us what mechanisms the authorities are currently implementing for the release of ukrainian prisoners of war and civilians, how do you see for yourself what you are working on, and can you say that this process has become more complicated since last year, for example, because the last exchange , as far as i remember, was in june, and that in... it complicated this process. thank you. thank you. i can't tell you what made this process difficult. it will not be very ethical. if possible. you right? the process is complicated. maybe the government really doesn't communicate much. i will pass this information on to lubinets, budanov. so that they

still communicate and it is more understandable to relatives, relatives, i understand their pain, this track is working, it really slowed down due to reasons, they are reasons from the russian federation, but, but there are relevant very specific reasons, the track will open, now are working on a... a good enough number of our boys to bring them back, god willing, that's the first, the second, as far as civilians are concerned, if we we are talking about the track with children, well, a small number, but nevertheless it is coming back little by little, qatar is helping us here , as for our people who were in palestine,

thanks to palestine and israel, and also thanks to qatar, they helped to get our people out, as for the crimeans , well, it’s a complicated story, well, there’s nothing to thank international organizations for here, they couldn’t do anything, i’ve worked a lot on this issue with president erdoğan, so far, dear president erdoğan has not shown the result, regarding of all the prisoners who were in the territory of crimea, probably these are all the tracks that exist today, separately, we are working with some countries, such as switzerland, norway and... some

arab countries to return our people alive there is a track, when our military trades military for military, as soon as we have, sorry for such a word, but nevertheless the accumulation of the corresponding enemy resource, we trade it for our ukrainian defenders, for today that is all. but in any case we are working on increasing them from international partners that i told you about, well, i really hope, sorry to come back again, that our track will work in the near future, and this is a military track, this is a military track, this is a military track, this is a military track, that 's what the agreements were, thank you, thank you,

12 months ago here in kyiv they talked about a counteroffensive that was supposed to be successful, but it did not go according to plan, who are realists. i can't tell you about the goals, we had difficulties in the south because everybody around, everybody around was talking about what our goals are, well honestly i'll tell you, to be honest, all months everyone talked about where we were going, and most likely everyone considered in detail how we would get there, how we might not get there. the better it turns out, this

will be enough, and this will not be enough, it’s okay, it’s better to go to the south, it’s warm there , it’s possible later, because it’s winter there, it’s okay, let’s wait for, like... some kind of ammunition, winter comes later there, well , i’m sorry, well, it doesn’t take off at all with the russian federation, which has more weapons, so i can’t, i apologize to you in ukrainian, france is before you for what i cannot tell you, i cannot tell you any detail of our counter-offensive and defensive actions of the following. of the year, next, please, bloomberg, left at the end , please stand up, vladimir, mr. president, good afternoon, thank you for the opportunity to ask a question, we know that lawmakers are currently working on a new

mobilization bill, and it will likely contain a number of quite unpopular decisions, we are already, i am talking about society, partially familiar with them. the question is, these decisions in particular, the mobilization of younger people, under the age of 27, and possibly women, may be envisaged. tell me, please, whether you will support or sign the law, if it is adopted by the verkhovna rada with such norms? thank you, ladies, no, i will not sign, as for 25 years, if all the arguments are laid out. today i see it as necessary, then i will agree with it, next, please, cnn portugal, mr. president

zelensky. and you talk a lot about unity today, are you afraid that ukrainians are separating as a society, not only because two years of war, but also regarding your support as president, this is the first question, the second question, you were going to visit portugal, at least that was the expectation, a few months ago, are there still plans to visit our country, thank you. i have plans, i don't remember when i was supposed to go, i don't remember the date anymore , sorry, time goes by very quickly, and i am grateful, very grateful to portugal, at the level of

the government leadership and the president, and well, we did a good job at the diplomatic track is also important to us the support of portugal, which... as far as unity is concerned, everything is in our hands, ours unity depends only on us, our unity is our weapon, of domestic production, and this is our, i believe, our know-how, which helped us and saved us, saved the country at the beginning of the war, and probably this word becomes, well. .. for some it is very banal, but , you know, it is necessary, it is necessary to preserve some banalities , on which another banal word depends, but which is as important as simple life, so it seems to me that everything must be done so that unity does not

fall in ukraine, and as for the unity of ukraine, well, as for supporting me, how the president, well, i said that it is an honor for me to be the president. well, then there are people, people decide, people see how i am, how i work, how i serve ukraine, if you don't like it, well, of course, well, it's the choice of ukrainians, well, that's fine. next, please lba, here at the beginning. oleksandr demchenko obua, mr. president, given what you have already said about the difficult situation in the united states and what the aggressor russia is doing, how do you feel about ukraine now... focusing more on the production of its own weapons and ammunition, this is the first, and in continuation, we know, we asked our military before this conference what is important to you now, and we asked many people to ask you about how you feel about ukraine at the state

level setting up mass production of drones, in particular fpv and ammunition of standardized them. and... also, how do you feel about the idea of ​​creating a special unit for drones, in particular, at the structural level in the armed forces of ukraine. i am positive. to increase the production of drones and special units, should to be infrastructure for drone management, about the best, not soviet, but very , very easy to use, very fast, to use, i had a bid now, and i wanted to understand, one of the key issues was the production of drones and supply , and i really don’t like it when, logistically, we are left with a... let’s say, such a bureaucratic soviet process, when 26,000

drones were lying in one warehouse and did not reach the front, yes, it was very loud on the pond, yes, but such there can't be such pauses, no there may be problems, and then they ask me, what is personal about me, there is nothing personal, you see, i am just in shock, how could something produced by us not reach the market. yes, well, we will overcome the logistics, we will receive our soldiers in brigades, domestic drones, in terms of production, we will produce a million drones next year, we will do a million, well, we will do everything to make it so, i know that it is so it will be, as far as artillery is concerned, artillery will increase 155 caliber system, unfortunately, with shots, so far very... difficult, very scarce product, systems are understood, here the lines need to be added

, and it is very difficult, there is a shortage of gunpowder, etc., many different issues, you need to work on it, you cannot relax, the forum, by the way, went very well, the forum of defense industries in the united states of america, met andriy, our team, komyshyn, umerov, our... military representatives, the meeting was important, our agreements with president biden, we must honestly say that they carried out the world's leading campaigns, the leading, the best, the most powerful from those who make cv90 artillery there to those who produces patriots, we met with everyone , first there was a meeting with the head of the office, and as i said, all colleagues, there was a preparatory meeting, then i came for a visit and met with the leaders of all these companies, it

will work out, it will take time , it is not enough, we understand everything, but we will make a million drones , next, please, tvp, poland, at the very end, thank you very much, we are mostly talking about complex things, ammunition, successes at the front, blockades. on the border of poland and ukraine, but today i found very interesting, positive news, it seems from andrii's twitter account fair this is about the fact that a ukrainian civilian plane took off from boryspil airport. and i even found out that boryspoli airport is looking for staff, what does this mean that my mother will be able to fly to me in kyiv? i'm sorry for this question, but it's a really interesting question, not really, i didn't quite understand,

today there was a technical flight of a plane from boryspil, the polish edition of tvp is interested in when the planes will arrive in boryspil, and where the technical flight was just, i don't have such information , well, sir, and a polish, polish colleague says that... you have andriy there was something there, i was still like a plane taking off in boryspil, i just took a plane from boryspil that was parked, that's another story, and why did you have it on social networks about it , you didn't have it about it, i think that the question is not about that either, about when to planes will fly to boryspil when the correspondent's mother can visit him in kyiv, we can give his mother a wagon, so far so as to help, mother,

this is holy, and as for boryspil, it is like the black sea, it is a very serious operation, i will tell you honestly , the opening of boryspil is a victory of the ukrainian ppu, this will indicate that ukraine. wins, it is very serious, it is a powerful economic step as well, i will say frankly, we ask such a question to our colleagues and we know. what exactly do we need , and therefore please convey to my mother, may she be healthy, we are working on her idea, further , please, tv channel friedom, i greet you, mr.

president, larisa zubenko, tv channel freedom, i have a question about: the united states , so you mentioned that, of course, both mr. biden and the congress support ukraine, but with about ordinary americans, just us citizens, fox news published information that the number of those who support ukraine increased from 21% to 31% in december, what do you think is the reason for this, why now so the support has increased, and did you, when you went to america, did you mention that you are there ... meeting with those who represent the defense plants, productions, did you feel, maybe during the communication, this support, thank you , thank you very much, our visits to the united states of america, a we had exactly this result,

the number of people who support us increased, the question of analytics, yes, i know that there is a plus... 10% we connected with our colleagues in the congress in the white house, this is, well, to be honest, everyone has this the vision that the visit to the united states of america worked in this way is very powerful, because 21 and 31 are seriously 10%, it's 30% in comparison, yes in general, that's why the visit was right, it was, it was. .. meetings, public meetings, and dialogues, both public and not so important, important decisions that as far as all the defense companies are concerned, they're on our side, they want to do it, absolutely, they've asked us to work with the leadership of the united states of america to remove the red tape around the licenses

so that they have, so that they can move really quickly to... co-production, we talked about it in the white house at the level of the presidents, the president promised to work on this issue. please, elpais, in the center, a little further from the center. i think we've already answered all the questions, haven't we? well, by the way, i can make a small announcement that 12 minutes left, we will finish at exactly eight o'clock. hello mr. president, you talked about the support of the usa, the eu, you were recently in argentina and you mentioned the conference with latin american countries, i would like to ask you about your country's current relationship with the global south, and i would also like

to ask about the spanish presidency in the council of europe. how do you rate the work done in the last six months by this organization under the leadership of the spanish, thank you, first of all, convey my warm greetings to prime minister sánchez, pedro the great well done, he helped a lot, and the presidency of spain in this half year tightened up, i think ukraine is closer, we talked with him at night, even after the decision was made, because the blocking of 50 billion was being prepared for the next morning, that is, we are in normal relations , our relations are strong, and we send important signals on whatsapp that ukraine wants

to support it, pedro, he always calls me directly personally, he talks about one or another meeting on the eu or nato, you want signals, where are you? you want me to support you i was impressed with our meeting in granada, it was very productive and i have to say that right on the move pedro changed the defensive package and we agreed that he would give us extra hockey, this was at the moment when russia was shooting us and this it was his reaction, such a personal one, right here, usually in advance. countries agree on air defense and very quietly, and it was such, well, such a quick reaction, i am very grateful to the people of your country, as for... and what did you start with, sanchez pushed all thoughts on himself, about the visit to argentina and about support global south, yes, the visit to argentina, by

the way, where we met with the king of spain, the visit to argentina was also important, for latin america, unfortunately, in ukraine. in the history of modern ukraine there is very little, because of this there is not enough influence, there is a lack of relative economic ones, and all this has the effect that latin america was mostly closer to the soviet legacy than russia, and therefore it affects many things, on the support of the peace formula, on the economic relations, on non-support of any financial or military package. what is the arrival of such, such extraordinary personality, as president miley to power in

argentina unfolds, i believe, the political polydirection of latin america, he is on our side, he supports ukraine and did so officially in the parliament, as far as i know, he came and declared his total support for ukraine and... about against, was against putin's policy. on the fields of argentina, we had a personal, first personal meeting and a powerful acquaintance, and i think that it will be very interesting for ukraine from the economic side with the president of ecuador, the new president of ecuador, and also, the support of paraguay, they got uruguay, and also... yes, well, orban, not from latin america. that is, there was also, you see,

the european direction. that's why the meeting in argentina was important, true. i think that our team will work, we agreed with president miley that our team will work and government officials will meet. espresso tv channel, please. good evening, thank you for allowing me to ask you a question, dmytro didora, espresso tv channel. i want to talk with you a little about immigrants, because there are a lot of them both in our country and abroad. if i am not mistaken, about 4 million of our citizens went abroad, but the start of ukraine-eu negotiations may be an argument for them to return to ukraine after the end of active hostilities. tell me please. how will we be able to return our ukrainians home and will there be any state program at the state level to return 4 million ukrainians home and

i will not forget about the internally displaced people either, since i myself am an internally displaced person, and where are you from? luhansk region, the city of happiness. what is said all the time about the reduction of aid to internally displaced persons, will the aid , on the contrary, be increased? which are now projects for displaced people who left the war zone. thank you. as for aid to displaced people , there will be no reduction in aid , as for an increase, i can't confirm yet, because of all these challenges related to the increase in the defense budget, so i can't tell you how we will work with spending, i can't say right now for sure everything will be calculated by the end of the year, all this will be done in the new year we will have a full understanding of ours calculations regarding economic programs, regarding support, not just money, but economic support, credit

support, mortgage support, business development, all this is mandatory, economic, the economic team must work, this, it will be, what concerns, listen, as for our people, they are different. abroad, and after all, they are all citizens of ukraine, and we must protect all citizens of ukraine. i believe that the majority will come as soon as the air defense is more powerful, many will come, i don't know if the majority is probably difficult to say, because people have jobs there, their children have gone to school, so that, somehow, they have somehow changed their lives, there, i believe, secondly, what will happen in... it will be a decrease in support from european countries, people, who went there, i have no doubt about it, and

the countries of europe, the united... the states will support our those who find it very, very, very difficult, but those who are employed, i'm sure they will have a different level of support , this does not concern the support of ukraine and ukrainians who are inside ours state, there will be a stable situation here, i think so, i am sure of the air defense, ah, surely we need to think about, but i don't know if now, surely we need to think about many. citizenship, there is a corresponding law, and the countries of the european union, and historically , we will be in the european union there in the near future, so i do not see anything wrong with such proposals today about multiple citizenships, i spoke even before the start of a full-scale war, it was in our program, i really think that it is normal, i think that there are really 60 ukrainians

in the world, and not everyone has to live in ukraine, they have a history, they have their families, someone was born there in canada, in the united states, but to give them the opportunity to support ukraine, to feel that they are ukrainians, to help, to open businesses here, to pay some taxes, etc., all this is definitely a plus for ukraine, and therefore it is necessary to think about it, the moment, only the moment, is important. there is no need to overheat this issue, but it is also not possible too soon, there are delicate issues of multiple citizenship, i would like people abroad, especially women, children, it is heard that when they get a job, etc., and find a new life there, so that they are not in a hurry to renounce the citizenship of our state.

and this is important, i think that we cannot lose such people, and the majority of the citizenry partly, for sure, decides, solves this issue. dear colleagues, soon we will conclude with two questions, i think we have time, let's give tv channel rada and then hb. anna homonai, tv channel rada, you mentioned your wife. mrs. olena, except. many directions that she now takes care of, pays particular attention to mental health, psychological resilience, she made it a priority of the first ladies and gentlemen summit, please tell me, do you talk about these topics in the family circle, and what would you say today to people who ask themselves questions about how to survive psychologically from the grief of the war, and in general, what are the results of the year for your family,

for my family, i think... for my family , the results of the year are the same as for every family that is completely in ukraine, well, we understood all the challenges, we understand that we have there is an opportunity to live and work, to serve ukraine, there is an opportunity to be together, today to be in ukraine and even sometimes in different locations, it is still to be together, it is to be together, because the soldier who is at the front and... his girlfriend, or his wife, who is here in kyiv , in another city, he still feels that he is protecting, whom he is protecting, and the land, and the person he loves, and the fact that she is here, i have no objections to those who went to women , i to those who are here, i especially, personally respect them, i believe that they give this moral, moral support and this strength to these soldiers, and so just like my wife who supports me and

works a lot and... she has a lot of programs, she helps as much as she can, the mental health program, and recently the school feeding program, very cool story, i'm grateful to her, and i am very grateful to the buffet, he helped howard, the factory kitchen, a cool story that every day 10,000 children receive healthy, hot food where there was so much, where the war passed and there was nothing left... in life, and life, you see, it returns thanks to people, and i am very glad that my wife is among, among such people, and i am very proud of her work, well , my children, my son goes to school, goes, then to school, then goes online, well, like everyone else, i think, boys and girls.