and natalka separately, thank you for the compliment. thank you. thank you lina. well, indeed, culture must satisfy internal demand, must signal to the world about ukraine, the stronger, clearer and more expressive this signal is, the greater the chances that it will be heard and, as they say, sent. but sport is also very important for us and for the world, probably, because for us, ukrainians who live in ukraine and outside ukraine, these are also necessary things, victories, we are waiting for it, it is also something. a boost for us, some kind of support for us, and it hurts a lot when something is unfair , this year in sports there were painful moments, and very happy moments, and disappointment, and anger, everything happened, that's how this year passed in the world of sports , ukrainian sports, let's see, ukrainians and in the future have to compete against russians on sports grounds, these are always psychologically difficult and tense confrontations, one of them... ended

in a loud scandal, the titled ukrainian fencer olga kharlan refused a gesture of congratulation to her opponent from russia, anna smirnova, after her victory over her on world championship. the russian resorted to provocation and achieved her goal. harlan was disqualified. the event caused a huge response in ukraine and beyond, and not only in sports circles. a huge number of people expressed their support for harlan, and in the end, the black card for the ukrainian woman was canceled. and the international olympic committee granted olga automatic qualification for the 20-24 olympic games. the national football team of ukraine has a chance to compete in the european championship, which will be held in germany this summer. serhiy rebrov's team fought for a direct ticket to forum until the last round of the group stage of qualification. the blue and yellow team won four games, and lost in a draw with the english and italians, the finalists. at the last euro,

our national team still finished the selection in third place in the quintet, but it is not time to be complacent, in the spring in march ukrainians will play face-to-face qualification matches, the first opponent of our national team will be the national team of bosnia and herzegovina. in the eurocups , only shakhtar is at the same level. despite the generally unsuccessful campaign of ukrainian clubs in european ones in club tournaments, donetsk residents managed to perform well in the group. in the second stage of the champions league. in a difficult group, where the opponents of the miners were barcelona and porto, in particular, the ukrainian team won the right to play in the europa league in the spring, where they will meet with the french marseille. other ukrainian teams did not please the fans. kyiv dynamo and dnipro-1 could not make it even to the group stage of the conference league. and luhansk zorya performed there not too successfully, being left without eurospring. dynamo kyiv and...

chaluchastku are no longer together, experienced the romanian coach resigned after a long series of failures of the capital club. the kyivans failed in the european arena for the first time in many years, not reaching the group round of at least some tournament. in the championship of ukraine , white and blue also gradually lost positions. so lucescu's decision to leave looks quite logical, albeit a bit belated. oleksandr shovkovsky became the new head coach of dynamo. the legend of kyiv,... was registered with vaughn, having won four consecutive victories with the white and blue. dynamo remains in the championship race, the spring part of the championship is promising to amuse with quite an intrigue. the return of the year. tennis player elina svitolina received the award under this name. the successful performances of the ukrainian woman in the corps after maternity leave were recognized by the wta. before pregnancy, svitolina spent more than 200 weeks in a row in the top ten. rating

and already a month after the long-awaited return to the court won her 17th title in her career at the tournament in strasbourg. in the final , svitolina defeated russian anna blinkova. evgeny, i would ask like this, without saying, now about the sport, you choose yourself, the most painful defeat and the brightest victory of this year, well, not this year, last year already. thank you vasyl, i would start by saying that, in fact, ukrainian sports have adapted to... the conditions and realities in which we have been living for the second year, i am talking about a full-scale war, because in 2014, when the annexation of crimea began and the war in donbas also had its own challenges for ukrainian sports, but now everything is much worse, everything is much more difficult, but ukrainian sports adapted gradually, despite this, i think that ukrainian fans at times of the wildest joy, when they shout a goal or something else that excites them very much, that makes them very happy, still somewhere below... the conscious

level they do not forget what is happening in our country, and the war leaves such an imprint, an imprint of sadness , i would say, even after the victories of the favorite. teams, because the coaches talk about it, the athletes talk about it, and they always mention our defenders and mention how important it is for us to win, but also i would like to say that it's very difficult sometimes for our athletes when they go out to compete against the russians, who, unfortunately, were excluded not everywhere, or who compete under the so-called neutral flag, but it is clear that they remain russian athletes, we could see this, in particular in... tennis, when ukrainian tennis players competed on the courts with russian women, as for svitolina, it was mentioned in the plot, she won in the final in strasbourg and defeated the russian, the russian anna blinkova, but these are incredibly dramatic and psychologically and morally difficult confrontations. of course, it cannot be called a battle or

a war of the sports field, but it is significant more now than just the principled rivalry that, say, used to be between ukraine and russia, or between england and scotland. less, however, if we turn to sports, there are no russians, thank god, at the moment, they are not represented in european football, there were attempts to return them there at the youth level, there were such attempts and even some decisions were made, but then they were canceled, and there are no russians there, instead, our national team, the national team of ukraine, still has a chance to compete at the european championship in germany in the summer of 2024, and here i would praise... serhii rebrova, in fact, who led the team not even at the beginning of the qualifying round. he led our national team in june and managed to do a very high-quality job, in my opinion, he somehow managed to combine this fusion of youth and experience, when the experienced andrii

yarmolenko plays next to him, and also the young and promising chelsea player mykhailo mudryk appeared new very important figures in the ukrainian national team, it is impossible to talk about... such a performer as georgy sudakov, who took over dispatching functions, and our the national team actually spent this qualifying stage very decently, there were two defeats, rebrov suffered one defeat against italy in milan, it was somewhat decisive for our team, but we all remember the same moment, in the time compensated by the referee, vasyl, and you wrote and spoke about it when you did not award a clear penalty for a foul against mykhailo mudryk, of course we will blame it on the italians and especially the referee... we will remember for a long time, unfortunately, such judges, judge kashai, and we remember judge pedersen, when ukraine was not allowed to play against croatia in the distant past in 1995, 1996, well, in one word, but i think that our guys will get together and this year will still get to the european championship, this is also,

this is also really important, and sergey, oleksandr, i have a question, please , i have a question, the story was certain, vasylyu, i saw you several times for... during the broadcast, when there is a commercial break, i sit down with you with my column, and you try to follow football, which just, on sorry, during our broadcast, often during the preparation for the program, i also see that you and you prepare news, work on topics and also try to monitor how it is on the field, well, about football, evgeny, i have a question for you, what are the transformations, maybe some changes during this past year of 2023? took place in the ukrainian premier league, of course, the crisis related to the war is very serious and they started, even this crisis hit hard not in 2023, but when the full-scale war began, but it has its continuation in the year that is ending in 2023, we can definitely

say that our championship has become much bigger more competitive, so 10-15 years ago, any football fan in ukraine said that there is no intrigue, he will still win. dynamo kyiv or shakhtar-donetsk. later, metal workers from dnipro began to intervene in this struggle. now the situation is really unpredictable, because kryvorizky kryvbas became the winter leader of the championship. that is, we could imagine such a thing before, well, so much, i would say, we could not imagine such a thing. teams have equal opportunities, we are talking about resources and finances and the ability to buy players. now polissya, a debutante ukrainian premier league. also among the leaders, and they invite players from the french league, in particular makuana became a star, and at the same time, there is no longer such a financial opportunity for the giants dynamo and shakhtar to invite such players who would be a head taller than the others, and therefore it becomes more interesting in

in terms of intrigue, but we are losing somewhere somewhere in terms of spectacle, it is clear that the level simply became more like that, unexpected turns happened, in fact, as far as i am concerned, once about kryvbas only... we were joking, well, now it is one of leaders of the championship, by the way, but on the other hand, yes, you say that before i thought so, either a miner or a dynamo, but on the other hand, 15 years ago, they also thought about the fact that, yes, we have a super team. well, it’s a passing one, and now it’s a boycott, and everyone like that, well, it’s already something there, but with all that, well, for dynamo, there was a period of time in dynamo, and he couldn’t pass the draft, did he show a good game in the first match , but at the same time, shakhtar beat barcelona, ​​for example, and, in principle, had a chance to go through the port as well, about dynamo, let's mention it separately, the point is because there were failures, they continued and continued, and in the end mirchaluchasku, made a decision, made a decision, finally to leave. it looks logical, because there was no such breakthrough, and the team was led by

shevkovsky, personally, i will be very interested to see how oleksandr succeeds or fails in doing something, i believe in shevkovsky, at least this season, maybe he is somewhere the best option for kyiv dynamo, i read shavkovsky's book, everything is in your hands, i think you also read it, and reading about how he went through various crises in his life, i understand that he is a strong person, psychologically, emotionally, that's why as a coach, i think he will be able to continue this path, yuriy, please, evgeny, look, i know how you know sports very good, and how it hurts you for all the failures that happen in it, here is the year 2023, putting a hand on the heart, well, we can say that it was a difficult year for ukrainian sports, and there are objective reasons for this, yes, because many training bases remained in the temporarily occupied territories, many stadiums... either just bombed, or subjective, many of our athletes, well-known, serve in the armed forces of ukraine

, many, unfortunately, died defending ukraine, there are also those who escaped. if we evaluate all this, the 23rd year in general for ukrainian sports, we can say that ukrainian sports survived the 23rd year and thank god, or are we entering the 24th on some positive note? i would say yes, i survived and thank god, and i hope that we are for... 24 on the positive side, the summer olympic games are waiting for us, and there, too, a certain picture of what what will happen and how many medals our athletes will take, there are certain, of course, positive expectations, and from the last victories this year, i would mention romanchuk, our swimmer, who took two bronze medals at the european championships, that is , those athletes who previously demonstrated their high level, they, thank god, continue to do it, and everyone is on them. there is still hope, please, and i will be brief, ladies, we have such a pressing question in our culture, whether

our musicians can hold dialogues on foreign platforms or participate in those there are a lot of different controversies in events where russians participate, and is there such a thing in sports, because just recently i heard, listened to an interview with bolonyuk, he said that it is necessary to participate in such large events, because if we don't take part in any events, we just give away this site, well, that's a very... good point of view, but tell us about these stories, it's a hot issue in sports, isn't it, it's an extremely hot issue , a few months ago, maybe not even a few months, but quite a long time ago, appeared the question is simply about the boycott of the olympic games at the state level, ukraine decided to boycott the olympic games if russians were admitted there, then this decision seemed to be postponed, canceled, but recently... it became officially known that the international olympic committee admitted a certain number of russian and belarusian athletes who

will compete in a neutral status, so far there is no final decision regarding the boycott, but i will repeat again, for ukrainians who leave the sports grounds, to compete with russians, well, for them it is double load, a very high psychological load, and besides that, you have to demonstrate your athletic qualities and athletic abilities, there are sports where ours just don't... don't intersect with the russians in any way, thank god football is like that, but there are, where it's just there is no way out, here you go on the tennis court, a so-called neutral russian girl is waiting for you, and you have to beat her. thank you yevgeny, well, the olympics, i think it should definitely be worth going, let them feel uncomfortable, not us, well, as if it is a moral victory, that we came, and you didn't come, well, neither did we, especially since the national team of ukraine, the national football team of ukraine for the first time in history got to the olympic games, it's also very cool, i think that an important decision will be made, well, we're not ready... to move forward, because the russians came, but is there anyone else there? no, absolutely , thank you very much yevgeny for your story about

sports, we will actually finalize it, and thank you very much for being with us during this year, i believe and hope that our work was useful for you, we will do it even better year 24, i will only remember those people, thanks who we are here, and thanks to whom we arrived in the 24th year, these people, unfortunately, remained forever in the 23rd year, including the military at the front. these are civilians who, unfortunately, were killed by the aggressor russia, thanks to the military and eternal memory to those who stayed in the year 23 and gave us a chance. for life, i wish you to be mature and be wise, everything that will happen in this 24th year largely depends on us, let's do more, be able to do more, believe, dream, support the armed forces of ukraine, everything is in our hands, if we we will do even more than we all can, there will be victory, there will be, all the best, take care, goodbye.

glory to ukraine, this is the verdict program, my name is serhii rudenko, i congratulate everyone and wish everyone good health. for the next hour , we talk about ukraine, the world, the war and our victory. during the next hour , we will talk with our guest, a politician, a diplomat, and the minister of foreign affairs. of ukraine in 2007-9 by volodymyr mogrysk. mr. volodymyr, i congratulate you, thank you for being with us today. thank you for the invitation, sir sergey, i congratulate you. good evening. history with certain security guarantees from great britain, then maybe guarantees from germany, security guarantees from other countries,

world leaders, does this in this situation save ukraine from? the fact that ukraine is not a member of the north atlantic alliance, but these bilateral agreements and bilateral security guarantees, well, in this case , security guarantees for us, or do they give us opportunities, at least half or a third of those available in the north atlantic alliance? well, mr. sergey, as i mentioned about the security guarantees from britain is no accident, because it is... actually, well, what it is about, it is really about guarantees, not about help, but about guarantees, well, it is still possible to talk about this, but there is a feeling that it is britain that will, maybe the first country to actually provide guarantees, as opposed to others who

will provide or continue to provide aid, what will those guarantees be? this issue is, of course, behind seven locks, we cannot talk about it, it is something that will remain a big but very unpleasant surprise for muscovites, i hope, so i think that here it is about whether the aid will bring us 30, 40 or 50% closer to nato, closer in the sense that we will be compatible with the alliance as seriously as possible... as deeply as possible, but this is not at all what is written in the fifth articles of the washington treaty, so the supply of weapons, military aid is very good, but it is not a guarantee. the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of ukraine, valery zaluzhnyi, spoke at a briefing about the plans of the armed forces of ukraine for 2024.

let us listen to a small excerpt of what he said. it won't be the 24th year... it just will be differ, it must be different from the 24th year to the 23rd year, because otherwise we will face what i wrote about in the article, accordingly, we have found these problems and have already found about 90% of the solutions to these issues, which must be it is necessary to decide in order to act more effectively next year, and the most important thing is to keep people on it. we are working, our partners, who are also interested in this issue, completely agreed with us, and i can assure you that next year will be different, mr. volodymyr, next year will also differ in that various elections will be held in seven dozen countries, and the most important elections are in the united states of america, putin's election in russia, i'm not talking about

the election of the president, putin's election in russia, and many other different elections. parliamentary and presidential, which events of the 24th year do you think will have the greatest impact on world politics and, accordingly, on the politics of ukraine? it is necessary to have those weapons that will give our army the opportunity to safely destroy everything that belongs to the enemy and force him to flee from ukrainian land, therefore the task for the 24th year. is precisely the acquisition of this high-tech weaponry, which will allow us to turn the tide of this war. regarding the elections, what now... you know, there has been such a wave of dispersal of another horror in the pubic area about what and what will happen, if what?

well, democracy is a democracy that is not a dictatorship where elections do not take place, in relation to putin it is not an election, it is reassignment, it is self-reassignment, i would formulate it like this, there are no elections there, there cannot be, and although there are already they say about 30 candidates, well, that's a joke to the chickens. these are obvious things that do not affect anything in any way, the numbers are already drawn , the regional administrators, governors, so-called, already know how many turnouts should be given and how many voted for, so, well, this is this is ridiculous, regarding elections in democratic countries , so it's really a competition, it's really a political struggle, but i don't think the democratic world is that much. i think he will change his basics from mr. x to mr. y, to mr. y, to mr. y. this is not really the case. even if we talk

about the elections in the united states of america, which is fundamentally, definitely important and interesting for us. however, i think that in any case, whoever wins, even though there's a lot going on in this matter and... this gentleman that you have on the screen right now is far from guaranteed to come back to the white house, but no matter who wins in america, democracy is american, its principles will remain the same, the basis of democracy is law, it is order, it is human rights, so whoever is the president in the usa, these principles will be preserved. there are enough big tools and powerful tools for that so that no one can usurp power there unlike countries like say

russia or china or something like that. therefore , we will certainly follow these events with great interest. the one thing we should never do, here's the word never, it seems to me to be perfectly acceptable, is to put on... somebody, it's up to the americans to choose their government, and we have to accept whatever they choose, but i assure you, i am convinced that this will in no way affect aid to ukraine, because it is in the interests of a democratic event. by the way, about the democratic measure and about the perception or acceptance of the results of certain elections, we know that in march of the 24th year there will be a sweat election. or, as you say, putin's reassignment, and elections or pseudo-elections will take place, including in the territories of the ukrainian state, which

the russian federation has declared as its own and written into the constitution, district commissions have already been formed, there are already relevant circulars election center of the russian federation, can the world not recognize the results of the elections in these occupied territories? the legitimacy of the president of the russian federation putin after his victory, as it happened in 2020 with the then president of belarus, and now the so-called president of belarus, when the whole world calls him the so-called president of belarus or the self-proclaimed president of belarus, well, you see, mr. serhiy, if we remember the 14th year and the seizure of crimea and part of donbas. er, then after the elections were held there, the ukrainian side also insisted on recognizing the elections in russia as illegitimate. at that time,

the west was not ready for this and said: "yes, we recognize them as illegitimate in the occupied territories, but everything else, well, we have to accept." the situation changed radically after that. we now have a completely different position. west in relation to the russian federation, and it would be logical that , taking into account the fact that the elections will be held in illegally occupied territories, taking into account that there is no democracy in russia anyway, and that these are really not elections, but reassignment, then it would definitely be logical to make a political decision that under such circumstances to recognize who... as a legitimate leader, well, this is just a complete political absurdity, will it happen, well, for now, unfortunately, the question is open, although such a discussion

already started already in many european capitals and not only in europe and in america there are at least conversations about whether to recognize or not to recognize, this is already good, that is, there is still a little time for it to be possible to come to an absolutely obvious conclusion that to recognize putin as the legitimately elected president is to give him another opportunity to tell the whole world, and i... your opinion is completely uninteresting, i do what i did, and i will not pay attention to all your concerns, so this is a matter of political will , i really hope that the west will finally move forward in this regard. and what, mr. volodymyr, would it mean if the world did not recognize the legitimacy of president putin, that is, what consequences would this have for him, well, considering that

he already has a warrant from the international ... criminal court, and this also happened in 2023 year that he received this warrant, what , what is changing, that is, does it affect the environment with which he communicates, there are the countries of central asia, and asian countries, countries of the middle east, or does it only have exclusively, well, such a lesson , an example of a world lesson. well, you see, mr. serhiy, you are absolutely right, that is, even in those countries where he still goes, well, you already know that, the creation of such a toxic, toxic atmosphere, when you are still accepted, you are still there somehow, somewhere you make, as it were, a mine, a good mine with a bad game, as they say, but anyway, you are already, well, you are not like that anymore, you are already noticed by the fact that you are not you... in africa

or somewhere else, but you understand that, this is already a real stigma, but first he got gasi from the criminal court , and then this stigma will spread, well, actually all over the world, so lukashenko also flies to china, well , he flies, there or there he meets with some, excuse me... international people meet, but who from the civilian civilized world will give him a hand, and no one, that is, it is already obvious, and there is another plus here the moment is internally russian, it also affected his environment, although, no matter how we say it, it is slavish, it is true, it depends on him one hundred percent, but... when the end of this

isolation narrows, even the most frightened environment still has the question is, well, how much is possible, how long , can this still be the time when the process of ending all this absurdity and this disaster that is flying towards russia should be started, so you know, apart from... purely such an emotional moment, it has also and, i think, a serious influence on the internal russian political situation on the layout around putin, which may ultimately, well , become another, additional moment that will incline this environment to some more concrete actions. mr. volodymyr, a lot appeared at the end of 2023. publications

to the world press that putin wants a change, putin is looking for opportunities to conduct such talks, of course, on his terms, the world media write that kyiv is not ready yet, or kyiv has its own conditions, although we understand that russia also has its own conditions to recognized the so-called new territorial reality, and in the 22nd year it was announced about this new territorial reality. the reality of the new york times just a few days ago also wrote that putin is ready for the negotiation process, er, representatives of the ukrainian authorities and analytical institutions say that these are commissioned texts from the russian federation that appear in the international press in order to remind that putin is not against negotiations, is it possible.