west berlin would not have survived without the support of the free world, which is why closing the border effectively destroys the corridor of life that helps us win. a boy is driving a humanitarian woman from our garage, they didn't let him out , he's standing, waiting in line, you can't, that's it, that's all solidarity, that's all i wanted to say, the head of the come back alive charity foundation taras chmut reported that the border was blocked . dozens of night vision systems and hundreds of drones. the pickups all come from abroad. all night vision kits come from abroad. fpv drones come from overseas. and this protest slows down our work. we are trying to agree with the polish authorities on the unhindered passage of aid, since ukraine has no choice but to import. i often receive calls from the military asking for help transferring spare parts. for

drones, the same thing happens with spare parts for anti-drone systems, the transportation of parts for machines that produce ukrainian weapons is very often blocked, this blocking causes huge losses, only our the gross domestic product fell by 1%, this is a lot, which is exactly what these polish carriers are trying to achieve, because if we fulfill all their demands, we will have a complete economic disaster. one day of an idle truck at the border gives 300-350. in just one month of blocking, losses reached 400 million euros. indirect losses will be calculated already in 2025 . these are fines and penalties. refusals from concluding contracts with ukrainian companies. the employers' federation and the association of international motor carriers already estimate them at several billion dollars exports of ukrainian products decreased by 40%. and the state treasury did not receive uah 9.3 billion

in customs payments during the month of the blockade. according to the chamber of commerce, every day ukraine does not receive goods worth 22.5 million dollars, of which 13.4 million are polish. also, ukraine does not deliver goods worth more than $7 million to contractors every day. according to the results of the year, due to the strike at the border , ukraine will lose 1% of gdp and its... growth will be 2.5%, instead of the projected 3.5. in fact, our budget is formed from two sources revenues, one of them is the ukrainians who pay taxes, this is our customs, this is our economy, and when the border is blocked, in fact these funds are not earned and do not enter the budget, and it is precisely these funds that we have the right to spend on maintaining our army and our troops, and we spend the second part of the money on social needs, so these funds are given by our western partners.

and international institutions directly into the budget. and one more part - military weapons, that is why it is so important for us that the democrats and republicans agree on parliament of the united states of america. and so in such difficult conditions, when there is no other way to export ukrainian goods except through europe, we also cannot bring goods to ukraine, the blocking of this border begins. the entire logistics chain has been disrupted, and even such a desperate method of transporting blocked trucks by rail will not help at all... there are not enough tracks and platforms, the first such train transported 13 trucks, three to five thousand can be parked at the border at the same time. it's hard for yourself imagine that in a democratic and strong state , a handful of people could block a strategic object, and roads are strategic objects, because they lead to border points where you can't even shoot. when was the last time we had this? i remember the 13th, and especially the 14th year, when the russian-ukrainian war began, and the russians financed the separatists for... and then they took out people who allegedly

blocked the roads, took away ukrainian armored personnel carriers. well, our state was weak then, we couldn't bring order there, but later we did. and why is the polish state inactive now? imagine that these so-called protesters will come and block the runway at the airport in rzeszow, where all our military aid from western partners arrives. the government believes that it is not the addressee of the demands of the protesting carriers. reasons for protests. either on the ukrainian side or on the eu side. the government adheres to democratic principles, according to which everyone can protest, but the government should not prevent it. it is strange that the polish blockers do not turn to their government, and to the ukrainian one, so that our government has already turned to the european commission, which, on our initiative, should, from their point of view, block our corridor of life. this is complete absurdity, the polish minister also criticizes the european commission for... the existence of this corridor

of life, which should exist until the summer of 2024. it is strange that when this decision was made in the european commission, the polish government had its representatives there, but remained silent and... supported it then, i was informed about this in our ministry of foreign affairs. answer of the ministry of foreign affairs. the ukrainian side did not receive formal, official objections of poland and slovakia regarding the extension of the agreement in the spring of 2023. and what happened between the spring of 2022, when the european commission decided that ukrainian goods could move unhindered on the roads of the european union and the fall of 2023, when the polish blockaders began to block the roads. there are elections left, the polish party law and justice has lost power and is trying to solve its problems in this way. after the parliamentary elections this fall, peace tried in every possible way to delay the coming to power of the leader of the civic platform, the former prime minister of poland and the president of the european council

, donald tusk, and to complicate the start of his work. it was this influential politician, known for his pro-ukrainian and euro-atlantic views, who was to form a coalition and become prime minister. president from peace andrzej duday could have given donald tusk the right to form a new government back in november, but he used the formal reason that peace won the first place in the elections, and therefore entrusted it to the acting prime minister mateusz murovecki. it there was a temporary government for two weeks, and it was obvious that on december 11, the newly elected parliament would not give morovetski a vote of confidence, because although peace won the first place, it lacked the mandates to form a majority. the far-right confederation, with which... they tried to form a coalition , won far fewer votes than sociologists predicted. when peace lost the elections, he began to act according to the principle that the house is burned, let the barn burn. they already directly supported the terrorists on the border, prime minister muravetskiy stated this at the time, although the poles themselves they also

suffered from such an irresponsible policy. according to the chamber of commerce and industry of ukraine, last year poland imported goods from ukraine by land transport with a total value of more than 3.1 billion. dollars, at least 3/4 of which went to other countries with a large margin for polish entrepreneurs. such inaction cannot be excused, because in this way we endanger polish-ukrainian relations and do not care about polish interests. this government is putting us all in a very difficult situation. the peace party, moravetsky and kaczynski are fatal they played the ukrainian card in a very amateurish, unprofessional and, moreover, cynical way. donald tusk, november 29, 2023. but the poles will somehow figure out who is to blame for the dramatic situation on the border. we should be concerned about why our government is just as inactive. at the end of december, president zelenskyi repeated the same thing he had already said in november. he hopes for the new polish

government. he did not have any plans or proposals for this month. zelensky did not even convene the national security and defense council, as if nothing had happened happened i will believe that the new government will unlock this whole blockade, it is artificial. what should volodymyr zelenskyi have done? first of all, to turn to his friend andrzej dude and offer to convene a meeting of the national security council of the two countries. this could be done directly at the border. if this did not give any result, then he could turn to the ukraine-nato council and convene it. the ukraine-nato council just right. was formed at the last vilnius summit to establish cooperation between ukraine and nato structures, because what is happening on the border, it directly harms the national security of both ukraine and poland , as well as nato itself, because on the eastern borders of nato, some unknown people control all

military cargo, if earlier, when i was driving a car, for example, from warsaw to kyiv, i saw a huge the number of cars, and convoys with military equipment were lost among these cars, now, when the cars behind... to determine that it is military equipment that is moving is not a problem at all. but our president never addressed either nato or andrzej pipes previously, zelensky was very proud of his special relationship with the president of poland. the servant of the people faction in the verkhovna rada even staged a political provocation against it. they demanded that the newly elected sejm deal with the border problem, although at that time the government of law and justice was still finalizing its mandate. think about what we do. we appeal to... the elected senate and sejm, which does not have its prime minister, prime minister muravetskyi, president duda, they run the government, they are responsible for blocking the roads, they do nothing to ensure that to unblock, and we put the responsibility for the newly elected sejm and

senate, the future prime minister will be tusk, and obviously this will be perceived as our unfriendly step towards poland, in poland they still remember the visit... chairman stefanchuk and mrs. vice chairmen, we communicated only with the authorities, the opposition came to power, wants to help us, and we want to turn them into enemies with our own hands. i watched with pity how the ukrainian authorities, with their passivity , actually lost any chance to resolve the conflict, because the conflict had to solve immediately, as soon as it started. back in november, i appealed to the ministry of foreign affairs and the ministry of infrastructure. i understood that there was no point in delaying. this is the ministry of infrastructure of ukraine, and this is my appeal, which i sent to the minister of infrastructure kubrakov and the minister of foreign affairs koleba. this appeal refers to the block. of the ukrainian-polish and ukrainian-slovak border, i asked the honorable ministers what the ukrainian

authorities are doing to unblock the border, how many protesters are there who are blocking the movement of ukrainian transport, which associations are these, what are the reasons for the blocking, the ministry of foreign affairs responded promptly and comprehensively, on the other hand , the ministry of infrastructure decided that instead of the stipulated five days , they needed as much as 30 days to respond, they had nothing to say, a strange situation, i decided not to wait and the very next day... together with the correspondents , i went to the border to see with my own eyes what was happening there. we came here to ravoruska on the ukrainian-polish border. you see, there are almost no vans, because all ukrainian vans, that is, trucks, are parked with on the other hand, they are blocked by unworthy polish politicians and polish carriers, they absolutely do not care that at this time ukrainian companies are going bankrupt, ukrainians are not getting fuel, ukrainians are not getting products, where will these bankrupt businesses go later...

it was november 19, there was a queue of 40 km, people did not have food and water, since then davyd was at various points, he came to dorogusk for the third time. i am here for the third time, it was my first trip here. when there was a second promotion, four cars had already arrived, one even left.

we have wet wipes here, which men use instead of a shower, 8 days today, 8 days, some are standing for 18, there are closer to the border. in december, severe frosts hit, at night it was -15, volunteers began to lead to the border against zastudna, ukrainians living in warsaw joined the poles, here we mainly have painkillers, anti-inflammatory drugs, we also have topical steroids, nasal spray from a runny nose, drivers complain about the constant deterioration of their health, two people died. the police do not respond to requests for help, well, people's blood pressure rises, and

i saw it with my own eyes today, he comes up, shows him the breather, which says, i've already run out of insulin tablets, he says, man, let me pass, yesterday a man was driving with a woman, i don't know, that somewhere he had some kind of operation, and she was driving him all the way when, some time ago. well, periodically, i understand , he was operated on for something, i don’t know, and yesterday he was not let in by the police, no, this one, no, well, no, protesters, drivers who managed to leave for ukraine say, what as if they escaped from hell, 9 days, everything in the car ran out, some fuel, food, absolutely everything, yesterday was a birthday, the man was breathing in the cab, and life came. meanwhile, taras, with a car loaded with chickens

, still on the polish side, shows his simple life: the kitchen is gas -fired with disposable canisters, enough time for a week, the kettle is literally enough to feed yourself, eat a canapé with tea to warm up, the refrigerator it's already empty underfoot, what time is it, because it's already food. these the products have long been exhausted, the polish cars are leaving, this is angela's company, this is some lublin company, special cynicism, the strikers took our drivers hostage.

yogurt, cheese, temperature +4 +2 storage, i don't have enough, i'm afraid, because now i'm going to be very tired. ukrainians say that if it weren't for the police, those fifty strikers who occupied half a thousand kilometers of the border would have been scattered along the roadsides a long time ago. but for the first time , he sees that someone who breaks the law and terrorizes two countries and the entire european union is protected by the authorities. meanwhile, in... poland's government changed, donald tusk's cabinet came to power. among his priorities, he named the resolution of the border crisis and emphasized that this crisis threatens the national security of poland itself. we have a hot situation on the ukrainian-polish border. there is a war. this is a strategic place for poland. we will look for a solution that will satisfy polish carriers. but

we also will not tolerate any situations that would threaten polish security. no matter who inspired it. it was during these days that i went to warsaw, i wanted so that the ukrainian voice is heard there. this is called inter-parliamentary diplomacy. unfortunately, our government very often ignores this tool, although many deputies have constant and productive connections with parliamentarians from around the world. such informal relationships do not depend on protocol and are therefore often more effective than formal channels. we are in the polish diet, it was here on december 11 that the electoral revolution took place, so to speak. muravetskyi's government did not receive a vote of confidence from the parliamentarians and the parliament voted for the government of donald tusk. i have been here all these days. we had fantastic meetings we met with the president of poland, andrzej duda. they had a meaningful and deep conversation with the head of the senate of poland, maloża kidava blonska. we congratulated the vice-speaker michal kaminsky, worked with the entire committee on foreign affairs and its head pavel koval.

everyone promised that relations between ukraine and poland would be completely reset. i worked. in poland for almost a week. i was convinced again how weak our communication with the poles was. even journalists were not always aware of the real reasons for the provocation at the border. i was invited to television and radio, i did not refuse, because i understood that only the truth destroys russian plans. a large number of meetings with polish politicians, each of whom had to deeply explain why we suffer from this blockade, a huge number of interviews and conversations, private conversations with journalists, all this is real diplomacy, which ... every ukrainian politician should be engaged in . the kremlin's posipaks got nervous and even tried to counterattack me. tomas butczyk, an activist of the confederation, wrote a post that the strikers they blocked my private yacht at the border. although in reality it was a sbots patrol boat, part of the american military aid. i don't care about such manipulations, the main thing that i managed to achieve was that this protest

became toxic. its organizers failed to internationalize it. who supported him? four glory? and what hopes did they have that ukrainian vans and trucks would be blocked in all countries, from estonia to romania. the ambassadors of lithuania, latvia and estonia in warsaw announced a demarche at the ministry of infrastructure of poland through blocking ukraine's border, saying it would undermine its ability to resist a full-scale russian invasion. at the meeting of the european transport council on december 4, 2023, govt. supported only by representatives orban and fitso. instead , the representatives of estonia, lithuania, latvia, germany, the netherlands, sweden and denmark declared categorically against the cancellation of the solidarity corridor. profile european commissioner, romanian citizen adina velian, called the situation at the border absolutely unacceptable, and accused of inaction

the old peace government, declared: "the entire european union, not to mention." a country currently at war cannot be held hostage by blocking our external borders. this is a cultural center in warsaw, a gift from stalin to the polish people, from the russian empire to the polish people. we know the price of these gifts, the price of these gifts is the independence of nations. what is happening on the polish-ukrainian border is also, so to speak, a gift from the russian empire and poland and ukraine. after my return from the minister of foreign affairs of poland, radislaw, came from warsaw to kyiv. sekorsky it was his first visit. he spoke with our authorities about blocking the border and many other topics. the results of the negotiations are more than modest. before christmas, one checkpoint was unblocked at... where a group of farmers were standing, they were assured that they were getting help from the state, although their demands were in no way related to trade with ukraine, but the farmers threatened to reopen the blockade if

they were to . blocking the other three checkpoints continues, at the largest of them, yagodin dorogusk, this blockade is even strengthened. on the eve of christmas , the polish minister of infrastructure came there. he promised the blockers that he would force ukraine to agree to restore the licenses. that is, he completely sided with the organizers of the blockade. and thereby only emphasized what was clear from the very beginning. it is not a group of people blocking the border, but the state authorities. the minister shared the armor with the organizers of the blockade as a sign of reconciliation before christmas. there were 10 of them there persons instead, 4,000 ukrainian vans stood in line at three checkpoints. but the minister did not approach the ukrainian drivers to share the gift, although we are already celebrating christmas. together. it has been 30 days since i wrote a parliamentary request to the ministry of infrastructure. and so, on christmas itself, i finally received their answer. here she is.

it was understood from this answer that the ministry does not have any action plan. he is also absent from the government and the president. therefore, based on the results of my trip to poland, i officially addressed the president and the speaker parliament i made specific proposals on what should be done to ukraine. first, turn to the president. and the parliament of poland with the explanation that the situation at the border is a matter of national security of ukraine. second, hold a meeting of the national security and defense council and, based on its decisions , convene a joint meeting with the national security council of poland. third, to initiate a meeting of the ukrainian-polish interparliamentary assembly to find a way to unblock the border. the fourth is to convene a joint meeting of the foreign affairs committees verkhovna rada of ukraine and the republic of poland. and the main thing that the government should do is to finally realize that blocking the border is a special operation of russia, it directly undermines our defense capability. good evening, we are from

ukraine. watched a film about blocking the border , polish farmers plan to restore poland tomorrow. the blocking of the medicasheghini registered post, we will film it, show what will happen there, so you will learn about everything, and today i will once again inform you of really cool, happy news, especially for those families who they waited, as the ukrainian ombudsman dmytro lubinets wrote, 230 ukrainian soldiers are at home, the president spoke about it, the head of the president's office, the president said that among those released from captivity are soldiers, sergeants, officers, soldiers of the armed forces... of the national guard of ukraine, military - of the naval forces of ukraine, border guards, part of the defenders defended mariupol and azovstal, among them there are people who defended chornobyl, people who

defended snake island, this is a great return, in general, as of november of this year, there were 4,337 citizens in captivity of the enemy of ukraine, of which 3,574 military and 763 civilians, now 230 less, we will wish success to those who are engaged in exchange, and now for your attention the weather from natalka. let's watch and listen, synoptic hello to all, our dear viewers, today, of course, we will, as always, talk about the weather for the coming day, what will be the air temperature, whether there will be a cooling, or maybe warming, we will definitely talk about it, and now let's sum up, we already have a full right to do so, the results of december in kyiv. synoptic, of course, and month, december and year have ended, so let's take a look at the results made by

the borys sreznevsky central geophysical observatory. so, i peek. the annual average air temperature was 10.8°, which is almost 2° above the norm. for the whole year, only april did not break the temperature record. all other months showed. excess temperature, especially august and september, and such data for the whole year are very interesting, i was talking about the gardens, i mean the whole year for kyiv, climatically, the lowest air temperature was -10° in february, well, last year, obviously, the highest temperature in the air, i don't even remember it, +35.9° in august, 673 mm of precipitation fell, which exceeds the climatic norm, this was the optical climate situation in kyiv last year already in 2023, we are now moving to behavior

of the earth's magnetic field, and now to yours: a prognostic diagram, as always it shows that no such special fluctuations, exacerbations, powers are foreseen, so we move on to the actual weather forecast. tomorrow in ukraine is expected after such a short-term warming, after a short-term cooling of warming, but for example, here in the west, from which we always start our forecast, and today it was not very cold and tomorrow the air temperature will also be +3-+9° and... it will of course mainly be in the form of rain, maybe wet snow in the carpathians. in the north, sleet and snow will also turn into rain, because tomorrow and in the north, after such a severe frost, when, for example, it was -18-20 last night in sumy oblast, and tomorrow in the north it will be +2 +6° during the day , except in the extreme north close to zero. in the east, it is raining and sleet, the daytime air temperature is also quite high, +2 +5°. in the central part of ukraine

it is cloudy, places. light precipitation +2 +6 in the southern part cloudy without significant precipitation +6 +12°, well , it will warm up significantly in kyiv tomorrow, the air temperature is expected to be within 5° of heat, and it will rain in the capital tomorrow. well, actually, i just read it interestingly. that more than 40 were released from captivity as a result of this large exchange of prisoners of war 48, if not mistaken for missing persons, imagine what a joy it is for wives , mothers, fathers, and children who learned that a father, son , husband who was not there, all disappeared, he was alive, i am sincerely happy for these people and really want that as soon as possible all our soldiers and civilians who were captured

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