were very, very wrong, i remember the words of zbigniew brzezinski at one of the conferences dedicated to nato and the expansion of nato, which was a controversial topic in the united states of america, he said then, it was about 10 years ago, he said that if it had not happened, today we would have discussions in the united states of america not about ukraine, but about poland, so here is this... this is this experience for us, we are still gaining it, we are gaining it at a very heavy price, but it cannot be released, and on it is necessary to build self-awareness, understanding of the enemy and the way for the future, well, this is an important question, because if you talk to an average ukrainian about the further course of events, at least this year, you will definitely hear from many that russia will collapse. for several parts, by

the way, the president of the russian federation, vladimir putin, also spoke about this, as one of the measures regarding russia, just at the end of the year, he mentioned it, because it is another such conspiracist, i would say, theory that the russians adhere to in order to to justify their aggressive actions, and we adhere to it on the contrary, and that putin will die there, his regime will self-destruct, and everything will be fine, but there is another question, and are you... ukrainians themselves ready for a long-term neighborhood with a strong, aggressive, tough russia, which will be part of this world of dictatorships, if you like , partners, or an equal partner, or rather a geopolitical neighborhood of china, or ukrainians to understand that it is precisely with such a russia, which will exceed ukraine in terms of demographic potential, economic opportunities, and possibly military power, that ukrainians will have to live, maybe even... more fundamental for

the survival of our state for ten years, and what they are ready to do so that this neighborhood does not lead to the disappearance of ukraine from the political map of the world. this, this is the reality for which you have to prepare, and for which you have to tune in. miracles happen, especially in authoritarian and personalistic regimes, because there biology, biology is the biggest, most important factor, but... but counting on a miracle absolutely would be the biggest mistake, in fact it would be a suicidal strategy, that is, a suicidal strategy and tactics, we need to learn to live in these new conditions, definitely and plan, plan not only for the next, the next month or the next year, the next.

a decade strategy must be worked out, tomorrow may indeed be a different beauty, there may be some extremely serious changes in moscow, but we need a reality, which was actually understood by the same richard pipes, that authoritarian systems, and aggressive systems, imperialist systems do not change . in one day or one week, they change, but this is a very long process that can take decades, and this is the strategy that must be developed in ukraine, regardless of who is in the kremlin today, and whether this policy is actually genocidal in relation to ukraine, or suddenly on a white horse with there is a new yeltsin or navalny, that is , we are dealing with... a historical empire, with certain

codes of behavior and cultural codes, and all of them, all of them, these codes are aggressive and threatening, threatening to neighbors, this is history centuries we certainly hope so one way or another, we will become part of the event, become part of nato, become members of the european union, and there are certain obvious developments about this, because already... next year, negotiations on ukraine's accession to the european union may begin, there are many hopes for the washington nato summit. along with this, we heard this year from the president of the united states, joseph biden, when he met with the president of ukraine , volodymyr zelensky, that ukraine's victory over russia is a condition for ukraine's accession to nato. and this is an important point that says that ukraine can remain between the west and russia for quite a long time. this is dangerous for us. but the question arises, how

should we behave in a situation where the continuation of russian aggression in one way or another into ukraine for indefinite periods in a gray zone, what should we do in this gray zone? well, of course , i am convinced that ukraine's accession to nato will take place, i also cannot imagine a situation in which this accession will take place in the conditions of a war with russia, well, that is, these are realities, i also do not really understand high hopes and then disappointment, promise do we have it? or promise us something else, because this promise is so stupid, that is, presidents change, politicians change, we had promises with the budapest protocol and the summit, that is, i don't understand why we should build real politics, or at least

informational politics, on this, we are leaving nato, we will not join nato formally until this war ends, so... when this war ends, we don't know, and the model, the model should be, well, relatively speaking, the israeli model, that is, very, very serious, or of the same taiwan, that is, the continuation of and the deepening of relations with our allies, and what is interesting about the past year is that europe, which in the 22nd year... lagged behind the united states of america, suddenly acquired its own subjectivity and specifically pro-ukrainian subjectivity , so that europe - this has become an even bigger factor than it was in 22, this is our, this is the strategy that

exists today, that needs to be developed, that needs to be deepened, and again, we saw this year the harmfulness, harmfulness unjustified expectations and how much they affect moral status society, as much as they can be harmful in war, and in this sense, realism, realism is our salvation, realism about the representation of perspective, including when it comes to nato. and tell me, you mentioned the israeli model, but... 2023 was just the year for many to be disappointed in the israeli model, mr. sergey, because by and large everyone always believed that the state of israel is a state that can definitely guarantee security for its citizens, if we are talking about conflicts with terrorists, at least by the organizations that control the lands

of the palestinian authority and that there is something serious about the palestinian state that may or may not emerge someday. danger to the state of israel, rocket attacks, yes, there are some terrorist threats, yes, there are some captures of military personnel, yes, but in fact the fact that the bandit organization hamas has not only transformed, but also is capable of carrying out such a raid on the territory of israel, and besides also enjoys obvious sympathy in broad intellectual and public circles of the civilized world, where they seem to have remembered their nazi one. no one could even suspect this at the end of the 22nd year, in war as in war, the allies do not cancel the status of war as such and the dangers of the risks that come with it, and israel is just

another, another visual proof of this, but it is said about the fact that none of israel's allies, allies of israel, has not retreated from israel , we in ukraine started talking... about the fact that we are now standing in line for the same military equipment, weapons and so on, for the united states of america, which are needed in the middle east and behind israel, and this is precisely the weakness of these alliances, this is what i meant, neighbors, neighbors, no alliances can cancel, and aggressive... alliances, aggressive neighbors, terrorist neighbors and so on, that is, it remains, it remains in the longer term, it is said, it is about international support between and not

only moral support, that is, it is morally there in different places, as you said, but very practically, military , economic, this is what israel can achieve. without nato, and me i think that this model is an interim model for us until we join nato. you know, the war in the middle east unexpectedly revealed trends that it had not revealed. the war in ukraine is, on the one hand, the bankruptcy of certain intellectual bodies in the west, and this is not the first time it has happened, but it has now happened with all the obviousness, and in those american universities that you know so well, there is now an obvious crisis of morality, and with on the other hand, there is the so-called right march, the strengthening of right-wing tendencies in western countries, primarily in europe, precisely also for for many people who are now ready to vote for right-wing parties, october 7 was a day when, as they say, their eyes were opened, and obviously not only to the actions of

hamas terrorists, but also to how right-wing parties perceived migration in europe, and these seem to me to be two very dangerous trends, which are yet to be seen, how they will end for help to ukraine and , in general, for stability on the european continent, and maybe in the united states as well. well, there are several, several factors that really change the world. and one of them is this migration, so from the conventional third world to the first world, migration and refugees have become an extremely important factor that changes the political, the political situation in europe, it also changes the political situation in the united states of america, and a large number of these refugees are precisely from the middle east , there are just... potentially those who may be, are not, but may be either supporters

of hamas, or or, therefore, be enemies not only of israel, but simply have, have against, against the west, anti-western sentiments, this is one on the main topics in politics, the world politics of the first world, during the last probably 10-15 years, and we now... see, that is, very specific consequences in the conditions of a specific foreign policy crisis, another factor, we like to talk about it, but as a metaphor, about the information revolution, but the information revolution just like the industrial revolution, it comes with social changes, with political changes, with the emergence, the emergence of new parties, new ideologies. the information revolution is about access. absolutely unlimited access to funds from to that

to twitter itself to to to, that is, there are no disappeared, authorities have disappeared, well, except for vitaly , to tiktok, mr. serhiy, to tiktok, twitter is already some kind of classic book from the past, well, as a historian, i am lagging behind, but this is the world we live in, the world in which he mobilizes himself. defines itself, and in fact the traditional elites , who controlled the discourse in one way or another for centuries, today find themselves in a situation where they can no longer do this, that is, the old world has not collapsed, but it is facing very serious challenges, at least in this on these two levels that are new factors of the last 10-15. years, how, how to learn, how to live in this world, we still do not know, we have to learn.

and then, at the end, i will ask you, what year is 2024 already, will it not happen that at the end of the 23rd , you and i will talk like this, i will tell you, mr. sergey, and we talked about it all at the end of 2023, you know , is difficult to predict, especially when it comes to predicting the future. but what i can say is that we are approaching some new, if not critical, then defining stage in this war. there were actually two such before that stage, the first was the end of february, the beginning of march, when ukraine and the ukrainians decided that they would fight. no one expected this, nor did they expect it from a historical point of view,

traditionally everyone was afraid of a large russian soviet army, from the czechs to the poles, who planned to leave the curtain and so on and so on, that is, historically ukraine broke the pattern, it was the first the defining moment, the second came in april, when the americans, our western... allies decided that, okay, maybe this is serious, that is, this ukraine should be supported and supported not only levels of guerrilla warfare and struggle. and now we have reached the end of the 23rd and 24th years, and this is the time in the 24th year when, in english, this commitment, that is, when the decision of the ukrainians to fight and the decision of the west to continue this support and support at a completely different level, must happen again

rethinking this should be for... the answer, and depending on what answer we get from ukraine, what answer we get from the west, the future of the war and possibly the end of the war will be decided as well, so the 24th year, even though on whether is the line moving, is it not moving and where is it moving, in terms of decisions, he, he ee could be a decisive year, and this, this, this is what is more likely to happen and is happening in our minds, in the minds of our allies , and only over time can it then transform into a situation at the front. thank you, mr. sergey, i want to wish you not only a decisive, but also a victorious year. good luck. thank you.

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very encouraging news about six-year-old mysh melnyk. we have been looking for a boy since march 2022 and have been talking about him all this time there was no news. we did not know where and with whom myshko was, and in fact, under what circumstances he disappeared. we only knew that before the start of the full-scale invasion of russia , a boy lived in the village of grechyshkino in the luhansk region. we have made many programs about the search for mishko, told you about his story and asked you to tell us any. information about the boy, and when it seemed that there were almost no chances left, a witness wrote in a telegram to the chatbot of the children's search service, who said that he knew about his whereabouts

mishka melnyka, and this is the message we received: mishko is in kindergarten, in the village of grechyshkino, his grandmother is bringing him there, we have photos. we asked the witness for details, and he confirmed that the boy is allegedly in the occupied village of grechyshkino and is walking. at grandparents, we were also sent photos and even a video with the boy. kindergarten in the village of hrychyshkino, it is located right next to the school, it is the only one there, it is called terymok. and this is a photo that we had for almost two years of searching. if compared with those that we sent by a witness, the boy is indeed very similar in both photos. we were also helped in the search by autumn specialists who search for information in open sources, and they managed to find a page on a russian social network of classmates of mishko melnyk's probable mother, and

here she is with little mishko, and this photo of the boy is already a little older, by the way, the last photo of mishka his mother posted on her page in february 2023. so, judging by the witness report, the photos and videos he provided, as well as... social network of the boy's mother, everything points to the fact that , fortunately, everything is fine with the miller mouse and he is probably in the village of grechyshkino , luhansk region. however, so far this information has not been confirmed, and we cannot be 100% sure that the boy has been found, so i am asking everyone, especially the residents of the occupied hrychyshkino in the luhansk region. of course, ukrainian television is not broadcast in the occupation, but if you see this program, for example, on social media. networks, then please check whether the miller mouse really studies in the teremok kindergarten, according to opportunities, take a photo or video with him and

his mother and send it to us in the chatbot of the child tracing service in telegram. you can also contact us by short number 11630. calls from all mobile operators in ukraine are free. so we really hope that everything is fine with mishko melnyk and soon we will be able to finally announce that the boy has been found. however, the fate of many missing children from the temporarily occupied territories still remains unknown, and, unfortunately, many of them are forcibly removed and deported to of russia deportation of children is a component of the crime of genocide. therefore, i would like to note that if you know of any crime against a child, in particular abduction or deportation, do not remain indifferent and immediately report it to the police, or report it on... our site stopcrimeua, you can even do it anonymously . i also ask you to take just a few minutes of your time and go to the website

of the child tracing service. here in the "missing children of ukraine" section, you can see boys and girls who are currently wanted. look carefully at their faces, i will be very grateful if you share information about missing children in your facebook or instagram. after all, of course, the more people see the ad about the wanted child, the more chances there will be to find him. if you happen to recognize one of them in person, immediately call our hotline 11630. calls from all mobile operators in ukraine are free. we have created a resource through which you can report any crime against a child. in any city, at any time. just go to the site. and report, and we will launch all possible mechanisms to punish the criminal. stopcrime ua.

february 20. us president joseph biden is coming to kyiv with an unannounced visit. cameras record how he and president zelenskyy leave the st. michael's cathedral to the sounds of an air raid alarm. the visit was more than symbolic. at the beginning of the year, the west united in the support of our state, the chancellor of germany. olaf scholz finally gave permission for deliveries of modern leopard-2 tanks to kyiv, and ukrainian servicemen were already learning american patriot systems in the state of oklahoma. it seemed that support for ukraine was stronger than ever. we have created a coalition of countries from the atlantic to the pacific around the world. more than 50 nations are helping ukraine defend itself with unprecedented military, economic, and

humanitarian support. voices: the loudest of them is the prime minister of hungary, viktor orbán, who never tired of calling for so-called peace, even if ukraine has to give up its territories? if you look at the truth , if you look at the numbers, if you look at the fact that nato is not ready to send its troops to ukraine becomes obvious. poor ukrainians cannot win on the battlefield, which means de-escalation and peace negotiations are needed. at the beginning of june , the ukrainian counteroffensive in the south finally began. he did not achieve quick results, and already at the nato summit, the freedom of kyiv awaited the first disappointment. allies have clearly stated that they are not ready to invite ukraine to the alliance. we must take a sober look at the current

situation. the ukrainian government itself. recognizes the impossibility of becoming a member of nato while it continues war. our goal is stable military support for ukraine, in particular, with modern western weapons and strengthening of ukraine's economic stability during defense against russian aggression. towards the end of the summer, it becomes finally clear that the results of the counteroffensive are more than modest. the international coalition is beginning to show cracks. in the spring, half a year before the parliamentary elections in poland, the right-wing polish government. mateusz murovetskyi banned the supply of ukrainian agricultural products. kyiv and warsaw exchanged a number of harsh statements. and in november, polish carriers began a large-scale blockade of the border with ukraine. on september 30 , the party of ex-prime minister robert fico, a categorical opponent of military aid to ukraine, won the parliamentary elections in slovakia. one of our largest allies in the region has stopped sending

weapons to the armed forces of ukraine. in november, europe was stunned by the results of the parliamentary elections in the netherlands. the far-right freedom party led by geert wilders won the first place there. he is also in favor of limiting military support. and the attention of the world from ukraine diverted a large-scale war in the middle east, which flared up after the fierce attack of the islamist group hamas on israel. but the biggest problems were waiting for kyiv in the united states. the american congress has de facto pushed the election campaign from. refused to support ukraine's aid package of more than 60 billion dollars. republicans put forward a categorical demand, first to strengthen security on the border with mexico. within three months, volodymyr zelensky was forced to visit the united states twice, but failed to convince congressmen. on the common press conference with the ukrainian leader on december 12 , president joseph biden used completely different wording than in kyiv at the beginning of the year. ukraine will emerge from this war strong,

proud and firmly anchored in the western system, if we do not leave it. americans should be proud of the role they have played in supporting ukraine's success, and we will continue to provide ukraine with the equipment and weapons it needs as long as we can. problems with aid also arose in europe. the same viktor orban blocked the adoption of a four-year aid package for ukraine by 50 billions of euros. military support. kyiv by the international coalition fell to the lowest level since the beginning of the full-scale invasion. statements about the need to seek a diplomatic solution to the conflict are increasingly heard in the west. therefore, in 2024, ukraine enters the conditions of deep political , military and economic uncertainty. despite this, at the final annual press conference, zelenskyy made optimistic statements. i believe once again that our partners will not let us down.