news release, congratulations iro to you, and tell me about what will be in this release. thank you, marta, i will tell you about the most important events in just a moment. and for your attention, a news release on the spresso tv channel, in the studio of iryna koval. greetings to all viewers. the cabinet of ministers will allocate almost 800 million hryvnias for urgent needs of the military. this was announced by prime minister denys shmyhal during a government meeting. it is about additional financing of combat brigades, units of security forces from the reserve fund. the money will go, in particular to procurement of ammunition, thermal imagers and drones.

we are allocating uah 792 million from the reserve fund of the state budget to strengthen the defense capability, we are talking about additional funding for each brigade in proportion to the personal income tax paid in december. we are strengthening our army to effectively counter the enemy, to liberate and protect our lands, and to win as soon as possible. negotiations of the leaders of the states regarding ukrainian will be held in davos, switzerland today. to the peace formula, which will be attended by president volodymyr zelensky, as well as the secretary of state of the united states america's anthony blinken. during the meeting with him, they discussed defense cooperation between ukraine and the usa, the supply of air defense equipment and long-range systems. earlier, volodymyr zelenskyi met with nato secretary general jens stoltenberg and european commission president ursula fonderlajen, who urged the event not to weaken support for ukraine. and

all this tells us that ukraine can win this war, but we must continue to strengthen their resistance, the ukrainians need predictable funding during 2024 and beyond, they need a steady supply of weapons to defend ukraine and regain its legitimate territory, they need capabilities to deter future russian attacks. president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyy will speak at the world economic forum in davos at 3:15 p.m. kyiv time. watch the live broadcast on our broadcast, as well as on youtube and facebook pages. he promised to end the war in ukraine very quickly. the 45th president of the united states, donald trump, after winning the republican primaries in the state of iowa, stated that he would easily resolve the situation. according to him

, he is able to negotiate with the head of the kremlin, putin, because he has a good relationship with him. i know president putin very well, i know zelenskyi very well, i can involve him, we will solve it very quickly. this war should never have happened. putin and i get along great, we get along very well, which is good, but not bad. if fake news became... real and honest news, 90% of our problems in this country would be solved, the situation with ukraine is so terrible, and we're going to solve it, we 're going to solve it very quickly. the european union will conduct an audit of arms supplies to ukraine, writes the british newspaper fun national times, citing its own sources in brussels. the process was initiated by german chancellor olaf scholz. he called to count. and compare

military supplies to kyiv in order to find out what specific contribution the eu countries will make to support the armed forces of ukraine. in his opinion, most members of the european community have planned too little aid to ukraine this year the speaker of the diet of latvia, daiga mierinja, has arrived in ukraine on a working visit, the verkhovna rada reported. at the station , the polytechnic was met by the deputy speaker of the ukrainian parliament, olena kondratyuk. this is mierin's first official visit to ukraine. she already spoke in the verkhovna rada and ended her speech with the words "glory to ukraine". for which the deputies gave her a standing ovation.

polish carriers agreed to suspend the strike at the border with ukraine. accordingly , they signed an agreement with the ministry of infrastructure of poland. according to the minister dariush. the protest action was suspended until march 1. full traffic at the checkpoints will resume tomorrow, starting at 1 p.m. kyiv time. however, the drivers emphasized that such concessions on their part are not capitulation, but only a strategic pause. if it is not possible to find a solution to their problems, they will return to the border. positive signals also on the romanian border. the government agreed to... several demands of farmers to unblock the border with ukraine. in particular, they undertook to fully subsidize all agricultural excise taxes for two years, and also put into effect provisions on subsidized interest loans. as for other demands, negotiations will continue to find

a compromise, said agriculture minister florin barbou. however, according to one of the farmers' representatives, this agreement does not yet mean the end of protests. dozens of russians were scalded by boiling water due to the spillage of corpses in nizhny novgorod. 16 victims were hospitalized with severe burns. there are two children among them, according to the local telegram channels. according to their data, the accident occurred in a building built in the 19th century century as a result, more than 3,000 city residents in 20 high-rise buildings were left without heating in the cold. the houthis fired a ballistic missile at a us cargo ship in the red sea, the us military command in the middle east said. it is about the gibroaltar eagle metal products tanker off the coast of yemen. the us

said that no one was injured on the ship, the ship itself suffered minor damage to the cargo hold. the tanker is currently under the marshall flag. islands continues its way in the gulf of aden. islamic guard corps revolution took responsibility for the shelling of objects in kurdistan. iran attacked american facilities in iraq with ballistic missiles. explosions rang out near the us consulate in the city of erbil. four people died. among them is a local millionaire. six more were injured. however, there are no americans among them, three drones were also shot down near the airport. according to american officials, the strikes did not affect any united states facilities. verbal, non-verbal and physical, sexual harassment. ukrainians face such a problem every day

women, since the beginning of the full-scale russian invasion, cases of sexual harassment have been recorded significantly more - the public organization lastrada ukraine noted. women are warned not to be silent, but to fight for their rights. timely response to sexual harassment will speed up the prosecution of the perpetrator . the more severe the manifestations, the easier these manifestations are to prove. therefore, here we are actually talking about the proper collection of evidence, and it can be letters, it can be evidence, testimony of witnesses, it can be various threats, and completely different aspects, it's... it can be, it's important to give women a voice, it's important to give the opportunity to talk about the problems, the challenges they face and to give the opportunity to talk about the solutions that are needed, that the same women we can offer and can

achieve. drugs by mail: in kyiv , law enforcement officers eliminated large-scale drug trafficking from the cultivation and sale of cannabis, as reported by the capital police, a group of criminals grew hemp, offered their product through their own telegram channel, and sent it to customers by mail. organized this is the business of a 23-year-old man from sumy, he also involved three more people in his activities, the perpetrators earned up to uah 100,000 per month. drug dealers carefully followed the conspiracy. constantly changing payment instruments and using changed questionnaire data. this business brought them uah 100,000 per month. during a series of searches in kyiv, kyiv and sumy regions, we seized more than 60 kg of cannabis. means for packing and packaging and money. the estimated

value of the recovered substances at black market prices is about uah 18 million. such were you can read more news at this time on our website espresso tv, subscribe to us on the telegram channel and social networks, and also watch on youtube. marta oliyarnyk, antin borkovskii continue the broadcast of the espresso tv channel, we will see you at 4:00 p.m.: the informational marathon on espresso continues its work, soon we will have the opportunity to listen to president zelensky's speech in davos, our editors are already preparing an opportunity to watch his speech. and in etherispress and on our youtube, but in the meantime, while we wait for

opportunity to listen to president zelensky's speech, we will also discuss important topics that concern ukraine, the world, and the entire geopolitical situation in general. we are in touch with volodymyr tsibulek, a political scientist, with whom we will actually discuss the most important things. mr. volodymyr, welcome to espresso. congratulations, glory to ukraine. glory to heroes. look, the economic forum in davos is currently underway, we understand that... that important issues will be raised, in particular the issue of support for ukraine and the so-called peace formula, which was presented zelenskyi has already repeatedly, and actually , what worries me now is bloomberg information, which says that it seems like sullivan, jake sullivan, yes, has a message for zelenskyi from the white house that ukraine should go on the defensive on the battlefield , and actually about the fact that the situation has come to an impasse, but zelensky seems to want to admit this publicly, and if we talk about, as they say, broad strokes,

do you think that some fateful events can happen now in dovodsk forum and what the ukrainian reaction might actually be authorities on the results of this dovoz forum, well, what will it mean for us in general? well, the devoy forum is about global processes, and ukraine is not... a large part of these global processes, although the war in ukraine and russian aggression have a rather significant effect on the state of the global economy, and on markets, and on trends, that is, we see that the segment of the defense industry is growing, well , there is such a global polarization, because a new evil message has been created, and it is impossible not to count on its existence, well... such a global the economy must take into account all the creations of this axis of evil, all the threats, all

the phantoms that it releases in its wake, so it can be said that this is such an overestimation, the ukrainian delegation tried to play on several platforms, in addition to the economic one, they tried to discuss the formula of peace, well... it is obvious that this was such an overestimation by a number of countries of the collective south, and it seems to me that there is no success in this area, most likely, this initiative may stall or even collapse, that is, to convince of the need is to play by the global rules, to maintain the global world order, obviously part of... the collective south, part of the countries are in no hurry, they are watching who will be

the winner in this confrontation, so then, well , support, take the side of the winner. mr. volodymyr, and accordingly, we would ask you to immediately analyze in depth this statement of donald trump, yes, the former president of the united states, and the current one of the main candidates for this position, despite the relevant decision of the supreme court of the state circles who seems to forbid him to do this , so trump promised in his interview that if he is re-elected, he will very quickly, quote, resolve the situation with the war in ukraine, quote donald trump. putin and i get along great, we get along very well, that 's a good thing, not a bad thing, if fake news became real and honest news, 90% of our problems in this country would be solved, the situation with ukraine is so terrible, and we ... going to solve it we're going to solve it that that it very quickly i'm very good

i know putin, i know zelensky very well, i can involve him, we will solve it quickly. hence your comment. well, first of all, if trump could do something in this area, he would do it immediately and come out with ukrainian peace as a big trump card for the presidential elections. he is not doing it now, so he cannot do it. and even after being elected president. he won't be able to do that because uh, well, let's say uh, make himself a laughing stock, he can. but trumping the fact that he knows putin well and knows well zelensky sits and waits and does not solve this problem when thousands of people are dying, trump just looks like such a stupid and careless, irresponsible wordsmith, and nothing more. maybe he is like that? but let's

talk about the situation regarding european aid. union to ukraine, scholz decided that it was necessary to conduct an audit of arms supplies by the countries of the european union to ukraine, with such a demand that they were not doing enough to help ukraine in the confrontation with the russian federation, and to on february 1, the european external relations service should prepare this information in order to present it at the summit of the leaders of the european union. do you think that this attempt by german chancellor olaf. is to show real numbers, who helps us how much, can affect support this year? yes, scholz is a great realist, and we must give credit for the fact that scholz has become such a real european leader, because all aid programs for ukraine are essentially stimulated

primarily by germany, or carried out with the participation of germany a separate role. there is a separate track of great britain and a separate leadership , i would say, but scholz is just acting on behalf of that old europe, because britain has slightly different trump cards, and we see that britain’s leadership here is more of a show, although in terms of financial aid, germany really remains after the united states the leader in aid to ukraine. thank you, mr. volodymy. we have to take a break for the speech of volodymyr zelenskyi in the widow, so let's watch it together. in 2020, you said that now the biggest threat was then, right after in relation to security, and we see that now a part of your state then, it

was already under occupation of some regions. and so now we are in a new phase from the beginning of a full-scale invasion, and so we have all been convinced once again that there can be no prosperity without peace. ukraine has been standing for almost two years, it continues to stand, it continues to fight, its people are fighting in defense. democracy in protecting its sovereignty, thank you, mr. president, for your leadership, for your determination, thank you to every ukrainian for their courage, we sincerely thank you, as well as

the people of ukraine, for protecting the values ​​that... are the basic, foundational values ​​of liberal freedom. in 2022, ukraine received the status of a candidate for joining the european union, and now we know that the negotiation process has already begun. we know that ukraine will continue to move towards european integration, thanks to to those politicians led by you and your government, today we will hear from you about what, what path ukraine needs to take, and this is critical not only for your country, but also and for europe and the whole world, mr. president, i have the floor, thank you very much.

professor, thank you for this presentation, mr. president, ladies and gentlemen, i appreciate your, your desire to hear the answers to really important questions, especially when the war is over, or whether the third world war is coming. is it time to sit down at the negotiating table with putin? i want to say that the full-scale war in europe has been going on for almost two years. if we count from the time when crimea was annexed, it has already been 10 years, and during these 10

years russia has been interfering in african countries from sudan to mali. the war in syria is still bleeding because of the decision of putin, who wanted to prove something to someone. and it's almost going on. 13 years, you see the consequences of one man's actions, a man stole 13 years of peace, in return only pain, pain and a crisis that shook the whole world. putin is trying to make a repeat of what happened already in... in the 20th century, deportations, horrors, atrocities, and the fear that the war will never end, but in fact putin represents

the war, we all know that he is the cause of it , why so many wars continue and why so many conflicts have started, he will not change, never, we must change, all of us. must change in order to put an end to this madness that is brewing in this man's head, if we don't we won't win. putin is afraid of what he wants, what he does, and choosing his targets, and he only has one answer to the question of when the war will end, and that is... the answer is, it will not end, he will continue it, he will only spread it chaos, he supports terrorist forces, he joins

to conflicts that cause suffering to others, he what he calls for peace only turns into him being helped by military weapons from korea and iran, he likes to make wars, he knows why... he does it but we , we, in the free world, we can exist as long as we can defend ourselves, and it is not only about us, it is not only about ukraine, if someone thinks so, then he is mistaken, because we are now doing everything so that the war, which is currently going on in our territory, so that it does not escalate. each one a european nation today can provide a ready-made fighting army that can help us contain russia. how many people are you willing

to send to help another country, but understanding that all this is necessary for you, together we must fight putin in the coming years to put an end to it. so his military strategies now, while our brave men and women are already doing their work on the battlefield, they, this is the world's chance. in any confrontation , there is always a certain moment when there is a certain event, or at a moment when when disaster can be prevented. free world. must stand unwaveringly with ukraine while we unwaveringly plow our way to our goal.

we, all ukrainians, started our defense at a time when no one in the world believed in us, but then, now the world no longer believes in russia, not even. putin and his henchmen in korea and china, this will not help him. we must now invest in our tomorrow, we must bring peace, a peace that is just and stable. before a full-scale invasion, we repeated. do not escalate, do not provoke, we tried to invest in preventive actions. now

they are telling us again, don't escalate. don't stir up the beast, but we see it 's not, it's wrong, when you tell us don't escalate, it sounds like you're getting a victory over putin, when we asked for more weapons, the answer was don't escalate, but when the weapons came, then we saw that there was no escalation. we know that when, at a moment that could teach russia, that would give the west more confidence, we talked about what, about strengthening sanctions, but again the answer was don't escalate, we wanted to strengthen those sanctions, we wanted to make it impossible to circumvent those sanctions, but we heard don't escalate, and we

lost time. we lost some of the most professional ukrainian soldiers at this time, we lost not only lives, we lost opportunities, and the lesson was clear: every time russia fired missiles at us, we got patriots who are now intercepting those missiles, but again we heard what will happen if ukraine gets the systems. patriot, don't escalate, they told us, but you see to what extent these systems are working now and russia is losing every day, when we could not export grain, we did everything to be pushed back to the black sea fleet, so that we could provide access to grain to countries in need, now we need... our

we need power in the sky as we need it on the sea. we often keep emphasizing what we need and how much. only this provides, will ensure us progress. we have already proven how painfully ukraine can hit, in particular, on valuable aircraft of the russian federation. unfortunately, we heard another threat from moscow, and therefore the deliveries were not accelerated, but now we understand that we stood up despite all these threats, we see that it was only a bluff, and how can anyone be satisfied with those sanctions, but how can you say that yes we are so well done we

did. we introduced sanctions, if the components are in russian, in every russian ballistic missile, there are components that are produced in my country, how can you be satisfied then, but i want to thank each of our friends, each of our partners, who ensure that the sanctions were working at 100% so that they could not be bypassed, it is a total weakness of the west that the russian nuclear industry continues to work, because putin is the only terrorist in the world who took, who took over a nuclear power plant, and therefore we know how many assets are now frozen on the territory of europe, and therefore it is very important that these funds are transferred to the disposal of ukraine in order

to... ukraine in the future. putin wants money, he loves it above all else, and he and his oligarchs, his henchmen. the more they lose, the more likely it is he will stop his hostilities. putin must regret, putin must lose. and that's why we have to make sure that world unity cannot happen. weaker than the hatred of one person , we can ensure this, and therefore, ladies and gentlemen, this year we must work to the full, this must be a decisive year, whether we can lead the freezing of the conflict in ukraine to a complete victory, it is very important, because everyone a frozen conflict may eventually flare up again, and so...