in the preparation of a large-scale war in ukraine, talk about the fact that they have changed something, fundamentally in their ability to threaten precisely with nuclear warheads, strategic, tactical, well , unfortunately, for them and fortunately for us, we do not have to, so we don't have to now to take part in promoting this new stage of threats from russia, first of all... we know that there were colloquial talks between the chinese leader and the russian, and china, china does not benefit from the deployment of such things, even the preparation of nuclear weapons, because china in in its region surrounded by nuclear countries, and some of them are of great concern to china itself, so in this regard, although it may be a consolidated position, it is firstly, and secondly, look at us, said... those,

who promised security guarantees according to the budapest memorandum, they said, we promised this from the point of view of the use of nuclear weapons, so the use and preparation for use are also there, so i think that it is not only the united states that should pay attention to these statements now, britain, which in many ways fulfill now his promises, but also france, nuclear and china. because they are actually their letters then, these letters are in the archive of the ministry of foreign affairs of ukraine, they were not signatories, but they joined such an approach, not to threaten with nuclear weapons, but in fact now you can apply this document, no matter how weak it may seem, this is the first , secondly, i emphasize once again, we need explanations in ukraine that there are no threats, strikes with strategic nuclear weapons on the territory of ukraine, this does not exist today. because it has already been discussed and

putin will not cross these red lines, he is really a human being, well , mentally ill in many ways, but there are his own, including technical fuses for this story, if we talk about other options for tactical nuclear weapons, then there are no tests yet, that’s all well, so far such empty statements, well, and thirdly, we have to watch now. to other things that we forget because of this: firstly, we have much more threats just specifically on the russian offensive now on our territory, secondly, they keep under control and in the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is in a very dangerous condition, thirdly, they still have facilities in the crimea that can be used as man-made disasters, this is what ukraine needs to deal with right now, and you know, this whole story with nuclear threats, we have already... and passed, we have already

, in my opinion, the ukrainians have fought back from their own. you mentioned france, that france could ask for its signature in this situation, that they signed the budapest memorandum, and emmanuel macron invited a number of foreign leaders to him on monday, and we can see that they will discuss strengthening cooperation in support of kyiv there. that the bundestag called on the german government to provide long-range weapons without mentioning the taurus. we see some talk so far that the americans are ready to give the attacks a longer range of the missile, that is, we understand that the whole world is beginning to realize the danger that comes from putin, especially, i guess, after he gave this boring two ... an hour-long interview

with tucker carlson and everyone realized that, well, that he lives in some kind of medieval times, or maybe even ancient times, and tries to redraw the world, according to the maps that were still in the 13th or 14th century. mr. valery, do you think that the event will be able to turn around the situation, the uncertainty in which we are now, when the congress of the united states of america has not yet made a decision regarding ukraine. when we still don't have long-range weapons, when even the americans themselves admit that the lack of these weapons affects the front, in particular, as regards avdiivka, that is , has the time come when they already understand that without such weapons it is simply impossible to defeat putin. the time came when they began to realistically consider the threat of direct confrontation with russia at this stage, that is, it was different at first.

as in the ministries of defense, now it is already being declared politically in the nato countries , what we talked about, well, in fact, at first , a large-scale invasion, and i think that this is the right conclusion. only you have been preparing it for a short time, the time has come when europe, in particular germany, france, well, britain earlier, understood that it is necessary to rely on its capabilities in the military and technical plan, in the production of weapons, where they have been for many years actually lagged behind the united states both in terms of volumes and new equipment there, although there are good results in france, germany, and denmark. in norway, in britain, in sweden, but the volumes are not ready for today's period, so i will just remind you that in fact the ultimatum of putin in the 21st year in december, which he sent through the ministry of foreign affairs of russia, as a security draft of some agreement there was sent to nato and the united

states, they did not accept it, two countries, now finland and sweden will be further are included in nato, but in response. they have just now woken up or are waking up to this threat, so there is one point that i try to explain to all partners, reminding them that many of us were right, or were we right, two years ago, now they think that ukraine will restrain the russian onslaught as much as possible, they will gain additional time, then they will prepare as much as possible and deploy the same bendisfera division, sorry, the bendisfera motorized brigade in lithuania. further, what is already added through the suval crossing will be pulled up to the eastern border theirs, will raise even more opportunities , so i will say, putin will not wait, if ukraine does not have what you said, concentrated now in this, well, in the coming months, the supply of those missiles, which

are called long-range missiles, in fact, it is 500 km, it is basically only behind the rear of the current surge at the front, that is... if there is not this stupid, absolutely senseless prohibition there not to respond only on the territory of ukraine, and not outside, but how will you repel even f16 attacks in the air, whatever they are, they will hide there just in the air space, well, this is pointless, so if this understanding comes and there will be concentrated help to ukraine, then they will not have to form a new line of defense, in fact already on their... territory, so now, in fact, they are one dangerous moment in this, on the one hand , they are dangerous for ukraine, on the one hand , they already agree that even during, even during the war with ukraine, if it is so positional, well-grounded, there may be attacks on

them, and missiles have already flown into poland , drones to romania, well, so far, still alone, but there may be an attack on sukhadol, very simply through estonia, through... suvalki 100 km through lithuania and poland, it may be, well, they are somehow intimidating transnistria, although this is a separate story, that is, they want to escalate, if the bar of escalation and show the failure of nato. so the mistake now in nato countries is that they think they have time, 3 years were called 3-5 years there, there is no time, i claim that they need to be ready. before this already at the end, at the beginning of next year, at the end of this, at the beginning the next, and if they do not strengthen us as much as possible by this time, they will face a direct, there will be a direct confrontation between nato and russia, or nato countries and russia, and that's all now,

now they are talking about this line of defense, well, it is absolutely clear, and they are talking about this is their ministry of defense, of course in ukraine, which pays the highest price and... and there are armed forces that are ready now, well, just to, you know, withstand it and repel the occupier, give weapons, give as much as possible, it can be used, if they don't use it, then it will be a completely different situation for them, i i will tell you, to be honest, it will be fair, because if you think that you will receive an ultimatum for you, as was sent to russia, nato countries and the usa, and only ukraine is fighting, thanks to everyone for the dosed, once again, dosed supply of weapons, i say again, dosed delivery of weapons, because the year 23 could have been a completely different year, if our partners had not played the game of escalation control,

but now they have reached them, well, but i'm sorry, time, time plays a role, so now, i think the second time they should not make the mistake of thinking that it will stay there for a long time. no, i think that understanding has come, i want to see actions, so you are sure that our western partners will no longer continue this game in... some kind of truce, peace, some lines, putin with some mediators, zelensky with some mediators, and they are now solving some issue among themselves, how to actually stop the war in ukraine? well, i will take the courage to say that these are, well, you can say, backstage negotiations, let me refer to the leaks in the mass media, they continued in november, december between washington and moscow, and... in principle , they did not come to anything, because, well, if

these developments are to be believed, the americans said that we cannot make such a decision without ukraine, because the russian side demanded to recognize, de facto today, already occupied territories, objects, so that they are fixed for them even in the agreement, well, that is, so that it is fixed for the conquered territories, well, you know, the approach is as if... the hitlerian approach is obvious, well, it is unlikely will someone go, that's why it failed now, attempts from the side russia will continue because it is profitable for them, of course, today's situation, they will still try to encroach on the territories, thinking that later it will be possible to achieve the fixation of these territorial encroachments, but i believe that in the fall it is necessary to make it so that by autumn, summer-autumn to go into a completely different story in order to force already... already putin and russia on completely different terms until the end

of the situation, and until this period, well, let's say this, until the elections, the election day in the united states, why is everyone so, so they formulated the date for themselves, well, it is clear for what reasons, there elections not only for the president, there is also the congress, there really a lot depends on the position of the usa, well, in russia they expect that this will be a very favorable period for them. therefore, until now, i think , there will be no serious options to make this temporary suspension, as they say, a freeze, well, even if we theoretically assume that there may be some conversations and some agreements, but the recognition that russia occupied ukrainian territories, this will simply completely destroy the entire world security system, because... that at some level there even the expert will conduct the coordination of this

agreement, and the fixation of the fact that russia has done the right thing, this means that all other participants in world diplomacy can no longer engage in diplomacy, but simply engage in the accumulation of weapons and by force, take back some certain territories or reconquer some territories, that is, it is not accepted. him under any conditions, that's right, absolutely, i 'll tell you more, diplomacy has already become less, i still maintain from the point of view that no formal agreement of any kind with this regime russians, even it will not exist, it will not exist by definition, because it is impossible to do with them, because they are simply an enemy who wants to destroy another country, here only to force, you can force to do anything, but i see. that now it is not the same as diplomacy, now international law is simply torn apart

, broken, disassembled, yes, it is spat out, because it has reached such things that it was impossible to imagine before, and in fact everyone was quite confused, but nevertheless it has already been two years there was, and in these two years much more could have been done, well, i think, a lot i hope that these statements about the fact that there are 8,000 shells, there are half a million, there is production, there are already some budgets are changing, that it will still put understanding on other rails. when they talk about a diplomatic end to the war, when ukrainians in particular answer this question, i asked those who conduct surveys: in fact , ukrainians do not mean signing an agreement with russia or with putin, but actually... about surrender, not about that it is said, and it is said that

the russian regime will still succeed through diplomatic means to push them away, because with all their mental problems, they have mistakes, but they still, well, we understand why they want to keep the power there , control in their country, because they will be torn apart if they don't are held, therefore, in principle... there are ways for world pressure to really influence their approaches, it is true, and the first is weapons, the second is sanctions, the third is still the continuation of obstruction from... political, this is the most difficult, because many countries in the world do not want to do this, you are looking for your benefits there, we see it, and this is all together you can name some diplomatic influences there , but all this will be less in the future , let's be honest, and this is a lesson for ukraine, the right of force will

play a key role in the coming decades, not international law, not rules, but the right of force, you see. tanks, first some actions, first 100 tamahawks were released there or cruise missiles, including tamahawks, then they start to figure it out. at first, hamas provoked israel there, and they were attacked, then let's maneuver to decide who is right and who is wrong, when they withdraw, that's how it will be. that is, if you have the power, you will be able to defend yourself, you do not have the power, any formal agreements, any prior agreements. will not work, everything will depend on what you have in your hands at the moment here and now, for ukraine it means having, well , ideally, it is clear that a security umbrella through precisely collective defense, well, nato, is a separate topic, and now, unfortunately, it is difficult to implement, but what we should have in the near future

a large, sufficient number of missiles, which would, well , let's say, we call long-range eyes that's 500 km, it's not like that. in fact, the average range of missiles is 5,500 km, the average range, shorter range, is 1,000 km, at least if we have our missiles without nuclear weapons, but a thousand kilometers, several hundred missiles that could be some kind of deterrent weapon, well, i i am talking about other components as well, so we need to use this moment to strengthen our... capabilities, and for now, let's be honest, we do not have an advantage over the russians in many types of weapons, we have somewhat balanced there in terms of systems , well, air defense, thank you, and the fact that we are lagging behind very much, in terms of self-propelled artillery installations, something has been improved a little in terms of anti-aircraft guns, but very little,

we are losing in all these directions, while they give us weapons to replace what... was lost in the war, that is , that is why it should be a completely different approach, and now we always talk about it, constantly discuss it, but i think that we should talk, i think that more frankly, and not at the official level, you know, at that level the parliament could already would like to be included, so that there is not a little of the other opera, but today our government went to the polish one... it is standing there taking pictures, and the parliament is not involved, why some big one, the poles were ignored, well, that's it, well, why do we have different associations, we have a people's association , there is simply no coordination, there is no work of such an active government, well, yes, here we are , we took a picture, yes, we went to the stadium, yes, the stadium , and what’s next, well, this story

, frankly, is kind of very strange, because yesterday tus spoke about it , that he will not come to the border, but... went there with government officials, and zelensky said that they should come there, and shmyhal, by the way, today said that ukraine has developed and is offering poland a plan of understanding regarding the unblocking of the border, it consists of five steps, the issue of unblocking the border should be resolved before march 28, how about that tusk said that a meeting could take place on march 28, let's listen to what schmigel said today on the border from both sides. there are more than 9,000 trucks, and this issue must be resolved urgently. the trilateral headquarters should work around the clock, and the issue of blocking the border should to be decided much earlier than march 28, the date when a joint meeting of the governments of ukraine and poland should take place. otherwise , ukraine reserves the right to apply

mirror measures at checkpoints. well, this is some kind of artistic amateur activity. i don't know how mr. valery, you perceive how? a professional diplomat and i, how is it to come to the border and say: listen, leave, let's talk, and we have five-point plans, well, that is , it somehow looks unprofessional, look, the fact that some institutional institutions should have been involved possibilities for a long time already, we talked about it a few months ago, i know it, and we all know it, and... i also worked at one time, there is a ukraine-poland consultative committee, which in principle is under the president, who in principle should to warn about such... well, situations , they can arise, and they warned about it , well, we do not want to bring it to the level of the president, although it was stated here that it was

volodymyr zelenskyi who spoke with donald tusk, after this conversation, donald tusk said, that it can only be at the end of march 28th, it is objectively possible there to discuss, well, it is really unclear what they are pulling, the situation is critical for us not only from the point of view of the supply of goods there, yes, but from the point of view of the fact that this is an informational tool, very serious, and it is clear that various forces are at play here, but they also turned back some military cargo, that is , it is absolutely unacceptable to us, that is why the decision, for example, the statement of the prime minister of poland that we are border crossings and facilities, that is , we recognize all crossings as critical infrastructure, which means that we cannot do all this there shares, this was a good decision. therefore, if it can be unblocked at the expense of him, then okay, but if they don’t want to see you, if you want to put pressure on the decision of the polish government, it is hardly

the best option, the plan we offer is good, what about brussels we offer together, it’s also good, because brussels has distanced itself from this issue a little now, you know, that is, the issue is not about grain at all, so now we should talk with poland about... about joint structures of collective defense, time for that speak, and we are forced to speak the following elements blockades of the border, this is an absolutely unacceptable thing, and with all the elections that will be held in poland or new elections there and they say that they want to take revenge, the previous party that did not get this power, that is, it does not satisfy me at all, how to act here, let our, well our... when we say the government, well here it is not only the government, i emphasize once again, there must be a coordinated line of the state, i would start with

the work of parliamentarians, diplomats, parliamentarians, well, the government got involved, okay, at this stage, well, but the picture itself is unlikely to affect now, it is unlikely to affect, but for us, honestly, it looks like a certain weakness, i don't know what they were counting on, because i know these people. which of them as professional people in the government, well, i don't know why such a decision was made, i think that this decision was made not in government buildings, but in others, where purely such informational steps are developed, well, this is an emotional decision and it is directed first of all at the day before, and there should be actions directed at poland, because at... in principle, i understand that poland is doing a lot and has been doing, well, let's say yes, i did a lot more, yes, now there are questions lately, and in fact everyone

was counting on the government of donald tusk, he is a european politician, he sees it differently, i will tell you, frankly, so far such drastic changes, something we have not we see, and this is his authority, i met with him as part of a delegation, he is a person who... perfectly understands this, a person who is for the unity of europe, i think that he will manage to take steps, and here it would not be in public for all of us to play, but to find ways, but really there from coordination, i am sure that donald toust is interested in in order to solve this issue in the context of european security. another issue that is being discussed, well, at least for the last few days, is the possible holding of a so-called congress of so-called deputies of various levels. in transnistria on february 28, this meeting of deputies is supposed to take place, and they say, this unrecognized transnistrian moldavian

republic will ask for entry into the russian federation. on february 29, putin should address the federal assembly with an annual message, although the ministry of defense of ukraine says, that information that transnistria will ask putin to join them to the russian federation is currently not confirmed, and the ambassador of ukraine to moldova, marko shevchenko, stated the need to create a new format for the settlement of the transnistrian conflict, since the previous format with the participation of russia has already been discredited, and assured that ukraine will provide assistance to moldova in the event of an escalation of the situation in transnistria. let's listen to what the ambassador said, the official ones are entrenched. once publicly said that if there is an official request for support or assistance from the authorities of the republic of moldova, ukraine will definitely provide her, in what way and how quickly. if the moldovans

believe that there is a threat to security or stability, they can apply, and we will discuss what kind of assistance moldova needs, and that assistance will be provided as circumstances allow? mr. valery, how likely is the scenario or the repetition of the scenario. from the so-called lpr and dpr, from the pmr? well, on the one hand, they are ready for this, because in fact, this gathering of deputies of various levels in transnistria is taking place for some important moments, yes, that is, last time after last time, they made a decision there about turning to russia in principle, and they basically just need to

confirm it and that's all. that is, by and large, the development of events can be anything , so i would not reduce exactly such threats, it feels like there is some kind of behind-the-scenes constant struggle, something in russia is reducing their appetite for decisions, because it is from their point of view now what is the purpose of the corridor from the south of ukraine, well, it was through odesa. and in transnistria, transnistria it is cut off from the border with russia, that is , both by sea and by land, so it is difficult to carry out serious things here, but from the point of view of such a game of destabilization, raising the stakes, it can, in principle, be played, if russian political technologists come up with the idea that it is necessary to show the muscularity of his

leader. anything can happen, although such statements that we have everything under control there, i would say that these are very bold statements so far, well, but this ongoing conflict, well, not a conflict, but simply put, the occupation of the 14 of the army of the russian federation, since 1992 year, there was no way to get this army out of there, then you had this whole story with the transnistrian... moldavian republic, and it is such an appendix between moldova and ukraine, but it is the territory of moldova, and it is a threat to both moldova and romania, including , that is, if the 14th army, which is there, if i'm not mistaken, there is a contingent of about 50,000 people in transnistria, if suddenly they start hostilities, then this

will somehow lead to the fact that romania... will also enter the war or will not enter, well if ok separately, not as a northern member of the north atlantic alliance, but as a territory that, let's say, helps moldova a lot. mr. sergey, this is a separate topic , probably because, well, i’ll say it like this, there are not 50,000, there are fewer, and there is an oplasa, there are large warehouses there, which, well... are embezzled there or corruptly stretched there or exported to russia , but nevertheless, it is not about weapons, it is not about the amount of equipment or special personnel , it is about the fact that even those who are there will not be able to oppose them militarily, but there is no need drop it all the same under our border with the vinnytsia region, there i will tell you that it is

with any kind of involvement there. destabilization is a very bad story, although it can really lead to the fact that the war will no longer turn into a war of one in the defense of one country, ukraine, moldova may be involved, then, we will see further, that is, what will happen next, so raise the stakes in this way , show escalation and threaten even more, putin can, and the kremlin can do it, which... means in military terms for us, i don't want to go into details now, let experts, the military talk about it, but there is nothing good, but there is nothing good in the development of such a situation, which has already been tested by them, in fact, at such and such congresses, there is nothing good , especially in the international legal status - this is an occupied territory, in fact, moldova .