it was so nice, it was quiet, we began to unshackle our slaves, until the men's blood flowed again. the executioners, crowned, like dogs hungry for butter, gnaw again. shevchenko, prophet. so let's start with the message of the president of the united states to congress, how do you see it in general, how successful was it, how important was the emphasis on the war in ukraine? i think it was very successful, joe biden. it wasn't just

a message, i think joe biden meant to start the crucial part of his of the election campaign, obviously those who wrote his speech, it was strong, very much focused on the biggest problems, both of the world and of the united states, and the energy with which biden spoke, it reflected, you know, there is such a very interesting the criterion for whether the speech was successful in the course of this speech joe biden broke three times the record for raising funds for his election campaign just from ordinary americans, that is, he started the speech a little after 9 pm, so at 9 pm, at 10 o'clock there at 11 p.m., three times in a row, it was a collection record funds, that is, it is obvious that people liked the speech. what he said about ukraine from the very beginning and what he actually compared... putin and hitler at the

very beginning of the speech compared the danger that threatened the world at the time, before he actually referred to the speech, to roosevelt's speech in the spring of '41, when roosevelt addressed congress, compared those times to now, a very apt comparison, and as he said that roosevelt then wanted to... congress, so he is trying to do that now, calling for immediate passage of the bill on national security, which provides for assistance to ukraine. well, in general, joe biden very, very confidently spoke about the achievements of his administration, primarily in the economy, because when he became president, the country was really in a rather terrible economic situation, because there were a lot of unemployed people, and during the three years of the biden administration, thanks to laws which

she initiated, which was adopted by the previous congress, 15 million new jobs were created in the country, restored jobs were lost during the pandemic, ah, inflation fell three times and the stock market, it is breaking absolute records, there have never been such high numbers, that is, the value of the shares of the largest american companies has never been as high as it is now. and the unemployment rate is the lowest it's been in more than 50 years, and it's the second, second year in a row, so that's an achievement, while joe biden has been talking a lot about the dangers of democracy in the united states itself, and he, very rarely, maybe never at all never happened before, he criticized very harshly trump, without calling him the truth, he called him my predecessor, but very ...

harshly criticized him all his approaches to politics, starting with foreign policy, because at the very beginning he said that this is not patriotic, just not it is not american to say that putin can do whatever he wants with nato countries in europe. well, and so on, so the speech was a success, it's, it's absolutely accurate, and, and, i think even those people who had doubts about biden's age, there, that, that... he has no energy, they had these doubts disperse after this speech. by the way, yesterday biden gave another speech in the states of fonction with about the same energy as when he spoke in the congress on thursday. we understand how important the ground on which this or that speech is delivered is also important. still, it seems to me that there is a certain difference, the speech, the annual speech of the american president joseph biden this year and the year there in 2022, for example, right? well, but less so, everything happened on super tuesday 5 and it becomes

clear that it is unlikely that anything will change, the nominee from the democrats will be joe biden, from the republicans donald trump. at the same time , some of the analysts point out that it is just somebody. and donald trump may be a bit easier for biden to beat than some other republican candidate, what do you think? ms. khrystyna, look, you and i can deal with such hypothetical things, of course, but the republicans couldn't have another candidate, it's just that the republican party is like this now, unfortunately, because it just pushed so hard. far right that she could not have any other candidate besides trump, well, unless we assume that trump ends up in prison, i even think that in that case nikki haley will not be a candidate, because there is, there is rondo santis , there's this vivek romaswamy, there's these

trump clones out there who, who in that case they're more likely to be the republican nominee, it's unfortunately... look, in america it's a two-party system, so of course people can have there are many more views than binary views, that is, people do not belong only there center-left and center-right, but this kind of movement is too much an exercise of the republican party , which has been going on for 30 years, he led it, i would say, to the right corner , there is also such a left current in the democratic party, but it is not there, it is influential, but. .. after all, it does not have the ability, so to speak, to take over the party and dictate its conditions, that is, there are people with more left-wing views, left-wing, you know, in the american sense, in europe, we would say that this such are typical social democrats, but they do not have decisive influence, but

the republican party, as the american viewers themselves say, is simply captured by trump, that he captured it and he did with it what he wanted to do with it, and this, by the way, ... he completed it by changing the leadership of the national committee of the republican party, putting two co-chairs there now, and one of these co-chairs is his son's wife, so that's how he made the party a family business, as everyone says, because he wants the national committee of the republican party party paid his lawyers, because he has a lot having to pay lawyers because of all the court cases against, so it's possible... if, if nikki haley was, say, the candidate , she would have, i think she would have a much better chance of beating biden than trump has, because of course , independent voters with such centrist views could vote for her, but she could not

become the candidate of the modern republican party. and tell me, mr. igor, why is it that in the world at all they perceive trump’s victory as one that has already almost happened, and everyone even about... predictions for the future, they begin with the words after trump's victory, not in case, after, this and that will happen. i think it's, it's, by the way, a successful pr campaign that trump's pr people are running, and well, i think people are kind of prone to getting caught, so propaganda, when the propaganda says, what will happen will be something terrible. and this means that it will be terribly inevitable, i can definitely say that it is absolutely unknown how the elections will end in november, it will be in 8 months, what will happen in america and in world in these eight months, we don't know , a lot can happen, and i would rate the chances

of both candidates as 50/50, but i would pay attention to such alarm bells for trump, which come from exit polls in states where took place recently, and specifically in states where independent voters could participate in the primaries, because there are states with open primaries, where not only partisan voters, but independent voters can come, let's say, i want to vote in the republican primaries, and they can to vote, so exit polls, they are interesting because a lot of people were polled, tens, hundreds of thousands of people were polled in the exit polls, and people who just... voted, that is, who they thought, for whom were polled they will vote and why, i.e. no it is not abstract, they were answering a non-abstract question, so it is very interesting that among independent voters trump’s support is very small, it is somewhere from 30 to 38-40%, it is very small so that win the election

because it is the independent voters who determine election results, also, interestingly, 50... to 59% of those who voted for nicky gale say they will not vote for trump in november. that is, it means that part of the republican voters. it's just that some republicans will not vote for trump, so it's not at all clear that he has any advantages, and in 8 months a lot can change, so to say now that trump will win, or to say that biden will win, is completely inappropriate , well that is at least for now the united states remains a democracy where the fate of elections voters will decide, and do. i don't think it's worth making predictions about who will win. mr. igor, in general, what is the tradition

of the united states of visiting, of elections, yes, that is, of being involved in the processes in general, because at one time ukraine’s illness was that we had a low turnout at the elections, and we started with what we started with, and now in states, given that a large number of people may simply not find a candidate between these two that they would be willing to...vote for, do they have the same problem? voter turnout for elections different, i think it depends on the time , it depends on the challenges, it depends on how much people believe that the election can change their lives, say in the 20th year, despite covid, the turnout was huge, a record the history of the united states, well, i can say, i personally, here we are. stood in line for 3 hours to vote, and we went to vote early, not on the day of the election, but a week

before the election, and we then spent 3 hours in line because so many people voted, never before, in an election at 10 p.m. to in the mid-term elections to congress , significantly fewer people will vote, especially those who vote for democrats, they were somehow very passive about the elections, many of them did not go to the polls. and what will happen now, well, it is very difficult to say, it can happen, yes, i agree with you that people can somehow decide that they do not like either trump or biden, so they will sit at home, of course, that can happen, that people will feel closer to november how important they will consider it to be to come and vote, well, it's hard to say now, that's it in the 20th year, it was really a record, because then it was allowed in all the states... so early voting, even where it wasn't before, because of covid, and there were

lines everywhere, for all the days when voting was allowed , there were huge queues at all the polling stations, how will it be now , let's see, and tell me, please, what do you think about this idea, that the republicans will propose some kind of their own bill regarding aid to ukraine, it became known today, and this project is founded as if in some russian money that is stored in the west, and this money will be like. would be a guarantee of ukraine receiving new aid? i've already heard, mr. vitali, about three republican bills, what you're saying, another one where congressman fitz-patrick is trying to take that bill that the senate moved, but add to it again border security and things like that. another, and one more, where loans would be granted to ukraine, well, here is the option that you are talking about, so that the loans would be granted at the expense of this russian money, which is on

in the west, by the way, the same proposal came from great britain, where it must be said that russian sovereign money is more than in the united states, in the united states it is only about 6 billion dollars, in general , the vast majority of this money is under the jurisdiction of the european union, just specifically in brussels europe is there. repository, where, where is more than 200 million euros of russian money, and i can say that i would like any solution, but for ukraine to receive help, but what should be done keep in mind in the current divided congress , bills that are being drafted behind the scenes by one party have no chance of being passed because even within...one party there can be different opinions, so bills can only be passed if

there is a bipartisan agreement bipartisan coalition to pass them , and if the republicans are going to prepare bills somewhere under the carpet so that no one sees it, i think that there will be little chance of passing them, because something may get in there, which, let's say, may not be a significant part of the democrats like it there, if there will be some... language is not acceptable, if it does not agree with the leaders of the senate at all or the senate will vote for it, in the senate any bills can be passed only on a bipartisan basis, because there you need... 60 votes, the democrats have 51 seats in the senate, the republicans have 49, that is , nothing can be accepted there at all, unless there is a bipartisan agreement of a bipartisan coalition, that is, i would say that any bill that will provide assistance to ukraine, that can pass, it will ok but

if bills are being prepared behind the scenes , that's bad, i read another message yesterday that the same... american congressman fits patrick, he is going to collect signatures on another petition, a discharge petition about his draft law, where is the aid to ukraine, which means all things related to the border, democrats said they have already started collecting signatures for the bill that passed the senate. this, by the way, is the pressure of speaker johnson, because if there are 218 signatures for any of these bills. he will be considered bypassing the speaker, it will be a terrible political defeat for the speaker, that is, it will show that he cannot lead the chamber, he cannot even lead his faction, if there are, there will be those who will sign such a petition, so i really want hope that eventually this problem will be solved, although it was embarrassing to see how

most republicans reacted to the part of biden's speech that concerned ukraine, they are silent. were reading something on their phones, the speaker was in one place, when biden referred to how reagan said, mr. gorbachev, will knock down this wall, it means that somewhere under the table he was applauding, so that, so that it was not very visible that he, that he was applauding, and on his face it was clear that he was very, very bad when biden was talking about all this, and as we understand it, ... in the case of trying to advance one of the alternative bills, we have time added to the moment of theoretical approval, true, that is, not anymore march, it's already april and so on, yes, yes, although there is one a moment that, oddly enough, can be positive, because the primaries continue to take place, after they have taken place,

the republican members of the house of representatives can, therefore, disappear already because of ... that trump can put up some of his own in their districts against them supporters, that is, they can, surprisingly, get more freedom of action. thank you, mr. igor, igor eisenbeek, a professor at new york university , was in touch with us. another big event this week: lihoite, special representative president of the people's republic of china xijiang pina for relations with the countries of central europe, visited kyiv after visiting the russian capital and the capitals of european countries, and we will talk about it with the former ambassador of ukraine to china, co-chairman of the ukrainian-chinese business council ihor lytvyn , congratulations mr. igor, i congratulate you, and can you even understand why lihuei started this tour in the first place? ah, he is a special representative of the government on the issue of relations with

eurasia, and that is why he came here. and in moscow, and in the european capital, in order to express the main opinion, which is the opinion that it is necessary to convene an international peace conference with the participation of russia, as the minister of foreign affairs and in general the chief diplomat of china, mr. wang yi, said at... therefore, every session of the people's assembly, china supports the convening of an international peace conference to which both ukraine and russia will agree, in which all parties will participate on equal terms and will be able to impartially and honestly discuss all peace plans. all of them conflicts must end at the negotiating table, and the sooner

negotiations begin, the sooner we will come. that is, lihuey came here in order to... call on the ukrainian side to participate in russia's peace conference, although our position is, as you know, that we hold the switzerland conference first, and when there are enough supporters of the ukrainian peace formula, then the caver is called russia, but ... china wants to make it so that at the first conference, and not at the second, as we plan, and how our western countries support us in this allies we planned and plan to invite russia to the second conference. i want china not to attend either the first, the second , or the third conference. yes, they somehow

look at it, to put it mildly, without great admiration. i do not know how olikhvei's negotiations in moscow ended, but there is an opinion that russia would be ready to be invited and discussed with it. these questions, and we are not ready for this, and our president said that there is no point in the aggressor sitting down for the negotiation forces, let them bring out their troops from our territory, and then there will be negotiations, when the territorial integrity of ukraine is established, that is, restored , then, perhaps, we will sit down at the negotiating table, but not now, that is why there is such a formula, let us convince that the formula is ukrainian peace formula, it is the best. and we will have many supporters, and then we will call russia and simply set its conditions, such thoughts arise, but lihui,

according to the south china morning post, which followed his european visit, there repeated the russian narratives in his conversations with his european colleagues , while during his previous tour he was much more upfront, you can explain what ... explains this change of position towards precisely supporting the russian idea of ​​how the war must continue and end. i will tell you honestly that i do not see a change in position at all, both from the beginning and now. china does everything to achieve its chinese interests, and for and for chinese interests, what they are they call it a conflict, or the ukrainian crisis , it must be ended, because it is stopping its self-healing. efforts to make a global economic expansion, and the continuation of the war , as they say, it is already starting, they do not see

anything that speaks of the fact that it is possible to advance somewhere by military means, and therefore there is no change, they want, they say what want to hear in moscow, i know insider information. from their chinese friends, they all see moscow as something so crazy that it can start nuclear war, which china categorically does not want to allow even the thought of it, so russia is told what it wants to hear, in fact, in fact, china does not stop trying and polices thoughts in order to... create a bipolar world, china, united states states, and now a lot needs to be done for this,

for example, at the session of the national people's congress, for the chinese people's assembly, prime minister litsiayan made a report, where the goal, that is , in the new year, will be 5.5%, that is, the growth of the economy, and... at the same time, the military budget, it will be a record, with an increase in everything, 7 7 %, and it will reach 231 billion hryvnias, that is, we are doing everything to strengthen the economy, and we are looking for new productive forces, as i said last year to seven and now repeated to the airmen, and at the same time we are increasing. military budget to be ready for any situation. mr. igor, you said that china is interested in russia's war in

ukraine stopping as soon as possible, they consider moscow to be insane, and so on. but nevertheless, to drag moscow immediately to the first round of any peace negotiations is to actually allow it to continue once again mantra, and here mr. vitaly will remind me now. that there is denazification, deratization , defication , i'm sorry, please, i can't spin these words, to be honest, so what, does it give us at least some options for getting out of the situation, that is, the desire of china in your opinion, in in principle, it is understandable and maybe even very right, but at the same time, what the chinese representative is doing now does not in any way pave the way for the realization of these wishes. they believe otherwise, they believe that if russia is rather brought to the negotiating table and ukraine, then a process will begin, which will end in peace after all. you understand

, and i will also tell you that this is not necessarily something that we should perceive as something absolutely true, that negotiations with diplomacy are two sides, and whose position, therefore, is clearly formulated, approved on the mountain, is trying to make the other side of the negotiation system voluntarily give up its position and take your position, these negotiations are diplomatic, and the goal... their purpose is exactly that, so he, likhui, he plays this, that is, the proposal, and looks at the reaction, will not go, because otherwise it is impossible to find out in which direction it will go, which means that the development of events, if it is not done as we would like , you understand, so here we cannot definitely talk about what china is promoting, he does not promote anything, and turkey does not promote, turkey also wants russia to

participate. in the peace conference, in which one exactly, i cannot specify, but the narrative is the same, for some reason we believe that it is a russian narrative, nothing like that, russia has its own narratives, and china has its own, and it is better for it that this what they call a rat ended as soon as possible and otherwise, after negotiating the parties, nothing will move and that's all, it's easier. ugh, tell me, do you understand why all this is happening right now, because lihui took a break for quite a long time after his last tour, after the contacts of president zelensky with the head of the people's republic of china xi jinping, which we have almost forgotten about, why is it like this again it is an important topic, well, he is not the one who invents these topics, he received the command, he went, there they believe that yes, time is coming. phase or

the phase has already come, as they believe, well, in military actions, which do not see absolute prospects behind them, then it is necessary to move the process from its place with this negotiation process, that is why the necessity has come, which spilled into the command of lihuey to go again and again it means already breaking through this question, i can't do otherwise... he says, i can't express any other opinion than what i have already said. ugh. and tell me, please, mr. igor, is there such information that russia could be preparing, or at least thinking about a nuclear strike on the territory of ukraine in 2022 year, and we talked a lot about the fact that maybe even china became a safeguard, an additional one, maybe for the russian federation, not to do this. is there

is china's position once again decisive in this matter for the russian federation? well, at least i am deeply convinced that russia depends significantly on the position of china in all issues, including issues of international security, and they listen, of course, to the opinion of the chinese leadership, which was expressed more than once, that is, expressed in various documents, including... ago sidzimpin's visit to moscow in march, where it was clearly stated that it was the insistence of the chinese side that there could be no possibility for the nuclear use of nuclear weapons to begin even in thoughts, this position has not changed, they are clearly orienting russia to god forbid they used nuclear weapons, you know that...

russia has almost 600 nuclear warheads, china has 200 or so, well, how can it be compared, so nobody in china needs a nuclear threat at all, and this unchanged position and thank god that they do what requires the whole world to restrain aggressive plans and nuclear threats. weapons, so that they do not materialize, god forbid, in life. and to what extent do you think china can influence russia here? i think that it has a very good influence and can influence russia, and not only on this issue, but also on other issues, which , for example, were discussed during the briefing for the doctor in the office of the president, the ministry of foreign affairs, and demilitarization to ...