started this discussion, well, he does not have elections, he does not risk anything, one must leave a mark in history, because in principle you can imitate, and you can leave a mark. i think that he started this discussion, and it is good, it would be nice if ukraine supported this discussion, i emphasize once again, president zelenskyi said that we do not need it. why? is he ready, having failed the law on mobilization, to leave this war on the shoulders of those who broke into the military commissariat in 22? that's how we end, our shoulders end. it won't work, and i'm here i don't panic now, but on the contrary, we need to raise this mud, because there is no other option, no frost will save us, no truce with the russians will end in anything , the russians will break it on the same day, we had many truces during minsk , hundreds and that at least once it worked, at least one day along the front line would be without shelling, but of course not, but now, when there are already so many victims, when we have so many weapons here on the territory of ukraine, what do we think, that putin will come to... some kind

of truce, the whole truce was announced today by this guy medvedev is drunk, what did he say, the capitulation of ukraine, ukraine is russia, well , then there are concentration camps and all the lists of objectionable people, this is what portnov previously voiced, so that's it, that's all and that's the end of it, would the 250 million won soviet union war against nazi germany without a second front, and where then. how quickly nazi germany captured the entire european continent and even a piece of africa, do you understand? but a second front opened, and it helped, well, that's all, yes, the fact is that nazi germany had 40 million population or how much there is, the soviet union then had 250, if i am not mistaken, and it did not take this war out, and for some reason we think that our 40 million, and 10 have already left, because they are refugees, so what are we going to do with this the war

well, against a russia of 140 million people, in which zambused mothers send their children to die for putin's ideals, well, that's how it is, that's why i believe that it is necessary to work in this direction, to openly declare a second front, by the way, do you remember when we spoke for tanks for tanks, for tanks, for tanks, and then they say western partners, yes , there was no official request for tanks, and we are like, ah, yes, of course, we officially apply, and then for another six months we pushed snots, and tanks, and tanks, and tanks, well, after six months, they gave, similarly. the story of the second front, make a statement, ask them to help us, we are not going to take it out ourselves, well , how are we going to take it out, but then we will not be left here anymore, thank you, thank you, mr. major, it was a major of the armed forces of ukraine, a special agent ihor lapin , friends, we work live on the espresso tv channel, as well as on our platforms in youtube and facebook, for those who are currently watching us on youtube, please take part in our vote, today we ask you this, do you see signs of a parliamentary crisis in ukraine, right? no if you are watching

us on tv pick up your smartphone or phone and vote if you think there are signs of a parliamentary crisis 0800 211 381 no 0800-211-382 all calls to these numbers are free vote at the end of the program we will sum up the results of this vote. mykola knyazhytskyi, native, is in touch with us further deputy of ukraine, chairman of the verkhovna rada subcommittee on cultural policy. mr. mykola, i congratulate you, thank you for joining our broadcast. congratulations. so, today the verkhovna rada of ukraine held its first plenary session after a three-week break, but after one productive vote, the speaker immediately closed the session. this was reported by yaroslav zheleznyak, and he sees this as a sign of a future parliamentary crisis. as we ask our viewers if there are signs of a parliamentary crisis in ukraine, what would you say and how would you answered this question? well, it seems

to me that in ukraine we have a crisis of power, because the parliamentary crisis occurs in those countries where there are large coalitions consisting of several parties, we also have a majority that had votes with a huge margin, and now these votes are gone, therefore, this is a crisis within the government, or a crisis within the servant of the people, or a crisis within the pro-presidential force, in order to overcome this crisis, i think it is necessary, well , it is necessary to talk with other... factions, the government does not want to talk with the opposition yet , which from my point of view is a mistake, because during the war, unity is what can save us, but the situation itself pushes them to this, because if we destroy parliamentarism, then obviously it will be difficult for us to talk about the european union and international aid , our enemies, aggressors will only rub their hands together. the absence of a monomajority is obvious, if it is recorded, because if there are not enough votes for 226 for... in the servants of the people, it will mean

reformatting of the entire system of government, that is, the parliament must reformat, then the government must reformatted, should appear but... the prime minister, well, that is, the entire system that was built in 2019, needs a complete update, are they ready for this in the service of the people, or will they pretend that actually in there is a certain part of people's deputies of them, they will be supported by former opzh and various deputy groups and factions that are under the control of various business groups, well, we'll see. i do not think that they are psychologically ready for this, that is, the servants of the people party itself, deputies from the servants of the people, many are ready, there are many professional people there, although there are many who do not go to the hall, and therefore they cannot vote, but there are also those who think soberly and understand everything and are democratically minded, but they do not

make decisions, the decision is made in the president's office , it seems to me that people there , since they have not had political experience, they think, well, we will work without parliament, that is... they do not realize what it is, what it is like to work without parliament, and that this is a threat to democracy, and obviously, well , they think that only they decide everything there the country consists only of them, so of course there are a lot of problems here, whether they will realize it, i don't know, but it is precisely because of the lack of this realization that i have such fear for the future, because it is a very serious risk if people do not feel, then later, so that it is not too late, as well as in defense, as well as in all and... other directions in which our state lives, when i come from lviv to kyiv for a session, today i came and spent some money on tickets, for this we are paid for travel by the verkhovna rada, i.e. these are taxes, citizens pay for this, and we voted

one very important vote, but by and large it was declarative, anti-putin, it definitely had to be done, but it is not some kind of law that the ukrainian state needs, of course, the parliament cannot work like that. the more so the parliament in a country at war, i think there is no awareness that this cannot happen, and it is important here that it is not too late. mr. mykola, let's talk about putin, about his latest statements regarding security guarantees for russia, because in the future in the past two months, he has spoken several times in various interviews about these guarantees, about the fact that the west should provide some security guarantees to the russian federation, he is ready to sit down at the table of peace negotiations with ukraine, although he specifically understands. what are peace negotiations and does he have his own conditions, what guarantees does putin want and from whom? i think that this is ordinary demagoguery, because no one was going to attack him, it is all a fiction in order to cover up his

imperial policy with this profit, which once again shows the the fact that he is not ready for negotiations, because in what he said, he said that the realities on the ground must be taken into account, which means that the occupied territories must remain not just occupied, but, as he believes, part of russia, because he made changes to the constitution , where he made these territories, this means a complete unpreparedness for negotiations, and when someone starts telling me that our government is so-and-so preparing for negotiations, well, as you understand, i in the opposition do not like our government and a lot of why am i accusing her, but the question is the negotiations are not their question, it is a question of putin's readiness, but these demographic statements in order to mislead the west, in order for the west to support us, this... this is solely for the sake of this part of the information war, where everyone starts telling that ukraine does not want transition, and russia, they say, is such a peaceful country, is ready to negotiate about everything, only so that ukrainian territories remain occupied, ukraine remains without money and without weapons, and we will agree on what will happen next, that is our sphere of influence, so obviously it's all normal

putin's demagoguery with the aim of disrupting our support, and we have been watching this demagoguery for a long time, and this demagoguery is obviously aimed at simply removing. putin's responsibility for what he is doing in ukraine, killing ukrainians, destroying cities, and actually turning the east of ukraine into ashes. against this background, the pope also made several statements, his statement about the white flag, about the peace talks was interpreted in different ways, it was explained in different ways that these were the words of a journalist, these were not the words that pope francis was responding to, but after his scandalous statement about... ukraine, the pope spoke again on the topic of war, calling on parishioners to pray for those who suffer from the terrible consequences of conflicts, let's listen. today they brought me a rosary and the gospel, a young soldier who died at the front. he prayed

with them. many young people, many young people are dying. we pray to the lord to...give us the grace to overcome this madness of war, which is always defeat. why do you think the pope never names. putin and russia as aggressors who are waging this war and not appeal directly to them to end the war? well, once he said something like that, in fact, he did not address them, because he really tries to compare or equate the aggressor and the victim, something that in general infuriates all christians. uh, when we talk about the pope, we need to understand several extremely important things, because in ukraine there are a lot of catholics, and roman rite, and eastern rite, greek catholics and... a lot of people immediately start accusing the greek catholics and to say that they should change the church. so, for

faithful catholics, the pope's words are a truly important truth only when he speaks about matters of faith, about matters of theology. any of his political statements are his opinion, and the faithful of the catholic church have the right to disagree with him, and for the most part they do not agree. we have seen the statement of his beatitude sviatoslav, which he announced in the united states of america. that those who say that we must not win there or must surrender must repent is such a rather sharp statement, he essentially denied the words and opinion of the pope of rome, although this opinion of the pope of rome , as the vatican later explained, it was not his opinion, it was only an answer when he was provoked to a question, and it was in the question of the journalist that this word was contained, about the white flag, nevertheless he repeated it, and of course we cannot agree with it, but the fact that we do not agree with it... does not mean at all that we have to make any claims against catholics, because the church, or rather

the catholic church, is not the communist party of the soviet union, and many of our people think that if your the first secretary said then you should all do that, no there is no such rule in the church as to the reasons why the pope says that, well the pope belongs to such an interesting order of jesuits and this is the first jesuit pope ever, we have heard of jesuits a lot from ukrainian... classics from history, and it is no coincidence that the jesuits were never popes, because for them very often, let's say, the goal is the means are more important than the goal, for many they are more important than values, and the jesuits understand perfectly, that the majority of their faithful the churches are the so-called global south, and the global south is largely dependent on russia, it's china, where they hope, just a very large population, and china also has talks with russia, and so ... the pope, from my point of view, is largely expressing the vision of his order, but not even of the entire

catholic church, although he speaks on behalf of this entire church, and this is certainly such a very dangerous situation, but how dangerous it is, it is not pleasant, i would say for the future catholic church, which has existed for so many years and carries the word of god, there is rather a problem here, a problem of morality, but not a problem of existence, and you see that... and ukrainian politicians, greek catholics, and ukrainian clergy, greek catholics, and polish politicians, including donald tusk , the prime minister of poland, they all disagreed with the pope's words, they directly support ukraine, many catholics directly condemn the pope, so this is actually just the opinion of one very high-ranking person, but it is only the opinion of a person, the opinion is certainly wrong, which none of the ukrainians, none of the ukrainian patriots can be accepted, and we can only express regret. to hope that in the future we will see such popes as john paul ii, who in principle, in fact,

thanks to him, the wall between the western and eastern world was largely destroyed, and we, as ukrainians, and ukrainian catholics, among ukrainians there are many catholics, and catholic poles who support ukraine, many other catholics, they condemn the pope in this case and hope that they will have a pope who will uphold truly democratic values ​​in the struggle of the democrats. with totalitarianism, because democracy is largely a continuation of christian politics and christian approaches, it is no coincidence that there are many parties of a christian democratic orientation in europe, because christianity itself is democratic, yes, sometimes they try to present it as some kind of totalitarian religion, but the middle ages are long gone, today it is a completely democratic religion. mr. mykola, another important topic is the blockade of ukrainian freight transport on the polish border. continues and, as reported by state spokesmen the border of the state border service,

due to this blockade queues of trucks are observed on the border with slovakia, hungary, and romania. at the same time , oleksiy danilov, secretary of the national security council , told reporters at a meeting in lviv that ukraine is working daily to resolve the situation of blocking the polish-ukrainian border, let's hear what danilo said. i think that after some time some people will. for what is happening today on our border, and it is definitely not our fault, because we have not done anything that would have affected us this attitude, we will find out exactly how it all happens. our country is doing everything possible and impossible, i know for sure that the president of our country, volodymyr oleksanovych, so that he knows, we hold such closed meetings every day, and there would not be a day when volodymyrovych would not ask denys anatolyovych a question about when we will be able to to solve this issue, unfortunately,

today i cannot say that it will happen tomorrow, but i can definitely say that we are dealing with this issue. mr. mykola, is ukraine doing everything, as danilo says, everything is possible and impossible to solve this issue? well, let's start with the fact that this is not kubrakov's problem and not the problem of the minister of agriculture . danilov is right in that there is no ukrainian fault in those traffic jams. the reasons are completely different, and anti-ukrainian hysteria is spreading in poland, we don't sell anything there, we used this country for transit and that's only 5% of ours. romania , on the contrary, builds its own roads on this transit of ours and uses this transit, because we pay for this transit to the companies that use it, and this is a boon for romania, and unfortunately, poland became hostage to all these protests, where ukraine is used as an excuse, very often russia is behind it, because pro-russian forces started, and it seems to me that from the first days of the blockade

danilov himself needed to communicate with his colleague from poland, and then appeal to the nato council of ukraine, because this is a direct threat to ours. security, now they let military cargo through, there was a period when they did not let through, cargo carrying spare parts to military factories also had all kinds of cases, humanitarian aid was often there, and it is definitely a threat to national security, an attempt to cut us off from the west, and the council of ukraine should deal with this and danilov himself, but from my point of view, this is much more a matter for danilov than for the minister of infrastructure or the minister of agriculture, although the minister of agriculture and the ministry of economy... but this issue is also dealt with at the level of brussels, and it must be said that other countries of the european union support us, because they are interested even in our crops, you know that they were objections from poland regarding some goods, we are even ready to accept them, due to the fact that we do not have a bad situation here at all, because they say, let's say that ukraine will export goods at the level of the 21st year,

but now we are not more and less we export these goods through poland, us. is not scary either, we can agree on everything, they will find 150 other reasons. i hope that after the polish local elections, which will take place on april 7, polish politicians will also talk about it, because polish politicians too let this situation out of control, i mean the polish government, and the polish opposition , on the contrary, is fanning this fire and trying to defeat the government in the upcoming elections in this way, and it simply became a tool of pre-election rhetoric and propaganda. i believe that after that it will end, although the talks with poland are about us. that integration into the european union should be continued, because poland naturally supports us, it is very important that it is safe in all other matters, it is truly one of our closest allies, but from an economic point of view, it can be our biggest competitor in the european union, so we need to work very actively with the poles so that they do not turn from allies to complete competitors. well, in your opinion, there should also be a third party in this conversation between

ukraine and poland, the european union, that is, a tripartite meeting. should have been right, well , look, the european union supports ukraine, if only because our grain is needed by italy, spain, holland, the netherlands, countries where cattle are raised, where animal husbandry is developing because our grain is not, is not expensive , and is suitable for animal husbandry, and it is a large part of their economy, instead, the prices have fallen precisely not because of our grain, but because of the grain that they buy from the countries of latin america from asia, plus because of. which they buy from russia, and it is absolutely fair to say that the belarusian-polish border for grain and other products from russia should be closed first, and then talk about something with ukraine, but if you can argue about grain, then there is no excuse at all blocking the border does not exist, because in addition to harming national security, as i have already said, it harms the economy, the economy not only of ukraine, but also of poland, because poland

imports more goods to us than it exports, and polish entrepreneurs suffer from this, yes that this is such a situation... politicized by the polish opposition, with which the authorities cannot help themselves and it is difficult to imagine that they will be able to help themselves with this before the elections. mr. mykola, yesterday the prime minister of poland, donald tusk, said that there should be no sanctions against russia to be fictitious, i will quote tusk, half of europe proclaims loud pro-ukrainian slogans and continues to trade with russia and belarus, well , obviously he was talking about poland as well, because there was our investigation. mykhailo tkach's colleagues, that poland also traded with belarus and russia or with russia through belarus, how do these contacts with... poles, with belarusians and russians be perceived in poland? well, to begin with, the fact itself is shameful, and tkach should be thanked for exposing it, but this trade really is

scanty, that is, they sell very little of these products there, another thing is that among them there are such agricultural products that are embargoed for ukraine, but not for russia and belarus, and this is of course a complete absurdity, but now poland is correcting it, it accepts the decision of the polish parliament and... limits, tusk is right that other eu countries buy much more from russia and belarus, and it should definitely be limited in this, no matter who is the reason for this, or tkach's report or some other considerations are necessary in this to support tusk, but first of all , of course, the border must be unblocked. thank you, mr. mykola, for the conversation, it was mykola knyazhytskyi, people's deputy of ukraine, friends, we are working live on the espress tv channel, as well as on our youtube and facebook platforms, for those who are currently watching us live on youtube. we are conducting a survey, today we are asking you about the following: do you see signs of a parliamentary crisis in ukraine? yes, no, everything is quite simple on youtube, vote either yes or no, and you can write

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him to draw 75% of support, there the russian dictator himself addressed the residents of the territories occupied by russia with a call to participate in the elections in the so-called presidential elections . let's listen to what putin said. i say directly. participation in elections today is what it is manifestation of patriotic feelings. this is very well understood by the residents of donbass and novorossiya, who in difficult conditions voted in referendums for unity with russia. and on these days, they will also make a choice. it is necessary to confirm our solidarity, determination, to move forward together. each of your votes is valuable and counts. therefore , i call on you in... ukraine, will this be

a reason to question the legitimacy of president putin? unfortunately, unfortunately, the precedents of the previous elections, in particular the elections to the russian state duma, to the council federation. and so on, which happened after the 14th year, could already give grounds to consider these bodies of the russian government illegitimate, but we saw that yes, some subjects of international law, international relations to such, to the deputies elected from these constituencies had certain reservations, but no one has ever questioned the very legitimacy of the russian government, so to speak, so there are great fears, so to speak, that it may

look like this, we do not recognize these results of the vote of the so-called on these territories, but elections as a whole in russia took place, the president was elected and so on, that is, this is a probability. and it is currently quite high, however, there are of course reasons to question the legitimacy of putin's new presidential term for many other reasons, including the crackdown on the opposition, the suppression of freedom of speech, the death of navalny, and the introduction of those norms into the russian constitution federations that did. putin's rule for life, it seems to me that this set of circumstances, they, it gives reasons for some countries, international organizations, you. to recognize putin

as an illegitimate president after these so-called elections, after the date of march 17, 2024, and i think that some part, at least of western leaders, western countries, organizations, will take this position. against this background, the deputy head of the security council of the russian federation, the former president of russia, proposed the so-called russian peace formula, although it is a formula for the destruction of ukraine, it would rather be called that , he said that they want ukraine to capitulate, pay compensation to russia, and dismissed all authorities, constitutional authorities in ukraine, the last points sound like this, the official recognition by the temporary parliament of ukraine that its entire territory is

the territory of russia adoption of the act on the reunification of the territory of ukraine with russia, self-dissolution of the temporary parliament, recognition by the un of the act of unity, you can treat the character, the political character of medvedev in different ways, but usually what is on medvedev's tongue is what is on putin's mind, are they united in their desire to achieve exactly this result and are they ready to go to the end? well actually the fact that, er, the russian side, relatively speaking, the putin regime, er, constantly addresses the topic of negotiations and er peace, confirms the fact that they really need this peace, or a truce, or some kind of respite, and, er, such statements are just bargaining, they are political bargaining, which they, so

to speak, go with the west and from the position of such a blackmailer, from the position of a rapist, a terrorist, in fact, who intimidates both the community and actually intimidates its victim, therefore they certainly cannot be taken at face value and as a true position russia, i think that the putin regime would be ready to negotiate. on other terms, if i saw at least some movement towards them and a willingness to negotiate on the part of ukraine, its leadership on the part of the west, america and so on, but they see that it is impossible now, so they are raising the bar of their ambitions, their demands, with the hope that someday, after all, someone will sit down with them at the negotiating table, and then it will be possible, so to

speak, to go. to certain concessions, to look somewhere for the middle ground on which they can reconcile with him, i i think that this is such a tactic of intimidation and blackmail, against the background of these calls and constant invitations to peace talks, or statements that the west should guarantee something there, and preferably in writing, from what is coming from the kremlin, we are already hearing critical for... attention towards putin, even from those who were once considered a sympathizer of the kremlin grandfather in europe, the former leader of the french right-wing national association le pen, who was called putin's friend, harshly denounced russia for the war, from the podium of the national assembly, she recalled about thousands of dead and injured, millions of people who had to flee their cities and villages. let's hear what le pen said.

with the invasion of ukraine on february 24, 2022 , russia unleashed a war and a geopolitical crisis on the doorstep of the european union, which is perhaps the most dramatic in the last 20 years. we are obliged to express our respect and support to the ukrainian people who were subjected to aggression. in your opinion, mr. maxim, what is the reason for the change in lepent's position and, in general, is europe changing its position? position towards putin, well, if you don't take the pope, of course, and the state the vatican, well, in general, this position of both europe and america, and the same trump, who makes very ambiguous statements, is rather the rhetoric of, you know, adults who have encountered some kind of adolescent inadequacy, or maybe paramedics in... in

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