cheers scientist, public figure from poland, from poznań, as far as i understand, and now we have what is coming relentlessly and inexorably, the interview of yuri fizer, he spoke with the ambassador of the united states to ukraine bridget bridget brink, and here she said enough an interesting thing is that it is optimistic that the congress will definitely support aid to ukraine. only a question of when, and now an interview, and then an advertisement, and then mykola veresen will talk to oleksandr duleba about the situation in slovakia after the elections that took place yesterday greetings, my name is yuriy fizar, this is an espresso exclusive. today i will talk with my interlocutor about urgent ukrainian. american relations, what

to expect from washington, i mean the aid that is currently stuck in the house of representatives and much more. so, today the ambassador of the united states of america to ukraine, mrs. bridget brink. madam ambassador, i welcome you and thank you for joining me today. nice to be with you. so, you arrived in ukraine at the end of may 2022 . what was the situation in our country then? different from the current one. the current situation is radically different. when i came to ukraine in may 2022, the streets were practically empty and there were roadblocks everywhere. when i was driving then, i saw a lot of destruction. now, despite two years of russia's brutal war against ukraine, i see incredible progress. 50% of the occupied territory was recaptured by the brave defenders of ukraine.

ukraine was able to export food through the black sea ports, sending more than 1,000 ships, that is, more than 33 million metric tons tons of grain and other cargoes, and during two very severe but incredible winters, ukrainians were able to save energy and electricity for the entire country. these are really great achievements, and despite the military efforts of russia, we see that... the economy not only survived, it is growing, it is about 5% in 2023 and projected growth in 2024. obviously, this is a difficult moment and a difficult situation for ukraine , but we promise to be with you in the future. right now, i see the incredible resilience of every person in the country who wants to win in this. in the fight against russia. thank you very much for

that, and thank you to all the american people for the help you are giving us. let's talk about this help. now we are very dependent on external funding, and unfortunately, a bill from the white house, which provides ukraine with about 60 billion dollars, is stuck in the house of representatives. however, we do know that speaker of the house mike johnson is going to put ... up for a vote on this relief package after representatives return from the easter break, around 9 april what do you personally think about it, will they vote for it, and if so, will it have the innovations that speaker johnson is talking about? i am sure that the us congress will support an additional bill regarding ukraine. of course, it is up to congress to decide

when this will happen, but my confidence is based on the fact that, in addition to the us president and the entire administration, ukraine has the bipartisan support of congress. many of its representatives visited ukraine, including senator schumer. he was here in lviv with a delegation just a few weeks ago. such the visits further reflect the support of the american people. we know very well that the struggle for freedom is now being waged in kona, so that russia and putin cannot repeat something similar in other places. we support ukraine in its struggle for its existence. what about innovations? as for innovations, it will be up to congress to decide. we have prepared an argument based on the president's proposals. this is what we adhere to. said jake

sullivan a few days ago, there is no plan b in kyiv. there is no plan b because there are many american politicians are talking about plan b. they say, yes, we're talking about plan a because it. in an interview with cnn at the beginning of march , you said that the united states of america has reached a critical point in its support for ukraine and that people in washington should redouble their efforts to help ukraine. did they listen to you on the capital hill? i will say that not yet, but i will. that our congress will reflect the will of the american people and the strategic interests of the united states, the essence of which is to help ukraine. i propose to talk about russia only a few weeks ago, they held what the russians call presidential

elections. we in ukraine call it a farce. so putin reappointed himself again. but what do people in the united states of america think about what happened? we definitely consider these elections to be undemocratic, and i have nothing more to say about it. we do not recognize any elections on the sovereign territory of ukraine. let's talk about support from the western world. in february , french president emmanuel macron said that he does not rule out the possibility that... someday western troops will be on the territory of ukraine. i understand that most western leaders disagreed with him, but what about the united states of america? we understand that there will be no american troops in ukraine, but can we

at least hope for the signing of some kind of agreement with the usa, similar to the ones we have already signed with great britain and france. yes, definitely. okay, can you tell me what will be included in this deal? not yet, it's still being discussed, but it looks like we're close to that point. i can't name specific terms, but i can say that there are active negotiations with representatives of your government regarding this. let's move on to the issue of corruption in ukraine. you once said that in order for western investments to come to ukraine, we need to have an independent judicial system. free mass media and the absence of corruption. is there any progress in these directions? i will say that your president, who represents your people and your democracy, has set an ambitious goal to integrate into the eu and nato. it is especially important on this path strong democracy. important components

of which are dynamic and free media, an active civil society, strong. constitution, a system of checks and balances and an independent judiciary. this is the vision of your president, who reflects the interests of your people, and we strongly support you in this. in this vein, we supported and continue to support all the steps that were taken to solve some of the problems that exist in ukraine. this is both the fight against corruption and raising the level. corporate governance to international standards and system reform justice. all this is very important for achieving our main goal. it's also critical for business, as we heard from special representative pena pritzker as part of president biden's initiative to

accelerate your economic recovery. having standards and the rule of law so that businesses can be confident that their investment... will be protected by laws and regulations, that's what's critical: we hear that all the time, so it's extremely important to achieve that goal. as far as i understand, it is meets the aspirations of the people of ukraine. madam ambassador, and my last question for today: republican senator lynsey graham visited ukraine a few weeks ago. and he said that he had changed his mind about the advisability of holding elections. namely presidential ones in ukraine now. he claims that elections can still take place. what is the official position of the american authorities on this matter? ukraine is a sovereign, democratic country, and only it can decide such issues. thank you very much,

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and we have pelligrini, it's like two two two. senior managers, let's say, loyal, more than we would like, more loyal than we would like to russia and less loyal than we would like to ukraine. what do you say, mr. alexander? first of all, i wish everyone health, yes, half of the country is sad now, the other half of the country is in a good mood, slovakia is really divided into two such parts, korchuk scored... if we talk about the number of votes in absolute terms -2,000, and pelligrini -4,000. regarding your question, yes , i think that pellegrini's victory, it has more significance for slovakia's domestic policy than for foreign policy. the president is not

quite such a ceremonial figure, because in principle the appointment of the head of intelligence, but... the appointment of a judge of the supreme court, the constitutional court, the chief of the general staff of the armed forces, and other prosecutor generals, so there are common competencies, the government proposes, but the president , that is agrees and appoints, yes, either the parliament chooses judges, and so does the president, well, after all , the president has the opportunity to disagree with whom the parliament chose, or who the government appointed, so now the situation, why do i say that... of domestic politics - this is a really big change, because fitz basically already has a monopoly on power, he himself said that he sees the results of this election as a referendum that confirmed the commitment of the population to his scope of domestic, foreign policy, well, to finish it is a matter of domestic politics,

here we really expect an aggravation, because after he... that is, all the protests that were against the change of the criminal code, against the abolition of the special prosecutor's office, the special prosecutor's office was abolished, but the issue of changing the criminal code has not yet been resolved, there is already the proposal to nationalize radio and television of slovakia, which has the status of a public organization, they want to make it just a state structure, and fitz already said that when he came. to congratulate pellegrini on his victory, that the media and non-governmental organizations are next, so we are facing a very difficult situation from the point of view of internal politics in slovakia, there will be a struggle, there will be protests, there will be rallies, and there we will see what the results of the elections to the european parliament will be. regarding foreign policy, you

said that the prime minister is against ukraine there, and so is pellegrin, let me... i would still like to explain, because fizo is not orban, i really liked what your prime minister said the prime minister, denys shmigal, after a meeting with the prime minister at the end of last year, that this is some kind of new pragmatism, yes, some new pragmatism, they will meet now, shmingel is coming to slovakia somewhere, next week, i think, on the 11th-12th, somewhere in mykhailovec on the slovak side of the border, there will be a meeting of governments, and it will not only be the prime minister . meet and governments, and why is it important, what is this new pragmatism? first of all, fizo says not a single projectile for ukraine, but the production of projectiles in slovakia. is increasing, literally, you know, if, well, before the war, we produced 50 of these shells for artillery, caliber 155, less than 10 thousand per year,

last year 50,000 were produced, all delivered to ukraine, this year it will be 150,000. you know, orban does not give anything to ukraine, fico says, yes, not a single projectile from the warehouses of the armed forces. yes, well, production is going on, the production of howitzers is going on, thanks to the funding of the governments of germany, denmark and norway, the production of howitzer zuzan 2 for ukraine is going on, 16 pieces are being produced, two have already been delivered, there are problems there, because there is a factory in slovenia produces something that is very important for tanks and for all artillery systems, and now there is a shortage of these details and so on. it is late, well, he does not stop it, military equipment is being repaired in slovakia, he does not stop it, so i will say so, although he has such rhetoric,

but i do not think that this is such bad news , what he's doing is real, yes, the problem is that it's a crazy situation, if such a dichotomy, yes, he says one thing, well, basically, you know, for the internal. yes, but does something completely different in principle, and that is why i think it makes sense for governments to meet, because in addition, there is an opportunity to take advantage of this special the european connecting facility program, which the european union, well, in principle , neighbors of ukraine, poland, slovakia, hungary, romania can use with this for the modernization of cross-border infrastructure, well, these should be joint projects, so i think that it makes sense to... . shmigal to meet with fico and continue these relations within the framework of new pragmatism, so oleksandr, look, i still have a question,

this is a question, i think, from many ukrainians who are interested in the situation in the world, we somehow got used to that whoever wins the first one round, then wins the second round as well, i still think that in 1994 i was beaten when i worked in poland for elections, and then in the first... in the first round valensa won and everyone was convinced and even told me that the prime minister started to write a telegram congratulating valensa, it turned out to be our ukrainian prime minister, marchuk was there then, i was just talking to him about it, but oleksandr kwasniewski won, so what, because in ukraine we always have such a rather stormy past, slovaks believe in the election results, that is... such a word as falsification is heard somewhere, or is it that all people agree that no one will be fooled, no, no, there is no such thing, there is complete trust in

the election process, one case was that one member of the election commission decided to vote instead of her daughter, whom she simply did not was able to come to vote, and it was already a scandal, because all these commissions, they really are there representatives, well, opponents and... skorchuk and well, all these candidates who are participating, whether they are parties or candidates for the presidential elections, eh, and there is no such possibility, in principle everything is calculated together, so there is complete trust, so far there are no such and such a situation to simply doubt. you know, we have a different practice, it was not quite the case that whoever wins the first round wins the second round as well. matcher was winning. these elections, the first round, he lost, the second round. and, let's say, well, it happened once, when gasparovych, well, it was the second time he won the first round and the second, in all other cases,

we already have six, six presidential elections, the one who was able to mobilize the voters of others always won candidates, in this case, this pellegrini really succeeded, i would say yes, the main two factors why you... pellegrini in this election. the first is a very successful mobilization of fitz voters, because the number of voters in the second round was 10% more than in the first. and it was mainly a voter from rural areas, where there is really a dominance of these government parties that we have now. and this is the first. and the second - after all, the influence of hungary. because orban really has an organ. influence on hungarian, hungarian politics of slovakia, i mean slovak hungarians, because you know according to slovak legislation, we have two days

before the elections. there is a moratorium on television and radio broadcasting, it is impossible to do any campaigning and propaganda there, and this does not concern the hungarians of hungary, so, well, mostly hungarians in slovakia, they watch hungarian television, and there they filmed such a video two days before the elections, and then there was an interview pellegrini, how handsome he is, what a very good relationship he has with orbán and all that, and indeed the result is such that in these southern regions... where the main such representative candidate won in the first round of the hungarian minority, now peligrini won there, so these two factors decided the fate, or the outcome of this election, it is an election for the mobilization of the rural voter and orbán's support for the hungarian vote. korchok was no longer able to mobilize mainly the urban population.

he won in big places, he won in bratislava in this bratislava region, he won in košice, in pryševo, in other places, but the countryside voted for pelegrini. thank you, thank you very much, very much, oleksandr duleba, political scientist, director of slovak of the foreign policy association from slovakia, we had a call from slovakia, and now you won't believe it, we are going back to... and we will talk about energy, but not only ukrainian, but also russian, in particular, because we will have volodymyr omelchenko , director of energy programs of the oleksandr rozumkov center, good health, mr. volodymyr, thank you for finding time for us, yes, congratulations, mr. mykola, well , look, let's not start with ukraine, but about ukraine, we learn something more or less every day from russia, but maybe later we will return to ukraine.

and about russia, i would ask, every day i listen to experts, such as liberal, russian experts, who tell me what is happening in the energy industry of the russian federation, they, well, i would say, cry a little, yes, they rejoice internally, but they also cry , because they rejoice, because they have not been in russia for a long time, they cry because gasoline, oil in russia is getting less and less and less. factories stop, all oil refineries stop, and so on, you can prove it, so the price of gasoline reaches such heights, and and and there will be some rather big problems there, now we know that there is a flood in orsk, and there seems to be this too, as far as the orenburg region, there seems to be some kind of oil refinery there, which is very modern, and it was also flooded with water, and this further

reduces it. opportunities of the russian oil refining industry, how about where we are now, or rather where they are now? well, in total, there are approximately 30 large oil refineries in russia with a total capacity of about 330 million tons, of those, of these 30, about 70% are located in the european part, in the european part, we have already attacked 13 for... factories from out of these 13 factories, nine were damaged, there is serious damage, for example, as in the refinery, kstova, there is such a city, nizhny novgorod, nizhny novgorod region, and also in the ryazan refinery, it was seriously damaged, and sizran and novokuybash refinery and

a number of others, that is, everything. approximately ukraine helped russia to get rid of power by approximately 14 percent today, and they have a certain shortage of gasoline, why, because in principle, russia produces about 45.45 million tons of gasoline, consumes 38, and what as for diesel sawdust, the situation is better here, because they produce 80, about 80 million tons, consume 40 million tons, so there is still a lot of work there, and there is no need to have any illusions that now a huge crisis will come in russia, yes, there is a certain deficit, there are certain difficulties, they lose quite a lot of money every month.