to the eu, it will take place at the same time as the presidential elections on october 20, and we will be watching the european integration aspirations of our closest neighbor, further on our airwaves. greetings to the viewers of the espresso channel, my name is kateryna galko, and this is our exclusive conversation with the head of the european union representation in... the republic of moldova. let's start. congratulations. thank you for making time for us today. so, on june 23, 2022, the european council granted the republic of moldova the status of a candidate for joining the european union. what are the prospects for european integration of moldova and what are the actual terms of admission? i believe that since june 2022, quite substantial and quite impressive work has been done. because, like

ukraine, moldova had quite a lot of homework, in fact more homework, if you look at the number of points that moldova needed to complete, and the work is progressing, this was recognized by both the european commission and the european council, which decided to start accession negotiations with the country. we are currently in the technical stage where we are explaining how what will the negotiations be like, and what should the moldovans focus on first of all... so now it will be the usual process that we have had with all the candidate countries that have gone through the chapters, which is the opening of the chapters, the closing of the chapters, and it will take quite a long time, because the purpose of this process is to prepare the country for full membership with all rights and obligations. and can moldova join the eu by 2030, for example. the ambitions of the country's leadership and this is

also what the highest eu officials said. that the union should be ready to expand to 2030, noting that there is not much time left between 2024 and 2030. it's a very ambitious schedule, but it's very doable if the high pace of reform, the high pace of change continues throughout, because ... one of the points i keep making is that it's not just about the current mandate of the president, or not only the current mandate of the parliament, which means that such a high pace of european integration should be maintained in the next cycle of elections, because we have also seen bad examples when countries lost their desire for european integration, and the process slowed down, from our side, this is something ambitious, we

hope that it is possible. will the euroscepticism of a rather large part of citizens prevent moldova from quickly and effectively joining the european family? well, first of all, citizens will have the opportunity, as soon as the decision of the constitutional court appears, to mention it in the referendum on eu membership in the fall of this year. will be the first step that will show whether the people of the country want to continue moving in this direction. we we see that the number of people who support the european union is growing slowly. of course, it depends on who is asking the question and what the question is. understanding that the future of the republic of moldova in the european union is growing slowly, although, of course, there are all rational reasons for this. including 2/3

of moldovan exports going to european union markets, but this will be a great work process because there is indeed also an electorate that does not support eu integration, and of course we work with all strata population, do you think, if mrs. maia sandu does not win the elections this year, and her place is taken by a pro... russian representative, which is quite realistic, according to recent polls, could moldova suddenly stop the eu accession process. first, we greatly appreciate the leadership of president maja sandu in the eu integration process. after all, i believe that much of what the country has accomplished is to its credit, not only the political steps taken to obtain the status of a candidate country and the start of negotiations. but also all the significant steps that made it

possible, namely the reform of the justice system, in particular the fight against corruption, which were her personal priorities. therefore, we hope that the european course of the country will be preserved even after the elections, because it is also supported by the citizens. this applies not only to eu membership, but also to eu integration as such. do you accept that russia can interfere in the presidential and parliamentary elections in moldova, and... how to deal with this? unfortunately, i'm pretty sure russian interference will happen because we see it on a regular basis. be it the local government elections last year, when this happened

many. we are talking about millions of euros and dollars that were brought into the country by various means to influence political processes. or take maria zakharova, for whom moldova has become a daily topic. i can say that this is, on the one hand, a reality that the country will have to live with until it becomes a member of the eu. since this was the case with all candidate countries, russia tried to slow down this process, but at the same time it is important to take measures against russian disinformation, russian propaganda, hidden funding that is coming. after all, to us it is necessary to help so that the political process was genuine, that it was not guided by uninvited pro-russian forces. of course, legitimate

public sentiments can be of different directions, but it is important that such processes take place. bodies that should fight with the withdrawal of funds. and secondly, it is work to combat disinformation. that is why we have now supported the creation of a stratcom center in the republic of moldova. which, i hope, will be. not only to analyze the narratives, but also to give advice on how to counter them, and of course, on our part, we also do this work, both here nationally and through headquarters. ukraine and moldova

simultaneously started their way to the european union, however, both countries suffer from the neighborhood with russia, one way or another, how does the eu plan to help these countries? we provide quite strong support, and it's not only our projects, but when needed, it's also very quick and very large amounts, like for example to the republic of moldova in the last two years just to counter the crisis, the energy crisis, the migration crisis, the covid crisis, our the support was more than 1 billion euros, so that's a lot a good example of how the eu really is that friend. who is in trouble,

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there will be some katsaps on the border of kyiv and beyond, what the world dreams of, norman, we can imagine it, all this in an information marathon with mykola in september, saturday 5:10 p.m., sunday 6:15 p.m. at espresso. verdict with serhiy rudenko, from now on new two-hour format, even more analytics, even more important topics, more. more top guests - foreign experts, inclusion from abroad, about ukraine, the world, the front, society, and also feedback, you can express your opinion on the bad day with the help of a telephone survey, turn on and be included, the verdict with serhiy rudenko , every weekday from 20 to 22 for espresso. well, gentlemen, we are continuing our telethon, let me remind you, for those who missed 787 days of the russian large-scale tuesday. such we are counting down, and we will also talk today, of course, about it, about

the military assistance that we expect from the united states, it is already ready, the pentagon has already said that they are as ready as possible for literally a signal from congress and immediately ready immediately literally start supplying weapons, in particular anti-aircraft missiles and projectiles, to ukraine, we really need it, in fact, we really... craved it at the front, because the more these weapons, the easier it is to restrain the enemy, who has actually become very aggressive. lavrov recently said out loud that russia is planning to expand the sanitary zone, as he put it, in order to protect its regions from ukrainian drone attacks, so they need to seize for this, so that you understand, kharkiv, well, but how s... war research institute rightly notes , that since after the capture

of kharkiv it will be announced that kharkiv is an eastern russian-tatar-mongolian-moscow city, then they will want to expand the sanitary zone from kharkiv further in order to protect kharkiv from attack, so it can be expanded approximately to kamchatka, and then to fight by myself, i don't know that with regard to the american congressmen, they dragged something a little. decision, but our viewers react literally like lightning, dear friends, in about 20 minutes that have passed since the announcement that we have a collection in progress, uah 2,000 has almost already been added to our account, and i want to remind once again for those who i haven’t seen this announcement yet, that we are collecting for two brigades of the 93rd and 72nd, we are collecting drones for fpv, fpv drones are needed for moskal to destroy equipment and destroy... all kinds of sanitary zones, so join

our gathering, we are then for our military, they will have such drones, which we will now show, show on the screens, someone from the audience wrote, why show the drones on the screen, maybe it is not necessary, friends, this the video was provided to us by the very military for whom we are collecting, to show where your money ultimately goes and what they then do, literally yesterday. made commissioned propaganda stories, and that he was left without a head, left without a head, and was so headless that he worked in moscow even without the head is left, dear friends, so join in, please , you can see the numbers of the cards, you can also see the qr-codes, everyone who throws in his hryvnia, you don’t know why he missed all this, by the way, he didn’t recognize the drone, because we he has not been shown before, he thinks that so-and-so is flying, he is like that, i

don’t know what it is, he’s flying close, fly here, little bird, dum and babah, but that’s it, no, it doesn’t work like that, actually, people , in a word... friends, you can see the title, you can see the qr code, and in the meantime, oleksandr musienko, director of the military legal center, continues to speak research, we are already in touch. mr. oleksandr, we congratulate you. i congratulate you. mr. oleksandr, what do we expect from military aid, this is 61 billion. what will be in the very first packages, because the pentagon said that they are already at a very low start and are waiting for the go-ahead from the capitol. i can say that in principle it really is, and it is expected that this one. aid can be transferred quite quickly, since this package includes such a mechanism as actually compensating what will be transferred to ukraine from the us arsenals. accordingly, taking this into account, already it is now possible to transmit a certain nomenclature of what is in the stocks and warehouses of the united states. these are artillery shells, this is artillery,

this is what we are waiting for, as well as the atakams missiles, which we need very much today. and accordingly, in principle, the same missiles for air defense systems, that is, a wide range, in fact, the ones currently in service in the united states, can be obtained in principle quite quickly, well, i think within a month, a month and a half , somewhere yes, within a few weeks it will be possible to talk about the fact that this weapons can appear in ukraine, how long have we been living without american aid for more than six months, yes, yes, yes, without... what is the purpose of that package that was, well, it was like that, it is just as important, it helped , but it was so, you know, stabilizing, i.e. filling current needs, the one that was from the funds of about 300 million, this year was transferred, without such serious significant packages, for about six months exactly as we lived these six months and what is it for led now and what are we waiting for,

what will this package of 61 billion change, well... they held out, they held out, the ukrainian army did not crumble, the front did not crumble, despite the fact that it really gave the enemy an opportunity to advance, they gained certain territorial gains, entered avdiivka, they lost at an extremely high price, they entered, now they have certain successes in the area of ​​the temporal ravine, in principle, that is, it gave what you understand what happened, what happened that could not be stopped... the russian troops so that they were forced to take a break, that is , to strike such a powerful blow that they could not to stretch this offensive, well, actually not stopping, because from october of the 23rd year, when russia started this large-scale offensive in the east, it continues to this day and will continue almost without a break, so

it would be possible to stop it earlier, and as for this package, what is the calculation , i think that... in order to precisely stop this offensive after the revival, which is expected there at the end of may, beginning of june, and somewhere, well, let's say, at some point, to finally stop the russian troops, and in principle, so that it led to a certain such tactic pauses, well, then again, this is a task to accumulate certain resources in order to be able to conduct counteroffensive actions, because if we are talking about this package, theoretically it can be considered. that if the ukrainian troops have the opportunity, say, to develop some success at least at the tactical local level, then obviously they will counterattack, but if it is not enough, then of course, but it is not about the fact that this can lead to a drastic change in the situation , that is, it will still be necessary to prepare then for 2025 with this help that may be available

and planning certain actions, but now i can say, you know, i have... the impression is that russia now, the russian troops may fall into a kind of a trap, because they were counting on the fact that congress would not vote, well, it hasn't yet voted, but i still hope that it will vote, literally today it will happen, and then what will happen, then the following effect may occur, that russia will climb, they will self-confidently overestimate their capabilities, will climb here, will try to attack in that including kharkiv. and ukraine can get planes, as the prime minister of belgium decro said, that this can happen even before the summer, atakamsya, again, which are provided for by this law, and others. types of weapons, plus, if even more europe joins in, then the occupiers can receive a powerful counterattack and such a powerful barrage of fire, and it will basically be

a kind of trap, they will come here, they will attack more and will not expect that such a blow will be inflicted on them, they did not count on this when they planned the revival of this offensive, the main thing the intelligence agency showed this behind the scenes a little bit of how on... our military did what they did yesterday, that is, hit this russian bomber, that's how it all looked, of course, there's a lot of things we won't see, because it has to be from our eyes , from the eyes of the enemy, these military secrets are hidden, how it all happened, but can the next russian bombers become such targets, targets for our military, i hope, i think. i think that it can have more such an effect, well now it is systemic, that's why that in the end it is a systemic effect, you see, because two drlv planes were shot down, and then there was

a period of time when it was visible, tracked, hunted, it is not so simple, here it is still necessary , as far as i understand, and knowing this situation, and what mr. budanov said, here it was necessary to actually be in an ambush, to expect, to predict when... there would be these howls, when the flight path would be such that this plane could be shot down, caught, what is it called, and this work is extremely powerful, complex, very successful, i think that now, at least, the russian strategic aviation, regarding the tu-22 m3 planes, which are just tu-22s, they fly over the black sea, they attack odessa, and not only odessa, they attack, they also attacked dnipropetrovsk region and zaporizhzhia. there was a lot to prevent them from flying over the black sea. here it can be. i think this may cause

russia to review the flights of these aircraft, and perhaps over the black sea, they will not appear at least for a while. at least in order to understand, in general, what happened, to realize, and what happens because i think it's just as much of a shock to them. they really did not expect this. well, you see, this, that is, this again. the factor that plays against us, that is, the fact that the enemy underestimates ukraine, ukrainian capabilities, once again played in our favor. sergei lavrov has announced russia's plans to capture, hinted at, capturing kharkiv, and they also say that kharkiv may be the main target of this advertised russian offensive this year, while there is some sort of semblance. knew that they seemed to be ready for negotiations what kind of game is lavrov playing here? well, he also says that they are ready for negotiations, but we will not be stopped here and

the hostilities will not be stopped, well, we have already been through this, you remember, badly, when there were negotiations in minsk, it was just in 2015, then exactly, it seems that there were supposed to be negotiations and, as it were, well, if there were negotiations, then what kind of hostilities, and... russia then actively advanced and then tried to encircle the ukrainian group. the enemy's tactics have not changed at all, that is, even if they talked about some negotiations, it would not matter to advance, to press anyway. i think that the situation is simply as follows: why are they talking about negotiations from the russian side, because now they feel that the initiative is theirs, and therefore they will impose some conditions, and you understand, of course, that this is completely inappropriate and illogical. . talk, now they are trying to talk about it from a position of strength, as i think of russia, and if they are stopped, repel this offensive, and also talk about some at least

local counterattacks, then russia is not from a position of strength here, and if she will be to announce negotiations, so this means that russia is frustrated by the failed offensive, that they have convinced themselves that they cannot take kharkiv, and therefore are now ready to negotiate, well, they can't and won't do that until... obviously for now, this is the situation, when the initiative in offensives is with the russian troops, they are trying to throw in some negotiating conditions, but from their own position, of course, plus there is a more global context, as it seems to me, you can see that now everything has become more active and the ukrainian peace formula is being prepared for a summit in june in switzerland, where german chancellor scholz flew to xijin ping in beijing. "french president emmanuel macron spoke about the possibility of an olympic truce. this morning, i read a recent interview by german chancellor scholz, and he says that china also advocates in

principle for peace and that germany will support ukraine, but at the same time, it does not close any loopholes for diplomatic settlement, etc. that is, there is also a different context of what russia definitely wants intercept some initiative so that no attention is drawn to the summit or conference or meeting in switzerland, as we will call it, dedicated to the ukrainian peace formula, and, let's say, change the context. to say, yes, no, this is complete nonsense, let's face it, here we are now with china, here now somewhere maybe germany, maybe france, maybe someone else, and then we will offer another formula, are the turkish plans, which the media wrote about, possible, that's why similar, but as for kharkiv, there are real, direct threats, maybe not even the city, but the fact that the enemy will to become more active in kharkiv oblast, assessing how they are now transferring their troops there and

will try to carry out the encirclement. or an attack around kharkiv, such risks are very high, i think that they will really try to break through to kharkiv oblast from bilhorod oblast at the end of may, at the beginning of june, will we have time to prepare and get the necessary amount of weapons for deterrence, in your opinion . i hope that at least the emergency packages that can be sent from the us, well at least there is a statement by minister lloyd austin about the fact that they are ready, only if the congress gives the go-ahead, at least some such stabilization, to ... reinforce us with artillery and reinforce us with means, they will. you may have seen the forbes article this week about the fact that while russia is pressing now and has the initiative, they only have the resources for that pressure, to maintain that pressure, for a year at most, and yet in a year they won't be able to mobilize, that is, they will not be able to mobilize a large number of people further, but they will not be able to banally arm them adequately. so calculations are about

the fact that, for example, tanks for such, for such active use, evaluating the stocks in warehouses, deconserved and those capacities that russia adequately without inflated, you know, because there are also inflated figures, without inflated, russia can produce and repair them enough by the middle of 2025, somewhere in july 2025, russia should already have problems with this, and if in terms of people and... in terms of small arms they can still afford, in principle, as much as they will want to die, then let's say in terms of weapons , artillery and tanks are the problem may arise, but you can see that the enemy is also sneaking in, that they are also actively using drone tactics, they are trying, let's say, to do something with the old, outdated equipment that they have, even if it is of poor quality, it...

it sometimes causes irony and laughter, the fact that they weld, cook, finish and so on there, but it still goes, it is capable of causing some damage, unfortunately, but there are large reserves, let's say, they are in tanks for a year , and until july 25, well, on armored vehicles there are calculations that they will have enough until 2026, but of course it will not be the same potential as it was in 2022. do we have it now. mr. oleksandr, thank you for the conversation. oleksandr musienko, director of the center for military legal research, was in touch with us, dear friends. we still have an hour of our morning part ahead of us, because i will remind you that today we are working with andrii saichuk in two events, then we will return at 2 pm and continue. well, in the meantime, ether espresso will now continue. kateryna shirokopoiz will tell what happened there in ukraine and the world in the last hour. and i will tell you, katya, that we

are 25 thousand in these few hours this morning. collected drones for fpv. this is very good news, lesya, we will try to promote our collection and collect even more. and we thank our viewers for that. and in a moment i will tell you about the tests of korean missiles and a new package of weapons to ukraine from the united states, and it also became known about the nighttime murder of a policeman in vinnytsia. wait. news time on the espresso tv channel. kateryna shiropoyas works in the studio. in vinnytsia two unknown people in camouflage opened fire on the police. one law enforcement officer was killed, another was wounded. this was reported by the vinnytsia oblast police. the incident itself happened in the haysyn district at 2 o'clock

in the morning. the criminals drove around in a dark suzuka.