and also take part in our survey, today we ask you about whether your expectations from zelensky's presidency or from president zelensky came true, yes, no, uh, if there were any expectations, of course, yes, no, everything is fine on youtube simply, if you have any special opinion of your own, please leave it below this video, if you watch us on tv, pick up your smartphone or phone and vote, if your expectations from zelenskyi's presidency have come true, well... 800 211 381 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, well, i guess we will start our conversation with this question, mr. volodymyr, if you had any expectations from the presidency of zelensky, did they come true, and what were those 5 years like , you know, mr. serhiy i still pushed back with your permission from this faoric information that you showed. when another

russian tank is on fire, and you know that famous phrase about how you can forever watch how water pours and fire burns, how russian invaders and tanks are on fire, i think we should really thank our heroic defense forces for what they do every day, it makes me very happy to see when russian airfields are burning, when russian refineries are burning, when...... are burning russian planes, and thank god, this is becoming more and more, and if we adopt such a calm but consistent tactic of destroying everything that is on our territory, we will begin, i think, in this plan, we will destroy the enemy in crimea, then i think that we will go to the results that we are all hoping for today and that we are thinking about, that... and

we are thinking about defeating that damned russian aggressor, and in this context, i bring the point, so to speak, to the question that you i was asked, mr. serhiy, if we talk, i can talk about probably expectations in the field of foreign policy, because this topic is clear and close to me, let specialists in other fields... speak about their own, if we talk about foreign policy, then i think that it is possible to state, really serious changes, which took place in the mind of president zelenskyi, from the well-known formula, you just need to stop shooting, it is said, by the way , in russian, they are negotiating in the middle, sit down and agree that i will not sit down at the table. negotiations with a russian

criminal and murderer, well, this is a huge distance, this is something that can be considered, on the one hand, a political insight, and on the other hand, a political coming of age, that is, a person finally saw and understood what is with those who are behind the fence... you can't agree on anything, and you know, in this context i am a little surprised by some statements that have somehow started to sound more and more often recently about this false thesis that all wars end with negotiations, but i immediately ask myself the question: what about japan signed an agreement with russia, but what is between the two koreas? but a peace treaty, and what is there,

well, a settlement in the same transnistria, everything is completed there, that is, what, when germany capitulated, it was, it was peace negotiations, but no, i think that there are some, i i don't know, the truth is, who is behind this, wants to impose on us a false thesis that we should still prepare for which... from negotiations, well, how can you sit down at the table with a war criminal, let alone one who has not been punished yet , but the arrest warrant issued by the international criminal court, i want to look into the eyes of, you know, whoever from the ukrainian authorities will offer the ukrainian people such an option, i want to ask myself, what will happen to this person in exactly a few hours, so i think it's getting back to this topic that after all... there is, unfortunately,

maybe in the environment of the president there are people who think a little differently, who have some, maybe different, opinions on this matter, but if we talk about the dynamics of changes. views of the president, it seems to me to be positive and one that, well, as of today, adequately reflects what is happening in ukrainian-russian relations, or rather, what is actually no longer there. and you know, i wanted to ask you how international politics and international diplomacy changed with the appearance of zelenskyi on the international scene, because we watched how during the 22nd year, zelensky... in fact , this protocol, which has always existed and exists in diplomacy, in international relations, that he was pushed aside a little, that is, he is not the only one who allowed himself to go beyond the protocol and in his clothes, and in his messages to various parliaments, and in the way he

communicates with international leaders, whether it has changed, or whether it was just such a window of opportunity for volodymyr zelenskyi, and now everything is coming again, well, approximately within... the same framework there in the rules that are in the international etiquette in diplomacy and everything else? well, you are right, mr. sergiy, it was probably a justified departure from traditionalism in diplomacy, diplomacy is generally such a conservative thing, it changes, it certainly does not remain the same as it was in the 18th or 19th century, but all the same, there are certain certain rules, certain canons, but we had one. an extraordinary situation and the war still remains, therefore it is impossible to respond to an extraordinary situation with standard forms and rules, they must be changed, because the essence of what is happening in the state has changed, and i believe that here

in fact, all factors played their positive role, and the president's factor without a doubt, and the activity of the verkhovna rada in this regard, and the activity of the professions. diplomats in this regard, because without it, it is unlikely that our armed forces would have been able to defend themselves and receive these weapons that they have, because this is the work of each specific diplomat, starting from the ambassador and ending with the lowest position of the general staff, that is, it was all concentrated, focused on obtaining this information and then the result, and certainly of our public organizations, i repeated and i repeat that we must bow to our women who... in the first years, especially in the first year of aggression, raised the entire public both in europe and in america, and it was thanks to our women that societies and, therefore, governments heard us of those countries where these societies exist, so to speak, so

i think that, generally speaking, diplomacy, well in the broadest sense of the word, is not only the work of the diplomats themselves in the ministry of foreign affairs. and abroad, it played a positive role, and what is happening now appears, well, gradually, it will return, certainly, to their more or less traditional forms and methods of work, now during the last month, especially, putin's posipaks are talking or spreading the thesis about the illegitimacy of zelensky after may 20 , 2024, they are saying that we don't know who to negotiate with. and this, by the way, and putin confirmed when he went to beijing that they have such and such a thesis that they say zelensky is illegitimate, and in general we should somehow understand who to deal with, but they insist that the internal in ukraine should be conclusion on extension of powers

zelenskyi, putin says that there should be some legal conclusions here, is this their position one that everyone can pay attention to? well, that is, here is russia’s position regarding the illegitimacy of zelensky, how convincing is it, is there enough political consensus in ukraine in the conditions of war to say that zelensky will be the president until a new president is elected, but the election of the new president will be after the victory , or let's say, in some period when there will be no hostilities in ukraine. well, you see, mr. serhiy, i would be ours propagandists for, well, not ours. i would recommend their propagandists, i say, ours in quotation marks, to look in the mirror more often, as well as politicians, when talking about someone's illegitimacy, if international organizations decide that the elections in russia were not

democratic, that that they were not free, that they did not meet any standards and principles, then forgive rather than blame someone. in illegitimacy, you have to look at yourself, that's why putin, when he talks about all this nonsense, well, it's his personal opinion, and i think that few people see his statement... i draw attention to the fact that, on the other hand, it is clear that for putin , the most important task is to split ukrainian society and make it so that you and i start discussing, and we legitimate government, do we have illegitimate government, can this government be trusted, can it be obeyed, is it possible, is it necessary to look for some other government and so on, what is this done for, well, in order for society to be ee... really scattered so that it does not have a single position, but with such society is easy to fight, well, because in

the end we understand that war is an extraordinary tension of all the internal forces of society, so we need to deal with this very clearly and clearly and put an end to it: we have a constitution, a basic law, which clearly and it is clearly written what and when happens in the case of martial law. therefore, our critics in quotation marks should simply read what is written there and calm down, tell us in our relations with the foreign world: dear friends, we are a state governed by the rule of law, we live by by the laws that we democratically adopt, so if the law says so, then it will be so, remember, a few months ago there was a very... relevant topic among some of our western pseudo-people who said: well, we have to hold elections, it is necessary to confirm

the legitimacy and so on. well, dear people, you can of course live in a distilled world, where everything, you know, is regulated as it is in a pharmacy, but you can live in a real one, if there is a war, then please show me one country in the world, which during war can organize elections by all standards, this it's impossible, so i think we need to put an end to this... and keep calm, we have the legal situation that we have, and it will end as you say, when the martial law is ended, then we will have democratic elections and for the sake of the president, and for the sake of the parliament, when these elections will be held is not yet known, but it is known that in iran they must be held in 50 days after the death of the president of iran, ibrahim raisi, and with him the deaths have already been confirmed died and the minister of foreign affairs, and those people who accompanied them on

about this helicopter that fell, with the death of racei, will iran's policy change, because we understand that iran is part of the axis of evil that is now in the world, that is, russia, iran, china, north korea, who else is there , well, actually this triangle, or quadrangle, china, i think before that too. er, it belongs to this, because he in one way or another contributes to the fact that these representatives of these countries, which you listed, help russia, or are there any prospects now that iran can fall out of this axis of evil, that someone will come or there is ayatala khameni, and he has more influence on state policy and sets the trends of what should be, well, he is also already at such an age that someone will change him too. well, it is true, mr. serhiy, you are one hundred percent right, the president in iran is not the bearer, so to speak, of all

the fullness of political power, the ayatollah, in this case khamenei, is precisely the personification of that spiritual spiritual leadership to which everyone and everything in this country, but what could be one of the possible options for the development of events, maybe? be that after this election, well, rather, these elections will be announced, and some kind of discussion will begin in the country, perhaps, well, at the very least, that some political forces will somehow try to pull iran away from that obvious and losing position of supporting the russian federation. russia will lose, well, not everyone understands this yet, but the question is whether the country needs to be an ally of the loser, and

i have this very faint hope that all the discussions that will begin now can give a little hope for the future , that after all, iran will not be immediately, it is obvious it is impossible, but gradually, somehow, to turn around in the direction of a greater mind and common sense, of course, that dew. russian federation will do everything it can and can't to prevent this, so that, on the contrary, the right-wing, right-wing fanatics and extremists will gain the upper hand in iran and... and will dispel the thesis that behind it, for example, the massad , which has already started and already today there are many people shouting that yes, of course, it was a provocation by masad, that is why it is clear, because for iranians israel is the abode of evil, hell and everything else, other, everything else, and so, of course, if you have to defend yourself from this hell, you have to

choose even more radical ones than there are today, so the struggle will continue, but i think that just as ... as russia will influence, there is also the possibility that democratic countries will try to at least stimulate some more or less positive turn or a hint of a turn in iran's internal politics, there are not small, but certain possibilities for this. well, yesterday, when information appeared that this helicopter from president of iran and minister of foreign affairs of iraq. and other officials disappeared from the map. in the evening, european commissioner for crisis management janes lenarchych announced the activation of the european union's rapid response cartographic service at the request of iran after the helicopter accident, adding #эвросоюз солидарный to the social media post. this manifestation

of the european union's solidarity with iran caused many outrageous comments, in particular from the meps. the european commissioner himself. later explained #manifestation of humanity, another whole story that is currently being dispersed in the russian federation, that everything that happened before that in europe meant an attempt on robert fico, the prime minister of slovakia, then, an attempt to organize an attempt on the life of uchich, then the plane wreckage itself in iran, which is part of one. a big plan to destroy these supporters of the axis of evil, people who act as putin's lawyers, as in europe, well, iran, and in general they are accomplices of the war against ukraine, can we expect, we are far from conspiracy, can we expect a continuation of similar

things, is it all a coincidence that the n propagandists are trying to deceive. under one, well, into one story, the story of the struggle against the world against putin, well, you know, if one fact, it can be a coincidence, two - it's a coincidence, three - it's already a regularity, so i think that if we talk about such things , here we must once again look for an answer to a simple question, and who benefits from it, well, who benefits from all these attacks on these political figures, or let's say, in this case, the death in this plane crash, this it is beneficial for russian propaganda to show that the world is being killed are they trying to kill those who stand for peace, well, look, fico is a great peacemaker, vuchich is a great peacemaker, well

, iran has not so directly put forward any peace plans, but it's the same... it could be put under the that he will also support the russian peace plan there or the chinese one or whatever, and thus, when they try to eliminate them, it is precisely this struggle of world evil in the person of the west against the new progressive regime of putin and so on and so on and so on, i.e. i think here of course, we need to have concrete facts , you and i don’t have them yet, but i think that time will pass and we will find not... there is little confirmation that such things are organized, especially when they arise, well, literally in a very short time a period of time, not in years, but in weeks, and then, i think that it probably cannot be just coincidences and coincidences, it is probably some kind of system, well

, we will wait for evidence and will these stories acquire some new ones? of development, well, in particular , regarding physical activity, because there are a lot of questions, how this is a writer who is 71 years old and it is clear that he does not know how to shoot, he went to shoot at a physio, well, there are many questions, how did it all happen, why did it happen and who actually pushed him to do this, yes, well, do you remember there was information that a few years ago he belonged to some pro-russian radicalized organization, maybe they are sitting there... canned goods of some russian special service, which can very easily inspire a person, well, maybe there are some psychological ones there. moments to go and shoot, so to speak, because something is wrong with him i liked it, well, we still have one outstanding european politician who leads his

country in violation of all european and nato rules, well, let's wait, maybe something will happen in the near future, let's see, thank you, mr. volodymyr, another rather important event took place this week, the visit of the secretary of state of the united states... blinkin to kyiv is not an announced visit, but blinkin emphasized the importance of american aid in ukraine and stated that washington and kyiv are preparing a major security agreement, that is, an agreement that will there for 10 years, it seems, and this is obvious, it should obviously act first, and this is a signal to the kremlin that the united states of america will not leave ukraine without help, at the same time, on the background of this, there is a discussion about whether american weapons can be used by the armed

forces of ukraine on the territory of the russian federation. the ambassador of ukraine to the united states of america, oksana markarova, says that ukraine is waging a defensive war, so it should have the right to hit the weapons of partners in those places. what did she say in an interview with cbs news? let's listen. we we have been having this discussion for two years now, we have the right to defend ourselves, and we defend ourselves regardless of whether we attack russian troops on our territory or russian troops outside our territory, so un rules, international law and all other rules , which exist in this country, and which, by the way, russia has violated, give us a clear right to defend ourselves by striking. on the aggressor, either on our territory, or where he starts his attacks? well, the head of the committee on foreign affairs of the french

parliament, jean-louis bourlange, called on paris to lift the taboo on ukraine sending french weapons into russian territory, quoting mr. bourlange: for france, which has long expressed its desire to be at the forefront of solidarity with ukraine and inter-allied coordination, it seems the time has come to lift it. the prohibition which she has hitherto imposed in this matter, as the english and americans have done. why can ukrainians be denied the right to respond with blows to attacks, the victims they become. the right to self-defense excludes the right to defend the aggressor's territory. mr. volodymyr, why so long? this discussion is being held and why ukraine has to confirm every time that we need to strike on the territory of the russian federation, because from there they are actually preparing another offensive and... another military convoy, why so, why is this happening, why do western partners take our arguments so hard, well, you know, we

always have to look for some such, it seems to me, facts in the history of bilateral relations and world history in general, which could somehow, you know, advance at least our position and our position. the doubt of those who cling to this twisted line, well, for example, well, look, have we forgotten that the americans helped the soviet union with weapons, well, it was like that, lendlease, the soviet union received thousands and thousands of tanks, airplanes, everything that was needed for what, in order to use it in war against germany, that the united states of america forbade the soviet army to beat the germans. outside the territory of the soviet union, outside the borders of that very poland, and in germany itself, no, yes, guys, well, take

this banal simple fact that is known to every schoolboy, and ask the white house representative, mr. kirby, what is the difference between the fact that back then american weapons were used to so to speak ... you are this beast in its den, and why now american weapons cannot be used in order to use them in order to deter an attack on a sovereign state, you see, well, i support what mrs. markarova says, she says absolutely correct, reasonable things, but it seems to me that sometimes very seriously affects the course of negotiations, that's it such a simple but very such a killer argument that... well, i do n't think mr. kirby would have found anything to answer or start swimming, but it's immediately apparent, and then it immediately, well, affects the position itself, what

is the basis? you ask, mr. serhiy, the basis is, well, i call it a cursed word, escalation, and behind the word escalation is the word fear, and these are two things that today paralyze the sober thinking of many military personnel in the west and politicians, they are afraid of the word escalation, they think yes, well, we gave, we gave the highmars, what about the other side, eh? on that side it may be like this, and we gave yes tanks, and what will happen on the other side, we gave there f-16, and what will happen next, and we will give this, and after that, maybe there will be something that we we cannot calculate, and this something is a nuclear threat, well, you understand, putin continues to scare the west with this nuclear threat, and the west continues to be scared, he does not want to...

understand that this threat does not really exist, because look how beautiful the french president put the muscovites in their place macron, he very clearly and calmly , somehow, you know, even said in a casual manner, yes, i have 880, in my opinion, if i am not mistaken, carriers of nuclear weapons, well, you strike and we will strike, and you know, in some moment, i don't know, i've been something for the last couple of weeks. maybe i missed something corrected, i don’t hear a mad medvedev, i don’t hear an equally mad zakharova and other mad ones, that’s after the inauguration of the so-called president putin on may 7 , last may 9, yes, yes, there was such a hint, but an indirect one. that's all and somehow immediately, the mood for nuclear war, well, at the very least,

went downhill. well, because they also understand very well there, it’s only france, there is already great britain, and there is already the united states of america, and not 800, even 80 warheads are enough to simply exterminate everything that is alive, that's why we have to be calm about nuclear threats and blackmail, we also have them and we can, and after that somehow the heat of passions was reduced a little. that is, you have to stop being afraid, you know, i really like some people going there in america now, including one of our demonstrators with t-shirts that read: be brave, you really have to finally become brave, not to be afraid of what stands today on clay feet, that's all, today, mr. volodymyr, happened 22 th meeting of the contact group on the defense of ukraine in

the format and the main issue of the agenda, in particular, air defense became, the priority of supply for ukraine remains the air defense system and the projectiles for them, said the secretary of defense of the united states of america, lloyd austin. let's hear what he said. it is very important for ukraine to close its skies from iranian drones, from korean missiles and other means. today we are all clearly in favor of... president biden earlier this month announced a new $400 million aid package, there will be new shells for the nessems, for the hymars, new, new units of armored vehicles and other systems that need.

mr. volodymyr, ukraine needs much more than what loy dostin says about it, is it true that the statement that the western partners give us weapons just enough so that we do not we lost, but just enough so that we didn't go on the offensive, well, you know, it's a sad conclusion, but i think it's fair, because if it was different, we would have been... won not only there five or seven patriot systems, which we are already talking about there, we are negotiating, it is not known how many months, and i think much more, so they are expensive, they cost a billion dollars each plus minus, well, but i'm sorry, even with the help about says usa.