became energy independent from the russian federation. the winter of 2015-16 passed without gas supplies from the russian company gazprom. ukraine imported gas only from europe. however , russia did not like such a refusal, and gazprom obliged ukraine to buy gas on a take-it-or-pay basis. when ukraine refused to pay under the discriminatory agreement, gazprom sued. the consideration of the case lasted for almost four years, and in may 2017. the arbitration overruled the principle of berebo payment and recognized the price formula of russian gas for ukraine as unfair. starting from april of 2014. according to the results of the cases, naftogaz condemned gazprom for almost 4.5 billion dollars. on april 10, 2016, in a weekly video message, arseniy yatsenyuk announced that he had decided to draw up the credentials of the prime minister of ukraine. according to him, such a decision is due to an artificial political crisis in the state, inhibition. the process of changing the government and

a united vision of getting out of the crisis. arseniy yatsenyuk is now the chairman of the kyiv security forum and the founder of the international fund open ukraine. the fund was founded in 2007 to strengthen the authority of ukraine in the world. to of the full-scale invasion, open ukraine helped military and civilian ukrainians for more than uah 30 million and continues to provide assistance even now. the kyiv security forum became an important voice of ukraine in international politics during the large-scale each event of the forum is a discussion platform for discussing war, peace, the future world order, preservation of democracy and resistance to dictatorships, leading experts, politicians, diplomats and government officials discuss, and the kbf made significant efforts to ensure that ukraine received aid from the united states, almost 61 billion dollars in april 2024, arseniy yatsenyuk himself lobbied for the interests of the state, having extensive connections in the political circles of the united states. once again, with the anniversary of ukrainian

politician arseniy yatsenyuk, now i will introduce you to askad shurbekov, a deputy of the zaporizhia regional council. mr. skade, i congratulate you. congratulations. during two years of this war, we were online, and now we have the opportunity to meet in a studio in kyiv. today , a temporary investigative commission was created in the verkhovna rada of ukraine, which will investigate the issue whether or not to build fortifications, of course they are being built now in various regions, in particular in zaporizhzhia. how are you dealing with this now, is there a threat similar to the one currently in kharkiv region, the advancement or accumulation of strength of the attempt to advance the armed forces of the aggressor, and those works that are being carried out from what can be said, as far as you can see, that they really qualitative and adequate to threats? well, of course, the enemy is trying to advance in general in the zaporozhye direction, because it is strategic, both for us and for them, every day they try to break through the front line in the rbotino region, in general they fire at origiv, holipole, stip... girsk, in general,

if we talk about fortifications, it is probably one of the key priorities of the cabinet of ministers there, because a sufficiently large amount has been allocated to the zaporizhzhia region there were two tranches of funds, it seems to me that in total it is a little more than uah 2 billion, that is why work is being carried out actively today, i think that the situation in the kharkiv region with breakthroughs and fortifications, they have exacerbated the need to check the attention to zaporizhzhia oblast, but it should be noted that during this period of the construction of the fortification in our country, i think once there was a president, the minister of defense were representatives of the top military leadership, that is, attention to the zaporizhzhia region, it was before the fortification even before the situation in the kharkiv region, therefore we believe from what we see, let's say, the works are going according to plan and the population can feel relatively calm, again, as much as possible, because the enemy does not reduce the number of shelling, does not reduce the intensity of shelling, i have read the words of a military officer from kraken, who said that if we could strike with attacks on... which were ready for

an offensive on the territory of the russian federation in the belograd region, an offensive on the kharkiv region, then perhaps this offensive would not have happened, but at least it would be possible to mix and destroy the order of the enemy. your situation is simpler in this sense, that the enemy cannot attack the zaporizhia region from the territory of the russian federation, only from the temporarily occupied territory of the zaporizhia region, so the only question is whether there would be something to shoot at in the event that the enemy could accumulate such strength? well, clearly, the enemy cannot accumulate, because the landscape of the doz... the military can see the enemy, and plus we must understand that for about three months the number of intensity of attacks on the part of the enemy has increased, their efforts to break through the front line, but no significant success there, yes, despite the fact that they are reporting something there , but they do not have it, that is, if they had this opportunity to break through there and they did not feel stiff resistance from the armed forces of ukraine, i am sure that they would have already were advancing, but they cannot advance, and what our soldiers testify, what we see from the leadership of the communities of the frontline territories, the situation is sufficiently controlled, difficult, but controlled. i would also like

to say and remind and thank that they remember and honor this and for the next generations of the lesson, a street named after tigranny appeared in zaporizhzhia. and mykyta khanganova - these are young heroes who joined the battle with the enemy and died in the city of berdyansk, and young partisans, those who did not want to live in the occupation, and the fathers of the street named after them, this the council's decision, and will there be any memorial plaques there, or are they already there, and is it possible, so that you know, to tell more children how once, how the enemy now conducts his propaganda there, talks about some of his fictional pseudo-heroes, and we could on real ... examples of guys who, heroes who gave their lives, yes, this is a recent decision of the zaporizhzhya city council, of course, that all the necessary signs, attributes in general will be installed, and indeed we see the example of these two heroic guys, and we understand the logic of the occupiers when they are trying to zombify our teenagers, our

students, young people in the temporarily occupied territory, because for them they are a threat to the bearers of ukrainian values, they are, in fact, probably such a risk group that is subject to pressure, and for young people... well, zaporizhzhia as a city, these are very telling examples of people, children, in fact, who loved their homeland and gave their lives for their homeland. i know that there is such information that it is very active now, maybe it is also connected with the fact that summer is starting soon, and such military-tourist season, and russians come to melitopol, buy housing there, try to somehow change, perhaps the population of melitopol. or settle there, thinking that they are already there forever, this is a traditional story, i think that they are trying to really change the ethnic composition of the population, blur the ukrainian identity, so that there is no concentration of ukrainianness, there is no resistance, and the living conditions are a plus for them in melitopol, in berdyansk and other territories of the occupied zaporizhzhia

region is much better than those places from which they came, it's paradoxical, despite the war, all the destruction, the zaporizhzhia region is an order of magnitude higher, well, relatively speaking, life on blood, in fact, they are just legitimized. show that there are no moral barriers for them, there are no other things that they can adhere to, well, i'll just wait a minute, is it possible to carry out work now to bring the buildings in the city into order and in general, but now it is very important, especially under such a tension to save electricity, these are damaged capacity of the dnipro hydroelectric power station. to date, as far as we know, the work is not being carried out in general, because the situation is only being analyzed. and the degree of destruction is heavy enough, but i would like to point out that in zaporizhzhya region , in fact, there are minor outages compared to other regions of the country. i don't know the secret, but i know for sure that you have your own secret there. well, it was also during the blockade of 22nd year, and now we are today, in fact , locals, residents of the controlled part, they

practically do not experience a power outage. well, just recently there was information that the enemy can switch the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to power and occupy it. on the territory of crimea and in general those territories that they consider necessary to feed, whether it is possible or impossible, because there were different opinions, whether there is any fresh information now, i think that we should rely on energy atoms, in general, on their recommendations , i think if the occupiers could get the station to work they would have done it a long time ago, they miss the first competence, there is not enough professional workers, in fact, since the occupation, the station has not produced a single kilowatt of electricity, and it is fueled today by the controlled ukraine, so as not to lead to some kind of man-made disaster. therefore, all these statements, they are simply not substantiated, do not yet have any meaning. and, well, i’m literally 15 seconds again, but there are a lot of industrial giants in zaporizhzhia, in the zaporizhia region, which are working, now the mobilization of many workers is taking away, i i know that in the neighboring dnipropetrovsk region

in kryvyi rih, women come to work, for example, at metallurgical enterprises, as is the case in zaporizhzhia, in short, is there such a thing, well , is this problem being solved so that... it will work, because it is important? enterprises of critical infrastructure, they can book their employees, there are relevant regulatory clarifications from the military commanders and in general from specialized structures, so today, in any case, we do not have any such collapsings, neither in industry nor in other areas life activities of the city. thank you very much, it was vaskadasherbekov, deputy of the zaporizhia regional council, thank you for your comments, and we will continue. so, in a little more than two hours , the final match of the uefa europa league will begin in the irish capital, dublin , in which the italian atalanta, sorry, and the german bayer leverkusen will meet. it is certain that it is possible that someone, and i in particular,

for example, expected and wanted to see the english liverpool in this final. however, atalanta will play in dublin, which was previously deserved passed liverpool and bayerik and did not lose this season. not a single match in any of the tournaments, the team from bergamo will play in the final of the eurocup for the first time in history, and in the 21st century they have not won the europa league or the uefa cup. no italian club to do so, the italians will have to lift bayer's spell of invincibility. hubby alonso's team is having, without exaggeration , a phenomenal season. apothecaries always, always play until the last second. many have achieved results in character. they have already become champions of germany and have chances for the treble. if they triumph in the europa league final today, they will also soon win the nimes cup. on the eve of the game, the coaches of both teams paid a lot of compliments to the opponents, so

i suggest you listen to the direct speech. bayar is a very, very, very well organized team that also has quality players, but in reality this team is cut. bayar is a very, very, very well organized team that also has quality players. in fact, this is a team with different options not only forward, but also in terms of tactics, how certain players switch positions, they defend very well and they attack very well. we have to be sure that we stick to our structure. and obviously, when it comes to the finale, you have to make sure you play your best in the key episodes. talent achieved success both at home and in europe. we are very familiar with this team, but it

continues to progress and develop. we 've been preparing for this moment all year, it's not just today's work, and you know, luckily i have a great team, my players are definitely ready, they are well prepared, we have shown it all year, we are confident in our game, in our mentality. he will not change, i think we can do it. kyiv time, the game will be judged by the romanian referee i štvan kovacs. well, vasyl, what do you think, will the apothecaries manage to find these drugs for fiasco again today, and i will remind you that bayer's unbeaten streak continues already, if i'm not mistaken, 51 matches, maybe they invented some kind of elixir of victory, but i think that it is very important not to rely now. bayer on the axis what was lucky, lucky, maybe, well in many moments really lucky, let's be honest in everything, this is a good

team, very often it can happen that at the last moment you can stumble and luck can turn away, that's why you have to play football, definitely don't think that an undefeated year, but one match can become a losing one, so i wish the teams success, but again , there is magic in football, but you have to play this football. well, let's see if that magic works again today, and let's keep the football going as well. news of the london chelsea team at times again found himself without a mentor, the day before the club's official website announced the termination of cooperation by mutual consent of the parties with mauricio pochettino and his coaching staff. the argentinian specialist worked at chelsea for one season, he was in the last team for less than a year. chelsea took sixth place in the english championship and made it to the eurocups. aristocrats won the last five matches of the season. however, the leadership of londoners is like this. and the results were not satisfactory. mykhailo mudryk, player of the national team of ukraine and pensioners

reacted to the coach's departure with a post on social networks. thank you for everything. who will take charge of chelsea next season is currently unknown, with mauricio pochutino becoming the fourth manager to coach the aristocrats in the last 20 months. if we have, i understand, our time is over, and i must pass. vasyl will be able to speak, he will continue the big broadcast, and i will say goodbye to you, until friday, i wish you a good evening, well, thank you evgeny pastukhov, and i will say goodbye to you now, until tomorrow at 18:10, but no goodbye with you from the press, literally in a few moments the weather from natalka didenko at 20:00 verdicta program with serhii rudenko, stay with us and you will always learn about the most important things. goodbye! synoptical hello to all,

our dear viewers! i will start our meeting today by talking about a special day. today is may 22, the day of the reburial of taras hryhorovych shevchenko, when our genius, our prophet returned from an evil foreign land to his native land, according to the will. a little history about... this day. on may 22, 1861 , taras hryhorovych shevchenko was reburied at chernechii gory near kanev. the 40-year-old 47-year-old poet died in st. petersburg. he was there for 58 days, and then, according to the will and at the request of mykhailo lazarevsky, in april of the same year, he was transported to ukraine and reburied on chernechaya gora near kanev, well, in may . the throne was first brought to kyiv, where everyone who wished said goodbye, we know that

they even rebuilt the church where taras hryhorovych shevchenko was sung in kyiv, and then they took him to kana by steamboat. chavonny was first installed on the people's donation cross, then in 1889 the first shevchenko museum was opened there, in 1925 the kaniv state museum was established at the burial site of shevchenko's grave, and the monument itself was built in 1939, of course chernecha gora has been called tarasova since then. eternal memory and our eternal gratitude. for the fact that taras hryhorovych shevchenko made us truly ukrainians, not every nation has its own genius and prophet. we go further and talk about the behavior of the earth's magnetic field. tomorrow there will be small fluctuations, strong magnetic storms are not expected, and therefore we move on to the actual weather forecast

and see what is expected in ukraine on may 23. in the western parts of ukraine, short-term rains and thunderstorms are expected in places, but not everywhere, this applies more to the extreme west, or those areas adjacent to the western border of ukraine. in the north of ukraine, there will be rain and thunderstorms in places, but to be honest, these rains will be quite local, as i said, in places, so there will also be many sunny spells, high air temperature - 20, 26, 21, 27°. on in the east of ukraine, rain is likely in kharkiv region only, in luhansk region, in donetsk region without precipitation, and the air temperature is 24-27° above zero. in the central part of ukraine, as a matter of fact, we also mention about the beautiful kania, which we talked about, where tarasova gora is located,

no precipitation is expected, 22-26 above zero. in the southern part of ukraine, almost summer weather. dry, sunny, 23-27°c, in kyiv on may 23 the maximum air temperature will fluctuate around 25°c, precipitation is not expected, such a temperature is not for such a too high and not low, of course, will continue in the near future, but we will carefully monitor the rains and precipitations together, and of course , carefully monitor the... weather forecasts on the espresso channel. good evening, we are from ukraine. glory to ukraine, dear tv viewers, on espresso tv channel, west studio program. we will analyze the most important events of this week, in particular, we will talk about

russian offensive actions in kharkiv region and the great threat to sumy and sumy region. we will also analyze. the situation related to the visit of putin and his entire clan to beijing. our guests today are andriy piondkovskii and military expert oleksiy hetman. our first guest is andrii piondkovskiy, a famous political scientist who is in washington. god give health to andrii andriyovych, glory to ukraine. surprise, glory. well, i would like us to immediately start the analysis with the big russian case. this is how we understand that putin made great disturbances in his environment, and what he did... the first thing he did was sneer at the people's republic of china. in your opinion, what is happening now in connection with putin's visit to china. chinese visit generally indicative, it seems that putin no longer feels the ridiculousness of this situation, when 20 people go to kiss the shoe of the chinese emperor. the very fact of such a visit shows

russia's profound dependence on china. i would like to return first of all to... what you called the disturbances in moscow. i believe that the majority of analysts both in the west and in russia, the most important of them, are focused on shoigu's resignation. shuigu is a banal thief, in general he was very useful to putin. putin knew perfectly well about the thefts of ivanov and shuigu himself. now he needs a campaign to discredit the army as a confederation of thieves, and even pay attention, in the two cases of ivanov and the next arrestee kuznyatsov, there are still words from... council, he needs something that will explain the huge failures of his campaign, what are the failures? therefore, let's return to the most important event, the shameful dismissal of the patrus. if he was simply thrown out of retirement, it would be even less humiliating than

his appointment as a shipbuilding assistant. and what is the matter? you and i have talked about it 20 times. patrushev is an ideologue a tool of nuclear blackmail. he suggested to putin that the only way to defeat the west, which dominates russia in everything. economically, technologically, in conventional weapons, it is to threaten and threaten to use nuclear weapons, pretend to be crazy, back off or i will use nuclear weapons, and it worked for several years, why with such delays and restrictions was the phased delivery of american weapons, because all the time inside the administration in the usa, the theme was this: do not provoke putin, we must avoid escalation, suddenly putin is in favor of... it worked until at a certain point, i will even name this date, february 26 of this year, the most difficult days for ukraine,

the fourth month of hunger rations, the blocking of the aid law, macron began his historic speech. he harshly criticized the usa, all its red lines, he exclaimed what a weakness, how it is possible to limit ourselves in everything by red lines, when we are dealing with an enemy that... doesn't limit itself in anything. we must firmly declare our intention to defeat russia, and i do not rule out sending french troops to ukraine to fight against russian aggression. this provoked a natural display of renewed nuclear threats from putin, to which macron responded brilliantly. firstly, i want to state that we are already engaged in combat operations in ukraine and our british specialists maintain our missiles. storm shelters and scalps that we provided to ukraine. and secondly, i want to remind you that france is also a nuclear power. it was an unexpected blow for putin.

for the first time, there was someone who responded harshly to his nuclear blackmail. it immediately caused panic. you noticed, in russian the resources were screaming. how so? france has declared war on us. she is going to introduce troops. why haven't we destroyed it yet? nuclear weapons. why don't we strike conventionally ? because the blackmailer works only as long as the victim gives in to him. putin was stripped of his scariest, most effective weapon, the threat of a nuclear strike. he was told: "we are not afraid of your nuclear attack, you will never do it, because we also have nuclear weapons." and pay attention to how the rhetoric of russian leaders has changed. the same crazy zakharova screams for retribution. "we will deal terrible blows to the french and the british, but it no longer says that the british islands will disappear into the abyss of the atlantic ocean, or that we will destroy paris and

marseilles, she scares, and we will destroy the french military, we will kill the french and send coffins to paris, and widows of soldiers will come to the elysee palace and demand that macron stop nuclear blackmail as a possible weapon of the russian army, but putin's entire bet, remember, before the attack on he presented ukraine with an ultimatum to nato countries. "collect your money and get out." he was sure that nuclear blackmail would work. putin will say no, due to the failure of nuclear blackmail and fires the person who convinced him of the effectiveness of nuclear blackmail. this is a very important event in the course of the russian-ukrainian war and the entire world war, which putin announced as an event. he...realized that his blackmail wasn't working, his blackmail wasn't working. andrii andriyovych, i agree with you, on the other hand, i heard another version, so we understand

that patrushev is flesh from flesh, blood from blood, patrushev and the office are twin brothers, we understand that he is the product of certain structures that in principle stood in opposition to the strengthening of shuigu, and we also understand that in principle there were rumors that that patrushev was interested in strengthening prigozhin and prigozhin's mutiny or demarche. something else happened, why putin decided to throw patrushev down the drain, in fact. this is a competition between military counterintelligence and the army, which has an age-old history. this is the argument in theirs eternal confrontation, but i emphasize once again, this strategic factor is much more important than internal departmental disputes, it is an exceptionally effective weapon. recall his famous press conference with macron on february 6, two weeks before the full-scale invasion of

ukraine. and slipped up, blurted out for the first time, because he was in a state of euphoria, had just returned from china, felt the support of china, felt almost the master of the world, and he blurted out his secret, said, i repeat verbatim, we understand that on a conventional level we are inferior to the west, but - he continued to brag, we got some super nukes over there and stuff, that was his whole concept of war, and remember his statement when he declared war. in ukraine on february 24, his final phrase: and if someone prevents us from conquering ukraine, then these countries will befall such catastrophes that they have not seen in their thousand-year history. the question is very simple, why he was tempted by this concept of patrushev. russia is a state that is inferior to the west in everything, in technology, in the economy, in cultural development, on the conventional

are equal, and the nuclei are approximately equal. i agree, i agree with you, but why, for example, did he transfer shuigu to the position of patrushev, and not throw him out like a lousy cat, yes, because what is called the provision of russian interveners in the russian-ukrainian war, well, it is the responsibility of the minister of defense directly, but no, transferred him to the position of patrushev. this position of patroshev, the position of secretary of the security council, is an empty position, it was important. years suggested this concept that we can defeat states that are much stronger than us, blackmailing them with nuclear weapons, and now this security council is a meeting place of pensioners, bears and shuigu will make some strange speeches there, it doesn't matter at all, why was he arrested, i started with ivanov, and now kuznyatsov? putin understands, it is connected

with... his understanding that the blackmail failed. now he is thinking about how to stay in power. now he will try to impose on the west and ukraine some version of, as he calls it, korea, and still he will have to publicly admit that the main goal of the war is to destroy of the ukrainian state, failed and will never be implemented. he must name the culprits. the ministry of defense will be named guilty, there will be a huge trial of generals. and he still has some personal, close relationship with shoigu, if shoigu cannot be put on the dock, because everyone remembers their joint trips to the tuvan taiga, and how close they were, then he is just shoigu led to a retirement warm place, led out of the future process of traitors, thieves in the ministry of defense, this is my explanation, this is an empty place of no shuigu's power is not there, he needs a long

war, he is a repetition. every day that this fool bilousov, who, as we are told, is the only person in russia who does not steal, although this raises great doubts, data has already appeared about the palaces of the same belousov, but now he has a double task , he realized that the victory over ukraine, in the sense in which they wanted to achieve it, the destruction of ukrainian statehood, will never happen, now it is necessary to crawl away. he wants to save. this korean version of territorial capture it is as possible to sell it as a sort of draw, but a draw is not a victory, because the credits and traitors of the ministry of defense were in the way, there will be a huge trial over them, this is what putin is busy with now, and what is the meaning of these two sensational resignations, well, this is extremely powerful working version, but returning, for example, to the same bilousov, the new minister of defense, or

more precisely to... the attack of the russian federation, we understand that the long war against ukraine you mentioned, it involves resources and the restructuring of what was calculated, for what, on blitzkrieg. the blitzkrieg was defeated thanks to the courage and skill of the armed forces of ukraine. but a long war, it assumes that resource competition. and accordingly, we understand that the russian generals did not cope with what , in principle, the representatives of the nabiulina clan and with her coped with, that is, people who manually adjusted the russian economy, switching it to new markets and so on on and on, building bridges with india or china, and trying to diversify one or another of its gray supplies of energy resources. and here is bilousov, as a cyber-attacker, he basically belongs to that environment, and we understand that simply,

perhaps, he would have decided... he is preparing to cut other tasks.