elections, yes, and donald trump, an unpredictable person who at one time was already the american president, but we were very actively worried in ukraine when we tried to analyze what was happening in the american congress, yes, we were worried, but on the other hand, it also demonstrated a certain weakness of american democracy when an extremely important question, a question of life, literally of the entire european people , could...be put in jeopardy, we are grateful to the american administration, we are grateful to the american parliamentarians for finally bringing this story to a close, we got the money, but going back to donald trump and this hallway in a few months, before the election, what might happen before the election and what might happen after the election, because we don't know , who donald trump will be number two if he becomes president. we

do not know, yes, ukrainians have every right to be grateful to the united states for the assistance provided and at the same time disappointed by the long, unjustified delay in voting on additional aid for ukraine. ukraine should also push the us to do everything we can, beyond what we are already doing, to support ukraine at this critical time. in the united states, as i said, there is a debate about strategy, and president biden and his ... believe in a strategy that i would call the strategy of the free world. it is about supporting democracy in europe and asia, particularly because we will not be able to successfully counter the chinese challenge if we allow russia to threaten ukraine and europe. we need to deal with both great adversaries, china and russia. this is the position of the biden administration. the position of donald trump and his supporters seems to be that... that ukraine has

less value and priority. there have been times when donald trump has been hostile to ukraine and sympathetic to vladimir putin, which is a terrible position. it is also true that trump has recently changed his position on ukraine. on the eve of the vote in congress on providing additional aid to ukraine, donald trump published a statement on the true social website, in which he claimed that survival and strength of ukraine in the interests of the united states. this statement was hidden in the middle. long political post with attacks on the biden administration, and yet this is the rare case when donald trump recognized the importance of ukraine for the united states. i'm not a fan of donald trump, but i think it was a good move and i hope it continues. however, president biden is certainly a much more reliable supporter of ukraine than trump ever was or will be. ukraine now. is in a critical

situation, we understand that only decisive american aid can make a dramatic difference on the battlefield. we understand that we are talking about heavy weapons, we are talking about possible bold decisions on the part of american democracy, we understand that in a few months the situation in the united states may change, and indeed we do not undertake to forecast or prophesy what it may be, and we understand that we need additional air defense systems. in order to close the sky over kharkiv, in order to close the sky in the north of our country, yes, because the russians launched the so-called kharkiv operation, and we have a request for additional patriot systems, so that we can protect our civilians, but we understand that it is also about aviation, and it is also about a long-range artillery or missile component, and here key story, also about this... everyone is talking about whether or not there will be authorization to

use long-range american weapons to protect our citizens, so that our generals and our political leadership can decide for themselves where to strike, when russian interventionists will shell our cities. ukraine and ukrainian civil society are absolutely right to insist that the americans provide more modern systems. armament. frankly, i agree with ukrainians and americans like tory nuland, the former deputy secretary of state of the united states, who said that the united states should allow ukraine to use the weapons provided to hit military targets in russia, not just in ukraine. this is important from a military point of view to help ukrainians, in particular in kharkiv. friends, ukrainians are insisting that the biden administration lift some of the restrictions. i hope that... the biden administration will

act the same way it did on long-range atakams. it turns out that ukraine received these long-range missiles without prior public announcement, which allowed ukraine to ... surprise the russians with new weapons on new russian targets, so it is better to just let the ukrainians act, less words, more action. hopefully that's what the biden administration will do. sometimes it seems that the biden administration is concerned about escalation. i do not understand why anyone should prevent ukrainians from defending their country, in particular, by forbidding, attacking specific places in russia, from where strikes are carried out on the territory. this is a hotly debated issue in washington, and my friends and i are urging the administration to do everything it can to lift these restrictions, both publicly and privately, and allow ukraine to use american weapons as it sees fit. dear mr. ambassador frith, are there

any prospects that the words of that will be implemented president macron himself, so there was also an extremely resonant statement from general brau. yes, we understand that we are talking about the prospect that perhaps the military of our western friends and allies will be on our territory, in order to perhaps be not only instructors, if we talk about the seriousness of applying such a scenario, yes, because the president zelensky, well, said that no such proposals have been received so far. president macron is extending support to ukraine in every possible way, and i welcome such efforts. i think that now, more than ever, good idea to start looking at different options. recently, there have been many ideas about sending technical experts, americans and europeans with technical abilities to ukraine to help ukrainians. in particular , for the training of ukrainian soldiers and the repair of

ukrainian equipment on the territory of ukraine. there were also proposals to allow nato units stationed in poland or romania, mainly in poland, to use theirs. to intercept russian missiles and drones that attack targets on the territory of ukraine. there were several such proposals. however, none was accepted. still, it suggests that the u.s. and europe are considering what else they can do to help ukraine defend itself. of course, there are many questions that are actively being worked on in the run-up to the nato summit in washington in july, which is fast approaching. this summit should demonstrate that... ukraine's ultimate goal in the future will be nato membership. the us administration and secretary of state blinken started talking about building a bridge to nato. it's not quite a perfect metaphor. however, if this bridge is made of steel and not paper, if it really leads ukraine to

nato membership, and if it is short and not too long, then such a metaphor is quite appropriate. it can be a way to push through policies that will actually achieve. we understand that anthony blinkin is an extremely experienced and purposeful politician, we understand that the entire american administration is experienced and decent people, but when we talk about making extremely important decisions related to strategic weapons, we understand that this decision, this decision of the american president, now it is president joseph biden, yes, we understand that the story with the american aviation from the plane. f-16, it drags and drags, we see positive signals, we understand that some of our aviators have already passed through certain training, but we still haven't seen american or i don't know, french or british planes, in which our pilots would sit pilots

and who would protect our sky. maybe say something more about the big debates, in particular, regarding the allocation of aviation to us. and why am i talking now about... american aviation, because this is really about the strategy of war, so we understand that putin has made a decision for himself not to spare the russian interventionists, and they are ready to simply exchange manpower for manpower, they are ready to give p 10 or 10 of our interventionists for one of our fighters, because there is such a thing as a mobilization resource, and our enemy's mobilization resource is much larger than ours. speaking about aviation, we understand that it is about pilot training, provision fighters and logistics to support them. agree that the us took too long to decide on the f-16. we should have dared to do this back in 2022 and act immediately. the delay

took too much time, so i think some criticism is warranted in that regard as well. i don't know the details of the fighter jet delivery process, but the faster the f-16. will be in ukrainian skies with ukrainian pilots on board, the better for all of us. as for mobilization, the russians have a considerable advantage, which is why the ukrainian government was right when they... ukraine cannot afford young people not to serve in the army, i understand that they need to be trained, but ukraine must act quickly to solve the problem of the lack of soldiers. this is not an easy decision, but it is important, and we cannot ignore it, it is ukraine's decision. the united states, europe can help with weapons, and i fully agree that we should do more. now that congress has voted for aid, we... must make sure it gets to ukraine as quickly as possible. the russians are trying

break through in the north and east, before the weapons are fully delivered to ukraine. we must act, we in europe and the us must do more and act faster to help ukraine stop the russian offensive. we must do this urgently. and i think that it is the united states that should give impetus to the arrival of weapons to ukraine as soon as possible. and the prospects of using it as a certain auxiliary tool. whatever tools are used, we have to make sure that the weapon gets where it needs to go. to us everyone needs to ensure that resources are available for ukraine in the future. the biden administration is pushing very hard to use as many frozen russian assets as possible, those that the us, europe and the g7 have blocked since the february invasion. in 2022. some progress has been made, but not enough. we must

make it possible to take as much of this money as possible and use it to help ukraine. this must be done quickly. the money is there, and now is the time to use it. dear mr. ambassador, frith, the question of money. yes, we are we understand that hundreds of billions of dollars of russian funds are frozen in the world. and we understand that war is not... only about human resources, not only about military resources, it is also about financial resources, and we understand that this issue is extremely painful for our enemy, so we understand that the russian oligarchic economy was built, in particular, to keep stolen money from russians abroad, and now more than 300 billion dollars are waiting for them to help us in ukraine fight against unprovoked... aggression, but we understand that it is possible, we are also talking about additional sanctions packages,

unfortunately, there is a feeling, yes, in particular, we were surprised in ukraine by the reaction of national security adviser jake sullivan, who said that we should not hit objects oil refineries in russia, when we talk about the use of drones, taking into account, especially , the fact that russia almost destroyed all our thermal power plants, that is, they targeted, that... they hit every time so that ukraine would be in the dark. the us and the j7 countries have to achieve consensus on the use of as much of the frozen russian assets as possible. we must use this money to compensate for the consequences of russia's unprovoked war of aggression. regarding sanctions, there are additional steps that should be taken. i believe the biden administration is looking into this issue and some of my friends will be discussing it with the administration. what else can be done to put pressure on the russian economy? we must consider all the levers at our disposal

to push russia out of ukraine and weaken its ability to wage war. russia is tough and a dangerous opponent. who but ukrainians should know about this. we in the west must understand that russia will not stop in ukraine. if putin succeeds in ukraine, he will quickly move on. it threatens the baltic states. threatens moldova, there are reports of the work of russian agents who use methods of disinformation and actual sabotage, particularly in western europe. russia under putin is a huge threat and we must act accordingly. dear mr. ambassador, frit, we do not trust putin in ukraine. i think, no one in the world believes putin, but he regularly gives one or another false signals about russia's readiness for one or another negotiation. and at the same time, all his followers always say: "well, taking into account the realities on the ground." it is about the fact that russia would like to

leave the temporarily occupied territories behind. we understand that this plan does not work. well, in any case, in one of his last statements, putin again mentioned the istanbul agreements, although we understand that they were not agreements, because they did not receive the proper signatures and acceptance, well at least in ukraine, but if... talking about putin's signals, what he means, and maybe russia is just putin not showing it, would actually be ready for some serious, substantial concessions. currently, i believe that russia has absolutely no interest in any serious negotiations to end its war of aggression. they just cynically look at the offers in order to use them to their advantage. if the russians are serious about negotiations, they will know how to conduct them. the basis of the negotiations should be the ukrainian peace formula

of 10 points, and not to the russian statement that negotiations should begin with... ukraine's recognition of russian conquests of part of its territories. the russians are not serious about the negotiations, they can become serious only when they feel that they are losing, that is, when the balance of the battle shifts in favor of ukraine. putin's announced military exercises with the use of tactical nuclear weapons are certain signals of intimidation, or could it really be something more serious? i think that putin will use it. the possibility of nuclear escalation to intimidate the united states and europe again, but i don't think he will get anything out of it. in the fall of 2022, the kremlin also threatened to use nuclear weapons, and i think that the us sent a signal to the russians that if they dared to take this step, there would be a quick and nasty response from the us. i believe that

the united states told the russians that if they use nuclear weapons against ukraine, the united states will attack russian positions.' inside ukraine, of course, these are just my assumptions, but we know that the russians have retreated, they take it seriously. putin may continue to try to intimidate the united states and the west with these nuclear exercises, but we should not give in to that pressure. yes, russia has nuclear weapons, but so do we. and the last question, mr. ambassador, the washington nato summit, that's how we understand what should happen. proposal for ukraine , taking into account what is happening now on the front line, but we understand that the euro-atlantic community in this case, when we are talking about ukraine's full membership in nato, shows a certain caution, so what are the prospects, especially taking into account the positive experience of sweden and finland? the issue of ukraine's accession to nato

definitely worries many people, in particular in the baide administration, i doubt that ukraine will actually receive an invitation to start accession negotiations. for example, the former prime minister of denmark and the former secretary general of nato, anders vohrasmussen, advocates the beginning of accession negotiations with ukraine. frankly, i think it's a good idea, but i don't think the biden administration is ready before this. however, unlike last year's situation before the vilnius summit, the biden administration is now talking about a bridge. nato for ukraine. i know that many ukrainians do not like talking about this bridge. they want an invitation. i understand that and on some level i certainly agree with him. however, there is a possibility that at the nato summit, the usa and other members of the alliance will make it clear that they are serious, because european security cannot be complete

without ukraine in nato. leave ukraine in the dark zone is a formula of instability and potency. invitation to further attacks by russia, so i think progress will be made, the issue of ukraine will be the main issue at the nato summit. much will depend on how the events on the battlefield will develop, and the united states needs to send a clear signal that nato will firmly stand by ukraine and adhere to its principled position that ukraine's future is in nato. thank you very much, mr. ambassador fries, for this extremely important conversation. we thank you for all that you have done and are doing to support ukraine, not only in the american administration, but in the world in general. and i want to remind our tv viewers that daniel frith, an american diplomat, former coordinator of the us state department on sanctions policy, was currently working on spresso.

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well, the situation at the front is extremely alarming. we understand that the enemy has concentrated enough manpower and artillery resources to try to capture additional bridgeheads. they created two military bridgeheads in the north of kharkiv region, right? and we understand that putin is right. activated its aggressive line, and we understand that the summer will be extremely difficult, and at the same time we see another trend, yes, people's deputy of ukraine, mariana bezugla began to very actively criticize, i am putting it this mildly, the higher military leadership, generals sodol, syrskyi, bargelevich, pavlyuk, tkachuk and so on, that is , she found a few kind words in quotation marks for each of them. that it does not have a very positive effect on the motivation of the higher generals. mr. roman, what do you think is happening now and what is the right and wise thing to do in a similar

situation? i can say that from the information i read, from the analytical materials of the western, ukrainian, forces in russia, repeat or february, or even similar things last year with attacks. there are no counterattacks , what is accumulated there is not a potential, serious threat, although, as you rightly said, the bridgeheads are created and the front line is stretched, it is a danger, but there is something to fight against this danger, especially considering that the arrival of aid will increase, and potentially the general staff as well, as the information received both from... foreigners and from ukrainian specialists indicates that the armed forces of ukraine are capable of resisting, but in the current situation

more damage definitely brings the fact that politicians, or not pre-politicians, i would say so, begin to interfere in tactical tools, in personnel policy and so on, especially since these words are not just actually these people, everyone understands perfectly well that mar she is cornerless, and everyone else from this constellation, they are inspired, they receive instructions, directly from the bank, and i do not always agree with what mr. president or mr. yaermak says, in this situation , different sources are visible, because as list of surnames all the time it changes and is voiced differently, and the temperament and reasons and claims to these people are highlighted at different times.

depending on what's going on, well, let's say there 's an accusation against a certain person and after that jump, such a hop appears informational, that is, for those who are constantly watching, it indicates that we are dealing with certain attacks, which not only cause harm to the higher command staff, the generals of the armed forces. of ukraine, they cause damage, including to the average command staff, they harm the armed forces of ukraine. when the officers speak, when the military speak, by the way, words that we see less and less, which is very dangerous. it's one thing, because they can be understood. they see their comrades die, they see their subordinates die, and their high notes can be accepted and

explained. but when those who do not understand what it is like style begin to throw mud at the generals, or the officer corps, or certain units of the armed forces, or propose in the verkhovna rada different marasmatic decisions, all this indicates that it is not only among the tactical environment that there are those who provide information about displacement. of certain units, they hand over information about objects, which we very often see in the media that one, second, third, fourth person has been detained, it is much worse when people with status say it, it is clear that you can put a corner next to merger grien and say according to the principle, as i often do, that well, in the family

there are always... those who are weak, and they can, because in our policy they say the following word, in relation to to such people, weak, that is, here, whether he is weak or he is sick, here everyone chooses, chooses a conclusion for himself, but these things are very dangerous, because they not only demoralize society, they demoralize, demotivate people, they demotivate the higher command structure and so on, but the danger of this signal, in fact... indicates that there are a large number of people around the president who do not know where to stand in this situation, so they start clear subversive work, because such work causes enormous damage, that's it the ukrainian state and ukrainian society, moreover, it is clear that such things affect the external contour, they are heard,

they are seen, and they cannot be ignored... the weakening of cooperation and aid to ukraine, the fact that in washington, brussels knew that and frankly understood that general zaluzhnyi would resign, pay attention to how these two trends coincided, because, if we read the economist, then in fact from the spring of last year it was wrote and by the fall, activity and aid decreased, decreased, decreased and so on, and things like that, they understand the swings of the pendulum, these are all trends that are happening and they perceive them as politicians, as serious politicians, and understand that there will be consequences for this , because personnel changes, including...