deputy minister of defense of the russian federation alexander fomin listen, i will make a brief statement by the ministry of defense of the russian federation in connection with the fact that the negotiations on the preparation of a treaty on neutrality without a nuclear status of ukraine, as well as providing ukraine with a security guarantee, are moving into practice, taking into account those convicted during today's meeting principles by the ministry of defense of the russian federation in order to increase mutual trust and create the necessary conditions for further negotiations and achievement the ultimate goal is to agree on the signing of the aforementioned agreement. a decision was made to radically reduce military activity in the kiev and chernihiv directions , we proceed from the fact that

relevant key decisions will be made in kiev and conditions should be created for further normal work. well, there was a statement by general rudsky that the main effort, and today shoigu confirmed this, will be concentrated, of course, on the eastern front, where the most combat-ready units are located about this was there a talk? come on, first of all, uh, i have to say that the second phase of the defense minister's operation has begun. uh, yesterday i summed up the results of the second stage, or rather the first stage. naturally they are very say. it is so sad for the ukrainian side that almost all military air forces, the air defense system, have been destroyed, the fleet and ground forces have also been destroyed. uh, we suffered heavy losses both in personnel and in equipment, as we have already said repeatedly in this studio, that the second

stage is about this. uh, said the head of the main operational directorate, general. what about rudskoy, uh the main ones will now be concentrated - this is, uh, the liquidation of the donetsk group. uh, this is a cleansing of mariupol, about 4,000 people remained there. basically. they concentrate on the territory. uh, azovsteel and the seaport. and uh, you need to, uh, continue to strengthen the cleansing and strengthen positions, including the work of the military-civilian administration in the kherson region, uh, in part of the zaporozhye region and the nikolaev regions. this is the southeast. donbass is a priority. our e activities within the framework of the second stage of the special military operation one task, which i also consider extremely

important. this is, uh, the destruction of the identification, firstly , and the destruction of places where equipment is accumulated on the territory of western ukraine western equipment that they will supply uh, according to uh, that loud statement, oh, which is made mainly by the american side, that they will supply these heavy machinery, heavy machinery. i have repeatedly said that you have to concentrate somewhere. that's where it's needed. to destroy what concerns kiev, what general fomin said, that we will significantly reduce activity by in the kiev and chernigov direction, this does not mean at all that, uh, we will move away from there and stop all activities. it’s just, uh, a pause is needed when , uh, conducting hostilities, especially since the intensity of hostilities is above average, which is taking place now in ukraine, it takes time to regroup to replenish u stocks

of logistics to replenish ammunition. in the end, carrying out the rotation of personnel for this is a pause and a decrease in activity and will be used, of course, probably, obviously. rather, it will. uh significantly the number of missile and bomb strikes with high-precision weapons has been reduced . probably, there will be no promotion. e further in the direction of e, kiev chernigov. uh, blockade partial blockade is in place. in general, the ring is not closed and not around chernihiv, not around kiev, that is, there are corridors left for the exit. e, but nevertheless, what has been achieved to date will be, in saved e, there will be no activation and there will be no, so to speak, actions of an assault

nature to capture these cities, but, uh, not in no case should one interpret the words of general fomin about what is on ki. we are all chernihiv direction. that is to say, the activity will be terminated. it will be reduced many times the general staff has already announced in the near future will come up with detailed explanations. what does the decrease in activity mean and what does the action of the ministry of defense mean? uh, what will be the actions of missi uh, in our grouping during, uh, the second stage? i think after that everything will be absolutely clear but what i said. i think it will be close to what, uh for those who fear that russia will weaken its military efforts, the statement of the united states state department, he stated that the announcement of the department of defense and a drastic reduction in the special operation in ukraine of military activity in the kiev and chernigov direction

does not indicate that the current conflict is moving towards there is no ending, and they are absolutely right. just uh, the conflict is moving into a military operation moving into a second phase. the first phase, and it was successfully completed, was to grind almost the entire war machine. e, kiev, which was quite successfully done, including holding back a large grouping of troops in the kiev region, which could come to the aid of the kharkov grouping or the grouping, e on e, donbass, destroying the military infrastructure of the military infrastructure. naturally, er, with high-precision weapons, and now the next stage is the second stage of the operation, as general rudskoy and today defense minister shoigu said about this - this is the destruction of the group. e in eastern donbass the group that is the most combat-ready, where is the most fired units, where

is most of the military equipment of ukraine after that, of course, the outcome of the military company will be largely a foregone conclusion, as well as the defeat of the group that are in mariupol and in mariupol today was, georgy medvedev , who is our regular participant in our programs, and georgy hello, as i understand it, you have already returned to donetsk but today you were in mariupol, what happened there today? yes there was an opportunity to escape to donetsk took advantage of it. but as you rightly noted , mariupol was and there over the past few days they have been working, fixing everything that is happening there now and most importantly, they have collected evidence from local residents about what has happened there over the past few weeks about how the

militants of the banned groups treated them. azov and also a-a soldiers of the ukrainian army. how did they behave? now you have footage being broadcast. i would like to stop. on this, this is communal equipment, which was simply confiscated from all e, municipal enterprises of the city, all roads that led to the city, including to the second line of defense, on the third tried to restrain the advance of the dpr army, and at the same time they robbed shops. tiki food warehouses all dragged to the school by the police. here are the shots from there now and when people in mariupol were without water and food for several weeks, they were dying of hunger. and it's not like this streamlined wording. this is exactly what it was. they were doing well in that police school. but, and then, when it became clear that the offensive was continuing, they could not hold back

the chevrons, shoulder straps, changed into civilian clothes and tried to leave under the guise of civilians. but now, as it was already said in the studio. there are a few local points of resistance left, which will be suppressed and cleared in the near future. we will be able to officially say that mariupol, after 8 years of occupation, is free, what do the military say there, uh, they said that an attempt is being made, where is the blocking of this group from the inside, as if a breakthrough, uh. the concentration of all available means of fire destruction there, the remaining equipment, and so on, there were some attempts to make such a breakthrough, and as far as possible, in general, such a development of events is what the military says. and there were attempts, but let's not forget that mariupol has been completely surrounded for quite a long time, there is no way to get additional, and fuel additional

ammunition, weapons from a group with a mariupol is not. and all this they spend every day. naturally, the reserves are dwindling before our eyes, because the fighting is very intense and here i am confirming that the ukrainian side really snaps less and less and despite the fact that the attacks on the city continue in its liberated business part, the civilian population suffers many wounded, but the intuitiveness of fire has noticeably decreased, so now there is no material and technical base that would make it possible to break through. uh, get out of this environment. they no longer have. well, that's a plus. of course. uh, the army of the dpr. this is where we were, what we see there. uh, very clearly, very difficult work is being done on and the option that there will be an attempt to escape. in this final battle, of course, all necessary measures are being considered and taken in order to prevent such a breakthrough and to suppress, uh, this idea in the

bud. thank you. it was. uh, georgy medvedev news agency front right with the front line. uh, right now it's a bank-group formation bow. azov e, it turned out that the rest of the military became azov parts. well, there is dissected into pieces, really. is there any possibility for them to break out, break through, provide, well, you know, real resistance or hold out for a long time, uh, in principle, well, the history of military art knows uh, so to speak, examples of a breakthrough, but i think this is not the case first, they are for sure. demoralized, uh, lack of, uh, some kind of replenishment in fuel and lubricants and ammunition, and food is obviously everything. it hardly raises. uh, morale, of course, on the other side. especially in the same place besides nitrogen. there are more often

parts of the they are not as motivated. in principle, they understand that for them, uh, the most favorable way out is to surrender to azov, of course, given that they understand what awaits them. well, at best, a tribunal and, uh, harsh sentences, so to speak. uh, they will, of course, resist to the end, but uh, chances are. a breakthrough from my point of view is very small without e external. uh, without external help from the other side of the ring, just break through from the inside, uh, or the sea is mine, and they can’t leave , because ukraine has no fleet to say no funds. uh break through the ground. uh ring. i'm sure they won't be able to bank formation. azov is clearly doomed, moreover, i will tell you that this is my personal. now, if

they are concentrated on the azov, it's a pity, of course, azov steel is a good plant. but it would be possible to inflict such carpet bombings there , you know, we will continue to talk about the geo-economics of the ukrainian operation after advertising negotiations with a representative of moscow that further reporting from istanbul help those who help in 5 years. he presidential grants, ran 22,000 projects. the results of the work and development plans in the focus of vladimir putin's attention are the main tasks of the first stage of the special operation. in ukraine, the statement of the minister of defense has been implemented and sergei shoigu on the spring conscription of recruits will no longer be sent to any hot spots. medicine, food and candles, a new batch of humanitarian aid for the frontier city in the

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tied around russian gas and president putin's initiative to have western partners pay for rubles. yesterday, the president gave a corresponding instruction to the head of government, the head of the central bank and gazprom to move from the thirty-first of march. or on march 31 to submit a payment scheme for gas, but today messages from the other side of the opposite nature were received. we have already said that president macron stated that france does not see the possibility of paying. uh gas rubles. in any case, this was stated in the message of the elysee palace. well, there was a statement an official statement from uh, the frame of simpson who is the european commissioner for energy. and he said he was literally next. the g7 energy minister and the european commission rejected president

putin's demands that the gas rate should be paid in rubles, so the g7 partner agreed to call on companies based in their countries do not agree to these demands vasilievich you are the largest expert on energy policy. here, of course, everyone is interested in what will happen there, well, not the thirty-first , probably. there the first second third will be paid or we will spin. yes? let's really be very careful wording. what we have learned today, but really yesterday, uh, a resolution came out. uh, regarding just the government meeting last week, where the first point is. as for thirty the first number, as it were rightly noted. uh, gazprom government central bank should offer the very scheme of the very scheme of transfer to the ruble. i don't really see any here. technical difficulties and, uh, when european

companies say that they don't know how to buy rubles there, or there the prime minister of slovakia said that he doesn't know what a ruble is at all, and therefore they cannot pay in rubles. we understand that these are just excuses. uh, technically, it's very very easy to buy these rubles you pay. don't even need violate sanctions. by the way, uh, said ursula fondalaem, that the european commission cannot agree with this, because supposedly this is such a serious violation of sanctions, why would it not be a violation? well, european companies now pay gazprom for gas in euros, and this does not violate the sanctions, and, accordingly, they can transfer euros to the accounts of their subsidiaries in russia. they can buy e-rubles on the stock exchange and, accordingly, pay gazprom. you there plan it even in terms of transection costs. uh no some special one. there will be an impact. uh, respectively,

our state-owned banks can act as sellers of rubles there. once again i say, here is the technical scheme. it is not so complicated with boys, almost everything. well, they are under sanctions. it doesn't stop them from selling. uh, rubles on our stock exchange. here in this regard. they are under sanctions in terms of external operations in terms of operations within russia, uh. i don't see any problem here again. here, ah, that is, all solutions here can be found, respectively, then gazprom will send proposals for changing contracts. and here's the scheme itself, because the contracts, uh, need to be rewritten there, that payments can be made, including in russian rubles. well, or necessarily in russian rubles, then, accordingly, we need to rewrite the currency of the contract until it changes. not the price formula, nor the volumes, that is, for the time being, we are talking about changing only the settlement currency. ah, respectively, uh and along with this change

european companies will receive the scheme itself. if she tells someone again, it is not clear how they talk about it. here, of course, the most interesting begins. that is, i will simply record that the first e of april. uh, there won't be any shutdown, the vent will not happen on april 1st, so don't wait for that date as uh start. uh, such a serious gas mess with russia in april, and by the way, there are no specific dates in the resolution. it says that in a month there should be a report to the president on of what is happening here, and i propose for this period and focus on a month, that is, they will close accordingly. in which case the thirty-first, well, the thirtieth year in the official decree is written in a month. uh, a report to the president on what is happening accordingly, therefore, i think that i would take about a month

to, uh, complete negotiations with european companies on whether or not to agree to switch to the ruble or not, by the way, uh, in some isolated cases, some european companies already have a clause in their contracts about that they can pay in rubles, there is such a clause , for example, with bulgaria. here is the last contract that the big gazprom renegotiated with moldova, there is also this clause there. although, moldova is not a member of the european union yet , as well, that is, in some cases. this is already spelled out, but most of the clients of the main western europe a do not have such points and , accordingly, the most interesting thing really begins here, because we see that politically a. european concerns have already arrived to the wall and they didn’t have much choice, because it’s no coincidence that it was political figures, that is, the company had not yet had time for many companies, some immediately made statements that they didn’t quite understand what it was, but here’s the statement that

followed let’s say on the forum where many chapters since. this energy forum was in many ways many heads of european companies, there were also weekends. they have already made a statement that they will not pay in rubles, but before that, russian funds had already made a statement online and a number of other major figures that we will not allow european companies to pay in rubles. that is, in this regard, they no longer left any choice. and now, yes. the most important thing, because the european energy companies have been talking about this a lot. i can explain there with the numbers, but even i would have paid attention to the report of the european commission, which was last week, where they wrote that in the twenty-second year, and the european commission believes that the european union can cut? russian gas 111.5 billion cubic meters of russian gas consumption last year was about 150 billion cubic meters, that is, the european commission says that even the wildest fantasies. and this figure of 101 billion cubic meters will absolutely never be able to replace this year. by the way, this report is still

going to be bought. i will nevertheless note that the important thing is that this report is a call to violate contracts with russia, because very often russia is accused of the fact that the transition to rubles means a violation of contracts european because it is impossible to reduce the consumption of russian gas by 100 billion cubic meters without grossly violating contracts of vision, but on the other hand, now, in my opinion, there is no time for contracts, when everything is blamed anyway , so the operation is so important. that is, to buy, so the thought that the situation is indeed such that it is likely that indeed the europeans will line up with themselves and be left without gas is violated. and i'm sure that e zelen from what sounded today e, before tomorrow the morning cock will crow. i sure that the military operation will be continued under all the obvious circumstances. i am sure that the european union

is really under pressure from the united states in the face of its political ones, uh, it is for the laydan and others, but still they will push through the refusal to pay for rubles. and in this regard, i'm more interested in, and the opposition of gazprom. i think that they want to see what russia has closed. this same gas faucet valve is a subject for declaring russia and that's it. there are many sins. well, a test of the seriousness of this battle. i think they will refuse, but ours i hope that ours will still be blocked oleg anatolyevich i agree with us, indeed, the military operation, the special operation in ukraine, will continue until the stated goals are fulfilled, namely, the demilitarization of ukraine and denazification , uh, will definitely be devoiced. eh, zelensky

, what was said today, he will say that we did not offer anything like that and did not exchange it. e means e. so, some, where the escalation was not agreed, and so on, that this is all a trap that the medical one sets up for us. well, and finally, gas. they decided to stand in this position to punish their own companies. she remembers it's not strange buying russian gas, but companies really do. and so politicians answered for them. uh, they are trying to somehow force them to minimize their gas needs and revise contracts to see how they will deal with all this, and the americans, in turn, put pressure on politicians. mm. well, respectively, you will have to shut off the valve, but not immediately somewhere. really. a month later

will happen, because anyway we will do our part we will supply gas in april, and then we will look at the rubles received or not, not received, we are blocking yevgeny petrovich how short is your rate? i just want, uh, two of those moments, first. uh, it seems to me that in the conditions of this completely sanctioned lawlessness, when assets are blocked, gold and foreign exchange reserves are already being heard, so to speak, in congress. or rather, in the senate. they have already introduced a bill to confiscate it altogether. uh, russian assets and transfer them ukraine and what kind of contracts? tell propriety can be discussed. so what about the cover? it seems to me that president putin was not seen in some kind of bluff. he already proved this at the beginning of a special military operation, so i am absolutely sure that if they resist, the tap will be turned off

. , but on the way, all the same , ukraine's refusal to continue hostilities in fact, negotiations are needed from surrender in order to open humanitarian corridors there is no talk of any weakening of diplomatic pressure on ukraine, just as there is no talk of weakening military pressure, we are talking about a regrouping of forces for the second phase of the operation, which will focus on the main ukrainian armed forces on the eastern front, as far as gas is concerned, let's see, and it seems to me that the european economy will simply collapse without russian gas, therefore, officially declaring that we we will not buy. after all, they will find ways to buy russian gas with rubles.