every time the countries of the european union, the united states and the countries of asia will try to avoid such a scenario, that is why it is not just that russian gas will disappear from the market, but that there will be something that will replace russian gas, that is, from other sources additional volumes will appear in order not to allow e.e. to create a shortage and accordingly increase the price e. i think that it is unlikely that the country of the european union, the united states, the countries of asia will allow e.e. this year to repeat the manipulations of last year on your opinion, how much will russia lose from the fact that well, it will actually lose the european market and we hope that this station will be as soon as possible, what a powerful blow it will be to the russian economy. currently, about 40% of the income to the russian

state budget is made up of the sale of petroleum gas and coal, that is, do you think that a little less than half of the russian budget, uh, starting let's say there from 2023, maybe it won't come before, uh, i think it's painful enough sanctions, a painful enough blow will be on to the russian economy, in addition to everything that russia has now received, will russia be able to quickly find alternative markets for itself, well, in particular , china and these puppet countries. well, which ones russia actually also has under its control? well, i now understand how i am not talking about china, the chinese are a separate player. well, the same eritrea, for example, well, for example, no. the european union is an extremely large consumer of russian gas, and of course russia

threatens the european union that we will switch, that it will switch to china, it will switch to asian markets uh, but uh, china itself started reselling energy resources now because they started, they have now reduced their consumption, for example, china will not need as much russian gas as it produces and wants to sell on the market, remember for a long time the european union talked about that that's right, russia, you are our big supplier, but we are also your big consumer, and thus many europeans hoped that russia understands how important cooperation is and will not manipulate, will not use gas as a weapon, i think that we are very i hoped for such mutually beneficial cooperation, but as a result, well, we honestly warned

many ukrainian experts about this, spoke to german experts and german government officials about the fact that you can never trust russian energy policy , for them gas is always a weapon and the fact that you are big consumers is far from means that you will be respected and feared and will never use this weapon against you in your life. well, less so. we hope that europe will be able to disarm russia , at least in this matter. thank you for this the conversation olena pavlenko, the president of kadiksigroup , was in touch with us, talking about how they are currently fighting gas dependence on russia and how they are fighting gas blackmail from russia, how europe is doing it, and how it can affect ukraine in particular. meanwhile, the osce closes a special monitoring mission in ukraine the organization for security cooperation in europe began its

work on march 21, 2014 after a request from the government of ukraine to the osce and a joint decision of all 57 participating countries on the eve of the public meeting u.s. ambassador michael e. karpater, i suggest you listen to this. could you explain to the ukrainian public what exactly the osce is doing besides making a statement to prevent bloodshed and to stop russia from violating the osce principles? what specifically can the organization do at the moment ? what the osce actually does, the osce is not a military organization like nato, it is better to even write down exactly what the osce member countries are doing here, i think individually and collectively, we do something like that.

i think your audience knows about the counterattack on the us military base rammstein in germany, which was organized jointly by the us and germany. among other things, there was a demand for military aid to ukraine, and this is really important, because the united states has provided aid for 3.8 billion dollars and about four of half a billion dollars, if you count from the beginning of biden's term, this is a huge amount of money, it is clear that this is not enough and we must continue to do even more, that is why we hold such conferences as this recently on rammstein in order to gather together all our allies and make them see the need to immediately react and evaluate all the possibilities that they can only offer, this is not what is happening with the submission of the osce, because this is not what the osce does, but it is happening with the participation of states that are members of the organization regarding what the

whole was directly engaged in. there are several things in ukraine. there are osce representatives who help with the distribution of humanitarian aid. the coordination center in ukraine is currently located in uzhgorod. in addition, there is the moscow mechanism, which is a reporting tool, it was used once and may not be again to consider violations of human rights or crimes against humanity, then we can talk about other things that the osce does that are less significant, but these are the main ones. is there a future in the osce as an organization whose member country is russia with the current realities of moscow, how to deal with this in particular, taking into account the fact that the

principle of consensus operates in the osce when all decisions must be adopted unanimously so how is it even possible to work in this structure and change this structure i'm not talking only about ukraine, because we know that today russia can be included in other critically important issues in other geographical points in moldova , transnistria, the caucasus, or in belarus. a place in the organization, at the same time it is extremely difficult to get any specific results from the work of the osce because it operates according to the principle of consensus. this is how it has been working since its creation, but it is the wrong tool for achieving everything we want to achieve that, i mentioned the conference at the

rammstein base, which was held in order to get help in arming ukraine at a time of extreme need, we did not use the osce, but we also did not use nato in nato. there are certain advantages. the osce has certain advantages when we use it and now our the main task is to diplomatically isolate russia and make it pay a high price for what it is doing, you know who will say that this is not enough i completely agree with this statement it is not enough and the organization is very hampered by the need for this consensus but given what we have we isolate russia and belarus now we have about 45 states that solidarity with the united states and our allies in condemning russia and the belarusians we have about nine or 10 states that are silent i think that they are too afraid of russia and belarus to say anything substantive, and then we still have russia and

belarus, two co-aggressors, ah. could you explain the decision to withdraw the special monitoring mission from donbas even before the full-scale invasion of russia in many ukrainians had a question: how is it even possible for a mission whose job was to carry out monitoring in those places where others could not get to, to just go and leave part of the staff, what to do with those people who were recently arrested in luhansk and donetsk and who could not evacuate? what is the plan or are you going to do and how exactly help free them going to some have got the mouther in a ot from from a-a and everything is against juice dissidents xiaomi let me

first answer the first question about the smm personnel, which causes us great concern since now these people are misha and not because of their membership in the osce, i can tell you that the governing bodies of the osce, such as the secretary general and the secretariat, are actively working to try to ensure the release of those who were detained and to prevent further detention of osce personnel, especially national ones. disbursed the funds now they are working elsewhere on the smm and the evacuation was evidence and the united states was making every effort to tell the international community that the invasion was very likely we started broadcasting this message in the fall of 2021 we intensified this message in 2022 when it became clear that russia was on the brink the film invasion was a responsible thing to do with the

commission i know it's problematic but honestly at that point there was no point in talking about the violation of the ceasefire because we knew that something much bigger had to happen and indeed it did, there is no benefit now from the presence of the smm on the ground to report on the violations of international law that we see on at this stage, what we need to do is to document war crimes, crimes against humanity and ensure responsibility for them. this is a separate work that is currently ongoing. what is happening but i think it is important to remind that the smm was not a peacekeeping mission, it was unarmed and could

only go where it was allowed to go. this was the reality of that mission, in many ways it was it is unsatisfactory, but the people who work for the smm put their souls into it, they risked their lives to do this work. i think we should give them credit for what they did, again understanding the limitations in the places of loved ones, far from an ideal organization, and the smm was far from an ideal monitoring organization. missions, i emphasize that this was not a peacekeeping operation and the osce was never created for such people and moving in the cross er. if we talk about what can be done and probably should be done in the future, we we saw how russia took people abroad by bus, we could not follow where exactly they were being taken, under what conditions, we know that these people were kept

for hours in buses without food and water, understanding that the border area is completely without access and monitoring, what can be done about it in the future or can they return there osce is possible under a different mandate, what is their way out for good or shoot be back the king ukraine in every passport, let's look at what is happening in general, a nuclear state attacks ukraine using all available means and weapons using the most brutal barbaric inhumane methods that could ever be seen since the end of the second world war kulish is such that it simply does not

fit into the head of any civilized state, violating any rules of the introduction of war, committing war crimes and atrocities, and at the same time, it is raising tens of thousands of soldiers on the territory of ukraine together with tanks and winged planes in the face of such a war i don't even know what organizations like the osce and the un can do we would love to be there to monitor and report on the atrocities as you rightly pointed out if people are forcibly deported and we see evidence of this across the border to russia, children and women are taken against their will by russian soldiers - this is unacceptable, but tell me which country is ready to prevent this when a nuclear state carries out all this, that is why we are focused on providing weapons to ukraine each of the latest and most advanced weapons and equipment as soon as possible so that ukrainians can protect themselves, their cities, their country and their

neighbors and, of course, also providing all humanitarian assistance as much as possible and macroeconomic assistance, but we do it on a bilateral level , that is, separately within the framework of bilateral relations between the usa and ukraine, we do not do it within the framework of the osce. i just want to be completely honest, there is a limited list of what the osce can do, there are limits to what it can to do the un, that is why we are concentrating our efforts on what we are doing, what kind of cream is the country and the partner of the country, talking about these restrictions, it is impossible not to ask about mariupol, whether a humanitarian mission is possible to get at least civilians out of cities, we know how many civilians are hiding in the azov bunkers, what is the condition of the

people there, what exactly should the osce do in the mariupol issue, there should be involvement in this, the acting chairman of the osce and the secretary general should also be involved. they should be involved, and i know that they were called join but i believe that efforts should be redoubled in order to put pressure on russia and make this corridor for civilians, at the moment we see a tragedy in some inhuman proportions, all these terrible pictures of stray warts or irpen on a very large scale it's a pity that what we will find in mariupol may surpass what we saw in buchi under we mean the international community, there is not a single international organization there yet, but they are all now fighting to get there

, the un secretary general called for this, as well as the osce we demand to give us access, unfortunately, as i already said, the kremlin does not respect any rules of war, they do not give access to anyone, while continuing to blame ukraine, but do not give access to these places. however, we have to do everything is possible, because as you yourself said, we are talking about lives that we are constantly losing, literally right now, while you and i are talking only for the public in more detail, the results of the report within the framework of the so-called moscow mechanism, it is called that, it happened historically, although for ukrainians it may sound unusual, as far as we we know this report is the first of those made now

at such a high international level, what does it really mean for the process of prosecution time er masks somehow we can ford justice requires time moscow mechanism was important because it was the first international full-fledged document that aimed to responsibly calculate the losses, even though we were limited in time, this report very precisely states that war crimes have been recorded in ukraine, and this is the clear statement voiced by this now in question about bringing to justice those persons who have committed crimes, and it will be difficult, but it must happen. the team of the moscow mechanism has collected evidence and testimony, which must now be transferred to another jurisdiction to the international court of justice may open specific cases against specific people for specific crimes,

crimes against humanity already concern the state, and we have come very close to officially declaring that they took place there. not only us, but also others, including non-state organizations . the un commission is also involved in this, it is very important that the international community participates in order to fix from the bridge to answer every criminal for every crime, it will take time, it will not be easy, a long process of gathering testimony and evidence, forming cases and court trials, but it is important that there is some possibility of being hired or demining, so that the osce can practically do on these issues, i do not have any practice, yes, the osce has the opportunity to be

involved in demining as well as in solving humanitarian issues where we already work that we must first gain access to the first demining and it is not necessarily only the osce that should deal with it. for example, this can be done by the program development of the united nations, which is the main body that deals with humanitarian problems and demining in bosnia and the duchy. currently, as the american ambassador to the osce, i am less focused on what the organization is doing because there are things in which it is capable and incapable or in which it is less effective, but at the same time, we must fulfill this work, therefore, the usa should help in this, humanitarian issues , exchanges, military aid, economic aid, automatic support, all this, we are looking for all possible ways to make this assistance as effective as possible youtube assistant, the question

is for you as a diplomat rather than a representative of the osce, what else can be done to involve as many countries as possible, possibly third states, in the organization of humanitarian corridors or in the occupied territories involutions me may help a-a help the forever we support the efforts of many of third countries that are involved in the diplomatic process of such countries as turkey, france, luxembourg, the un secretary general and others, if it is true, we want ukraine to win under this single solution that's why we return to security assistance and weapons that we supply to helicopters of specific systems and anti-tank weapons of artillery systems,

howitzers, this is what i see as the solution to this problem, so that ukraine pushes the russians out of this territory, we can talk to the russian side and invite them to the diplomatic process that the heads of many states are already doing and they should continue to do it, but we are focused on the victory of ukraine, the united states , together with great britain in the minority, i will say it will sound selfish, but i think that the united the states have been the leader in these efforts pushing our allies and partners to give more to do more to understand the urgency that now is not the time for normal relations with russia on other issues we have

paved the way i will say that i am very glad because here in the osce but in nato we have so much allies and partners who keep pace with us, in particular, regarding the introduction of sanctions and other export controls, for example, with regard to russia, singapore, japan, south korea, australia and other asian partners are also with us. so, this attempt was very successful statements in moldova regarding attempts to destabilize the situation in transnistria. how do you assess the situation regarding russia's attempts to build a corridor through the south of ukraine to the moldavian region? we are obviously very concerned about the situation in transnistria. there were obviously

provocations and escalations. military goals. i mean that at the beginning of the whole war they wanted to capture the whole of ukraine. they wanted to capture the capital and overthrow the government, so of course we are worried. i believe that we need to provide military potential to russia could not create this corridor. russia already occupied a lot of additional territories on february 24, but the ukrainian side, the ukrainian military was absolutely heroic in that they fought back with proper weapons and additional equipment . territories around odesa and the creation of a land corridor, and therefore i think that this should be the central focus of our efforts.

in russia, on the eve of may 9, you prepared a briefing on the temperature measures of this date overday in the coming days, and the russian side will continue to use the old scheme that it has used for a decade to create these fabricated referenda, and we as the us government fully expect that the russian side will try to declare something similar, in particular, in kherson , so that again, without any basis in reality , simply using pure fantasy and fiction, to claim that there is some kind of referendum, you know this interestingly, the russian side always cites the figure of 96%. whether it is about the kremlin constitution in chechnya or the so-called referendum in crimea, it always

magically ends with 96%. this is pure fantasy, but we expect it to happen. and that is why we must continue to talk with our national partners to make sure that absolutely everyone understands that this is just fiction and has no relation to reality, of course we all know that the population of kherson absolutely does not want to have anything to do with russian invaders but day to students/h for muclei power a-a emphasized that russia is a nuclear state to what extent is it possible in your opinion, in the opinion of a diplomat that putin will resort to the use of nuclear weapons and how this can be prevented, they specify the wording regarding the

use of nuclear weapons that we have seen from the russian side and it is incredible irresponsible use of nuclear weapons will obviously violate all possible international taboos, and when we see that russian officials at the highest level talk about nuclear weapons as they do, it is simply deeply irresponsible but i think that in the end there is no goal that can be achieved by using nuclear weapons in fact just a couple of months ago we had a declaration that said that the war cannot be won with nuclear weapons i think most rational people understand that so we just need to repeat this and we cannot stop, we cannot be stopped from providing security assistance to ukraine, this means that we will continue almost the entire war in ukraine, many people really perceive

this struggle as the defense of civilization as the defense of the whole world what can you say about this global of is absolutely true about a month ago i met with the mayor of melitopol and we talked with him about all my colleagues i said that you defend so defend the rules of the international order that wild people perceived as a matter of course for many years and at the forefront of the fight to protect not only the un system, because it sounds very technical, the very concept of spice, you don't violate the borders of another country just like that arbitrarily without any reason you belittle someone else's sovereignty, you don't try to take over someone else's territory, five uh, hi, friends

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volunteers everything is possible, they will find everyone, they will feed everyone, they will save their tails, they will be given gifts for the planes, they will be collected for the doctors, they will help the doctors sing a lullaby, they will equip the defenders, they will equip everyone , they will embrace ukraine to the whole world, they will glorify the volunteer family, there is no translation. welcome to a short story about the most important thing