we want our conversation with you. literally in 10-15 minutes, and now it is traditional on our broadcast at the beginning of the hour to release the news. i will pass the floor to my colleague ania melnyka, who will acquaint you with the details of this day and here i have told you the most relevant news of this hour . thank you, nato has declared that russia is not going to use nuclear weapons, i will tell you about it in a few moments, it started with the consequences of missile attacks, the russian occupiers fired 6 cruise missiles over odesa the waters of the caspian sea, the press center of the force defense and protection of the south reported, four rockets hit the enterprise for the manufacture of furniture, two others hit the previously destroyed

runway, the airport's flight control drive was damaged, there were no previous victims, the information is being clarified. a civilian enterprise in a residential area of ​​the city of e-e after a rocket strike was alarmed by a fire , the enterprise has m. products that are stored there. so, rescuers are working on the spot. air strikes in sumy oblast. enemy aircraft fired from the air at the territory of the myropol and khotyn communities. this was

reported by the head of the region, dmytro zhyvitsky. the enemy twice attacked the territory of the yunakivka border service department of the state border service, our border guards managed to get into the shelter, it is also known that during one of the measures, enemy planes they opened fire not only on ukrainian but also on russian territory, later the governor of the kursk region, roman starovoyt, admitted in his social networks that the enemy was shelling kharkiv region from russia in sumy oblast, a village in chuguyiv district came under enemy fire , a 28-year-old woman died as a result of the shelling, a shell hit a private house the town of bogodukhiv was also damaged, four trucks and a non-residential building were burned, nine cars of a local businessman were also damaged, the local authorities ask not to ignore the alarm signals and without of the urgent need not to leave shelters in

kharkiv oblast, the occupiers destroyed the national museum named after grigory skovoroda, a rocket hit the roof , a fire broke out, the fire engulfed all the premises of the building as a result of the shelling, the man who was guarding the building was wounded, the skovoroda museum in the philosopher's homeland was founded in 1972, but the building on the basis of which he operated was built back in the 18th century, great damage was done to the museum , the exposition was almost destroyed, the exposition was removed, part of the exposition was in the floor, but part of it, of course, was ready for evacuation during the fire their task is to destroy us ukrainians, to destroy our culture, our traditions of

our people, to destroy, to take children to russia, to destroy their memory of ukraine at least three people died in the bakhmut in donetsk region, the russian occupiers shelled the city from airplanes in the morning, the office of the president of ukraine informed the office of the president of ukraine, the residents of bakhmut are trying to dismantle the rubble after the shelling in order to take their belongings from the damaged houses, also in the donetsk region they shelled little taranivka , druzkivka and kostyantynivka, causing damage and destroying more than 30 residential buildings.

two dead and nine injured, as well as the consequences of the enemy attack in the city of kostyantynivka in donetsk region. according to their data , a professional construction lyceum caught fire in the city in the morning as a result of a rocket attack. the fire was quickly extinguished, however, during the investigation in the rubble, rescuers found two dead people , 9 more victims were handed over to medics, at least four victims as a result of a rocket attack on the

city of gola prystan in the kherson region told about it deputy mayor of the city svitlana linnyk, according to her, enemy shells also destroyed a residential building in the city and damaged more than 25, in addition, rocket debris hit a gas pipeline with a person, the other three people have already received medical assistance and are in a stable, medium-severity condition, also in a stable condition , the service is of emergency situations is working to find out all the circumstances of these damages, the gas service is also working to repair the damage to the main network and air defense in poltava region shot down a russian missile in the morning, they attacked the city karlivka in the poltava region, a rocket

hit the objects of the railway infrastructure , fortunately there were no victims, the fire was extinguished in the nearby houses, the spikes were burning during the period of may 7-9, the authorities call to ignore the air alarm on saturday in omar, the mayor of the temporarily occupied city of tokmak, ihor kotelevskyi reported the zaporizhia regional military administration is currently investigating the circumstances of the death. tokmak is currently under the temporary occupation of the russian military. another successful attack by the ukrainian military near the island of snakes this time, our defenders, with the help of bayraktar drones, managed to destroy a grain-type amphibious assault boat. this was reported by the spokesman of the odesa military administration, serhiy bratchuk. he also posted a video of the liquidation of the russian vessel,

noting that the island of zmeinets is becoming a new chernobyl for the occupiers. in addition, our fighters struck the hangar where they were stationed. occupiers and ammunition and also shot down an enemy drone forpost worth 7 million dollars, the latter is dangerous because it not only carries out aerial reconnaissance but can also carry anti-tank missiles the threat of shelling and provocations from russia remains in kyiv, mayor vitaliy klitschko said, but after may 9, citizens who left can return, klitschko added, unlike other regions in the capital and the region, a 24- hour curfew was not introduced, people are already being urged not to neglect the air with anxiety, klitschko hinted that soon the capital will be protected even better, we hope that

in the coming days there will already be additional anti-aircraft defense of the western nato standard. what else will protect our air more, we all expect that there will be a peaceful sky and there will be no extraordinary events, but exclude provocations from the side of the aggressor . this was told by the first vice-prime minister, yuliya sverdenko, according to her, ukraine has been transporting the amount of fuel for the past 5 days, which even exceeds domestic consumption, so currently the ministry of foreign affairs is working on opening a green corridor for ukrainian

of ships that are supposed to deliver this fuel, not even in terms of resources, but in terms of logistics, we have a bottleneck : ports, european ports, european ports, dudansk, melon, svynoustie, constantia, bugaz, we have a traffic jam there, we will have a request now. -e already international and ask to provide a green corridor to ukraine in these ports. here's how things are going. see you at 19:00. watch espresso news and euro espresso programs for ukrainian refugees in europe on the air of our channel. joint broadcast with the atp channel programs of radio svoboda time-time programs of the voice of america inclusion of public television journalists news broadcasts of

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espresso tv channel with you vitaly portnikov and we will now talk with the commander of the battalion of the svobody tarabaron petro kuzuk i congratulate peter the word to ukraine glory to the heroes in the coming days russian occupiers are planning a new big offensive in luhansk oblast, many people are talking about it, saying that they want to surround them carefully. the head of luhansk ova, serhii gaidai, told the college about this, and near the crimean enemy is trying to force the siverskyi donets river, and within a day, the region has known as many as 24 enemy shellings, although another 15,000 civilians remain in north donetsk, also in one of the objects of the russian offensive. what is happening now? they are attacking our positions in the front line with tanks

and artillery, er, well, everything is er, we know that the units of our guys are calling back that they are trying, er, to take some kind of bag or ring from the grouping of troops. well, there they are repulsed, they are destroyed here in principle. we are also not making any progress, so far we are holding on, so i don’t know if they will succeed there by may 9 or not by may 9, nothing will come of it, as god wills it there, but i will say that well, they really became active very much under the soldier, it can be seen that they are sacralizing it in some way, uh, there are some plans to make it strange that uh, well, under such uh, uh, i am now organizing a sacred date, they want to limit themselves to going out there, well, there

to take a few positions in the frontier it is unlikely that they will be able to capture two more villages there well, our military doesn’t give them either, but well, i’ll tell you that they are very massively shooting at er positions. they are trying to do something. but their only advantage is in the amount of munitions . so far we have not observed any such powerful actions on their part, a lot of civilians remain in the war zone, how do you explain it, people do not want to leave or it was not possible to organize the evacuation quickly enough a-a-a i would not say that many actually eh- there are people like that a category of people who have nowhere to go, they simply

have nowhere to go, no one is waiting anywhere, uh, no one uh, well, they don't have the means to live somewhere else. maybe there are relatives there. they are waiting or there are no relations , that's why we had uh, that's such a category of people it remains and uh, they are helped faster, faster, i apologize, they are helped there, they are allocated here . they work, oddly enough, in the ukrainian ministry of emergencies and the remnants of some of these other social services, that's why. well, that's why those people who are with us there try not to communicate. because, as a rule, they even when are they asking for something or food or water from us there, uh, then they report on our positions uh, yes, we help with food well, we just help with that, but we

reduce the time of our communication very minimally thank you we were contacted by petro kuzy, the commander of the freedom battalion keep stepan petro, i wish you success and victory. well, now let's move on to the conversation with our next interlocutor, volodymyr khandogiy, a diplomat , the former deputy minister of foreign affairs of ukraine. congratulations, mr. volodymyr, it's good to see you. well, let's try to talk about that what is happening around these conversations about the quick grant of candidate status to ukraine in the european union, this is such an important topic now, but it is known that the issue has not been finally resolved, and there is a very good question here. and will it be resolved in the near

future? in the sense that ukraine will not become a member of the european union in the near future. the european commission's recommendation after consideration of ukraine's application for membership, and we all expect something sometime in june, so it seems to me that it is possible even in may. member no, here is the status of the candidate. as far as i understand , it will be received by us after the european commission makes its recommendation and all this is certain. it seems to me that the european commission

makes a recommendation, and then the member states of the european union decide to grant such a status, well, remember, this was the case with the countries of the northern balkans, there was a recommendation of the european commission, then greece said, sorry, but we will not add such a status to macedonia until it changes its name, it was granted this status after 8 years that the european commission should recommend. yes, i understand that . i agree, of course. from the stage on - it is extremely important, you understand, against the european commission, if there are not some stones from the sky, it is unlikely that anyone will blame very much, although we will have to endure other and attempts to slow down this path, but it is very important to wait for the european commission, this is exactly well, in principle, you

understand that we are going now. well, let's say that we are moving in leaps and bounds. i don't remember such rapid steps. i don't remember that there were any relations with countries that wanted to become members of the european union. so what? everything is working for us now, well, there is still a lot of work ahead. well, you understand that the question here is always our eternally inflated expectations. today, i carefully watched an interview with the prime minister of poland, matyo shmarowecki, one of the biggest supporters of the european integration of ukraine. by the way, poland actively supports he gave this speech to the euronews tv channel, and the journalists there ask him, listen, well, we can hope that ukraine will receive the status of a candidate and in 10-15 years will not become a real member of the european union, and will not wait for a long time turkey is waiting and this is real and maravetskyi says this is how it should be, we will fight for it, fight

for these 10 years, a member who separates us from membership, and for the average ukrainian he thinks that today we became a candidate for the 24th year , will we become a member or 23- m and you all understand two aspects, firstly, i would refrain from time frames , first of all, 10-15 someone says, in principle, now it seems to me incorrect to voice any time frames, this is the first . i'm sorry you know, you don’t compare with any. no, i’m not talking about you , about the journalist who is being compared, the answer was in comparison with turkey. that’s why they are completely different approaches, different tracks and different countries. and it’s absolutely not worth comparing. by the way, she ’s waiting for how long is there 30? for 40 years already, being in the status of a candidate and having completed the negotiations , almost of all the four that have to be passed

, and therefore we have a completely different situation, i think let's not talk 10-15. i can, it will be five will she should not work and for the support of the member states, in particular poland. i think we will be able to go this way in a reasonable way, so to speak. here i am. well, in the future, i think we will be able to become members of the european union. well, if, as i said, no stones fall from the sky, there is a group of countries in the european union that as and lipno are lobbying for the admission of the countries of the western balkans to the european union, well , first of all, for today, montenegro, north macedonia, albania, and maybe serbia, there are also conditional opportunities, but they graze and increase every year, is it true or not so what will these countries say, listen, the countries of the western balkans have been waiting for 10 years, and if we do not accept them, a war in the balkans awaits us,

which could be as tragic as russia's war with ukraine. we understand that the balkans are constantly on the verge of a new war and russia is active in provoking this war. this raises the question of whether ukraine can really join the european union out of line. if you want, and whether it will not cause out of line, what will the ukrainian soldiers say in the framework of nato? they will die in the balkans trying to eliminate it. the crisis that will come. after that, there will be a war not here but there. look, we are now talking about membership in the european union, not in nato. do you already think that we will be members of nato for the time being and our troops will be there just like that? volodymyr thinks that if we are not in nato, there will be no ukraine in the european union, because there will be no ukrainian statehood. i have such a clear opinion .

nato, but look, there is a certain competition between us and the balkan states. well, after all, we have a situation like this, you know, force majeure has arisen and we are going, let's say, on an accelerated track, and i think that here the european commission and the european council are, in principle, a european state they will find a compromise, so to speak, to calm down the balkan states, if the balkan states complete all their homework and there will be, let 's say, a decision about their readiness to join the european union, then i think ukraine and absolutely it won't get in the way, there's no such queue, you know, it's a live queue, so we read this church, we can overtake them in this queue, and in the end, no one forbids us all to accept ukraine as a balkan state, but let 's remember here there are also

elements at the threshold of georgia and we should be very careful before we go and whether the application of moldova and georgia does not become such a certain burden on the legs as on the legs that will slow down our progress to the european union this rather, we need to think about it and conduct negotiations with the european commission, in principle with the european union, on this account. and how do you imagine moldova as a burden? to be honest, i have the opposite in my head, i look at it on a geographical map and hardly imagine what will happen there is ukraine in the european union, romania in the european union, and between ukraine and romania, they are all together, but somehow it is not surprising, why am i not talking about the fact that moldova should not? e leads e the war with the russian federation and therefore the issue of let's say this, the acquisition of membership in nato

is absolutely urgent for ukraine at the same time and accordingly i will tell you in the european union why moldova i died with my hands for moldova to become but here the level of readiness of moldova again and again in the state in which they are today, here it can hinder us a little, because a certain political consensus has developed regarding us within the european union, some states still grind their teeth but agree with the fact that we should come on this fast track. well, in this regard, i mean that moldova and georgia should become. including because of the war that was unleashed

by the russian federation, therefore, please, moldova should do the same as we do, and i would not like moldova to go through what we go through in order for them to come here, but after all, this track is moldova and georgia are possible to a lesser extent they can, let's say, encourage the member states of the european union to say that let's go, then, until all three of this associated trio fulfill those conditions and do not go their way, then we will accept all three of them, and then when we created it, we were not associated with the trio, it was step because he combined the efforts of these three of our states and then the european union on his side, you know, he prefers to accept so well, let's say it is not individual, but as you already said, the western

balkans are in groups, but today we broke out on the finish line, and that is why we have an internal fear that i have, in particular, this is my personal opinion . look, i am not expressing that moldova and georgia can create certain problems for us people. if i were the head of the european commission or ukraine , i would accept at least a candidacy granted status to both so that there would not be this gap, you know, the economic political map of europe. if this happens and we are given candidate status at the same time, that is very good. to be honest, i haven't heard about georgia at what stage of the polls georgia is in, did it get it at all, but well, let 's wait then, or rather, i'm all for the fact that here we are on the topic of this path due to force majeure because of the fact that

is happening in ukraine in a different situation, we have been waiting for this for a very long time. therefore, we must do everything so that no one and nothing prevents us. well, with this fast method to come to membership in the european union , mr. volodymyr, i wanted to talk to you about all these conversations about ukraine's security guarantees that is part of the negotiation process is that the war may end that ukraine will provide security guarantees for too much and even some western countries say yes, we are ready to provide security guarantees, but not those that operate in nato, and i am very afraid that later we will have another memorandum of intent that will not be connected with specific actions as a result of which in the case of what, look. personally and throughout my career, i have always advocated the provision of a guarantee of security in ukraine due to the value of ukraine.

by the way, i think that the issue of ukraine's membership in nato has not been removed from the agenda. even in this situation, what will they invent as an alternative to this membership? well, we have to look at the specific documents that will be developed. i mean, who will provide us with a peaceful life and we will sleep . i am calm. to be honest, i don't believe it. and now it seems to me. there is a little bit, well, healthy fools are winning and already less and less of us we are talking about some options for security guarantees, well, in the end, he did not say, he criticized the budapest memorandum, it is a kind

of security guarantee, all the right words are written there, and even the fact that it is not ratified, it is not ratified, this memorandum absolutely does not deprive him of it of the status of an international document. imagine some developments, we will write very nice words and ratify and everyone there will say very well and that it will be a real guarantee and it can still become the piece of paper not worth the ink on which it written. remember the russian-ukrainian treaty. i remember that and it was identified by the supreme councils there by the state opinion, a super document, what is it, what was it, the territorial integrity of ukraine was recognized even together with crimea and their sevastopol, the russians had no questions at all, but i still i am inclined to the opinion and will always emphasize it only through collects through chle