of fascism is brainwashing and then the last word for those who think otherwise, i have no words and this is where we should end the issue. the broadcast of the tv channels is live and espresso is working for you today until midnight, so please join it will be interesting, there will be many interesting guests, we will analyze and discuss the events of today, we will also be able to make predictions for the future because one of the main questions that i am now interested in every ukrainian, when

the war ends, it is unlikely that we will find an answer to this question today. however, we will try and involve experts and will analyze in order to better understand what is currently happening in the combat zone, what is happening in the ukrainian occupied territories territories and what is actually happening in russia in the country of the aggressors in the country of the terrorist state that attacked ukraine on february 24 and it has already been 77 days ukraine is heroic resisting the russians as a customer i would like to start today's broadcast with one of the latest news from the statement of vice prime minister iryna vereshchuk, she says that ukraine offered the russians to withdraw seriously wounded soldiers from the plant and from australia in exchange for captured russians. however, there is no such agreement yet, it is only a proposal , negotiations are ongoing iryny varyshchuk, now it is

impossible to unblock azovstal by military means. and the ukrainian military does not want to surrender, moreover, they said that they simply cannot surrender because they do not have such an order they had an order to defend azovstal until the end, that's why they are doing everything they can, and even more, they really proved that azov is steel and these guys are just real heroes , the situation there is extremely difficult, we don't even talk about it for a day for one week, there are still a lot of seriously wounded civilians and children and women, and the soldiers themselves, and we understand that there are no sanitary conditions there, i.e., a complete lack of sanitary conditions. and seriously wounded soldiers, they need complex medical operations after all, some kind

of painkiller because they suffer simply from human injuries, recently the fighters of azov steel gave a press conference on live air. at first it was announced that this press conference would be closed only to journalists, but later this press conference was open to many thousands and tens of thousands of ukrainians followed her online live, it was extremely interesting to listen to the guys from there, what they were saying. they said that they were actually holding on to their last strength. understand that they have little time left because they are completely blocked there and in the end there is no other way out for them to hold on until the end. one of the stories that struck me personally is because now many interviews are appearing with the wives of these soldiers um, the wife of a military man who keeps the defense for the last time. she told me that there is a connection with a man. however, it is not always. and what

shocked me was that he asked her to find on the internet how long a person can live to hold out . without water and send him such he asked for this information, not to make a screenshot , that is, not to send a photo. well, you understand that from wikipedia you can take a photo and send such a message. he asked to send a text because the connection is very bad, the signal is weak, and that is, people already understand that they have no water and they are calculating how long they can last in this state, this is really a very, very scary situation, we will discuss it with the first guest of our broadcast, vasyl bohdan, lieutenant general, veteran of the foreign intelligence of ukraine, vasyl vechir good, how do you hear glory to ukraine glory to the heroes and its hero ivana vareshchuk offered to exchange fighters

azo stand up according to your opinion russians eh i mean the leadership of russia will agree to this, you and i are well aware of what kind of enemy we are dealing with and this enemy he never speaks the truth and never fulfills its obligations with rare exceptions, we have already observed this during this war, this large-scale aggression more than once by the russian federation well, if we take a historical retrospective, it is clear how many times tsarska russia and the soviet union and putin's russia did not fulfill their obligations to their close neighbors and those far away, of course, the efforts aimed at saving the lives of our

heroes who protect, in fact, mariupol in azovstal and he is still ukrainian while there us garrison, they deserve the highest relationship of worship and admiration for the fact that in 30 years of the restoration of ukrainian statehood , despite all kinds of problems, such a powerful and courageous generation of ukrainians was raised who, no matter what, defend ukraine and the place entrusted to them by the supreme commander-in-chief , therefore of course these efforts are correct, these efforts must be multiplied with the involvement of international institutions well, you already know that the wives of the soldiers of azov and the pope of rome were there and

the secretary general of the united nations and the red cross and our western partners in this regard are trying to help support and call on putin to implement humanitarian measures to ensure the exchange that mrs. varishchuk spoke about today, of course, the situation requires these efforts, and certainly if our enemy were to start a war. by the laws , i apologize for the tautology of war, which is known to everyone and international conventions, then this has already been done a long time ago, but we know who we are dealing with. here's hoping that they can go to this exchange, in my opinion, there are few chances, but all the same, this

problem needs to be raised, er, to try to solve it, to help, but the main factor , in my opinion, will be the solution to this problem counteroffensive actions of the armed forces of ukraine in the relevant operational zones, which will make it possible, firstly, to encourage the enemy to adopt this decision on exchange, and secondly, it is possible later to unblock mariupol and azov to our heroes who defend ukraine, in the end, about the hostilities , just with you i want to talk to the ministry of defense of ukraine, the statement that ukraine won the first phase of the war with russia, and another very, as i think, good forecast from ben hoches - this is the ex-commander of the us army in europe. well,

he is always quite optimistic in forecasts he says that eventually by the end of the summer, ukraine will push the russian army back to the positions it occupied until february 23. well, there he gives a certain number of arguments. about the fact that biden's lend-lease will destroy putin's hopes for some kind of victory and will provide ukraine with a natural victory over the russian enemy. therefore, everything will depend on how quickly this blendlist will be implemented and as you literally remember

the other day, the minister of foreign affairs also announced a new strategy for ukraine in this war of liberation of ukraine, which consists in the fact that depending on the speed of implementation of this nomenclature, which ukraine needs for lend-lease, ukraine is now in the position of liberating all territories occupied by the russian federation. if you remember before and the president of ukraine spoke about the possibility of at least withdrawing to the position on february 23. what hodges is talking about now is now. after this successful phase in which ukraine actually pushed the enemy away from part of our

territories and from the capital, which ensured the existence of our statehood and preserved the management structure of the state and the armed forces of ukraine. at the same time, it began to receive powerful weapons and modern military equipment from our partners , primarily the united states of america, great britain, and other european countries. this made it possible to strengthen the power of the armed forces and to achieve success in counter-attacks and in the liberation of already part of our territory and to look more optimistically at the future, and therefore if indeed the lend-lease will be implemented in a short period of time then in ukraine, its armed forces, which have gained a lot of experience in this war and demonstrated

high leadership skills, have every chance to really liberate this territory occupied by the russian federation, and after that they will conclude those agreements that will provide it with an international legally binding security guarantee. and what about me? only ukraine's membership in the european union and nato can be a guarantee of this security, and by the way , ukraine is quite actively filling out all the necessary documents about ukraine's membership in the european union questionnaires that we will receive in order to actually become a member of the european family. and what do you think, is it possible to join ukraine to the eu before the end of the war or eventually

? in the following way, ukraine should solve the issue together with our european partners on obtaining the status of a candidate, and since the heads of various governing structures of the european union have assured that all these the questionnaires that were filled out by ukraine, they give all the reasons for ukraine to receive this status of a candidate for the european union and next year to receive membership in the european union, it seems quite realistic to me, but there are nuances, as always, these nuances are related to the fact that after the re-election of the president of the french republic, mr. macaron put forward several such interesting ones in quotation marks, very interesting, yes, this one about the fact that we need to think about some

other formats, eh, means the unification of ukraine with because for now it is possible in ukraine , there are no prospects for ten years to get membership in the european court, i will say that poppy is now the president of the european union, and that is why macron's statement is important, we can't not pay attention to it for the continuation, please, this is absolutely not correlate with the general position of most of the countries of the european union, first of all, and secondly, it raises certain suspicions about the sincerity of mr. macron regarding the fulfillment of his obligations as a guarantor, even for this already fresh memory

the budapest memorandum, but still, for some reason, i believe that the leadership of the european union and the leadership of the trans-atlantic partnership as a whole, and the united states of america and great britain will still be able to influence the european union and the european union itself . there are a lot of supporters who will support this idea, and the head of the board , michelle and ursula, the rodian and barrel fund and other heads of european structures, they express their support for the idea and the granting of status candidate in june of this year and accelerated as ukraine wants this and the process of

membership of ukraine in the european union, so of course this path is not easy, but the main thing is that i think that the key position should still dominate. if we are now talking about the protection of global democracy from the encroachments of such autocrats, putin and this russian neo-empire. the so-called ukraine is now at the forefront of the defense of this global democracy, and with its concrete actions in terms of armed resistance and in terms of political and diplomatic has already witnessed steps and illustrated that she defends us in deed and not in words, this global democracy, civilizational values ​​and er,

despite the er problems associated with this war, she deserves to be a member of the european union and later as i am a member of the north atlantic alliance. by the way, a meeting of the nato military committee will be held on the 19th, and please pay attention to the invitation. finland, sweden and ukraine. finland and sweden have announced that they will submit an application sometime in may. and on the 19th for nato membership, what will it happen on the 19th? do you think that sweden-finland will submit an application that week, at the very least, it was declared by high-ranking officials of this country at the level of prime ministers and ministers of foreign

affairs and - even to my defense and parliaments that there is a firm position regarding the acquisition of membership in nato. well, mr. stauntonberg, as you know, about two weeks ago from this point of view, he expressed that these countries are actually ready and, moreover, nato undertakes obligations for the period of acquisition these countries membership of nato to ensure their security, so it seems to me that this process, which seems to have slowed down a little somewhere, is continuing, and the fact that our president stated that we want to be members of nato, but so far we are not accepted there, it shows that the ukrainian side has such a position and after this last statement by mr. kuleba that the new strategy has been released in these territories , i think that there are certain, figuratively

speaking, tectonic changes in our strategy in relation to our western partners, and it must be borne in mind that in in june, the nato summit will be held in madrid, and of course we hope and hope that some of our partners will still consider the issue of providing ukraine with an action plan regarding membership , but he said that well, for now, this issue is not at the right time, so nato's doors are open, everyone we have all heard these statements, or in the end, during these days of the war, the attitude toward ukraine and our armed forces has changed. i think that the attitude has clearly changed among those high-ranking officials of the west, leaders of the west who

sincerely believe in ukraine and uh, they were convinced the ability of ukraine as a state and the ukrainian nation to lead this struggle to win and to effectively use the opportunities provided by the collective action to ukraine, and i also want to pay attention to the recent words of the former president of ukraine about what you are doing to us now after that what is happening to us, what have we done, and what are we doing to protect global democracy and civilizational values, you don't talk to us anymore about the quality of standards, especially the doors of our country's defense capability, that's why i am convinced and it's not just me that we have a lot of supporters in the west,

but unfortunately there are also some such subjects who still have a special opinion and unfortunately this opinion is suggested by the kremlin, i agree with you 100%, vasyl thank you for joining and expressing your vision vasyl bohdan, lieutenant general, a veteran of the foreign intelligence of ukraine, was in touch with us friends. well, next we will talk about the economy, because it is extremely closely related to the war, for this reason, we are adding to the broadcast of our next guest, oleksiy kushchik, an economist financial analyst, mr. oleksiy, good evening, how do you hear? yes, good evening. do you have an understanding and a vision of when the situation can be resolved? well, it is already becoming so

critical . that there is no fuel and the authorities promised and said that everything will be resolved in a week or a half, so far we see that the situation is not improving . how do you see this story and the ways to solve it, but in order to solve it, it is necessary first of all to correct the mistakes that were made first of all. this means administrative regulation of prices, which in fact in our conditions will not bring this good except for the infamous queues at gas stations . and in general, it is necessary to clearly divide the need for e-e fuel for the army for of the agricultural sector , it is necessary to divide the need for fuel for volunteers, for those people who had a logical provision, who take away, for example, their families, they need fuel

in order to travel in their own car and fuel for those people who, in principle, can calculate at the morning price, that is, for this, it is necessary to return the taxation that was removed from the sale of fuel. and this is such a tax, the cost and administrative training will be removed, that is, at the expense of those taxes, it will be collected from the sale of firewood, it is necessary to date the poverty of the family and volunteers, in principle, this can be done at the expense of the same packs of tampons in electronic form that can be linked to the action system, then this will be a fairly effective model when at the expense of taxes collected from those who can pay those who cannot pay or who are engaged in some way useful to society are entitled to work, because if we completely cancel taxes to the budget, the budget is completely empty, the budget cannot provide help to anyone, the administrative regulation of prices is happening in general, the rhythm of fuel and we

see these because uh, there won't be queues at gas stations, so ah, like at one time well, at one time, when the war just started, this payment was introduced for another 6,500 because of the action, and it was received by completely different people, many people who generally left ukraine received this money, although it might be better if this money remained in ukraine and worked for the economy, well, that is, again, the idea is possible, and it would be nice if the government would manage to determine the categories of people who can pay these taxes and which ones you don't know. a very good example with those of the 6,500 who saw all the support systems. in general, in my articles i wrote about the fact that this was a solution because we have a very clear social base - the social base of those people who need help, these are pensioners, for example, who receive a pension lower below, among low-income families, disabled families with

children, er, there are er, parents who raise children in which there is not enough income, that is, there are target groups that need to be provided with this. i lost my job and was paying a person who was taking out several of his foreign cars and you, for example, in your private house somewhere , that is, it was absolutely the right decision, and it is the same now. well, and when i talk about electronic fuel coupons, we must understand that such a system support for low-income people is available in many countries, for example, in latin america, when last year a gift was paid, once it was canceled, they called it almost to the maidan , the people in the capital, it is not difficult enough to do it, because you can see the information that a person has lost his job in the system there are electronic databases in its electronic registers maintained by the state, that is, in

principle, if the action is linked to the payment of taxes that are calculated on wages, then we can determine that a person, for example, no no wages, they need this help, and if a person goes, for example, from kyiv to lviv to take his family, again, if the family is in lviv, it should be registered there as a temporary transfer of a person. that is, this information is also available, and in principle, it should be done the mechanism when all this information will be linked and the analysis will be analyzed, well, it is not difficult enough, but the distribution of these flows of flows, including the determination of the price of fuel for different sections of the population during the war, it is very important because it unless we create market pricing, we do not introduce queues because queues are a derivative of scarcity. but if we make a market price absolutely for everyone, then we will come to a situation where, for example, volunteers simply will not be able to drive aid because they will not have money to refuel their cars and a person

who has lost his job, for example, will not be able to refuel his car to take his family, for example , from lviv or there from lviv to ivano-frankivsk, because they simply will not have money, so it is necessary to divide those groups and give each group a certain share a certain support for this, but to return it to the market of this work so that from this, we will have this constant imbalance in the supply, and only the market has become, it actually balances the supply, demand, and creates conditions. when you come to a gas station and can fill up your car after a huge because now in fact the prices are supposedly regulated, but refueling the car is very reduced by 100%, well, i think every person who has a sivka who does not even have a car drives past a gas station i saw these crazy queues. oleksia, talking about gasoline and oil, i want to move on to the topic of

sanctions against russia about a possible oil embargo . it will affect the russian economy and well, and the world economy, something will happen to the world economy in the same way. then how much can gasoline cost here? and in europe, how much can it cost? well, the oil bargo is the first part of the energy bargo, which has overlap in russia because we understand very well that no one in europe can give up russian gas and europe yet, but here we have to move gradually because we can, in principle, a lot so that europe leads the energy debt already today, but we will simply provoke an economic crisis in europe and the economic crisis will lead to the fact that the europeans will not be able to actively help there, as they can do now, moreover, the public mood

in europe will fluctuate significantly because, of course, europeans are these people who profess a certain system of values, but we understand that a part of the electorate there still perceives events through the prism of their own interests, for example, the elections in france showed that there is a supporter of russia, amaryl ben, she recruits 40% of people, and we need the level of support of such politicians in germany and italy, it is not increasing. if there is a crisis in europe, that is, the level of popularity of such pro-russian politicians will increase. that is why we have to follow a very balanced policy here. someone will embargo oil. it will also be gradual. that is, some countries will be able to quickly abandon russian oil, some countries will have certain grace periods, for example, hungary or other countries, and we see that now hungary actually blocks the introduction of the sixth energy type of sanctions in relation to oil vapors, but here we must

understand that these are certain elements of hungary's negotiations . in this way, hungary simply wants, in principle, the european union to pay to invest several billion euros in the reconstruction of hungarian oil refineries, the modernization of the hungarian oil transportation system in order to just an element of such blackmail in order to get additional funds from the european budget, and for russia it will be quite significant, and because thanks to the fact that russia gives its oil to the european market and the asian market, it has the so-called opportunity of a taxi was in arbitration, that is , it can spe selling oil on various markets and receiving such a peculiar marginal income. well , of course, the more markets you deal with, the more diversified your morning position is. well, in general, the geopolitical situation now country it is actually defined