and allows you to control the underwater and surface air situation precisely in the area of ​​the island in this part of the black sea, and accordingly, it is the knowledge of all the movements that are there, and it is the possibility of quick response to changes in the situation that may occur in the western part of the black sea, well, russia constantly declares that ukraine suffered and continues to suffer great losses in an allegedly unsuccessful attempt to return the island, which they say ukraine is losing there, special forces, military planes, helicopters, drones, etc. ukraine insists that it is limited to attacks on objects on the island is there for boats and so on, what is actually happening, how is this process of returning the island, the operation to return the island, why? because this is our territory , it is our territory of ukraine, and it should belong to us first well, we all know the russian

propaganda and if you listen to the russian channels, we probably have already destroyed not only one army, but half of europe has already been destroyed with tanks, planes, drones , what we see today is how we assess the situation, first of all the russian federation is trying to gain a foothold again on this island. air defense equipment is being supplied . landing boats are actively being used. of the tor m2 missile systems, the pantsir installations were also thrown there, refer to the gun and missile system of the russian federation in order to ensure anti-aircraft defense in the first stage of the near zone and in the

future to ensure monitoring of the situation and the corresponding actions that the russian federation will plan not only against ukraine but also against other countries of the black sea region . is it about a few days or weeks or will it last until the end of the war completely and already at the very end we will try to do it quickly in order to ensure first of all free shipping on this the region and secure our positions, it is the state in order not to allow the russian federation to control the entire northern part of the northwestern part of chernobyl. if we talk about another region, namely kherson region. the conclusion is that the region is being intensively

prepared for integration with russia, what is happening there, what information does ukrainian intelligence have, kherson region is indeed a very strategic region for the russian federation, first of all, this is the provision of access to crimea, the so-called land corridor from the territory of russia to the crimean peninsula, this is the provision of water and electricity to the occupied crimean peninsula, and the creation of a so -called buffer zone in order to prevent the return of our territory back to ukraine what can the russian federation do in the future, first of all, is holding a referendum or other administrative measures to decide the fate of the kherson region today the russian federation failed to capture the entire territory of the kherson region within the administrative borders, and this is why the

fierce fighting continues, but we do not exclude the future, and there are certain signs that a so-called pseudo-referendum will be prepared, where the fate of kherson oblast will be decided, whether it will join the russian federation the creation of some kind of federation - federal or federative unit within the russian federation, the accession to crimea, or it can be the announcement of the so-called kherson the people's republic as how the russian federation did it directly in crimea in 2014 by declaring the so-called luhansk people's and donetsk people's republics. that is, you recognize and agree that russia will do it, it is planned to do it, it will do it . what do you think, so far it has not succeeded, everything will depend on the first well, the department of the armed forces of ukraine , because we will definitely carry out contrasting actions in order to liberate the territory, and secondly, it will depend on the population , because the resistance of the population is the indicator that

does not allow the russian federation to hold a referendum , although according to our data, they tried to do it on april 27. then at the beginning of may, the third and fifth, but they could not do it precisely because of the sentiments and the opposition to violence that exists today in the kherson region. and when they now they are going to do it, do you have data according to preliminary data, it could be september 11 - this is the only day of voting in russia, and accordingly, all preparatory measures will be directed now to prepare this occupied territory territory before any vote, will it be a referendum? could it be some kind of pseudo- expression of will, but such data are already available for september, and the last question what is happening according to ukrainian intelligence data in the occupied crimea, how did the mood of the local population change there

from february 24 firstly, no one expected that the war would start and crimea would become one of the outposts of the invasion of what is a large-scale invasion on the territory of ukraine; secondly, there were active mobilization measures when the local population of the occupied territories began to call for the ranks of the armed forces of the russian federation, moreover, not only for military service, but also as a mobilization reserve in order to make up for the losses in russia during the war, and the third coming up is the so-called holiday season, which russia has always advertised very strongly, in fact it will be disrupted because today crimea is the only such powerful military base where there is an air heavy land component, and this is an increase

of at least 20,000 military personnel of the troops stationed on the territory of crimea. and this is now the logistics hub through which everything goes to the territory of ukraine, ammunition, weapons, personnel, fuel and lubricants, materials in order to ensure the introduction of war by the kremlin on our territory . thank you very much for your comment. from the maternity hospital to meet the widow of one of her comrades-in-arms with her newborn son. her husband, a soldier of the azov regiment, died at the end of april in mariupol on azovstali and in may, tetyana's unstable mother, that's the name of the woman, she also served in the azov regiment where she was a psychologist and died in azov steel even earlier in the 18th year, during the war in donbas,

tetyana's brother died, that's the whole family history of ukraine , they came to support tatyana here she lost a lot in this war. we named the boy ilya because lyosha had planned for a long time, he likes this ball, he had planned to call it that for a long time. even when i was pregnant with vika, he said that if it was a boy, it would be ilya, and if it was a girl, it would be choose therefore there are many options and there was no date on the 19th of april, we talked to him. he said that they were going on a

mission and in six days he would appear. he died on the 21st, but we were told exactly on the 25th. i remember him because he replaced my father, we hoped to the last that everything would be fine , because we knew what a good soldier he was. to put it mildly, he loved his job. he loved his god. thank you, thank you. he passed . served with me in er, well, we were in the same battalion. here i was discharged earlier when i well, i found out about his death, well, it made me very sad, like everyone else. and recently i found out about

his mother, she came to work to help me with my middle daughter when i gave birth, and it so happened that the boys offered to work as a psychologist, and she was so inspired by it b to help the boys that we have. at first, she was so sad that she came for one and stayed for the other, but after all, i convinced her and they and she went to work in the regiments. is help for boys in the regiment, there is communication with the boys. they did not see her son in all of them, she tried to help them in everything possible . screen saver the european union will still be able to introduce an oil embargo

against russia, even though hungary opposes it, the head of european diplomacy , jose borel , thinks so. in words, the work on the agreement of the sixth package of sanctions is still ongoing, borel also announced a new tranche of military aid to ukraine in the amount of 500 million euros. i am sure we will have a powerful statement. the recipe is clear. we need to do more of what we are already doing. with military support, i announce that we, as the european union, will provide a new tranche of another 500 million euros to support ukraine in the military plan of ukraine regarding the oil embargo. i am convinced that we will have an agreement

we need this agreement and we will have it because we need to get rid of oil dependence on russia, we need to understand the specific circumstances of each of the 27 member states, but if there is no agreement at the level of words on monday, the ministers need to give political impetus to this, i will make efforts for this i would like to remind you that earlier the government of hungary stated that it would not block the eu's decision on the oil barge to russia because it is too dependent on russian oil, in particular due to the fact that hungary is landlocked and therefore can receive oil only through land pipelines, unlike the eu countries, which can receive oil by tankers by sea. if hungary blocks the decision on oil supplies to russia, it will cause damage, and this is what ukrainian foreign minister dmytro kuleba said on the sidelines of the summit, who was invited by the

german foreign minister to the j7 meeting the day before lena burke, if this package of sanctions is passed without an oil embargo, i think president putin can celebrate, it will be the first time that the unity of the european union will be undermined because of the position of one country hungary, if hungary theoretically evades and does not support the package. i think this will cause great damage to the european union itself, that is why they must do everything to prevent this. the negotiations in germany will continue until tomorrow and the main topic will be the war in ukraine and world food security in connection with the russian invasion . in ukraine, in addition, the g7 countries are concerned that the war in ukraine can destabilize moldova, and therefore they invited their moldovan colleague nika popescu to a meeting. the bill on aid to ukraine for 40 billion

dollars was blocked from voting by one republican senator, although the leaders of both democrats and republicans called on the senators to unanimously support the new package of aid to ukraine and to approve this initiative in an accelerated format . so that, by analogy with afghanistan , appoint an inspector general to control the money and weapons that the usa will send to ukraine he noted that it is impossible to give 40 billion dollars without any oversight of the rules. if at least one senator refuses to vote, this means blocking the consideration of the initiative in the accelerated format. now the senators will consider the bill in the usual mode - it will last several days. it is expected that the document will be adopted next week by the majority of votes at least such forecasts are given by the walt street journal. i will remind you that at the end of april, us president joe biden asked congress to allocate 33 billion dollars to

support ukraine, and later this amount was increased to 40 billion, almost 40 in the congress itself, the prospect of receiving this aid is discussed further by contacting us valery chaliy, a diplomat, the ambassador of ukraine to the united states , e.e. 15-19 years, we are your greetings. congratulations, glory to ukraine , glory to the heroes. explain that such things are possible, formal things are possible it is important that the senate did not make this decision in an accelerated format on aid to ukraine, how critical it is and how long the further voting may take, there really is such a procedure where in well directly or again the consent of all senators separately is not required voting and, unfortunately, this procedure did not pass, every day is important for us, of course, because every day when weapons do not arrive or financial aid does not arrive, it is precisely the losses of our people,

but in this case there are two points, firstly, this does not mean that it will not pass the solution will pass. of course , it was possible to work, there were conversations when i was sent to washington, there were also solutions, for example, the recognition of the holodomor in 32-33 as a genocide of the ukrainian people, he also became an issue, we talked with him for two hours, and actually these two hours were enough for him to withdraw his comment and the procedure was quick, well, now he probably has some arguments, i will say that he very often takes this position. he is not so strict, i say that he is a publican , he is a libertarian, and in principle, you really need to deal with him as with every senator to work constantly. now it will take some time. i don’t think it is critical, but for the future it is necessary to understand that in this case it is necessary to ensure a quick vote to appoint the general for control of

money. does this indicate something or does this indicate that that in washington they don't really trust how ukraine will use this money. no, i don't think so . first of all, if we talk about weapons, ukraine has already demonstrated its ability in this area , to effectively use the weapons provided by the americans, that is, i know this very well, we created these conditions and the corresponding bilateral agreements and control and that these weapons do not fall into the hands of the crow , that is, our enemies, so i think that what will happen with the weapons calmer, but there is still an influx of financial resources in this package, there is also financial aid, and i think that it is in the part of financial aid that

it is humanitarian, it will be absolutely fair because it costs the american taxpayer, and everything else i still think is more related to the technique of our general headquarters our army has demonstrated the effectiveness of working with the provided systems, and it seems to me that now there will be no question of weapons, rather, it was precisely the financial part that was not approved, you know. i think that in order to even hold a vote right now, he thinks the result is predictable, it will be a positive result, i think a few days is absolutely enough, even more so. well, even if we take such ordinary procedures in quiet times, what is it called, it’s all right, it’s not a question, there’s a week, it’s weeks, we have funds now we don’t have, uh, in the united states, there is still everyone who allocated to the congress, they are completed there, but in

principle, well, there is still a week, so it is not worth delaying too far, but you see, really, every day in ukraine, here every day is valuable. i want to raise one topic with you, but today it became known that great britain expanded the sanctions list against russia, in particular, putin's relatives were sanctioned, his ex-wife, his probably also his current wife, alina kabaeva, her grandmother , even putin's cousin. that the united states does not impose sanctions against putin's inner circle because they are afraid of angering him . do you think washington is really afraid of angering him with such sanctions and maybe now after that this step was taken by london, something will change. i will not evaluate washington's steps, that is, everything was obvious here, that is, there were quite unambiguous statements

by president jose lobain regarding his assessment , in general, who is vladimir putin, so what decisions do they make and the step of britain and boris johnson, i i congratulate you because it is not possible to certify this as an honest and courageous policy, that is , johnson demonstrates leadership , which is lacking, perhaps some european leaders who still want to look into putin's eyes about these eyes, senator mccain said a long time ago that there are three letters of the kgb and, in principle, it is known to washington, so i think that everything will depend on those lines of strategy, as they see better in this matter of the diet, but for us ukrainians it is obvious that after the massacre, the facts of the genocide, the massacre stopped, is that what they are doing now is destroying ukraine, bombarding mariupol, and at the same time, someone there is saying something to save putin's face, some such

statements are strange. that is, it causes ukrainian society, as it were so to say such a one an emotional post, and yet you expect the same sanctions against putin's closest entourage at gas stations, these are the circumstances that exist now , the reaction would be absolutely adequate, but it is more important for us, not only that, but also the sending is really faster and in a larger the amount of weapons, we are grateful to the united states for what is being done now and the lend-lease and these funds that are allocated, but it is needed now, it is needed as soon as possible and it is necessary to open training programs for aircraft. no one forbids us to do this, so please f-16 training of our pilots. we have good pilots, they are mastering this technique, and other weapons, anti-missile systems are being trained. it

is possible now, this is the first part and the second. who in the world are there to save our wounded mariupol those heroes who, in principle, are no longer patents, they can be according to the procedure of extraction for the process of other procedures of removal, it is clear that they are putin's personal enemies, let's go they exchange the introduction of personal sanctions against his mistresses or ex-wives precisely for the release of our boys, because waiting for such sanctions from washington is perhaps a better event than not introducing documents in response to the release of our boys in mariupol, and i will then say that this well, during the war, it can be an acceptable thing, thank you very much for your comment valery chaly ukrainian diplomat former ambassador of ukraine to the usa ambassador 15-19 years thank you very much in turin, italy

, preparing for the final of the song contest he will come to the eurovision song contest tomorrow, may 14. and in the final, the ukrainian band kalush orchestra will compete. what are their chances and do they talk about the war in ukraine at the eurovision song contest with details zoryan stepanenko zoryan my congratulations to you my own words i congratulate the italian tourinka, as the whole world is looking forward to the finals you can see the most popular song contest, here is such a fan zone spread out in a local park in turin, where the performances of this year's eurovision participants are broadcast on huge screens. and during the breaks, fans are entertained by other the musicians are warming up, so to speak, and it is not so crowded here now, because the decisive battle for the victory between the eurovision contestants is tomorrow and that's when the unconditional favorite of the

show will not push through on this lawn. bookmakers did not predict a win with such a probability of 59%. this is their latest data that the laure winners will go to the kalush orchestra, i.e. we can see that fans around the world bet on performers from the ivano-frankivsk region, respectively, you can to predict that they will vote in the same way, and the winner is determined by the jury and the tv viewer, and let me remind you that ukrainian musicians are currently rehearsing practically around the clock, because they learned about exactly what they will represent ukraine here a few days before the full-scale invasion . members of the band in different parts of ukraine, so they did not have the opportunity to gather together live for a rehearsal for a long time, now they are trying to make up for everything in order to adequately represent the country and at every interview, they tell international journalists what horrors ukraine and every ukrainian are currently experiencing due to the russian invasion, in particular

, when rockets fly at our homes and air raids are very frequent, ah, ah, a lot of anxiety is always there, it doesn't matter that we left my country it's curly there and you wake up every day i don't know that everyone is alive a blow rocket will fly it's like a roulette ukrainian band one of the few who will sing on the eurovision stage in their native language stefania that's the name of their song, the frontman of the kalush orchestra dedicated to his mother and wrote the lines about longing for his mother long before the war, and ukrainians, when it began, saw a new meaning in the song. they began to associate the return to the parental home with the return to the motherland , as in loved exhausted and exhausted, or a native with tears in her eyes. about this ukrainian fans say that they have traveled thousands of kilometers to listen to the performance of the ukrainian band favorite at this year's eurovision song contest .

i always say that i felt so bad only when my mother died and it happened to me too, when the war happened, they have a very insightful song even if we do not take into account what is happening in ukraine, the content is impressive, we evaluated the repertoire before the war now it is needless to say. if our dutch performer loses, we will cheer for kalush, so tomorrow 25 finalists will compete for the victory, among them, in particular , performers from belgium and sweden, finland, australia, this year here without a russian stage, the federation as in fact, they were disqualified from many sports competitions due to an attack on ukraine. belarus was disqualified last year due to violations of eurovision rules. tomorrow, ukraine will perform in the first part of the final under serial number 12. at midnight

, it will be known which country italy will pass the baton to host the prestigious competition next year and which of the musicians will receive the cherished statuette . by the way, if such a scumbag promised to sell it at an auction, and give the proceeds to the needs of ukraine, although it is true of russia the hackers have already openly declared that they will try to prevent the victory of the kalush group and are actually openly threatening their cyber attacks. let's see what the result will be, please. thank you. zoryana stepanenko is following the eurovision. we are waiting for details from you. well, finally, we have another story from donetsk region, the city of bakhmut, it actually turned out to be the front line . but how do people live there, let's look further, just an explosion, no sound, nothing, a clap, just a

clap, and everything i turn around, here it is, everything is flying , it's at least a bunch, everything is flying here, and that's what i'm doing quickly the house hid and everything landed just like that in 722, a plate flew here and the slate was broken. we also had a roof that was broken, in general, well, that's it, we worry more about the children, the car is in our brains, why did this happen? how is it possible for a normal, normal country to go and kill, they think we these are our brothers. brothers don't kill. a rocket

will fly and bomb it, or you will die, or the house will be hit once or twice. there will be problems. relatives and friends have left. who is new ? you'll buy everything on the brain, more stories, including from donetsk, watch the radio freedom ukraine channel, be sure to subscribe to it, gas freedom life will return to the air on monday, it is very important in this difficult

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