or another degree of severity, and their actual liberation is included in all international international conventions that regulate the introduction of war and the rules of war that modern states are obliged to observe. we are waiting for the miracle to work and we are preparing for the unblock azovstal and be ready to liberate our territories with our own hands, but we also hope for the help and support of world leaders, thank you and right now i will pass the floor to my colleague iryna kovalika, who is ready to present you have a fresh news release from the espresso editorial office for this hour iryna you have a word thank you maria i congratulate all the viewers of the espresso tv channel so really in just a moment i will tell you about this is what is happening in ukraine and in the world and there is also more detailed information about what is happening at azovstal in mariupol 15

o'clock in ukraine in the studio iryna koval congratulates today in ukraine the memory of the victims of political repressions is commemorated the number of victims of the great terror in ukraine is still impossible to count tens of thousands of people shot hundreds of thousands went through prisons, exile camps, were forced to undergo psychiatric treatment due to terror and repression, all strata of the ukrainian population came, from the scientific and creative intelligentsia to the peasants, the soviet authorities tried to hide the traces of their crimes, burial sites were leveled with bulldozers, access to archives was prohibited the memory of the victims of political repressions in ukraine is honored every year on the third sunday of may, russian troops shelled 11 settlements in donetsk region over the

past day, the national police of the occupiers reports this they hit mariupol, avdiyevka, turkish estuary , villages of ocheretine, drobysheve, northern ceramics , berestovo, borodichne, and novokalyne, civilians were killed, there are also wounded about their number, so far they do not mention the destruction, 36 civilian objects , residential buildings, industrial buildings, a traction power station and a medical facility were damaged, and the russians continue to attack civilians of the city of ukraine in the oleksandriy district that in the kirovohrad region, the air defense forces shot down an enemy missile. it was flying in the direction of kropyvnytskyi, the head said of the regional military administration andrii raykovich , the situation in the communities of the region is generally calm and under control, and over the past day, 10 people were

injured due to shelling by the russians in the mykolaiv oblast, there are no children among the injured, the head of the mykolaiv regional council, hanna zamazeeva, reported that all the injured were taken to the hospital and they are receiving medical assistance no currently in mykolaivskyi 164 people are in hospitals, all of them were injured as a result of the attacks of the occupiers, and in the meantime, the rashists continue to raid the mykolaiv oblast by the occupiers once again fired a missile and the aviation of the air force of ukraine, the destruction of two dozen rockets, three warehouses of enemy ammunition in different areas, armored and automotive equipment and a self-propelled artillery installation continue to be in the black sea, two ships carrying cruise missiles and five large landing ships, psychological pressure and the threat of missile strikes from the occupiers do not lose their will to be relevant, the first time the occupiers dropped phosphorus bombs on the defenders of mariupol on the azovstal, the adviser to

the city mayor petru andryushchenko told the russians in his they say that they used thermite incendiary projectiles with a burning temperature of about two and a half thousand degrees celsius to put out the fire. it is almost impossible to put out another proof of war crimes by the russians. the attackers continue to use weapons prohibited by international conventions, in particular cluster and phosphorus bombs. one of the invaders himself confirmed this in a telephone conversation intercepted by the security service. of ukraine in it, the russian claims that the troops of the rashists have been raiding the territory of our country with inhumane types of weapons since 2014, the occupiers prohibited means of destruction have been repeatedly used in the oos zone since the beginning of the large-scale invasion, these are war crimes, actualists commit all over the front line, the sbu assures that it documents each of these cases,

the international conventions, what was prohibited by the tape, well, we will be allowed to do it. the relatives of the defenders of azov are asking the president of turkey to join forces with the leader of china so that the mariupol fighters are saved, the relatives of the defenders went to turkey to meet with serdogan to join forces with

the leader of china sizingwins to save our heroes the invention of our sons and daughters i am the wife of the crown onko azov expresses hope that the joint efforts of the two influential countries of turkey and china will help save our fighters from the azovstal plant in mariupol germany has finally realized russian gas is a weapon, said the minister of foreign affairs of ukraine dmytro kuleba after his visit to berlin, adding that countries need a little more time to resolve its gas issues, i.e. find alternative ways to supply fuel. germany is also one of the leading countries promoting an oil embargo, although two months ago they called it impossible. i also discussed the european aspirations of ukraine with colleagues from berlin. it's a very simple thing. look, it

's still going to happen. it is inevitable and clear that ukraine will receive candidate status sooner or later. we want it to happen early in a timely manner at the end of june, there is still room for work, so we will work with germany. i urge each of you who has contacts with friends in germany to mobilize maximum support for the invasion of russia is losing momentum nato deputy secretary of state mircea joane is convinced that ukraine can win the war against moscow, according to the official, this will happen thanks to the courage of the ukrainian people and the army, as well as help from the west, he noted that an unofficial meeting of foreign ministers is underway in berlin of nato member states, one of the important issues on the alliance's action agenda to overcome russia's unprovoked aggression against ukraine is now a time of significant changes in european security, nato strongly supports

ukraine. the alliance wants to send a signal to putin that, despite the cruelty unseen since the second world war, the cynicism of the war unleashed by him, ukraine does not cease to amaze with its bravery and the west with its unity . against ukraine, nato's creed one for all and all for one is even more important than ever, so thank you, dear colleagues, for this informal meeting, because in this terrible time, we all must get out of your frame and comfort zone. i think that last night was already quite good for trust in our union. finland officially applies to join nato. the leadership of ukraine made a corresponding decision due to russia's military

invasion of ukraine. era in relations with nato, because security is the most important thing if finland, a member of the alliance, also takes responsibility for the security of the entire military-political union, previously general nato secretary jens toltenberg stated that finland's membership will strengthen both the western military alliance and the country itself. he also emphasized that finland is one of nato's closest partners with a mature democracy that is capable of making an important contribution to european security, is familiar with war geese and even has its own javelin , bandera's toy cat from prykarpattia conquers social networks, the cat's owners understand such popularity, saying that their pet does not lack character prykarpatskyi bandera told our reporter

a few weeks ago that the cat was a fed cat. and a little lazy domestic cat and a general favorite, the callsign bandera received from the owners was inspired by the assistant of the chernihiv sappers without a cartridge. to people and decided that our cat can also be so useful, bring benefits to people, please them with your patriotism and we decided to start an instagram page for him well, it would be a sin to show such the cat banderi is 13 years old, he was picked up by kittens right at the entrance to the photo shoot, the newly minted star of instagram is patient and understanding. however, his character is purely feline, he

is full of honor gas. inventory for photo shoots was made by kateryna's mother herself, a fairy tale with a trident is not the most recognizable attribute . well, to do, it's not the only one, here are three war geese, we even had bandera smoothies recently made and javelin, despite its popularity, to stop at what it has achieved, bandera's cat is not going to help the ukrainian army under bandera, he is even ready to sacrifice his star props , the first to put this javelin up for sale, all the money will go to the charity fund, return it alive and

for now, this was all the news for this time, and literally for i am ready to say hello to you in a moment. my colleague vitaly portnikov, so meet him, watch our espresso news channel and the euro espresso program for ukrainian refugees in europe. joint airing with the atf channel programs of radio svoboda time-time programs of the voice of america connection of journalists of public television news broadcasts of bbc news ukraine and franz 24 as well as the broadcast of the information marathon the only news together we are the strength glory to ukraine we are a nation of resourceful people so i did not give up quite universal people they can to be what to do we invent cook we create highly

maneuverable high-speed buggies that can go anywhere we make it work we are very comfortable sleeping somewhere in a trench not our victory but after that delicious battalion of inventors. here is our front, congratulations, friends, we continue the television broadcast of the espresso channel with you vitaly portnikov, for the next two hours we will talk with you about news and trends, and i will start with what we all remember today, the day of victims of political repression about people who can be said to have been the first in the empire to give their lives and health for an independent ukraine, for ukrainian democracy, for ukrainians to continue to feel ukrainian, there are hundreds

thousands of people are actually people who fought against evil , which is when the majority of our compatriots with you either did not realize what kind of person was in the upper house. they lived or were afraid of this person in the upper house, or they took what was happening for granted, or they themselves could not realize the importance of the fight against regime that seemed eternal to them, and that is why i would not believe that the ukrainians kept the idea of ​​statehood effectively destroyed by the bolshevik occupation of 1920, that it was possible to tell stories in the ukrainian language not only the slogans of the bolshevik party and the occupation authorities, and in general the fact that it was possible to use the ukrainian language, and not only in lessons in schools where the ukrainian language and literature still existed, but also in everyday life, where there are opportunities to

communicate with relatives and teach children the native language, what is needed was to protect human rights and dignity, all these are people who suffered from political repressions. i am not talking about people who simply fell into this stalinist dog breeder who did not even imagine what they could become victims of political persecution, but they became victims simply because someone in the state security committee of the ukrainian ssr or somewhere far away in moscow stepped on the wrong foot, or it was planned that a certain number of people should be repressed, shot, imprisoned in such epics, we lived for many decades, we now we see heroes dying for an independent ukraine, we must realize that if there were no people who were ready to resist, perhaps there is nothing to die

for. that is why i believe that we should bow to the memory of those who were ready to resist, it would seem insurmountable evil on this day should be very important for everyone who thinks about the history of the country not as the history of the former soviet republic that suddenly declared its independence in 1991, but as the unchanging history of statehood and the traditions of this statehood over many centuries in our country with you history, such a connection is a connection with the present, that is, remember everyone who gave their lives for ukraine, remember everyone who suffered for ukraine, remember everyone who suffered for democracy in these lands, this is also very important it seems to me to do, let's talk about how the most democratic state of the modern world

helps ukraine. we are currently in touch with the people's deputy of ukraine, the secretary of the committee on foreign policy and inter- parliamentary cooperation of the verkhovna rada of ukraine, solomiya bobrovska . congratulations, mrs. solomii, mrs. sami, but i am very sorry to congratulate you . do you know any of the first questions? i would like to start our conversation with you. the united states has just announced that it is ready to guarantee the security of finland and sweden if they apply for membership. nato and there will be a certain transition period before this application is satisfied by the member countries of the north atlantic alliance and finland, sweden will become permanent members of nato, this is a long, long period, because it can take about a month from the very submission of the application, then several months until year from the ratification of the agreement on the accession of

sweden to finland by the national parliaments of the nato member countries, all this time the united states is ready to be the guarantor of the security of these northern and european countries before this similar to the security guarantee provided by finland to sweden to great britain, but anyone who follows the situation around ukraine will ask why russia went to war with ukraine. it was not possible with us . -e russia with the west, if we were given such a guarantee, then there would be no war and there would not be all these problems , we will now start talking with mrs. solomia and i will simply remind you of the processes that are taking place now around the development of the north atlantic of the union, because it was just at this moment

that finland, a country that maintained such active neutrality for 80 years of its existence, applied for membership in nato, and i don't know if you heard my question, mrs. solomiya, about the guarantee of the united states' military presence. and why we didn't do this before, i don't remember, that's not what i asked about, i said that today the united states gave security guarantees in finland to sweden for the time when they will warm to us well, this is the year the guarantee said that they will protect them before this is it guarantees were given by great britain, the question arises why the united states and great britain could not give us such guarantees if we submitted an application for nato to nato and would wait a year there for the ratification of our accession to the national parliaments of, say , a nato country well, there was no war because russia she knew for sure that in this situation she was facing the united states and great britain with the nuclear powers, and maybe then it was possible to get ahead of the crisis in which

the whole world has now fallen, from which it not only did not come out i would say that he is only entering into three crises than the guarantee of security in finland, sweden. at this stage, they differ from the guarantee of security in ukraine, let's say there are 2,000 there in 2015 of the 16th year. well, let's be frank , a very long one. th year, such opinions in ukraine remain the umbrella of the influence of the russian federation, and the struggle for all this is a vilification choice . ukraine is the western, western part of the western world . is it part of the eastern world? australia will be more likely to be accepted into the alliance than ukraine, which creates many problems for them, you know, from corruption, which was endless, it did not end with that, they end with the fact that in eh,

let's be honest again, in my opinion, we will go to the end believed that ukraine is inclined to think and think more in the russian direction and the vector e than the western one, our statements of conviction some positions but we will always be chosen and but at a distance from the connection with that we are quite problematic conflict e and it is obvious when and it is not just a question of the level of standards being the same , starting from the interaction of the compatibility of military and political a about the fact that we are too far from them, probably further than eh hmm than moldova was until 24.02 . and these problems will definitely not bring ms. sweden to anna for dorians. but it was interesting to trace

the statement of turkey, which has expressed itself quite categorically at the moment about hm, about the membership of the association and finland, these are sanatoriums, literally means to ask the sanatoriums of metal organizations. in fact, now they have ethylene for discussion so that everyone has one vote on the options for accepting those two countries. but it seems to me that it is time for ukraine to think, and it was long overdue to change at least one block of its typical indefinite period by countries that see the walkie-talkie as a threat absolutely real, very fast, and here we are talking about a blog of words, er, poland and the baltic countries, maybe you can go over mr. solomiya, because i think that the audience does not really hear the broadcast itself, er, and before that,

i will say what mrs. solomiya said about turkey has now made a categorical statement regarding the accession of finland to sweden in nato, and i will inform you that now the minister of foreign affairs of turkey is not in favor of turkey. did your cargo refute the idea that turkey is trying to threaten and gain greater influence in connection with the members of finland, sweden, donata and panchenko also says that turkey will not stop the expansion policy and supports nato's open door policy. turkey just wants to focus on supporting state terrorism, and in this regard, sweden, finland have to stop supporting terrorism and remove the ban on arms exports to turkey, i think that turkey will not stop this expansion of the north atlantic union, we will be practically sure of this now, i want to ask ms. solomia what will happen to this bill of the day 40 billion

dollars of aid to ukraine which is now blocked in the senate of the congress by the republicans by the red pole, a delegation of the republican minority in the sanation , headed by speaker chimakonvim, visited the ukrainian capital and met with the president volodymyr zelenskyi of ukraine, but so far no compromises have been reached with senator pole, and the question is not even whether this bill will be passed, but the question is whether it will be passed on time, because the ministry of defense in the united states has already emphasized that it is not praised by the closest the other day, the military aid of the united states of ukraine has slowed down, and here is what to do about it, well, first of all, here, again, the most active should be the conversation between the presidents of the governments and our inter-parliamentary diplomacy about er about the causes and consequences of such blocking and how critical this practical international technical assistance is today we have on the er

front line and obviously without this help it is much more difficult for our boys and girls, to put it mildly, to advance or hold positions, only they today they are receiving uh that's why here there is probably hope for inter-parliamentary diplomacy in the first place and inter-presidential uh-uh communications which actually should push this situation to a logical conclusion but in uh-uh let's go back as well to the support that is still available today from european countries, in particular from great britain, this is the international technical assistance that arrives here faster, which works today on the front, and we are all well aware that the mt some methods of the country with of the united states of america, this is a matter of months, but not weeks, unfortunately. and

tell me, in principle, do you understand why the minister of defense of the russian federation, sergei shoigu, for the first time in these three months, you can say, picked up the phone and spoke with the minister of defense of the united states after many days and weeks of refusing any contacts with the head of the american military business that this is some kind of signal that russia is ready for more decisive measures in case the united states does not stop supporting ukraine or vice versa and the recognition that it is necessary to agree on something with the setting of the situation when russia does not have time to implement its plans for the destruction of ukraine in the way that vladimir putin and his closest entourage would like to implement, it seems to me that the second option is more and more accurate the readiness and understanding of the states, the readiness of the russian federation, the understanding of the states that the new stage of the war with ukraine, and in particular the use of light chemical weapons, is quite possible in ukraine, and it seems to me that this

could be one of the reasons why in principle, the conversation could have taken place because the discussion is not about artillery, not about the iskander and other weapons of mass effect, but about a much more powerful resource that the russian federation has in its pocket, and therefore it can be warned combined by the states about their reaction to er to such applications, it would seem to me like a logical chain why e that he picked up the phone and it happened or maybe another absolute game er let's forget about dances that are important to china in particular for the russian federation and for the united states, since he has not yet entered this game and how particularly important he is to us today, that he has shown his strength and influence , especially regarding mariupol, and the chance to withdraw the military with the question of leave them

alive through the mediation of e-e and the people's republic of china. is there such a chance that you think that the people's republic of china will mediate in the release of e-e people who defend themselves in mariupol ? it just seems to me that china with its policy towards those who do not agree with the regime uh, he is just absolutely calm about such things when someone there can die from uh, aggressive actions, it is known according to logic that some kind of regional justification was used, but uh, as for me, their policy today consists in more to deeper things than emotional who is more than emotional for us well, for sure it is a component, but i would like china to play a critical role here, especially in relation to mariupol, maybe it’s just my wishes, ah, which denies a rational approach to this, but hmm uh, from these contacts that the ukrainian authorities have had in the last two years, they are very

close to china and the chinese communist party, if it didn't look funny, maybe today is the time to use these uh, these diplomatic uh, this friendship that existed before the war i believe that it is these contacts with the communist party in china is a mirror of the inefficiency of those people who sincerely believed that it was possible on the one hand to deny the authoritarianism of neighboring russia and on the other hand to try to establish contacts with russia's closest ally from a value point of view, communist china, and continue to hope that ukraine can sit on these chairs, even from a humanitarian point of view, it is not to realize in which world we now live, will it be education or democracy where the united states of great britain or authoritarianism - this is the world of russia, china, this will be a big world. i think that after china's attack on taiwan, this world will be clearly divided, the border with the civilized worlds will be fought for decades, where will the territory of ukraine be in the democratic world at this time,

as an independent state, will it become part of the russian federation, will it just be a reservoir for attack on the democratic world and everything i and this does not apply to mariupol, but this is the reality that we will live in, i think in the next decades when it becomes obvious that china and russia are capable of creating a coalition of struggle with democracy or we will tear russia out of this coalition, this is still a chance democratic russia will undoubtedly be a great ally of the united states and europe but you see now what kind of russia, which democratic russia can we talk about now? china itself really wanted to cooperate with not very competent officials in the ukrainian government for two years