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air ukrainian independent tv channels espresso the fifth and live on the website of the cabinet of ministers a petition has been registered in ukraine demanding that ukrainian tv channels be returned to the digital airwaves in order to sign the petition. first, you need to register, it's very simple. go to the website petition.kemu.gov.ua there go to the registration tab and enter all your data, say your phone number and email, confirm all your data, enter the code that will be sent to your mobile, create a password, it will certify that you are not a robot, give consent to the processing of personal data, check all your data again and press the button register to complete the registration , go to your specified email where the site letter will arrive click the link in the letter that will return you to the petition site be your email password enter

we return to the main page of the petition site open the petition about the return to the digital air of ukrainian tv channels espresso of the fifth direct press the sign button the petition will appear, the inscription is signed, your signature is confirmed and taken into account, let's return ukrainian patriotic channels to the digital air together, we will not allow them to be destroyed in ukraine freedom of speech. as always, welcome to us, here on the espresso tv channel, famous guests from iconic personalities come every week, famous people who help us understand how the west of europe reacts to what is happening now in ukraine. i am referring to the war that was aggressively started by russia on february 24 of this year and how the west responds to it, how the west supports us, it is very important for us to know and it is very important for us to feel this help, moreover, it is important for us to understand it. so, as i said

, important people come to us every week on the espresso tv channel famous people today's ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of lithuania to ukraine valdemares sarapinas i congratulate you mr. ambassador thank you very much for joining me today congratulations congratulations thank you for visiting us you understand ukrainian and i am studying ukrainian as far as i understand you have served as ambassador to ukraine since 2020 yes, you are right , okay. i want to say that it is a great honor for me to represent lithuania in ukraine, which for us lithuanians is not only one of the most important

partners, but also the best, nearest and dearest lithuania was a friend, lithuania is her, lithuania will always be with you, we will stay with you in yours, which means also in our fight against russian aggression, e-e, believe in lithuania - everyone understands and supports this, both the leaders of our state, politicians, and ordinary lithuanians e- that's why we will stay with you. together to victory, very, very much. thank you for these kind words of support and you speak beautiful ukrainian. so lithuania was one of the first countries to help ukraine after the beginning of russian aggression on february 24 of this year, this is what our president said. said during an address to the lithuanian parliament on april 12, thank you for this support and thank

you for this help, but you still continue to help us, of course, without any doubt, how to say it correctly, we very clearly understand the answer to the question of who is who in the war in this during the war , lithuania really provided, provides and will always provide ukraine with enormous support in your struggle for freedom, for territorial integrity , this has been repeatedly repeated by all senior lithuanian government officials, our president, prime minister, speaker of our diet by the way, all of them recently traveled to kyiv in order to express lithuania's unconditional support for the ukrainian people of your

armed forces, er, with the fact that we meet the urgent needs of ukraine, and it is speaking, er, speaking about , and this is army aid, humanitarian aid, and much more spoluchki moments of our support, i can say that since the beginning of the russian full-scale invasion in february, the lithuanian armed forces have provided your country with tens and maybe hundreds of millions of eurosport, including some the latest equipment, defense systems, stingar, thermal imaging equipment, anti-drone weapons , and much more besides, our

state institutions, non-governmental organizations, our people continue to provide you with humanitarian aid in your country, as well as in lithuania, ukraine, about 50,000 ukrainians have found temporary housing in lithuania, and believe me to me, all these people are provided with simplified conditions for obtaining a residence permit in medical services, receive access to education, packages of social, financial, psychological support is also very important. i also have access to medical services. i am especially proud of our lithuanian medical volunteers who are already

working here in ukraine during the war. i really hope that in the future this process will continue with dozens of trucks with medical equipment, medicines, vaccines, ventilators, surgical kits and other very, very important things. that's how there are so many special and concrete examples of our help, and by the way, let me give you one very a special example of a component for water disinfection, chlorine, with its help, they clean water for the city, even from my own experience, what a month ago,

brown water came from the tap, and how much more frequent it is now, it is a very specific example, food, you probably know that the novus supermarket chain is 100% owned by lithuanian investments was the first store that provided food for free to ukrainian soldiers as well as ordinary residents of kyiv, especially those who lived in metro stations. yesterday i spoke with the head of our novus. he said i think that now 74 out of 100 supermarkets have started working again, so there are a lot of such examples. i will

also add one more very important thing, in my opinion , another incredibly important type of support is politically. morally, i already mentioned the visits to ukraine by the leaders of our country, as well as many members of our parliament seven or eight, as i hang up, many of our ministers have also visited kyiv, and the minister of foreign affairs has already been twice. almost all of them were the first foreign ministers in their fields to visit ukraine was torn apart by the war, so on the one hand it is extremely important, how to say it, a gesture of political and moral support during these

visits, i participated with them in everything, very important specific and special things, for example, regarding the export of ukrainian grains through our seaport in klaipeda or regarding medical mission in ukraine of hospitals is in ukraine governmental cooperation in the field of energy regarding the agreement to send experts to document war crimes there is no reason that my country will remain one of the closest partners of ukraine during the post-war reconstruction of ukraine, there is a lot of goodwill and generosity towards ukrainians in the world right now. i have

absolutely no doubt that your country will recover very quickly and, as i said, i am proud to have the honor of representing lithuania in such a dramatic period for your of the country, thank you very much to your government and your people for their support and for staying with us in such a very difficult time for us , thank you very much." lithuania, together with other baltic countries, have become real advocates of ukraine in the eu and nato, what do you think about ukraine's chances of joining at least the european union

today, this is a unique chance, generally speaking, lithuania is one of the biggest supporters of ukraine's membership in the eu, and never doubted that ukraine belongs to the european family, that ukraine it is necessary to put on the path to becoming a member of the eu as soon as possible, yes, and the number of sinomos is a secret to the world. now it sees how ukraine makes huge sacrifices defending the freedom of european values, in fact, europeans are very impressed by this

capitals from vilnius to vienna, vitalin to lisbon , now in ukrainian flags you can understand the heroic resistance of ukraine to russian aggression made the question of ukraine's membership in the european union more realistic. corrupt, huge changes are taking place and ukraine has already started this i would say irreversible process, i think that political decisions are being made, they are also starting i am convinced that despite this brutal price, i mean thousands of deaths

and destroyed infrastructure of ukraine. despite all this , today ukraine, as i said, has a unique chance to jump on the european union train . he mass public support for ukraine's membership in the eu now exceeds 90% and is almost 100%. therefore, i consider it a moral obligation of the european union to ukraine and its people formatting thank you minister

minister of foreign affairs of lithuania gabriela slanzbergis said in an interview with the so-called press that the world will live freely only if putin and his regime cease to exist. how do you see it? you see how it can happen like this. first of all, i am very happy because there is complete unity in lithuania. e absolut unity inside regarding us provoked russian aggression against ukraine by the way how can you know about this language this week our parliament our sejm voted unanimously to recognize russia as a terrorist state because of its mass murders and barbaric destruction of ukraine did not even try to comply with international

law, according to the international rulesoft office, the crimes committed by its army are enough to qualify it as a genocide of the ukrainian people, after so many atrocities committed by the russians in such cities as bucha irpin borodyanka, even the closest partners of moscow began to distance themselves from russia on unfortunately, even worse things can happen in such cities as mariupol and those areas of donbas that have come under russian control, that we should pay very serious attention to this, we are not naive and take attention, as it would be correct to say, the unpredictable

behavior of russia, which is combined with an aggressive international policy, we must consider all options. we also do not forget about russian threats to us and our region is lucky because we have been members of nato and neutral belize for 18 years and we really believe that if if it comes to that, then nato will be ready to protect every meter of our territory in the air, on earth and at sea. we really do not want even one russian soldier to ever set foot on our land, by the way, on tuesday the seimas of lithuania adopted a new strategy for the preparation of the country's citizens

for the national resistance, in addition, lithuania will probably continue the state of emergency after its term ends in june, this was said by the adviser to the president - gitanas on the issues of national security kestotis budris, you are preparing for a possible war with russia we have to be ready as you know we how to say it let me repeat we are not naive because russia is really a very unpredictable country if you take into account its unpredictable behavior very aggressive international politics we must be ready the trend uh is trulibelizet we need to take into account all

options as i already said fortunately we are members of nato and we believe that nato will protect us if the fifth article works if this happens but on the other hand, i think that we need even more presence of nato troops on our land in lithuania , latvia, estonia in our region. we really hope that our big partners, the united states of america, germany, great britain and others they will understand. in my opinion, lithuania does not need a

battalion , but at least a brigade. up to one and a half percent of our gdp, and in the future we plan to increase it to 3% of our gdp anti- gp is being strengthened, are the russians continuing their efforts to destabilize the situation in lithuania, for example when they talk about oppression in the country of russians and russian speaking frankly, we do not feel it, you understand, the russian population in lithuania is even less russians are not the largest ethnic minority , the polish car is the largest, he is a parrot, the russian

population is about six and a half percent, to be honest, after lithuania gained independence, the russians who wanted to leave simply took and left loyal russians, those who remained took lithuanian citizenship and now they are just normal, good citizens of lithuania, so we do not feel such pressure from our russian minority we feel it and it is good during a trip to ukraine , one of the members of the lithuanian parliament said a quote: war can be stopped in two ways: collective victory or collective defeat. of course, the second option is not for us, since it is a war against the whole of europe. personally, i do not see many people who support russia, because

there are fewer such people end of quote mr. ambassador who helps russia and how to deal with it i already said that in my opinion, in my opinion, russia did not even try to follow international rules and that is bad i have referring to the international rules of warfare, the crimes that russian soldiers commit against the ukrainian people are equivalent to genocide. i have already mentioned that this week the lithuanian parliament passed, i would say a historic decision, recognizing russia as a terrorist state due to the mass murders and barbaric destruction in ukraine. let me add two, maybe two things to your question, first of all how to

say it let's not ourselves finance russian aggression by allowing it to export its natural resources to the european union especially energy carriers, let's cut off russia's source of income and limit its opportunities to develop its own army, because this is very bad, you can imagine that europe pays russia 600 million dollars for gas every day. this is not normal. let's just stop paying for russian aggression ourselves by allowing it to export its own natural resources to the european union especially energy carriers, we will cut off sources of income and give it to modernize our own army, this is one thing, and another - this is a very broad topic

, but we must also think about it, we need to start address to the russian people what is really happening and not leave them russian propaganda i know that this is a very long and very difficult process but we have to start doing it bank product for the cycle process bad we after stars thank you very much thank you very much okay lithuania as far as i i know sent a team of investigators to ukraine to collect evidence of war crimes in some ukrainian cities, which you have already mentioned, for example in buch irpin gostomel, they want to collect evidence of war crimes by the russian

of the army in ukraine, then this evidence will be handed over to the international court of justice. do you think such a trial can be held only after the end of the russian war in ukraine or even now? my answer is that we should start immediately. you already mentioned that we sent a team of specialists to ukraine, they are already working. a team of our experts are already here acting in general when we see the atrocities and the level of inhumanity and cruelty of the russian army who must do everything possible to bring everyone to justice who is responsible for this, son, there is no need to delay lithuania has initiated the creation of an international investigative

group that will investigate war crimes and crimes against humanity in ukraine we did it as part of the eurojust in my opinion, we should not wait ugh ok all google note now we will not be sure with with your help with the help of other european friends and my last question for today lithuanian president gitana snausada said this week quote putin's regime is now attacking not only ukraine he is attacking all free and democratic world we must stop this destructive force before it is too late this is our common position together we will win as the world in general and europe in particular will look like after the defeat of putin and his regime yes i really hope that the putin regime will be defeated today it is difficult to answer your

question but how much time will pass. all of us , lithuania, together with other countries, will continue to support ukraine. to be honest, i am very optimistic about the future of ukraine, a quick recovery after the war, the doors of the car factory, we we see that western countries have promised to support the reconstruction of ukraine in all ukrainian regions as soon as the conditions allow it. by the way, lithuania is not an exception. we follow your president and your government carefully. our goal is to help you with recovery and meet your needs. it is obvious that we will take

part in this recovery process. let me also add that i have no doubt that the support from the european union will only increase, especially after ukraine receives candidate status. i also hope that it is very important which were frozen by the west sooner or later. of course, it is better to use them sooner to rebuild ukrainian cities and the economy. it is obvious that the speed of recovery will depend on your people, it will depend on the efficiency of your state institutions, eh, reconstruction will also be very stressful, it happens everywhere with everyone

by governments i think that right now you need to start thinking very seriously and planning you are already doing it well i hope you can no no i hope i am sure you will be able to take full advantage of that by the support that comes to you from all corners of the world, thank you very, very much. convey our gratitude to your government. convey our grateful words of thanks to your people for their fraternal support and friendship. thank you for being our friends. thank you for the victory .