to compose uh, this is a very rich question, dear uh, because uh, we have a similar situation here, as i said uh, we have uh, we have a lot of our body the neighboring side and durabas also and to us also that's why god saw that we have a very strong cooperation with each other and because we are my youth experience and of course i er i hope er victory for ukraine and many japanese people think about it thank you thank you for such a wish for ukrainians victory to ukraine okaba yushi hiko, a public figure, an expert on economic issues in the state administration system, a philanthropist , a professor at kobe university, er, gakuin, the president of the ukrainian-japan association, was on skype with our

studio , thank you very much sincerely for this inclusion. the language is also excellent, thank you very much, well, for me, the most vivid inclusion is perhaps not everything, not everything. our viewers there understood every word, but the general general mood and general opinion, the general opinion was, but the general opinion was that is, i understood what mr. okaba said that it is even possible to draw the conclusion that all neighbors neighboring russia have similar problems, and ukraine and russia and georgia and the baltic countries and finland, that is, russia has gone to war with all of them with all of them, looted part of their territories and led to looting in the complete decline of the territory that it is, you can go to these four islands of the kulin ridge, the so-called russian islands, which are actually de facto de jure

still japanese, and see the standard of living and the standard of living there on the neighboring islands of japan in order to understand what the russian peace is leading to even on a global scale, that is why the problems of japan and ukraine i hope will be jointly solved by new agreements by new diplomatic agreements well, in ukraine - it will be solved for now on the battlefield pavlo klimkin joins conversations, a diplomat of the minister of foreign affairs of ukraine in 2014-2019 p. pavlo, we welcome you all. congratulations, thank you, sir, we talked about our relations with japan. and here is yesterday 's meeting with tina karol, she is a goodwill ambassador i went and met with the prime minister of japan, it was such a serious enough meeting and three of them demonstrated there 40 tv channels of the 90s filmed an online press conference on how similar are the problems of japan and the problems of ukraine in relation to joint territories and can japan be a country that is a member of gs7 help, what kind of help can we

expect from our japanese brothers? i am asking japan. it can certainly help us. it can go further in its sanctions. it has something to give us in terms of military aid because the japanese army, which is still called the defense forces, is very well equipped, the problems with the territory are of course different, they cannot be compared in the case of japan, it is about the kuil islands, it is a process that takes a very long time and, in fact, without meaning, they are looking for some opportunities there, access to of these islands, but everything stops there, and now the japanese really made the right step, they called them occupied, there is such a well-known victim that we

are united by such a neighbor with whom we need to fight in this sense. yes, but the problems that the japanese have and what the problems we have with the war against russia, they are fundamentally different. the japanese prime minister is very cool, and in the sense of understanding these problems, i remember him well. he was the minister of foreign affairs during my term of office and he was always in favor such development of relations with ukraine not only in the flight session, but in the sense of such personal sympathy, he supported bilateral projects, that is why with japan, in fact, we still have very distant horizons in a positive sense and we need to develop them with japan so that the japanese are our main partner for today in asia, this is absolutely clear, sir, and in the event of, let’s say

, the future schedule of the russian empire, the issue of these four islands can be reviewed at the diplomatic level in favor of japan . more as you remember. there were times when japan had a significant part of sakhalin island and so on. and i think that in the event of the collapse of russia and japan, uh, it will exert a rather significant influence on the far east there in japan there are also strategic interests and economic and resources. in this way, it won't be enough just for the islands, but i won't speak for the japanese, let them say, let's speak for the ukrainians. today, our minister of foreign affairs, dmytro kuleba, is in brussels

. in his speech, kuleba said that three factors can change the situation for the better, with an appeal to his colleagues: economic tough sanctions against russia, military supply of heavy goods, and political granting ukraine the status of a candidate for eu membership e.e. filming please comment on the visit itself yes, i would say that you are already used to seeing me here, but unfortunately the grounds are not happy as far as practical solutions can be today in brussels for ukraine during there are actually wars. i see that the european union is beginning to slow down. there are very difficult discussions regarding the oil sector. it is not only in hungary that there is a desire. well, here this

strategic decision has been made . the eu will refuse russian energy sources. but it will be this of course does not suit us, because we need pressure on putin here and now, and the issue of the oil bank will continue to be considered. several countries actually do not buy russian oil. we certainly don't like this mb, but with regard to heavy weapons , they supply and will supply even more. perspective, that is, meetings at the political level

once a month, but the main thing is 24/7 support, that is, here i actually have the fewest questions regarding the status of a candidate, well, there are still countries that hold their hearts and think what will happen if the status of er at the end of er june it will be granted, we all remember the 13-14th year, but the european union also remembers it, and they really do not want further escalation and understand that putin can go for it , so there is something that is very difficult for today's discussions within the european union and we must it is necessary to press on not giving us this candidate status will be a sign of weakness on the part of the european union and putin will definitely take advantage of him, he is such a geopolitical player who has

experience, he is experienced enough and he will immediately feel the weakness of the european union on the third question we must all work so that the status of e-e was granted to us. of course, this is not the end of the road, you understand very well, then there will be negotiations about admissions and so on, but the status is like a gate opening in front of you, but the path is already our history and what will it actually change for us? if it is given to us at the end of june, the first thing that will change is that political ukraine will be seen as a future member of the european union, this is still an important signal for the bureaucracy. the second point is that many new funds and programs will open for us from which we can receive financial and not only financial resources , and ukrainians will feel it, well, not in a week, of

course, i will not engage in populism, but in the months after the status is granted, they will definitely feel it. such things are very important. and bureaucratic the machine in besel starts to work there and in the end to think about it and under what conditions will the negotiations begin i think that the start of negotiations should be a real drive for ukraine sir, my favorite topic is hungary and what is the sixth package of sanctions the hungarian government announced the day before about the same thing, at first they said that in order to support this package from the sixth sanction of the oil embargo, hungary needs about 750 million euros for the reconstruction of their plant there, which is half owned by russian rosneft, and also for the diversification of supply there, and literally yesterday, the hungarian government made a statement that they already need from 17 to 18 billion euros. what is the reason

for such an increase in the hungarian government 's appetite for compensation from the eu? negotiate so that brussels does not get it for violating the principles of the rule of law. brussels is constantly discussing the possibility of applying sanctions. now the conversation that is being held is rather impractical regarding how much and who needs money under what conditions. political, so that hungary is not squeezed out of the borders of the european mainstream, this is what is really being discussed and they are not sure 16 or 18 billion they are

less , not more everyone trades, but sweden is coming to nato and they just say : let's solve the issue of the kurds there. such organizations as there is a senator, he himself. well, just making decisions in general within the framework of the senate, he finally exhausted himself. well, let it be. they are thinking about how to live further, but we also have to live with them. therefore, this principle needs to be washed away, how about me? well, what fate then there will be an oil embargo if hungary insists on 18 billion. i am sure that the oil embargo will be accepted. it will be accepted a little later . the next time it will be discussed at the end of this month, and hungary will get a discount on its oil embargo.

i think that part of this discount will be political. no , mr. pavlo. well, you mentioned turkey and its resistance to joining nato, sweden, finland. well, nevertheless, there are three dozen nato members, and only turkey has put forward its claims. although, as you say, it would be possible to negotiate every member of the north atlantic alliance, why erdoğan? and how much? so what does dugan seek to solve only the issue of the workers' party of kursk, or financial preferences or joining the european union? what exactly am i asking for ? the activities of the kursk organization, as well as those whom dana considers to be gulinists in the administrations of finland, sweden and traditional liberal countries, and the activities of many organizations are certainly not

limited there. ivanka sees this, and they decided to use the opportunity to negotiate with the finnish and swedish special services how the activities the kursk organizations can be limited, i think they will come to an agreement, but i generally do not like it when all of them present some kind of claims to everyone, but we do not have a strategic view of the future, we we are playing politics instead of playing in the fact that the vat itself will build a future for itself, and this is nothing and words i see today, but still, against the background of unprecedented support for ukraine, there is too much politicking in the modern system and it will cost the whole system, mr. pavlo, well, one more event about which our informational attention passed by, the head

of the separatist region of georgia, south ossetia , he is called the head of the southern session, anatolii bibilov, on may 13, signed a decree on holding a referendum on the so-called on the so-called entry of this territory occupied by the georgian territory as part of russia to appoint a referendum of the republic of south ossetia on the issue of this issue quote do you support the unification of the republic of south ossetia and russia i know the question mark end of the quote the date of the referendum was set for july 17, 22 how serious is it and how much this may well change the policy of russia in the caucasus . at the moment, the media is writing about russia preparing an attack on georgia in order to compensate for its failures in the ukrainian direction. i ask for your comment er escalation may occur well, for example , on the belarusian-polish border, where putin is pressuring

lukashenko to make provocations there, remember there were provocations with migrants, now there will be er military provocations, as for georgia, there is a government that is trying to balance the situation and i think that full-scale hostilities will begin there, but in fact, everything is possible and if putin opens a second front, the question arises how will he support it, so the georgian army is not the same as the ukrainian one, but nevertheless it will also be uh, to distract the efforts regarding the session, so they have been wanting to join russia for a long time, they are not capable of either economic or political

existence on their own, this is such a dwarf uh, who was created a test case, a test ball flew for abkhazia, for everyone else, they will most likely pack them into the future of the union state. they already need to present something to the real ussr on december 30, and this is putin's key task if he has only bandages. and what will he do? what to do next and what will he show inside and to transnistria, this trial ball can roll in the form of a similar referendum on joining russia by december 30, they can do it, they are trying to pump up certain health there by the military, but they do it in small groups as far as i understand a-and that's why there is no military potential. well, they understand perfectly well that if they do it, it's a target for us and for nato

, and no one will intervene. such russians are already a classic enclave, not only in terms of content, but also in forms during the war, therefore, in order to raise the stakes in the future, i absolutely do not rule out that it may now launch such a domino, a domino of chaos, a domino of instability, in order to create problems that they have tried to maintain for many years and thus put the west and us in general before the challenge of overcoming these problems at the same time, this strategy is absolutely real and i believe that it is quite likely. thank you very much and we would like to add roman kostenko, an officer of the armed forces of ukraine. well, the people's deputy

of ukraine . i am most excited to read that in my native sumy region they are trying to break through the border. well, the main question is whether if they wanted to enter, they probably would have entered. are these just provocations or attempts to enter again? well, i think that it is more for diversion of our forces and means, because now the russian troops are entrenched in the east and in the direction of mykolaiv against very strong resistance, and they understand that there are very large concentrations of our troops that do not allow them to pass, and they need to somehow pull them back with some part of the visas so that we can say to develop success in these areas, i think including that they are trying to

show that uh, they intend to find sumyshchyna in order to draw up our troops. well, including if uh, they see that we are not there we can to defend, then as an option, they can enter again, so now it is very uh, well, the situation is very uh, well, what is the situation in such a situation, it is necessary to react here to a very big role, such a role should be played by intelligence, should transfer to our and the supreme commander-in-chief the real forces and means that are now are they trying to create, let's say, these provocations on our border, are there separate artillery units there, or are there really some strike groups that, after defeating the artillery there, will be able to go to our territory and continue to advance today, here is our colleague, the minister of foreign affairs, spoke in brussels. he spoke there about heavy weapons as

one of the elements of support that is now important for ukraine, and what have you seen, is the equipment that our partners are handing over to us already working? it's a very difficult question. you know that . let's say it. well, let's say it like it is. allows us to restrain the enemy is even better than we restrained him, but in the long run, we need more equipment in order to remove him from our territory and also put the dampers of this equipment so that he no longer has, let 's say, such uh, even stupid thoughts in head, to enter our territory, there is equipment, it works now, uh, new crews are studying for

it, that is why mobilization resources are being prepared, that is why our army is getting better every day, more and more professional, roman, well, they reported that the ukrainian armed forces rejected the russians from severodonetsk and in fact there was a counteroffensive, as far as this information is confirmed and to the extent that we can say that we changed the dynamics of the war there, in the direction of lysychansk from severodonetsk, please oh, a very difficult situation because we have a very large front and the stretched russians created a difficult situation well, there are the specifics of the border, yes they are standing there along our arc and our troops are defending themselves, so i don't think that the situation has changed now and we have the conditions to the point that they can relax under no circumstances the situation still remains tense, even

though we have achieved some tactical success there, but we need to think about how to further develop it and in no way relax , success will come when we reach the borders of luhansk and donetsk regions to say that we have achieved something more, no, the situation is really tense, and i know that i was there, including in kyiv, and i see that for some people the war is really over. i would like to say that no, because you are leaving kyiv for mykolaiv and uh, well, you leave for the line of contact from morning to evening, the enemy's artillery works at some points it and has the initiative 70 to 30 they just hit uh everywhere on civilian objects on ours they just pour their shells into the fields day and night and there are collision battles there for every and the settlement for each village that is there and therefore, well, the whole country once again, we are so good at once, we all started to defend ourselves and

we must, we must keep it and we must continue, the war is not over, it continues. keep novels about the neighboring kherson region about mykolaiv oblast, i will ask a little later. well, there is a lot of information now that the russians are digging in, erecting fortifications in those territories of the kherson part of the zaporizhzhia region, which they captured, there may be such an option that the russians are now er, well, having won certain tactical victories there and captured part of the territory , they simply can then come out with such a strategic initiative, let's and now we have captured the kherson part of zaporozhye and almost all of donetsk ilonsk, and now let's negotiate peace and the ceasefire and the ukrainian government, well, the russians will hope that it will go to such negotiations, such an option is possible, what should be the reaction of ukraine to this, i ask of course it is possible, because if

they are not stopped, it is possible that there are not many options. i think that russia will never refuse from further movement to the south and even if such a situation as you are talking about is created, then we understand that it will be a truce, we will simply delay the war for a while, but with great restrictions for us, including providing himself with weapons, this will destroy us in the long-term perspective, therefore, with the enemy, it is not possible in any case, i think he will go for it, realizing that now he will suffer great losses and he will want some respite, theoretically, he can do it, go negotiate in this case, you can’t do this because the attacks are not supported by the world. the operation in the east and then continue it to the south, well, this also gives us time

to prepare and we are preparing to, let’s say, create conditions for defense and then for a further offensive. i think the russians are considering another option if we will collect it , go beyond the dnipro beyond the antonov bridge, blow it up and leave behind the territory behind the dnipro , including the land corridor, and then they can , uh, also trade, let’s say that’s more effective, well, for ourselves, let’s say so, that’s exactly what is needed let me know the antonov bridge, in which place he knew uga, just uh, the left and right banks of uh, kherson, it connects it from the crimea, from the crimean side, then if you cross over to you , then there are no land uh passages to the crimea only kakhovskaya hpp well, one direction to kakhovskaya hpp is possible there from some e let's say yes the distance to keep the artillery well it will have to force the thing is very difficult let's say yes and the fact that we

took it they captured it is of course our such a strategic defeat but in the war there are defeats this is a war, and therefore without defeats there will never be victories , novels, and with regard to weapons, there is something i want to return , uh, what do we lack most now, and we understand that what we have, after all, is all defensive weapons. so it is not difficult, not offensive as if victory must be won, well, weapons, you know, you can attack right away with a gun, you know the same question, and defensive from offensive , well, it is not much different here. the question is that we have a difficult, what is an offensive in general, an offensive is the creation of conditions yes and knocking out the enemy first works on the enemy's positions on the previous flank aviation and heavy artillery we have aviation and heavy artillery then they go to the breakthrough when the artillery transfers their fire

to the second third echelon go to the breakthrough tanks combat vehicles and infantry and infantry under the cover of these combat vehicles and artillery already supports further this is such a classic war as it should be with russia only because they have very, very much equipment, but what we lack is that we are attacking, we call offensive weapons, these are weapons that can fire at a distance of up to 100 km . 120s. this is to strike the enemy's reserves in its depth so that they cannot, at the time, have them. we need this long-range weapon. let's say yes, and the crimean bridge, it's glaza, and it won't hurt either. well, we've already shown that we can hit our targets at a range of 200. i showed that we

need such a weapon, it's effective and it hits the enemy in depth. of course then advanced positions they are suffering, it is better to step on them about mykolaiv, i will ask in conclusion seven fires in the mykolaiv region that occurred only in the previous day 6 as a result of russian shelling, the state emergency service of ukraine reports, where in mykolaiv, on central avenue, on an area of ​​100 m², the roof of a furniture salon, a car was destroyed, where parked in the yard at the same address is further berezen street berezneguvatska smt berezneguvate village council and bashan district water fighters extinguished a fire in a rented private residential building the vaz car was destroyed further mykolaivskyi district three more fires that arose as a result of enemy shelling were liquidated there, as evidenced by the liquidated street of the 86th guards division, there is another one in the village of shevchenkove-shevchenkivska tergroup that is being shelled in mykolaiv oblast at civilian

objects, mr. roman, they captured his places, but they will later were rejected now. they are trying to break the morale of the civilian population as well. they have always been used, that is why there are no rules of war for russia, and we must take this into account, including the fact that it is a nuclear state and they have no rules, only fear, which can be used by them, which our partners can and do in relation to the use of prohibited weapons, can restrain them. thank you roman kostenko, a people's deputy of ukraine and an officer of the armed forces, was our guest, more news, more operational