conversations about what the international prospects of ukraine are, what needs to be done in the government and society. but before that, of course, our traditional news release. i will now turn to my colleague from koval, who will tell you even the latest news of this day and this hours please iryna vitaly so russia has blocked ukraine's maritime export opportunities and the president knows how to get out of this situation and also about who visited ukraine and many other news on this next wait for a moment the 18th in ukraine in the studio iryna koval greets chas news on the espresso tv channel another missile attack on the territory of ukraine this time the russians hit the rivne region, they hit a military infrastructure object, there were no casualties, 6 people were

injured in the family, assistance was provided to the medical facilities of the stan region, the condition of the victims is stable, i also ask the residents of the rivne region to refrain from any what mass measures will be taken in the next 24 hours in connection with the threat of repeated missile strikes, the border regions of sumy and chernihiv are attacking the russians, the aggressor is firing from its territory with missile systems a hail of salvo fire was recorded on the territory of sumy. approximately one and a half dozen shots were fired . also, an enemy helicopter hit the outskirts of one of the settlements on the border between the kharkiv and sumy regions with a rocket. in addition, mortars were fired in the direction of the village of mykolayivka in chernihiv oblast and in the direction of kucherivka and bilopolska communities in sumy oblast, there is still no information about the victims and the destruction

, yet another cultural institution was turned into ruins by the russians, who destroyed it in donetsk oblast, this time a music school in sviatohirsk, a building fell under the head of the regional military administration, pavlo kirylenko, reported the enemy shelling. in 2016 , the government of japan helped to repair this school. in general, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the attackers have already destroyed about 150 different monuments and cultural objects of our country. the station in kramatorsk. on april 8, the invaders fired from the point of the territory of the occupied donetsk region received relevant evidence, the security service of ukraine was able to establish the trajectory of the missile and analyze other aspects according to the information of the security service of ukraine several complexes with a location point in the occupied territories of donbas and have been used by the

invaders for 8 years already on april 8, 61 people were killed as a result of shelling, more than a hundred were injured, sbu investigators continue their work and replenish the evidence base within the framework of criminal proceedings under article 438 of the criminal code of ukraine, and this violation of the laws and customs of war, despite the fact that russian propaganda tries to translate the responsibility for the crimes committed by the russian federation into real facts, there is full documentary evidence, the russians strengthen filtering control around mariupol, the occupiers are setting up additional checkpoints and roadblocks on dirt roads that could be used to bypass the inspection, in fact, it is now impossible to leave the city until the opening of separate evacuation corridors confirmed by the leadership of ukraine, the adviser to the mayor of mariupol, petro andryushchenko, said. he called on people not to trust enemy propaganda

that tells what is possible to return to the territory temporarily captured by the invaders to pick up things, in addition, according to the information of andryushchenko's sources at the filtering checkpoints and two checkpoints around mariupol in the direction of zaporizhzhia, the occupiers, collaborators and representatives of the so-called people's militia of the donetsk pseudo-republic are being replaced by representatives of the national guard and kadyrivets. russia has blocked almost all ports and all maritime export opportunities of ukraine, so our country does not reject the military way of unblocking of ukrainian ports, president volodymyr zelenskyy announced that 22 million tons of grain are blocked today, and the russians continue to steal grain and also constantly take it somewhere it is necessary to unblock these roads because there will be a food crisis in the world, the president stressed, if we do not

unblock the roads for ukraine, we will not help the countries of africa and the countries of europe and the countries of asia that need these food products and therefore they can be unblocked in different ways, so one of the ways is military to the prime minister of portugal, antonio costa, visited ukraine for the first time. he began his visit by visiting irpen and said that he would not forget his trip there. the head of the portuguese government was most impressed by the violence of the russians. against the residents of antonio coste assured president zelensky of his support and also confirmed his readiness to participate in the reconstruction of ukraine after the war. the prime minister noted that portugal can become the curator of the restoration of schools and kindergartens that were destroyed as a result of hostilities for accession and the

state voice of portugal will be in support of our countries regarding the status of a candidate country, the approach to the european union during the consideration of this issue at the european council meeting in june, the key issue now is the sixth package of sanctions against to russia, which should contain cargo for russian oil , portugal unequivocally supports these international sanctions, we aim to increase investments in alternative sources of energy and ways of supplying energy to europe in order to completely overcome dependence on russia, and portugal will provide ukraine with about 250 million euros in financial aid, and the corresponding memorandum was signed today the prime minister of ukraine and the prime minister of portugal antonio stand during his visit to kyiv, said the ukrainian head of government in kyiv thank you for accepting the invitation and the advisory

mission of the european union returned to kyiv in the face of a full-scale war with russia. the employees of the eu advisory mission will help in the investigation of international and war crimes by the kremlin to ukraine. they will send experts, in particular advisers on criminal justice issues, who will cooperate with the prosecutor general's office , during the summer the eu advisory mission plans to to return all their employees to kyiv thanks to them favorable security situation after the russian invasion on february 24 consultative mission of the european union first evacuated its employees to the west, but as a result of enemy shelling had to go to moldova it is obvious that russia committed mass atrocities in ukraine its brutal war led to the deaths and

injuries of civilians russia attacks civilian infrastructure evidence of international crimes is irrefutable dangerous finds in the kryvyi rih district of dnipropetrovsk oblast pensioner blew up while sorting through cluster munitions, he is in the hospital in serious condition, an 82-year-old man collected seven munitions from cluster shells and brought them home and tried to figure out what led to the explosion. the authorities urge not to touch dangerous objects, but to contact the rescuers or the police since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of russia . six people were killed by cluster bombs in dnipropetrovsk oblast alone. meanwhile, ukraine needs five to seven years to demine the entire territory and this is at best, according to the ministry of internal affairs, specialists have already neutralized almost 2,000 aerial bombs, and rescuers have examined the territory of more than 22,000

hectares, on average, pyrotechnics every day units of the state emergency service remove from two to five thousand explosive objects, in addition, one day of active hostilities is equal to a month of demining , for example, in sumy oblast, those areas that have already been demined have been fully checked by our services , but still a-a occurs. so, on the same territory , we find a new stretch that is, someone is doing it , and we have such a challenge that until the end of the war, we will have new and new cases of mining our territories. higher education, like all other fields, is going through a difficult period. the ministry of education and science has introduced a number of changes to admission to ukrainian higher educational institutions. this year

, graduates will not take an external examination, but a multi -subject test of three subjects. the exam will be held from july 18 to september 16. it was divided into three sessions on all important aspects for graduates and their parents. see further in the story. students will take the multiplex test face-to-face in the classrooms of schools or universities, on the basis of which computer classes are created and instructors will work; immigrant students can also take the exam. the place where they currently live, in addition to testing, applicants must submit a motivation letter to the university. but for creative specialties , a test is not required, only the talent of the child will be taken into account natalya, the mother of an 11th-grader, her daughter will enter one of the ukrainian universities this year, says that changes in the admissions campaigns are the requirements of the time, however at the same moment, it is difficult for schoolchildren to adjust to the new rules, it is difficult for children, one can say that it is a kind of stress, especially now in the conditions of war,

air alarms, everything is so psychologically given on them, but also a change in the entrance exam. she was preparing for the external examination and wanted to take biology. she is studying biological chemistry in the class somehow. and now biology is no longer needed for her at the entrance, but other subjects are needed. natalia's daughter elizaveta is graduating from belotserk school number 16, she says studying in war conditions is not easy, and preparing to enter the university is a real challenge. the girl decided not to go to the capital's universities and preferred the largest local institution. she is worried about the multi-subject test. i don't even know how to do it. i will pass, well, it is very difficult, first you write the ukrainian language, then you switch to mathematics, then to history, well, it is difficult. i am worried about the motivation letter, how to write it, because it has never happened, i

have never encountered such a person, although most ukrainian universities open their doors to applicants alone of them, the bilotserkiv national agrarian university plans to enroll up to two and a half thousand high school students this year. the university can plan studies for up to with 22 specialties, these are the specialties of the natural-technological, economic, social, and humanitarian direction of the belotserk vocational technical college. it has already started recruiting students of its time. cosmonaut pavlo popovych graduated from this institution. students of the ninth grade and the 11th grade are enrolled in the vocational school to take a multi -subject the test is not required, it is only necessary to bring the appropriate list of documents to the institution, education is free by state order, the institution can accept 180 students, the boys mainly go to metalworking to become locksmiths in tokariv

girls go to become cooks mainly, although we have such examples when girls study , if you can say so, purely male professions , despite fear and war, ukrainian schoolchildren strive to study further in order to be in demand as kivits . they can join the reconstruction of ukraine and its economic growth, because while we teach others, we learn ourselves yaroslav hopatsan oleksandr kuga espresso bila tserkva our team works for so that in less than an hour you will hear the updated news release, and to my colleagues vitaly portnikov , the espresso tv channel continues to broadcast, watch the espresso news and euroespresso programs for ukrainian refugees in europe

on the air, a joint broadcast with the atn channel, radio svoboda programs, voice of america time-time programs on the air 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 a force, glory to ukraine, we are a nation of resourceful people, signs in they are quite versatile people, they can do anything, we invent highly maneuverable high-speed buggies that can go anywhere, we make it work, it is very convenient to sleep somewhere in a trench, i do not carry victory, but after that delicious battalion of inventors here is our front, we are with you during

the war, the information front of ukraine fm halychyna together to victory, we continue the broadcast of the espresso tv channel with you vitaliy portnikov and we talk with you about what is happening in ukraine and in the world where the war started with russia on february 24, 2022 became one of the most important moments in world history, we say that it changed the world and changed every country. by the way, the united states , whose leaders until the last moment hoped that they would be able to get peace, and you know how many times the president of the united states, joseph biden , talked with the president of the russian federation by vladimir putin, you can say that putin used these conversations to prepare

his troops for an attack, he was not going to negotiate anything with anyone for a single day, we are now let's talk with valeriy chalym in the diplomat about the extraordinary post of ukraine in the united states about what is happening in general with the united states with nato. i congratulate valeriy , he will be with us now, we are now connecting with him and er among the topics that i i want to discuss with mr. valery also the expansion of nato, which is taking place these days, and it is, on the one hand, such a sensational story that neutral finland and neutral sweden have more of their own citizens who are advocating joining nato and have resolved the situation in a matter of weeks. was not resolved for decades and applied for membership in nato, and by the way, not only them. you know how many citizens of switzerland want their country to be forever neutral. i don't remember since

when it was neutral . 33% and 56% of the citizens of the swiss confederation are in favor of strengthening switzerland's cooperation with nato, and this is already a world sensation, no less sensational is what is happening with turkey's reaction to this expansion of nato, this is also an important moment, because we know that turkey turned out to be the very country that spoke out against the possibilities of switzerland and sweden joining nato. i apologize to finland to nato. the interlocutor greetings, mr. valery, has not yet appeared,

but they said that he has not yet appeared. so, this is just the round of these negotiations that began, and it is obvious that now everyone will persuade sweden and finland turkey will be the only one to say that turkey itself has found a compromise regarding the demands that the president of the republic of turkey is making. on the other hand, i can tell you that many observers have the impression that they are blocking this nato expansion. the president of the republic of turkey, in principle, acts as a person who hopes to have some profit not only in those consultations that take place with the president of finland through the prime minister of sweden, but first of all he wants to draw the attention of the president of the united states states i think that there will be these serious american turkish consultations, relations between the united states and turkey are not ideal washington has many claims to ankara and sanctions have been introduced

in connection with that, let's say that erdogan bought weapons from russia, this is completely outside the norm of behavior of a nato member state and sanctions after this purchase of weapons were precisely related to the fact that turkey , turkey, you have fulfilled the latest programs for the development of the latest weapons in the countries of the north atlantic union, in particular there seem to be 16 fighter jets, and erdogan just wants his country to be returned to this package of joint measures. there will also be serious talks between the president of turkey and the president of the united states. he must immediately say that this is really such a serious and important topic . that we will understand how this happens, but about the process if someone opposes it, we can see what we will say there now hungary she says that she is not against the european integration of ukraine, but for

now as for this integration, there is obviously still some time. how will hungary act, let's say, if it is about euro-atlantic integration of ukraine, we need to see how the process generally happens when one of the nato countries does not have the same position as all other countries, and here such a story is important, it is very important because on the other hand, it is the union common values, and when there are countries in one union, which should be based on common values, which do not share a large part of these values, we understand that there is the liberal democracy of finland and sweden and how today turkey is set up for these different worlds, different worlds , and that's why, of course, when the president is there, dogan talks to the prime minister of the netherlands, mr. lute, then mr. february, who is much closer, more understandable , the ambitions of his finnish only swedish

interlocutors than what the president of turkey tells him, on the other hand, we are you and i are also well aware that turkey in itself is strategically important for the north atlantic union, so everyone tries to come to an agreement and turn a blind eye to what is wrong with us, we always have huge claims to many countries that maintain this or that part of cooperation with russia, but they introduced sanctions against putin's regime, and turkey did not introduce a sanction, moreover. currently, a larger issue is being considered: intensive cooperation between ankara and moscow. turkey is even going to create special aviation companies to transport russian authors to antalya and other famous turkish resorts in a box and the turks say, well, you know, it actually develops our economy, not russia's because the russians will come to us and leave their money here, but in fact this is what

supports the citizens of an aggressive country whose residents suffer from sanctions, this is a sense of normality that we can do whatever we want, that our soldiers can kill, starve, rob, and we will still meet in turkish resorts with relatives of those who were possibly raped, killed by our relative or neighbors and we will laugh in his face because you moved to exclusive turkish airlines, so to speak, we transport from families of executioners, of course, not all russians are involved in the war crimes of their bandit army, even not all russians approve of the bandit policy of vladimir putin, but one way or another, we see that support for this war in russian society is on the market at the level of support by members of a terrorist organization for the actions of their criminal leader and this must also be realized but we do not make a claim

why because we understood why because we know that the bairaktars that turkey supplies us allow us to destroy the military infrastructure of the occupiers and of the occupiers themselves - it is also a very interesting thing when a person whose father was killed in this manner buys himself a ticket to turkey, goes on vacation and lies next to the designer of the aircraft that destroyed his own father and is happy that he has a normal vacation in turkey even though his father is the man no longer there? he killed precisely thanks to this person, it is also a difficult situation, it is true, but closing your eyes will always fail sooner or later in the global confrontation that is now starting in the world, the global confrontation between democracies authoritarianism, every country will have to make a final choice because the war between democracy and authoritarianism is just beginning, it will be global

, ukraine is one of the segments of this war, but even if the war ends here, this war between democracy and authoritarianism will not end, we will live in this war for the next ten years, and there is quite a good thing here the question is whether it is possible to sit on these two chairs, that is why i really want ukraine to be not just a national refuge for ukrainians, to be a democratic sovereign state, otherwise the integration of ukrainian lands into the russian federation sooner or later will be inevitable, and the borders of russia and that world where russia's china will be, they will end in uzhgorod, and i would like them not to end in uzhgorod, but to end in bryansk somewhere at least in the course if they want so to live and if ukraine makes this choice, it is abundantly clear that we have a huge number of people who do not understand these values, but they will be forced to understand them because the question is whether they will physically survive or whether they will join those who wants to be a part of the democratic world that

challenges this world of authoritarianism, so turkey will also have to decide sooner or later , either there or here, it will not be possible to sit on those two chairs, no country in the world will succeed, these camps are being formed, you can say, for the last economic, political, i hope not military competition and as a result of this there cannot be two camps of democracy and authoritarianism left on the planet. political scientist, i congratulate pavel, he gave such a speech. it was not even a speech, it was just thoughts, but they have a direct relationship with the belarusians. you understand

, yes, absolutely, because your country decides exactly where it should be. where it should be, because if it remains authoritarian, there is no belarusian people, that's all. correctly, the mechanism of history was to evoke in the sense of that of classical history. how do you think, pavel? this is not an invasion of ukraine. the elevator, on the contrary , increases the opportunity. i think that he already has such opportunities. he doesn’t even have such a desire . there was also a tactical strategic need for the participation of the belarusian troops when the russians were standing near kiev, then it would have been possible to use the

belarusian army as a diversionary tool during the offensive in the donbass. well, again the russians failed there, that's why he just pushed in and getting it in the teeth would be a complete disaster for him and a political military lawsuit, and i want more of berzhdyon what now there are no uh, no prerequisites for him to enter uh the mood increases more and more. in addition, russia is not losing the information war, it is obvious, partly in belarus, because there is already a discourse of the fact that russia entered there and lost. uh internal problems of a social and economic nature and start a war - this means that it will weaken

the political and economic conditional stability even more - this is suicide for him and for him - now i think that here are these possible games belarusians use belarusians as a transit territory for a-a ukrainian grain may be for him rescue straws for which he will grab because if he provides belarusian territory for transportation of ukrainian grain - this is clearly not what putin wants, that putin clearly provokes hunger, and this is not what i absolutely agree with, i agree that this is not what putin wants. putin even if this will create tension, even the conversations themselves

will create tension, if even the initiatives of this kind will create tension between lukashenko and putin, this is already a big plus, that is, it is an attack on the information front. even if this no, it will not lead to anything, but as you know , these informational and political games are part of the war, and i believe that it will play in this direction. i think it is worth it and it is necessary. the war in ukraine, and all the rest of the participants in this meeting , this is still a defense union, how are we? the problem of agriculture and crop productivity is the way it looked, the fact is that no one there wants to sign up for the

suicide club anymore, and because even the same rahman, if you look at the reaction, he understands that these are crazy people who are simply not only he will bury himself, but he will bury all those who will enter there, that's a good thing today, china made a cis tax agreement, there is a tax agreement of the cis. forces and influences and as an indicator of the fact that even from this ship the rats are not running away