end and accordingly, if the european union was forced to resort to such measures, well, this would mean a huge further crisis of the european union. thank you antina antin berkovskyi , the espresso tv channel broadcast continues. stay with us , congratulations - this is freedom lime my name is vlad and lazur, we talk on the air of the espresso tv channel, as well as on facebook and youtube, on the pages of radio svoboda, which i invite you to subscribe to, we are now talking about the new decree of the russian president putin, by which he simplified the issuance of russian citizenship for residents of the kherson and zaporozhye regions, how the decree

will work in practice and what this means for ukraine, we will say in a few minutes this morning the russian army launched three missile strikes on the city of kryvyi rih in the dnipropetrovsk region as a result of serious an industrial enterprise was destroyed, the head of the regional military administration, valentin reznichenko, said, in addition, in the kryvyi rih district, russian invaders again shelled the communities of shykivska and apostolivska, the city of apostolovo is partially left without electricity, in addition, today at dawn russia fired four cruise missiles at zaporizhzhia, the regional administration reported that one of them was shot down by ukrainian air defense in the private sector, at least 62 houses were damaged, at least one person died, three were injured in sumy oblast, there was artillery shelling and a missile airstrike from the territory of russia damaged about 20 houses in the donetsk region, where fighting continues along the entire front line for the last 12 civilians were killed in the last day well, in the

luhansk region, the offensive on severodonetsk continues. over the last day, at least six civilians in the region have died and eight have been injured, according to the head of the region, serhii gaidai, in recent days, when residential areas are being shelled continuously , it is extremely difficult to get to the place of death of a person, what is happening in severodonetsk, we show further as soon as you can see it, it turns out that the right edge is the front or the left

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we'll win it, i'll remind you, i was in severodonetsk luhansk well, russian president vladimir putin signed a decree on the simplified issuance of russian citizenship to residents of the kherson and zaporozhye regions of ukraine. parts of these regions are occupied by the russian army and appointed by the kremlin. the so-called local authorities have already announced their intention to join these regions to russia. it is noted that putin's decree is coming into force . already today, what does this all mean for ukraine, let's talk further with us on the link kostyantyn batozki, political scientist, director of the public organization of the development agency priazovya konstantin my greetings good afternoon did i understand this new decree of putin correctly - it is in fact an addition or duplication of the decree that was signed back in the 19th year on the simplified acquisition of russian citizenship by residents of donetsk luhansk oblasts, so absolutely

formal this decree about making some changes to that previous decree is true and what does this mean now russia has sent a single very powerful signal which is that they are ready for the annexation of ukrainian territories they are currently in progress discussions about exactly how it will be implemented and there are several such different approaches, one part of the people in the kremlin wants to annex these territories to crimea, another part of the people wants to create such a neoplasm like the dpr and the people's republic of the lpr, and some other part of the people thinks that there is no need to do anything at all. it is necessary to apply some administrative methods to russia as soon as possible for accession. and in fact, today's decree indicates that the

kremlin will most likely choose this very scenario . accession to russia will create, from this point of view, a critical mass of people with russian passports , and already on the basis of the fact that they protect the rights of russian citizens, russia will further annex this territory, that is, add it to its composition, that is, the main point of all this is the readiness, in fact, to recognize russia the real goal of this war is the annexation of ukrainian territories and their annexation to russia very quickly, they are acting this time on the territory of the donetsk and luhansk regions on these territories. this is a giveaway passports was introduced many years after er, well, in fact, er, in fact, and the beginning of the war absolutely, but you know in russia they have already learned to

quickly issue these passports, they had a lot of experience in passporting the same abkhazia, south ossetia, when it happened, everything was given very quickly of course, the population was smaller. but the russians have reached almost heights in this. they have mobile points for issuing these passports, this time they will not force people to go somewhere. i am sure that they will bring you all their the infrastructure of consular specialists and they will simply rivet these passports on kolinka and forcefully, of course, issue them there in an absolutely forced manner because, as you and i have seen, the population of the occupied territories resists , it does not agree with the presence of russia there, we hear about the news every day or from the kherson region or from zaporizhzhia from the energy donor from melitopol about how the resistance is taking place there and that is why the russians

are in a hurry and that is why they will use almost all the available tools at once well, i will remind our viewers in particular, that in the donetsk and luhansk regions, russia issued almost 1 million passports, more than 900,000. it seems that it was until february 24. do we now have an idea of ​​how many passports russia can distribute in the kherson region and zaporizhzhia ? ukrainian citizens live there, but zaporizhia oblast is definitely more than kherson oblast, together with the city of zaporozhye, there were definitely more than a million people living in kherson oblast. to insist on that, they need a majority figure, they need an overwhelming majority there, it must be with a russian passport, that's why they will issue

reports and report that they will be issued, of course , mostly more. how many will be issued in reality? at the diplomatic level, and maybe locally, how should we act so that these people do not receive russian passports, you know. well , first of all, we have to convey to the people clearly what collaborationism means, what it consists of to you, it consists in the fact that if a person was forced to take this passport and threatened his life with his life , then this is coercive action and it is not collaboration . should be reported what , for example, if you work as a doctor in a hospital and, uh, you operate on people, and they force you to take this

passport, then you can take it, there will be no consequences, but if you, for example , work as an administrative employee, where are you from the public sector and the occupiers want you to work in the future, this will already be considered by ukraine for collaborationism and for this there will definitely be a punishment up to life imprisonment, and this is very important for our citizens to understand in the occupied territory, this also applies to teachers, for example, if it a math teacher is one thing, but if he is a history teacher, he is forced to promote russian narratives and deliberately violate the laws of ukraine, then this will be considered collaboration. well, the main thing is that we still have make efforts to demand that more people leave the occupied territories, this time the majority of people actually leave, if there is such an opportunity, they leave the combat zones and go to

ukraine. and this is a very important point because it proves the utter falsehood of this russian generation, that someone is waiting for them there this is not true, the majority of people are leaving, and another important point is that there are very quickly , now, uh, people of ukrainians who found themselves in the occupation, uh, are switching to the ruble and uh, and entering into some kind of economic relations with russia, for example recently, the russian vice-prime minister came to energodar and said that they are supposed to sell electricity from the zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant to ukraine, these are all the facts, they are absolutely blatant, these are all the facts uh, that is, blackmailing ukraine uh, about the safety of the nuclear plant, this is nuclear terrorism and coercion of people to obtain citizenship, this is coercion. this is a war crime. forcible evacuation of people

is a war crime. that is, we must show the whole world the absolutely true motive of russia's actions in ukraine, the true motive is the annexation, destruction of our of the state and this is being done by russia absolutely consciously and , of course, it stands under vladimir putin over all these documents. this is why we must not lose focus, and i would also like to draw attention to the fact that this is the whole debate about passports, it goes in parallel with the emergence of western articles in the press about the fact that ukraine supposedly has to make some territorial compromises for the sake of peace, for the sake of unblocking the sea ports there. and now it is very important to record it, because the people who are promoting this nation are , of course, parallel to the actions of the russian federation for the most part, there are and mine should be considered and called agents of influence of the russian federation, thank you

very much for your comment kostyantyn batotsky, political scientist , director of a public organization , priazov development agency, i was on radio svoboda, russian troops launched two rocket attacks on the city of pokrovsk in donetsk, four civilians were injured in the morning this was reported by the head of the regional military administration, pavlo kyrylenko, the wounded were taken to the hospital, but we can see the consequences of the shelling further: people rested, slept, who went to work, flew rockets were shot down and it turns out that

this is the second time we have a window, the first time we flew, we forgot. and this time they will forget nothing . everything has been done. we remained homeless. i worked for 38 hours on the railway and what did i earn. where should i go? well, we can see from now on fresh shots of the shelling of zaporizhzhia, let me remind you that three of the four rockets hit civilian objects and a shopping center located on the central avenue of the city. radio

svoboda visited the scene of the incident. maybe 8, it was bent, the door was broken, well, there were no windows inside, so they looked at the camera at 4:12 a.m. it was from the surveillance camera, i was at home, and i heard such an explosion, it was such a roar , well, it was very scary, well, i didn’t understand where it happened, i started right away look at the phone, look for some news, look for where this flight was, then a friend wrote to me that they seemed to have hit the aurora. i immediately understood that aurora is there, our salon is probably

there, there are no glasses. in the morning she calls because i just asked the first thing are you alive she says we are alive thank god i'm alive everyone says it's not enough that the windows here jumped furniture jumped falling because you yourself understand opposite the explosive wave i was wild i was barely alive i also presented myself 5 -12 as if my top was torn. i saw how this second rocket was flying, and everything was thrown into the glass. no one here threw up.

you can see for yourself. my son put this glass on me because the first floor was full of glass. it was all here. it was all glass. all the people endured nu y someone's frames were torn out, here and there the door was still standing, and it was glassed there, well, around here, you can see the glass in whole blocks, and the

door was torn out. the fact that the circulation of russian rubles is being introduced in the city, but saulenko, by the way, the ukrainian prosecutor's office has started criminal proceedings on the fact of non-collaborative activities, so despite the introduction of the ruble, saulenko said in his appeal hryvnias remain in circulation and will be accepted in trade networks, he also added that the official exchange rate of the hryvnia to the ruble is 1:2, i.e. 1 hryvnia is equal to two rubles, and that the time limits for limiting the circulation of the hryvnia have not yet been introduced on the eve of the verkhovna rada's human rights commissioner lyudmila lyudmila denisova reported that the russian occupiers are introducing extortion in the occupied kherson region. according to her, you can pay there in both rubles and hryvnias, and in the near future the occupiers plan to open a branch of the russian banks, the introduction of the russian ruble in the occupied

territories is a fact of nexus, denisova said about how ukrainians live in the occupied territories, let's talk further with us, a resident of the kherson region . radio svoboda, tell me. you can hear me very well. i can hear it well. allegedly, in the occupied territories, russian rubles have already entered circulation. is this true? to be honest, i spoke with people who currently live in the city of skadovsk which is the place of the pearl of our, as they say, our young man, where the taurian games are held. well, i mean

there, where the separate skadov games are held, there is kakhovka. and there were already the taurian games, but people confirm this situation. it is true that pensioners are given pensions in rubles to the elderly. in general, the situation in those settlements where you are in the region. well, for example. how difficult is it to leave the region? do you understand the situation of those people who do not have the opportunity to leave? they are in a given place in one place or another. they are located in the kherson region . why is that? because the person has no money to leave. do you understand that these are pensioners or people who have any diseases ? relatives, which pensioners, which are

given to ask for help, do you understand who needs to be close to them? so such people cannot go in any way, and at all, if, for example, who has a car. how hard is it to leave the region the situation is such that, well, at the moment, at the moment, the crossing points are, let's say, those cities where it is possible to cross long queues, people are under fire, people are afraid, if they don't want to take risks with their children, well, you understand what the situation is, standing in line in the car on sunday, it's hot, the child well, not all, not all children can withstand such a thing, as they say. well, what kind of psychological and moral load is very difficult to understand .

stand at the point, as they say, in such a corridor where you need to queue, where will you be? maybe the thousandth or the 500th or the 800th people are coming up, you understand what the situation is, queues are not heard on the side of it, well, that is, near the road, now the residents of the kherson region are waiting for steps from the ukrainian authorities, do you understand what the situation is for people at the moment, those people who work give pensions to state employees? well, if they don't work, it's a plus and what they get, people still get a pension, but it can't be withdrawn, they find people who can afford this money update well, as they say, it will cash out at 10%. you understand , they come, they are in the amount of 10% each, and i say they give cash in hryvnias. people, you try to queue, that is, the situation is like

this . given the situation today, russian president vladimir putin signed a decree on simplifying the issuance of russian citizenship for residents of kherson oblast and zaporizhzhia oblast. what do you think, uh, will they people get russian passports, what are they talking about in the regions where you live? to be honest, people simply want to live peacefully, those who stayed there, and that's what they say. well, how will it actually happen? well, it will happen. it's another question. that they make laws is one situation, but ukraine wants to defend its territories and does not want to leave its own, as the citizens say, what hedgehogs are there, and such an information war is going on, that, as they say , humanitarian aid from the ukrainian side should not come

that it is very difficult or there is no possibility to start it, because they are firing at cars that cross these lines of demarcation . relatives and, as they say, my loved ones and well, there are also friends. well, by this i mean people with whom i grew up and who wrote off the difficulty. well, you understand the situation. you personally plan to leave there. do you want to stay and wait for how it will all end ? do you understand what the situation is? i asked my relatives to take me out, that is, the child was three years old and they asked me to take the child to the city, as they say, to take the city from kherson to the dnipro. do you understand what my situation is? i am

from zaporizhzhia. people asked me to buy it because they stopped meds. i'm here now in zaporizhzhia. i haven't been able to drive in for 12 days. i've been sleeping in the car. do you understand my situation? you understand very much, as they say, that is, there are no pensioners whom i cannot leave, so what is the situation, you understand, and i will ask you very briefly, what is the attitude of the russian servicemen towards ukrainian civilians? violating the curfew is the first question. the second question is don't interfere with them doing what they are doing

. a month, you understand and they can. well, i don’t know where they are, what they are doing with them. well, there are no people. it happens that they come later. well, in my son, you all understand. they are beaten. what is the situation? to be honest, i don’t even know what is happening with the people there, they don’t talk. they tell what was done to them there for months, they don't leave the house. do you understand? i understand you. thank you for the story on radio svoboda. a resident of the kherson region was called by phone. after being there, the occupiers were seen by journalists from radio svoboda, when there was a centralized provision, well, it was purely army in terms of numbers, they left at least 20 people living here,

pigs, that's how everything was thrown away, the remains of katsap stew, peas, green products from the farm, the occupiers lived in this room, they lived here for about 2 months, the owner of this house is a payer in the past, and the interior you will see everything yourself now, there is not a single house left in the village that has not been ungrammarized hidden it is scattered this handmade painting and a piece of the russian world pig vinnytsia in the crimea, this is ours, yes, and i did not see tanks on the other side from one side of sumyshchyna to vinnytsia

, they were planning a book of 50 and six pieces per box, here is a box of two anti-personnel mines озм-72 black widow here is somewhere around 6 pieces complete what is there first what they did they first robbed and took away and then fought in this room apparently they had an observation post visibility allows you to control the tidal street and the most a dangerous direction is the approach of the forest. well, even

while on the post, they drove and drank alcohol. the engineer of the repair organization department wrote something incomprehensible . the equipment of our positions with explosive devices, including this house , is an example of that. saw in this village, well, this is what the russians bring peace, in the kremlin they said that they are ready to provide a

corridor for the export of ukrainian grain in exchange for the lifting of sanctions, the state russian news agency reports about this in particular and with reference to the deputy minister of foreign affairs of russia andrii rudenko in recent weeks almost all world organizations call on russia to unblock ukrainian ports for the export of ukrainian grain , if this does not happen, many countries of the world are threatened with famine, they say