er and also it would be very strange to come back and the agenda has not changed at all for us er when before the war we talked constantly about reforms about er about our er agreement on trade er free trade on the visa regime now we are talking about the large-scale support of ukraine and how to support ukraine until the end of this war. hmm, this is a very sharp change, but still , we are working and i am very glad that we returned to kyiv. and i am very i am glad, madam ambassador, that you found the time to join us and tell us exactly about this support that canada provides to ukraine because it is very important for us and it is very nice for us that we have friends across the ocean such friends as you. so,

as far as i understand, ottawa has recently introduced sanctions against almost a thousand russians, including putin himself. this is the first question is russian business strongly represented in canada , i.e. are they likely to hit hard, can these sanctions hit russia specifically? and why exactly against putin? what will it do when we talk about sanctions? let's understand that the money of international business flows all over the world. it's not about one country or another country. it's about reducing those opportunities around the world so that russian business and russian actors can act even if they are not present on territory of canada, it is very important for us to make it impossible

for them to work, hide their money, move their employees or their business to canadian territory, but they still have enterprises there that deal with russia or something affects absolutely and the impact of these sanctions is stronger due to the fact that we are working very closely with our partners, in particular with the european union, great britain and the united states, in order to reduce all the sanctions so that this ball is closed 100 enterprises and since the beginning of the war, more than 600 people are now under sanctions, and even before the war, more than 400 people were like that, so i think that every week we

talk about sanctions, every week, something new. last week, the minister who is responsible for the border service e-e stated that these people are what now they are under sanctions they will not have access to canada eh it's not obvious to everyone that it was possible for anyone else to come to canada eh but so we are searching all our laws all eh all regulations to really close that net so they don't have any access not to canadian banks, not to our territory. well, we thank you for that. thank you very much. by the way, canada is one of those countries that helps ukraine the most, both financially and from a military point of view. we receive weapons from you, and say whatever. affection

does canada plan, well, at least i don't know what, in the near future to increase the amount of this military, specifically military aid to ukraine, we now see that the whole world, more than 40 countries are joining together to understand what needs are in ukraine and to understand where to find these weapons which ones and which ones ukraine needs , including canada, we are already long-standing partners with ukraine in terms of military support, you know, maybe your viewers don’t know that 30,000 ukrainian soldiers have already been trained by of the canadian e-e forces of the armed forces e-e under aprition unifire, which has been working for seven years, because he also worked here in ukraine for seven years, and this is about the

professionalism of the armed forces of ukraine, and they also provided them with such training, which we now see that they use in their operations, so we are not very proud of that . er, and they also provided weapons, and er, lethal weapons of development from satellites, er, cameras for unmanned, er, babayrakters, er, and even before that, it could have been appropriate that you, the equipment was appropriate for coincided with what ukrainians need , and we buy where can we find it seems to me that you have already answered my next question that i wanted to ask you, look ah, a member of the canadian parliament, a ukrainian by origin, ivan baker gave an interview to our ukrainian publication, here is a small quote from him. we have already sent ukraine all the weapons we could, but we will provide more. i wanted to ask you about what else you will provide, but you have already answered. that is, you will

finance the purchase of weapons in other countries . support, as you understand it, support, military support, financial support, and support, even with a kind word from abroad, to hear that we have people who stand for us. and when you see this support of the entire civilized world, you become sure that our victory is very close, madam ambassador, minister of foreign affairs of canadian affairs, melanie joly, said that canada can help ukraine to export grain blocked due to the war, because, well, because of this food crisis, which can be provoked by the fact that we cannot export grain , a lot of people in you know, the world is not most interested in this initiative, it is very good. but is there already some mechanism like canada is possible in cooperation, of course, in cooperation with someone, but how exactly will this happen

, this problem with iserno is very, very complicated and it is not being solved now, but they are discussing how they need to be solved in several areas, and even the secretary general of the un himself got involved. and how can canada work on this? i had a meeting yesterday with the minister of agriculture, and we discussed exactly this issue. there is an answer which i received from him, which our minister of agriculture, e.e., magiclod b-bow, has already received, is there some such some equipment that is needed so that you can quickly m-m and those lands can cross the border when they will be exported to europe, and besides at such a very

technical level, up to the international and diplomatic level, where canada can help the world understand exactly why the crisis is happening because russia really wants the world to think that it is because of sanctions or because the west rules ukraine, and this is not the case, your viewers they understand this well the crisis is due to the fact that russia attacked ukraine , the invasion of russia in ukraine, they must understand and when those countries understand this, we will hopefully be able to follow the decision of the russian federation regarding the opening of which corridors for the export of that grain, because only through odesa can only be reached through those sea corridors. you, a ukrainian, can export the amount of grain that is

needed on the international market. 400 million people a year eat it because of the fact that ukraine grows it and so on. now sits in odessa so we are taking part in those international international meetings in javing, including and looking for how we can help, thank you for that, well, let's go. if you have permission, now let's talk a little about financial assistance, according to what i read last month. they say that in canada's budget there was an item on allocating assistance to ukraine through the international monetary fund in the amount of one billion canadian dollars. for our viewers, they will say that at the current exchange rate, this is approximately 668.5 million us dollars.

two weeks ago, the minister of international policy mary andy reported, but a few days ago your minister of finance khrystia freelance said about the allocation in ukraine through the international monetary fund - 250 million canadian dollars, which means that this could mean that this billion is no longer being discussed is it 250 - is it a part of 100 billion that has been allocated now? no, it is unt up. and this is in addition to those my billion dollars, which have already been announced, declared, uh, we know what, uh, the stability, economic stability of ukraine is very it is closely connected with the successes of the frontline and that we must support the entire society, the prices and the functioning of the entire government, and that is why we

discussed these matters with the prime minister, the prime minister, the minister when they were and were by the way as well as the minister of finance, mrs. khrystya freeland, and we understand that we have to support this way, more than a billion , 600,000 dollars have already been allocated to ukraine, and we hope that this is also it will affect every level in ukraine, and we hope for that, madam ambassador. last week in an interview you told the canadian tv channel cbc that putin acted irrationally and illogically and that he still does everything he does anyway, it is still not rational, that is why it was difficult to prevent his attack on ukraine well, but the western intelligence warned about this to prevent the attack of course i understand

it was difficult but why, in your opinion, why did the western countries not immediately when this intelligence information appeared did not immediately start supplying us with weapons and we work in partnership with ukraine we do not want to do something that ukraine does not need that ukraine does not ask us, we have always had such relations with ukraine, and we are proud of it, and i think that especially the armed forces of ukraine, uh, also appreciate this kind of character, this style of relations, that we in ukraine do not say what to do. er and er and ukraine not only demands something from us, we work together, but we have to come together and together understand what it is about, er, hmm, the united states, the united kingdom and ours shared information with

ukraine and there were e steps to the preparation e and we reacted immediately. when ukraine began to provide us with those lists, it was necessary to immediately react to this, and thank you for this, and this is what i would say. if you were talking about putin that he is illogical and irrational, then that's it. this approach is very logical and very rational, thank you very much. ottawa wants to pass a law on the confiscation of the property of russians in canada and the money and money of russians and transfer them to the development of ukraine. is there support for this issue in the canadian parliament? and if so, how long will this procedure take ? pass through the canadian parliament thank you for the question we are on this on this issue i think we in this world are uh at the forefront of finding out

all these issues uh confiscation of uh property of russia or the russians this is a very uh very difficult issue but we are trying to find out all these and these are canadian experts who are working with the ukrainians, by the way, also to understand how to do it, and we think that canada, we hope that the nada channel can be the first country that will approve such a bill and will be able to pass it these are the property of ukraine in order to compensate for the losses of the russian federation here in ukraine. and how long can this go through the parliament? i don't know for sure. i think that in the parliament, i hope that there will be strong support. it has already

been like this in other situations. there was such support and we can see how strongly and with one voice the parliament of canada constantly supports any issue regarding ukraine a few weeks ago they approved such a resolution regarding the recognition of ukraine's invasion of the russian federation in ukraine it is genocide too it happened in buchi and in irpin and in if and in borodyanka and maybe even further away from one loudly and quickly supported this resolution that this is a genotype and you were one of the first to do it. that's why i did it. thank you , but now, since you have already started talking about it, i understand why it is very important for ukraine that you recognized that all the atrocities of the russians are genocide, and why is it so important for

canada, because for canada these human rights international international rights are international gruze place or this is very, very important for us as an average country in the world. why? because we can't have a world where there are big rulers. they have makes write what a whole force. this is. this is a right. i think it is very important that there were such rules , norms, and standards of international behavior, and when there are violations of such standards, norms, and rules, then we must be strongly opposed to it, and so that the whole world would also be with us then, because

without such standards of success for kan will not be whether it is about trade is it about movement is it about eh to eh regarding finances, er, tourism, er, we all need these norms. thank you, and these norms are the norms of the democratic world, and we are all part of this democratic world, and that is very good, madam ambassador. well , my last question for you is, as far as i know , very many ukrainian refugees fled the war in canada. do you have any figures on exactly how many people from ukraine came to canada after fleeing the war? last week i was given data and more than 25,000 ukrainians have come to canada and more than 100,000 visas have already been removed. -e ukrainians e-e that e

and they, they, um, from what i know, they are all over the country now settling and welcoming a lot of communities there, not only ukrainian communities, ukrainian canadian communities, but all of them, and when i was at home last month, where would i be? i didn’t go to every block, ukrainian flags, lviv say we support them financially, morally, militarily, and practically when these refugees come to canada . thank you. well, what do you have? now is the opportunity to say something to the ukrainians at the end , so that i could say to the ukrainians. maybe i would say that

when, for example, the prime minister was here and he was deeply impressed, he also saw it in irpin and also met with the president himself. -e he said that russia must lose this war and if and for russia to lose ukraine must win must win and er i hope that you are your viewers um what do you see through all these links of that support that er that of canada and the canadian are serious about these challenges these challenges of yours and er and will be with you stand until the very end, madam ambassador, thank you very much.

convey thanks from all ukrainians to the canadian government to the citizens of canada for the help and support that we really feel from you. thank you very much. and thank you, of course, for agreeing to today's interview. me today, february 24, the date that changed us, the date that changed the world and now what interests us most is our victory, when we will defeat the enemy, how to predict the course of the war, the saturday political club program returns to the air espresso to help understand the events and predict the consequences that on saturdays vitaliy portnikov and maria gurska will discuss the most relevant issues in order to draw appropriate conclusions, you want to know how what is happening today will affect our tomorrow, watch the saturday political club that saturdays on espresso well, but i will start with

such a disagreement regarding the introduction of an oil embargo against russia can be decided next week during a special meeting of the european council. well, it should take place on may 30 and 31, that is, next week or very soon after it was held, the prime minister of the netherlands, mark kruk, said this, and during a speech at the world economic forum in davos, switzerland, according to him, the governments of some european countries are still prejudiced against the introduction of this embargo, but the prime minister of the netherlands hopes that by the time of the summit, it will be possible to resolve all disagreements. well, unfortunately, there is much less optimism about the possibility of introducing an oil embargo against russia in the presidential european commission.

next week, most likely, it will not be implemented, she said in an interview with politiko, according to her, according to her, many technical issues need to be resolved, and the participants of the special meeting of the european council simply do not have such powers, besides, ms. fond derlyan said that next week she plans to discuss the possibility of introducing an embargo with hungary, which blocks its introduction. well, somehow convince the leadership that sometimes it hurts. they hit the economy of western countries. the west is tired of the russian war in however, ukraine must continue to help our country about this german foreign minister anna lena berbock said during the meeting of the council of the baltic sea states, which is taking place today in kristiansen, norway, and then a quote from the head of the german foreign ministry, the growing skepticism is also related to

the fact that russia's aggressive war leads to increasing the prices of energy and food, but this is exactly the tactics used by the president of russia, vladimir putin, and that is why it is so important to continue support ukraine well, we thank you, we continue to thank you for this support and we ask you not to relax this pressure, but on the contrary, let it grow, the russian oligarchs should be cold, because the european union has frozen the assets of the richest businessmen of russia in the amount of about 10 billion euros billionaires lost access to luxury yachts , real estate and other assets. for comparison , in april, the frozen amount amounted to about 7 billion euros, if we take into account these funds and sanctions on of russian companies, in total the european union froze 35 billion euros

, france restricted russians the most by 23.5 billion euros, and almost all of them, 22.8 billion, is the money of the russian central bank. well, every country should freeze these assets in order for russia in the end, not only free money, but money in general, and pro-russian oligarchs, the russian oligarchs want to buy themselves off the sanctions list with the help of their billions , they proposed this idea to the finance ministers member countries of the big seven. last week, this was reported to our coat of arms of the german publication handelsblat, according to the words of the ministers. in this way, the rich would be able to keep some of their wealth and return to their usual luxurious life. well, ukraine would receive considerable funds that can be used during its post-war

reconstruction . but whether the minister will make such a decision is not yet known, and it is not known at all whether they are currently considering it as something serious. well, i will wait to find out. and i will let you know first be certain that attempts to circumvent sanctions want to make it a crime at the level of the european union, this is stated in a document which the european commission published today on its website, the legislation of certain eu countries still allows legal or covert optics of countries that i would call somewhat cunning in the european union, they will be with the european union, but they still think more about themselves than about everyone in general. well, if this law is unified and adopted, it will not allow them to take such steps to circumvent these sanctions well, it will be a real pain for moscow, the prime minister of our friend poland, mateusz

morawiecki, believes that confiscation of russian assets will harm moscow the most. he said this during the world economic forum in davos. should become the next and most critical stage of western sanctions, muravetskyi also spoke about the importance of the oil embargo. although this is not a very pleasant step for some of the largest dependent states from the european union however, the head of the polish government emphasized that peace in ukraine can only be achieved if russia is defeated, so all actions against the erection must be devastating. thank you mr. marovets moravetski. thank you to the polish government in the end. did not promise ukraine that it would one day join it, and even

before ukraine's accession to the eu itself, if it will ever be very, very far away, the minister of foreign affairs of austria, aleksandr shalendar said in an interview with the german publication weld, however, the head of the austrian foreign ministry did not deny the possibility that kyiv may apply for the status of a candidate for membership, although , according to him, the final decision will be made by all member states of the european community. well, let's wait for the russians, moscow is ready to create a humanitarian corridor for the export of ukrainian grain by sea, but for this the western countries must cancel or weaken certain anti-russian sanctions, the process was said today by the deputy minister of our north-east, still to the great regret of our neighbor andrii andrey rudenko, in addition to his ukraine, according to him, as

we see what is happening in one place, they are very badly burned by the sanctions and there will actually be more. well, in conclusion, our favorite column the fire in the church and it seems that it is not very favorable for the russians, there was a big fire in moscow, the territory of the 17th century church was burning, the flames engulfed the building near the peter and paul church in the lefortovo district according to previous reports the baptistery was notified, the local emergency services noted that the fire affected about 150 m² of the structure of the church building, and did not affect the cause of the fire. currently, there is no information about the victims. however, there is information that the occupiers damaged and generally destroyed more than 60 religious buildings in ukraine since the beginning of their full-scale invasion and is it a church at all - it was burning considering the fact that the person who calls himself a patriarch from this church constantly supports

putin and the war, then it is possible that it is not a church. for today, i have everything in the world about ukraine section, but only for today i am preparing for the next issues , what will i tell you in the most objective way now, don't switch, our broadcast continues