and what should be the strategy of relations with the russian federation, which er, which will lose to your question, which remain behind the scenes, this is a question that the euro-atlantic alliance and the leadership of the pentagon ask our military and political command, and i am afraid that sometimes they can hear the same answers with the formula not at the time, bobrovska is a member of the inter- parliamentary council of ukraine, nato, which is now in lithuania. she was a participant in our live broadcast . yuriy fizer and the ambassador of latvia will be with us. greetings. my name is yuriy fizer on the espresso tv channel. i work as an international columnist, which means that every week i invite famous people from the west to tell me about how the west reacts to the war that russia started in ukraine

on february 24 this year, how does the west help us and how does it usually support us? i invite plenipotentiary ambassadors of foreign countries, friends of ukraine. republics in ukraine ilharsklyava i will talk with him about what is being said in latvia about the war in ukraine and how latvia is helping us i congratulate you mr. ambassador and thank you for joining me today oh dear let 's start our interview as far as i understand the latvian embassy has returned to kyiv on april 6, has the work of your embassy changed compared to pre-war times? yes, i would say so, because all the employees have not yet returned to the embassy, ​​now only a part of our

diplomats are here, so we are working with certain restrictions in particular, if we talk about consular functions , there are also certain technical restrictions, but yes, our embassy is again in kyiv, the german is very happy for the purpose of returning as soon as possible. thank you. from the beginning of the russian aggression and this happened . and humanitarian goods continue to arrive to us from latvia, in your opinion, how much humanitarian aid has your country already provided us, say that this humanitarian aid is mostly financed

the citizens of lithuania are paying for it with private donations. i can even say that these donations have already amounted to more than nine million euros, we have already sent more than 80 humanitarian convoys that transported 1,600 tons of cargo, this is food, medicine, all the things necessary for daily life, it does not go there forever daylight, give me damn delivery, they were delivered to 22 ukrainian regions. in addition, we sent a lot of things necessary for defense needs, for example , suvs, simple cars, and all this was also done entirely on the initiative of private people, we have already sent hundreds of such cars to ukraine for the needs of the armed forces, so we sent a lot, a lot of cargo, sometimes

we don't even know about everything, it happens that people ask us to give them the contacts of the places of action, the cargo can be unloaded, they ask for advice on how best to transport them across the border we always solve these problems together with ukrainian institutions, that's why help comes, and it's a lot, it's significant, and i'm very happy to see it, because our people help from the bottom of their hearts, and they're actually very well understand the difficult and tragic situation in which the ukrainian people now find themselves. as far as i know, you have given shelter to many ukrainians who fled the war. how many ukrainian refugees are currently in latvia? those numbers are very different

, for sure more than 20 thousand, some even say that 28,000 our structures say that we can accept 40,000 citizens of ukraine in latvia, but according to the schengen rules, citizens of ukraine with a valid foreign passport can enter the territory of the schengen zone for three months no 90 days to live there even without registration, however , some of them do register. in this way, they receive a work permit or financial assistance, help with housing, and that's all. they receive it while they are in latvia. although they can also legally stay in

latvia for three months with valid documents even without registration, so i can’t say the exact number, but it’s definitely more than 20 thousand more than 14 thousand received a work permit in latvia ukraine they live mostly in host families or in some specially prepared premises for this purpose. they live in families, but the municipal authorities of many cities and villages also provide housing , for example, they give away various school premises and other social

infrastructure buildings are also used for housing refugees or temporarily of displaced persons, latvia was one of the first countries that provided us with military assistance, you gave us your own stinger anti-aircraft systems, which helped a lot during the defense of kyiv, i am defective do you still continue to provide us with military aid i can answer yes but without any details although military aid military equipment continues to arrive in ukraine that is why my answer is yes thank you very much latvia next question

latvia lithuania estonia and slovakia jointly call for the confiscation of russian assets that have been frozen in the european union and then give them for the reconstruction of ukraine after the russian invasion, present this initiative in the european union, how do you think it will have sufficient support in the eu, taking all the port-inde and yes, this is a sour person from national, and this question also concerns the national legislation in each country, how they will work with it, but logic suggests that these criminal acts were committed by the aggressor country, it is obvious, at least for us , that the seized money should be used for the reconstruction of the country, as well as compensation the damages caused by these criminal actions, there is no need to doubt it. of course, the

biggest difficulty lies in the legal details of different countries, how they will do it according to their legislation, how they will organize it all possible for this it will even be necessary to make certain changes in the legislation but for us it is absolutely clear we understand it clearly for you but i asked your opinion about other countries for them is it generally clear for them in europe i would say that to some extent yes i do not analyzed what is happening in each individual country, that is, their public opinion, but what kind of opinion is held in political circles . i do not have such information. but such a step is very easy to justify, because it is clearly an unprovoked criminal act and it is obvious that someone is responsible for the destruction

must pay for the destruction of the infrastructure, the destruction that was brought to ukraine, it is absolutely clear that the criminals are doing this, they are well known, they are known to every specific person , all the evidence against them has been collected, so there is no doubt about what needs to be done. of course, there may be some political obstacles or legal details regarding that how to arrange all this, but i am convinced that we should continue in the same spirit, there are simply no other options. yes, the sanctions against russia are true. let's talk a little about them. good it is known that latvia is constantly calling for the strengthening of sanctions. how do you assess the probability that the european union will introduce an embargo on russian

oil and gas, especially on oil on oil, this is very important. i think that we will come to this, it is not an easy task because for many years we have been dependent on russian sources, in fact, all of europe to a large extent, but now completely new circumstances have appeared and this is a completely different situation, which means that we must change our policy. and i really believe that we need a little time, but we we will be able to change the supply chains if this war continues and further we will do it i believe we can do it we will do it oil is a very important source of income for russia it is clear that now

every such source of income is used by the military industry some say they use it for their own military knocks so we just have to take away this funding of the war machine and thus minimize their ability to move forward so oil is a very important factor in this to european countries at times it is easier to give up the supply of russian oil than others, this is because of their greater dependence on russian supplies, they have larger economies. of course, it is more difficult for larger economies to change supply chains because you only imagine the needs

they have, the amount they want, smaller countries probably need less, it is easier for them change supply channels from other sources, larger countries have more reserves, so they need more imports. there may also be political inertia. and this is all due to inertia, the source has always been the same place but we suddenly need it to change it is very difficult but i am almost sure that we will come to this step by step and we will find a solution it is not easy for anyone it is not easy for us either because you just look at the prices of energy resources they are increasing because of course we have to do something about it, it is obvious that in due time all this will be resolved but it will not be soon and it will be a shock to the economy of any country, so the sixth package will be approved soon yes, it will be approved for sure, but i cannot say now exactly when, however, there is progress i

i feel optimistic that there will be a decision. and i also have optimistic hopes. at least i do. i hope and hope that it will be adopted soon. okay, the deputy prime minister of latvia artis pabriks - said that he, and then the quote, is afraid of the weakness of the measure because of the way the measure is positioned to russia and putin why is there such a weakness i have anna we don't know a lot usually politicians get into a difficult situation when there are many different options on the table but you don't know some of them and you can't choose correctly and then there are various challenges, so some politicians tend to look for easy ways out of such situations, they have to make difficult decisions or not make difficult decisions, the whole history of mankind is

full of such examples when people looked for easy ways, but in the end they ended up in a terrible situation, let's look at the example of the second world war, that took place before the second world war. as adolf hitler and the nazi regime tried so hard to make peace, it is quite obvious that it is very difficult for normal western diplomacy to pass the right decision in a rather difficult situation, this task is not easy, it is not easy, mistakes were also made before, mistakes can also be made now , but this is a warning and it is very important that such a warning is made by politicians, political analysts, they tell us not to make

such mistakes, this way out can only seem easy but if we make a mistake here we could end up in a much worse situation open is a constant struggle thanks for the match world capation how to say it when you try to adjust your policy under autocratic regimes on it is possible that you will get a very bad result so this is a warning in the right place and at the right time and your deputy prime minister artis public also said during the conference in tallinn that he does not

agree with emmanuel macron and you about it just said and also with other western politicians who say that we should not humiliate russia, that we should allow putin to avoid responsibility so that he can save face and so on mr. public also said that putin should learn to lose what do you think will he learn to lose while sitting in the kremlin this is a very difficult question, that is, from what i can see during his public appearances, putin is trying to pretend that everything is going according to plan, although we know that nothing is going according to his plan, he is trying to look brave, but we we can call it in different ways saving the image or the ability to lose, but the most important thing is to

end the war and help ukraine restore its territorial integrity, and then you can say anything if someone has lost an image or that someone learned to lose, but we all must remember one important thing that ukraine must restore its territorial integrity, restore control over its territory, so that this war will stop at a certain period, so that people will no longer suffer and die, it is precisely these important things that we must remember as we will call it or describe it is probably secondary but yes these things are important yes the really important thing is that we will win this war and restore our integrity with your help and thank you for it

so, on april 26, you visited bucha and borodyanka. you brought humanitarian aid there and discussed the situation with the mayors of the cities of bucha, gostomel, borodyanka , gostomel and borodyanka. these are the cities that suffered the most during the attack on kyiv . if we talk about the negative, it is when you see all the destruction of civil infrastructure and houses, i was mostly in irpen, but also in borodyanka, and just try to imagine the human suffering, for example, in irpen, you can easily imagine young people in families buying apartments in a new house in a beautiful area they are thinking about

having children opening their own business they just want to live a normal life in the suburbs of kyiv but suddenly one day some criminals some bad people come there on tanks with artillery completely destroy your life your house you will be lucky if you can just escape from these battlefields alive with their families and children, this is a huge tragedy, a huge human tragedy, no one could have predicted that this could happen, but it happened because one possessed the authoritarian leader thought that the ukrainian people have no right to exist, that they are not a people at all, and so on, he says some crazy things about ukraine and the ukrainian people, and it is these people who will

suffer as a result of this criminal act. it is very touching on a human level, they seem to have felt human suffering themselves, but when i walked the streets of the city, i also had a positive impression that the local authorities, together with the residents, have already done a great job by removing these cities, but you need to know, they cleaned the streets, there was almost nothing left on them, the streets were clean, they took away all the garbage from the damaged houses, small businesses are trying to get back to work, you can clearly see how people are trying to collect all the necessary things and open their own store or start selling something again or open again

own business and provide services is a very lively and positive impression of ukrainian people who are returning to normal life despite the fact that the war continues they are trying they are succeeding to return to a kind of normal life in our cities. thank you very much. on april 24 of this year, latvia, together with estonia, were the first in the world to recognize the russian atrocities in ukraine as genocide. i understand why it is important for us. but why is it so important for the people of latvia? we see a bad trend in this. trend, these war crimes did not appear. right now, and precisely in ukraine, ukraine, yes, there were war crimes in ukraine

before . neither in georgia, nor in fact in 2014 after the struggle in donbas. and in crimea, that is, they simply did not feel any consequences, they did not feel the consequences, the criminals did not suffer, so it is important that it stops now and here, because otherwise it can spread everywhere. if the war criminals do not see the consequences, then all this will go on and continue to grow and we must stop it with all our might. there is simply no other way out. in fact, i believe that the criminals are those who are involved in the committed war crimes, i believe. i am

even convinced that they will appear before the court and people are punished for smoking when you go as political leaders, it is a little more difficult for those who ordered to do it with them, it will be a little more difficult , this does not mean that we should surrender. but then why are some countries? but they are doing it slowly, why in the countries their governments, their peoples have not experienced such level of crimes, war crimes since the time of the second world war, new generations of people live there who replaced those who saw the fact that the nazi regime killed cities and people

with the civilian population a long time ago is difficult to switch gears and begin to understand that now we see very similar things in order to understand that this is happening again, there are war crimes, yes, there were wars of such a scale in yugoslavia, but soldiers are crimes in yugoslavia similar tribunals were considered at the tribunals. we must hold them again here and make those criminals answer those people who committed these war crimes here in ukraine. there is another way. by the way, is there any threat in latvia now from

russia no, we believe that it is minimal because we are members of the nato alliance, we are constantly working to strengthen our military readiness on the territory of latvia, nato troops are also deployed, they regularly conduct military exercises, so if we take into account these resources, the start of any military operations against a nato member would be without suicide but is nato sufficiently present in latvia? i think that this presence corresponds to the current situation, if the situation is threatening then we can be quite sure that there will be a reaction, the number of military personnel

will increase. my last question is at the international conference of philanthropists who support ukraine , which was held in warsaw on may 5. latvia announced that it will take part in the reconstruction of ukraine after the war, in particular, schools , kindergartens and hospitals will be rebuilt. will you come to us with your architects ? it is also possible, but now we are waiting for a big reconstruction plan , which is currently being agreed and finalized by the ukrainian government, we just need to see the scale and parameters of this plan and then we will be able to see the areas where we can help, but the answer to this question is that we will definitely participate in the reconstruction of ukraine, we will invest our own resources ukraine i generally think that

all countries should participate in this campaign you just need to understand what it will look like, where geographically, in which region or city will we be able to join, what will we be able to do, what are our special needs, i can say that already now our embassy is receiving requests for the reconstruction of various seats in ukraine, we study them carefully and think about what we can do. how many resources do we need to collect for this? thank you very much, mr. ambassador, for joining me today and now you have the opportunity to address the ukrainian people. yes, thank you very much, thank you very much. that today my guest on skype was the ambassador of the republic of latvia in ukraine and svaljava

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