the ancient tradition of not joining any military alliances there is only one reason for this and that is the actions of the russian federation and its leader vladimir putin last week i read that the united states of america promised you that if russia or anyone else attacks you the usa will help you, it will be a kind of alliance between you and the american army, but at the same time you still want to join nato, so sweden and its government have applied to join nato, and if we talk about ukraine's intention to join nato, you will support our initiative, sweden is not yet a member of nato, until this has happened, i cannot comment on what our country will do or not do, but since you

said that russia poses a threat to any european country, i think it would be better if ukraine also joined nato and received help from this block to counteract the russian threat , and i still believe that you will support our initiative . okay, the minister of defense of sweden, peter hulpvist, said in an interview with the publication forint-polisi, and then the quote: russia fundamentally violated international law she does not respect the right of democratic countries to sovereignty, she also told european countries that she wants some new security order and that she wants to retain some influence on the adoption of security decisions in neighboring countries. and this is absolutely unacceptable, therefore it is very important for us to build a more serious defense against russia because it does not respect

any state end of quote so the war in ukraine will end i hope it will happen very soon and i have no doubt that ukraine is defeated but russia continues exist or continue to threaten european security after the end of the war i think it depends on the actions of the russian federation if russia stops making illegal demands on other european countries if russia stops violating international law then there will be no reason not to consider it a threat to the rest of europe but in in its current form, russia is a threat , so it will be as long as putin sits in the kremlin. i

don't know, i'm not an expert, and its leadership is asking for it, so i don't think i can comment on it. okay let's talk a little about ukrainian refugees coming to sweden. how many have you already taken in? i don't know the exact number because it is constantly changing, but it is quite possible. 80 thousand ukrainians. they can live in host families and shelters specially created for this purpose, but what will they do after their arrival, frankly speaking, i do not

know the answers to this question, but the swedish authorities does everything to receive refugees from ukraine, this is the responsibility of the migration service. i think that a very developed system has been created in our country, which deals with the reception of refugees from ukraine . thank you very much for this. we have already talked about help with the reception of refugees, let's talk a little about the military help that we receive from you we receive sweden has sent about five thousand nlo anti-tank systems to ukraine, does your country plan to continue supplying heavy weapons i understand that this may be classified information

therefore, you can simply answer yes or no. this is yes online. i want to say that sweden did not provide ukraine with 5,000 but with 10,000 anti-tank systems. and this is twice as much as in the past. we also provided military assistance in other forms. and if we talk about the present, sweden continues to seek ways to support ukraine with military equipment last week, our government decided to send a new package of military aid to ukraine at the very beginning of the conflict. sweden publicly spoke about the content of its military aid to ukraine, but this policy has changed significantly, we no longer talk openly about what exactly is included in military

shipments to ukraine, although support continues and last week we delivered a new package thank you, let's talk a little about putin himself, some european leaders and politicians began to talk about the need for putin's peacemaking, what do you think about it is as the ambassador of sweden that this war must end so that it does not violate the territorial integrity of ukraine and its sovereignty. i am convinced that the violation of international law cannot be allowed. sweden will continue to support ukraine in order for it to win this war and another question , but why do such leaders talk about

putin's appeasement because they are afraid that the war may somehow cross european borders is it pure economics combined with politics i cannot comment on comments made by others to you it is necessary to ask those people about it. well, thank you for your answer. on may 5, at the donor conference co-organized by sweden and poland, 6 and a half billion euros were collected to support ukraine as you see the marshall plan for ukraine that the european union can offer. various plans and initiatives for the reconstruction of ukraine are currently being developed and on coventl tv it concerns the plans of ukraine itself, it concerns the steps of the european union to support ukraine. last week, the european

commission launched an important initiative and this all concerns also and of other countries. in my opinion, this topic will be important during the conference in switzerland, which is scheduled for july 5-6, it will be devoted exclusively to the reconstruction of ukraine, which ukraine reconstruction of ukraine - this is an issue that is currently being discussed mainly in ukraine itself, but also in other parts of the world. between those countries that support ukraine and its reconstruction . in my opinion, several principles will be extremely important, one of them is that the reconstruction should be better, it

should give ukraine a more modern infrastructure than what it had before, after it ukraine should to become less dependent on the russian federation, this applies to the logistics of energy and other sectors , another principle is that the reconstruction should be smarter . the soviet union was developed. it seems to me that despite the tragedy of the war that is currently ongoing, it is very important to also see the possibility that the reconstruction will be able to significantly improve the ukrainian the third infrastructure. in my opinion, the most important principle was the reconstruction of ukraine, it should be

done in such a way as to respect the principles of democratic ukraine, which means that there should be no corruption , laws should work and so on, and i hope that sweden will take part in the post-war reconstruction of ukraine in one of the interviews before the beginning of the russian invasion, you said that swedish politics has two most important values: the rule of law and freedom of speech in ukraine. we recently witnessed a situation where three patriotic channels, including our tv channel espresso was illegally taken off the air without any warning. in your opinion, is this not a violation of freedom of speech? well, how can we not become putin's russia, where the mass media are subject to serious censorship. it made sense. i cannot comment on individual

cases because i do not know the details of the cases you mentioned, but if in general if in general then i would say two things first of all now is the time for national unity all patriotic forces in ukraine must cooperate because ukraine is faced with an existential threat from the invasion of russia so i really hope that incredible the national unity that ukraine has been demonstrating to the world since february 24 will continue as long as ukraine faces an existential threat and as long as the invasion of the russian federation continues. this is my first comment on this. democracy, when it strengthened the rule of

law, created a more stable economy, this progress must continue and sweden will continue to support ukraine in the strengthening of democratic institutions in strengthening the rule of law and in the fight against corruption, which must also continue . the only thing i would like to say to ukrainians is that as the ambassador of sweden to ukraine for the past two and a half years, i am amazed by the strength of the ukrainian people, i was deeply moved by the strength of the

ukrainian people even before february 24, because like all of us we know that the war started in 2014, it did not start on february 24, 2022, despite the fact that on this day the russian federation decided to start a new and more aggressive phase of this war. challenges in a country that is fleeing from the imperial and colonial rule of the russian federation, could not join the european union because of this, but despite this, ukraine has achieved sensational progress as a democratic an independent european country since

independence and sweden will continue to support ukraine during the war and after its end when ukraine regains its own will and freedom and restores its territorial integrity i thank you personally, mr. ambassador, for joining me and convey my thanks to your government and people for the support and help that we continue to receive from them. well, let me remind you that my name is yuriy fizer . i talk every week with extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassadors of the countries of friends of ukraine for to ask them what they think about the aggression that russia started in ukraine on february 24 this year, how they help us and how they

support us, and we need to know this so that we realize that we are not alone in this civilized world because we are a piece of it will help us win this war, victory will come quickly soon my name is yuri fizer see you on the fourth of april the rrt concert illegally turned off the digital air ukrainian independent tv channels espresso the fifth and direct on the website of the cabinet of ministers of ukraine a petition has been registered, which demands that ukrainian tv channels be returned to the digital airwaves in order to sign the petition. first, you need to register, it's very simple. go to the website petition in you.gov.ua there. go to the registration tab and enter all your data, indicate your phone number and email, confirm all your data enter the code that will be sent to your mobile create a password to confirm that you are not a robot give

consent to the processing of personal data check all your data again and click the register button to complete registration go to your specified e-mail address, where the site letter will arrive. click on the link in the letter that will return you to the petition site. enter your email and password. enter. return to the main page of the petition site. open the petition for the return to the digital air of ukrainian tv channels . the inscription will appear signed your signature is confirmed and taken into account let's return ukrainian patriotic channels to the digital air together let's not let freedom of speech be destroyed in ukraine because we continue our 96-a telethon addition of war and actually we just listened to the interview of our colleague yuriy fizr with the ambassadors of sweden. and now we will return to the current events of our

wartime and actually talk with the military expert, director of the information and consulting company defense express sergey. good morning. well, let's start with what really worries us about the situation in donbas. well, yesterday , andriy and i included a friend and actually with all the regions with which we communicate in the first half today, we are finding out from everyone what the situation is with weapons, how the deliveries from our western partners feel, and in fact, in druzhkivka, they told us that it seems that there is a lack of equipment and currently the weapons stands from partners are not felt like that, not everywhere, of course, we included lysychansk today and serhii chekun, a soldier of the armed forces of ukraine, spoke about the fact that the supplies are actually there. so we see from the headquarters that

caesars are already working at the front, also in donbas, but we see that this is not the case everywhere and there are actually areas of the front where well, it is very acutely felt the need for this equipment is promised, so well, the deputy minister of defense of ukraine, anna malyar, explains today that ukraine has already concluded almost all agreements on the supply of weapons, but the process is long. and here is what the situation with weapons in donbas looks like in your eyes, mr. serhiu, according to your data. what is real there are and in what volumes and what is expected during the nearest period well, in fact, the supply of foreign weapons is taking place if we recall the first period of the war, walls, javelins, they provided a turning point at certain stages of hostilities. now we are talking about that we first of all hope for the use of artillery for long-range means that are gradually approaching our armed forces, but directly

combat operations now in donbas mainly rely on the potential that we had directly with reliance on ex-soviet models. and what concerns foreign aid i really want to have more of it, because russia has an advantage in terms of artillery in aviation, in terms of anti-aircraft, and in armored vehicles, this just affects the intensity of direct hostilities in the donbass, the list of weapons which arrived in ukraine is actually quite significant, and here the importance of this step on the part of the west cannot be ignored, but in terms of pace, i think that we are now at a certain intermediate stage when the land lease program and significant deliveries have been announced, but there is definitely something like this happening e time lag which well does not allow us to talk about the fact that this is a wave of liza and a wave

of significant supplies, well, it is happening enough, let's say so actively and er decisively although from the point of view of the aid of the united states, we are talking about already about the 11th aid package and the american side says that some samples are delivered to us literally a few days after the decision was made on the condition that the ukrainian side can ensure the use of these weapons systems now, as we can see on the video in the use of those today is the most striking indicator of the effectiveness of the use of foreign american aid, mr. serhiy, how do you assess the situation now in north donetsk, that is, on this part of the front, where they are advancing, and we have already heard the message that there are battles in the very place, yes, this is the most difficult question, indeed, if we consider the morning message of the general staff, there is a war in the vicinity of north donetsk and the

enemy is trying to move towards the center of the city. but if we consider yesterday's statement of the general staff, it was said that assistance and reinforcements were provided, which made it possible, in particular , to advance the enemy in the grazing zone from the lysychansk bakhmut highway and, in principle, to provide support to the units that will fight directly in north donets but in view of the enemy's active use of aviation artillery, i will repeat that it has , let's say, a quantitative advantage so far on our armed forces, it affects the rather tight entrance of tactical combat operations in north donetsk. i think that for today, the general staff should optimally weigh our capabilities continuation of active defense and e-e clearly calculate the availability of our

forces and means as reserves to balance. the intermediate decision is related to the withdrawal to reserve positions, i repeat. this is rather an expert vision than the vision of the general staff itself. but i repeat, we need to clearly balance the two tendencies to make the maximum impression on the enemy and preserve our personnel, because we must understand that the war is a long and trained personnel composition is so far ours and should be our main value. a victory in this battle will not give much from a tactical point of view for the russian troops. do you agree with this assessment? i absolutely agree with this statement because, as my mother said, let's remember the previous ambitions of the russian federation to capture all of ukraine, then ukraine. there , to the dnipro, then we have an offensive there raisin

e.e. donetsk. now we are talking only about one city of severodonetsk, which muscovy will submit as in case of capture as if not the main victory of the battle for donbas and then build the whole submission and ideology, although the capture of the regional city really allows them to enter the borders of the administrator of the luhansk region. but we understand how much the volume of russian ambitions has changed and the volume of russian ambitions has decreased, and now all the forces that are directly fighting in the donbass are concentrated around north donetsk and precisely with the main reserves are drawn up in this area, which precisely determines the intensity

of hostilities. does not affect the effectiveness of our further defense because, having a high-quality re-equipment, we will then turn it back on, but they say, but they say that it can open the way for an offensive on sloviansk on kramatorsk, by the way, right now, the enemy is really regrouping in the zone uh raisin yes uh liman where exactly and i expect an attempt to act directly from raisin from the estuary in the direction of uh kramatorsk these risks exist but we have to understand that uh so far all forces are concentrated around severodonetsk and our right one will say so a tactical retreat can to be accompanied by our reinforcements. thus,

in the course of the retreat, for example, to the bakhmut line, counter strikes in the direction directly there, and popasna and elliman, so that this area can be better er expanded, which stretches are trying to narrow this corridor and go to the er the bakhmut border and to gain a foothold there by aligning the front line and preserving by preserving the personnel is my favorite topic these days and we talk about it a lot, and from you e p sergey is especially interested in hearing conclusions about this well, we know that on the eve of the biden administration approved the shipment of long-range salvo missile systems to ukraine. and the new york times actually wrote about this with reference to american officials, and this week a decision on the transfer of such salvo missile systems should be announced. and secondly that well, there is such a

nuance that we will receive it with missiles of the second type, there are only three missiles of medium range of these three, the one that is 64 km , but there is also a range of missiles of 300 km and we see how actively is the kremlin putting pressure on the countries of the west, and in particular on the united states of america , these days la korov once again threatened the west, saying that if the west provides ukraine with missiles that can be used to hit targets on the territory of the russian federation, then escalation is inevitable. well, actually, we heard hmm, the router was written off about the fact that there are, after all, hesitations and, er, careful negotiations between washington and kyiv on the topic of what, well, what would be the optimal and wisest decision to make, what we have for sure is that khymarsy and jay emelarez will be at 64 km

provided already in the near future, but here are these. this third type of missiles are long-range, so they can be the next step. well, actually, let's try to figure out why we need such long-range missiles and when to expect this next step. will it be in principle, taking into account the aggressive threats of russia, including nuclear blackmail of the world well, we understand that russia's threats, after it ignored all the existing agreements, the rules of hostilities, and demonstrated the extreme brutality of its treatment of the civilian population, which saw the whole the world, in fact, to these threats, the world and the united states will not react in any way no no no no these are absolutely logical answers to questions about russian threats. have we all seen all this and the americans understand that the war will continue and, having given the russians the opportunity to convince

others with words that it is not it is not possible to get weapons from ukraine, this will be a system error that the united states will not allow . precisely obtaining the targets of low-level weapons systems, including ml and attacks, is one of the important elements of solving this task of obtaining chimeras or melaris directly. a range of 60-70 km will completely satisfy the question only in terms of quantities, because relatively speaking, i used to say that we should start from 50 launchers . but i see that in reality what it is.

the military says that this should be measured by hundreds of decoys from hundreds of enameled flights and several thousand e-e directly by missiles and adjusted guidance systems up to 60-70 km, this will actually allow to really minimize the risks even in such a situation as is happening around north donets today because linguistically it is better to have such systems in a significant number, it is possible to cut off the supply routes of logistical means of support, which today russia is pulling directly into the north donetsk zone of its e cities that it controls and thus to minimize the further offensive of the russian federation. so we really need this weaponry and because the united states will provide us with samples of weapons with missiles up to 300 km . i think that this will be a logical continuation of these deliveries because on these same launchers we will be able to use and other means of impression, which are still

in the format of a discussion. yes, mr. serhiy. well, we read that, for example, the ukrainian army received 18 very worthy scrub howitzers from poland. after all, well, you say we need hundreds of them. only er, of these, khimarsi conditionally. if i'm not mistaken, i know that the russians have 1,500 devices , e.e., the reective salvo inspection system, 1,500, relatively speaking, different ones, starting from hail and ending with tornadoes, which have a distance of 70 km, even if , relatively speaking, a third of 1,700 there are tornadoes with a range of 7 there, uh, up to 50-60-70 km, of course let's say so at least