the sanctions were lifted, the honor of the sanctions, that is, the severity of them can already be felt on the russian channel. but is the support from the military command monolithic now? while we see that there is some kind of disarray in the army, no, despite the incompetence of the russian command, it is possible to find resources and reserves in order for the a-a army to continue training. will the hostilities last for a long time? loves and they don't want, well, we in ukraine hope that it will happen as soon as possible, mr. mykola, one more question, let's say a few words about lukashenka. look, lately he has not been lately . wanted

his army to join what putin calls military operations in ukraine, and we, the whole civilized world, call it the russian war in ukraine. lukashenko constantly said that if it is necessary to help our ally, we will help three months, he does nothing. there are always such movements near the ukrainian borders, even when there were russian troops on the territory of belarus. these movements were then withdrawn and transferred to the east of ukraine. these movements continue now again . ukraine, uh, there may be an invasion of the territory of belarus, and lukashenko will probably tell putin later, i'll tell you how they planned to do it in your opinion, that's how this cunning fox lukashenko still manages to introduce putin to nose and why putin still can't thank god to convince lukashenka to enter the war in ukraine well, let's say it directly, and the army in belarus is not

that big anymore, especially since lukashenko, without combat experience, gave putin all the opportunities to invade ukraine from his territory planes that bombed a-a ukraine a-a are launched from there are still flying, that is, in fact, belarus is directly participating in this war, and as for some maneuvers on the border, but we we understand very well that in this case, the purpose of these maneuvers is the withdrawal of combat-ready units and reserves of ukraine to reflect a possible possible invasion from there, and the parts that could be used to strengthen, for example, the east or south. - and along the border with belarus, therefore, in this sense , apparently, lukashenko is fulfilling some kind of agreement with putin. as for the

direct participation of the belarusian army in hostilities , it is absolutely impossible to rule it out. eh, if lukashenko needs a new portion of russian money, putin will still force him one way or another to enter his troops into hostilities and into conflict with the ukrainians. well, yes, but then i already gave money to lukashenko. as far as i understand , a month ago there is some kind of postponement of the loan, the repayment of the loan seems to be for one and a half billion dollars and for several years, that is, could not putin say lukashenko in this way and that grigorych well, finally, come on, because i need your support from the north of ukraine, let's do something, lukashenko, no that is, does lukashenko pay back those one and a half billion dollars to putin by what he is doing now? well, lukashenko still demonstrates the miracles

of political equitism, even when he is completely cornered in russia, especially after the events of last year , he nevertheless manages to balance and still protect his own interests of course , thank you, mr. mykola. thank you for joining our program and talking about what is happening inside russia, what moods prevail there now, and what we can expect from our northeastern neighbor. let me remind you. it was mykola polosov, a lawyer, they talked with him about the war, about the war that russia started, and at the end , they also talked about belarus, which constantly threatens to join this war, but i really want them not to even try to do this, because as soon as they cross the border of ukraine, they lay down and not even by the death of the brave, but lay down for an unknown reason, but the world during the war continues in our second half, we will talk about the war again, and

my next guest is gennadiy maksakov , executive director of the foreign policy council ukrainian prism, mr. gennady, genna, they tell us that in 30 seconds, gennady will join us , and i will ask him these important questions . we will talk with him, if in the first part of the program i talked more about russia, then with mr. gennady i will talk about europe, the united states of america and the support and help that comes from them. and is this support or help sufficient for in order to win the war that russia started on february 24 of this year as soon as possible, it is obvious that i will talk about the ban on the export of russian oil . i will talk about supplying us with new weapons

. to end this war, well, we will obviously talk about putin and about a truce with him, or at all a possible truce with a person with a country that so treacherously attacked us before this, talking about the fact that no, we are not going to do anything no, no are we going to cross the ukrainian border? no, we are not going to attack ukraine. do you remember these words that ambassador lavrov spoke even a few days, a few weeks before the start of this brutal invasion, but they attacked like this, so should we conclude these peace agreements with a country that does not comply its leader, who does not keep his promises, so what will they tell me, do we already have a connection with, do we have any technical problems? well, you see, it seems to me that the external forces, i do not know

whether they are russian or not, i will not have any theories like to put forward now, but some external forces are interfering and do not allow us to talk about these important topics. well, you know who else i want to talk to mr. gennady, that is about the so -called natoniad , i came up with this term myself. such a long progress and a long movement of some countries, in particular, ukraine, to nato, e.e., in particular, for finland and sweden. well, how can this further affect the security situation in ukraine and the security situation in europe in general, that is, will putin and his henchmen continue to threaten what if nato expands to the east then we will resort to some other things and we will respond. well, as you know, they have already entered the border with finland

. now he is trying, i mean putin, also to convince erdoğan, president of turkey, not to accept finland and sweden as part of nato. well, i have good news, and these technical problems have been solved. and hennadiy maksak, executive director of the council of foreign policy, ukrainian prisma is already with us. greetings , mr. gennady. good day, forgive me for the trouble. thank you for joining, because i really want to ask you important questions and hear your expert answer. the question of whether it will be introduced during it, or perhaps in the days after it, a very important point with regard to the embargo on russian oil, and the observer and bloomberg also wrote a few days ago about

the fact that there is already such a draft version of the resolution that will be adopted at this summit, and in this resolution there is a moment about the adoption of the oil-y- i apologize for the oil embargo. to the european union , the split of the eu or, after all, the fall in the various ratings of some politicians within the union. i think that here we have to look at it systematically. we see that these negotiations regarding the sixth package have been going on for almost a month, and at the moment there is a dilemma: whether to exclude the energy factor from the sixth package at all, and then it will be a weak toothless package on the

big account, or to somehow modernize it so that budapest will still remove its his informal ban on the further movement of this remote package, we think that in principle there can be such and such an exception, and he is not quite what he wants in general budapest budapest thinks there are still certain compensations for the level of 15-17 billion to rebuild its economic system for other alternative sources, and exports say that this is actually well, in principle, this is a purely political topic, there is no economic calculation here, and certain technical schemes that have been worked out show that it is possible to repair hungarian capacities for other sources quite quickly of energy, but along with those we can see that budapest is trying to offer at least some option. it must be different from what it offers before or before there were also conditions that by the end of the 20th of the year to offer certain exceptions with the oil

bar, but we will see that soon, budapest. at the moment, i can not say for sure whether this is really the case. i will say that it will have a positive effect on his decision. uhu , but this package. we can call it such a toothless package and it will hit russia head-on, obviously. but will it hit hard or as much as we would like? and i understand that this is a really big problem for the european union now in terms of unity, and we see that even german politicians who themselves things very quickly focused on supporting this package because they also had a rather large dependence on russian oil for their oil refining capacity, they indicate that if there is such an exception and if there is indeed a further blocking, it may affect further subsequent packages sanctions, we understand what the session and the purpose of these packages are, firstly, to influence, to

influence hurts, but secondly, to show that there are also additional subsequent stages that will cause even more damage, so i think that precisely the question in those in the following packages, this is what worries the office brussels and actually the big capitals that are actually interested in keeping a certain pressure on putin, really if there will be, well, this is an exception , we understand all the economic problems that exist in central europe, but on the other hand, it is enough to negate, well, the owner to him, it is positive for us as europe, it is negative, of course, mr. gennadiy, but look, a few days ago, the prime minister of great britain, the fighter johnson, put forward such a proposal to create a kind of alternative european union of the union and this union will include obviously great britain obviously ukraine, but also poland, lithuania, latvia, estonia, well, in time it is possible, hmm, turkey, in your opinion, in your

expert opinion. this is important. well, you and i understand that politicians do not say anything. it's just that there are certain reasons of an internal nature in great britain itself, and the foreign strategy of this country is internal . relations that must be settled after the exit of the rotation from the european union. there are indeed separate points that are now very critical and now there is a process of debiting them in britain and in ireland actually and in the european union, on the other hand, we understand that a new report by gray uh which shows his own violation somewhere moral and ethical violations of the johnson government during the pandemic when he allowed his employees to have parties with alcohol consumption of course this is quite a negative uh blow to his reputation

the reputation of his government, and therefore it is necessary to try to somehow attract something new, this is one component, but on the other hand, we understand that britain is currently a strategic partner that really helps both in political and critical terms and in matters of weapons, that is why they are such coalitions possible i think that precisely the security component can be dominant, because we understand that the european union is more about economic issues than about security, unfortunately at the moment, but just this can be an alternative to the european union and nato is currently where we see that the policy of such a door will be slowed down a little by the processes in ukraine and the position of individual members. but this will be an alternative to the fact that some guarantees of ukraine were provided, these guarantees could deter aggression from putin in the future. for me, the most important thing is that these guarantees are supported by some documents that will then be implemented, and not memoranda that can be adopted, but then mr.

gennadiy will sneeze at all of them. this week on bloomberg there was a very good article about what is happening now about what is happening now in ukraine cannot be compared, for example, as some people often do, with the second world war, when they went there for pacification, for example, the emperor of japan and somehow went to some kind of peace agreement with him, here with putin, we cannot go to peace. and even more so, there are statements from the west, from france, from germany, from other leaders about some kind of possible pacification. why do you think why these statements are being made now? well, we we understand what is it again that the politicians in their countries are looking at, it is the voters, and probably this comfort is like this. it was before the war, it is now deformed

, we see the increase in inflation, the increase in fuel prices, and this really affects the well-being of citizens, which is possible they do not always want to deal with what is happening in ukraine, or even if they are going to , they do not want to delve into the mechanisms of why this is happening and why it is necessary to put up with the fact that later the aggressor will still be destroyed, and here i think that it is precisely the third stage that is now we see how the war in ukraine is developing, which russia has asked that it will be protracted and this long, this long frame , it negatively affects the actual lack of expectation of politics from what may happen in ukraine, and in the political sense, and they are trying to look for additional opportunities in order to either reconcile or find a way out from the situation and here there is actually a competition between these approaches and reconciliation road maps, we see that even in the kremlin they are perceived quite negatively with surprise, let's say. if we talk about italy, then mr. lavrov said that he i just found out and i am working with the media on an initiative. well, i

had to ask him about whether he is ready for anything, but on the other hand, the long-term nature of this period imposes additional internal political pressure on countries in order to find a way out and reduce, again, the dissatisfaction of their citizens because the situation is getting worse, but again, it is quite good that ukraine has an active position diplomatically, it shows that there can be no reconciliation or no concessions from the ukrainian side without resuming transit. sovereignty and in order to start withdrawing from holy ukraine and begin our negotiations about how to continue dealing with the aggressor. therefore, we have now, but i predict that there will be further attempts by european leaders, and here we must be aware that we have to work with that and understand, again, the internal subtext why do they arise as a group solidarity

works and they are aware of the fact that, after all, it is necessary for the aggressor to have a negative influence in order to limit its presence in ukraine and then to withdraw your troops in general, really thank you for that. speaking a week ago in front of the students of georgetown university in washington , united states secretary of state anthony blinken said that if he had a guitar, he would sing taylor swift's song to putin. we will never be together again. well, i understand that he wanted thus, it is better to say it in front of the students , but still, the secretary of state of the united states of america said it, the head of the foreign policy department, one of the of the largest countries in the world. of course, this is some kind of metaphor, but this hint should be taken seriously , but let's do it again today. for some reason , i have all the explanations for the internal employee of the sphere, which is not far off, and before the elections for the

united states congress, where there will be a fight between i think that it is precisely the understanding of who will emotionally or informationally fix the topic of the confrontation with russia more emotionally or informationally, then this will also be an additional moment to explain to the voters why exactly such a policy of the state is taking place in world. i think that this is one moment. the second moment is that we really see concrete steps taken by washington - this is the island lease and additional political guarantees, actually, and the chairmanship of the leadership in the rammstein format shows that they are ready to provide assistance to ukraine and with the help it really affects that that the influence of russia will also decrease, well, in fact, there is pressure on russia so that it changes internally, because in this format only without changes we will not get anything normal from the pressure, we will be able to count on positive changes in the world and

in the region because this is just a good indicator, the only thing we have to understand is that there is already europe here, which will actually have its own hand and not blinkin calls er to putin and sholt calls and macron calls, so i think that it is necessary here in addition to the fact that there is such a lining of the united states, understand that there should be support from the european union and emphasize this informally emphasize in communication with our german , french partners that you do not believe in yourself from ukraine well, actually euro-atlantic unity is is the key to our success in this war p. gennadiy well , and the last question for you today, as i said, the eu summit is taking place today in brussels, they will consider the issue of support for ukraine, i don't know if they will very actively consider the issue of ukraine to the eu, but we are talking about it now let's talk with you. let's talk without rose-colored glasses. in your opinion, how long can it take? actually

, if we talk about the instructions themselves, they can drag on for tens of years, and here it's not just some uh- huh sad gray uh-huh paints. this is really a process that takes such a period if we look at the western balkans at the central group that we joined , but we will now talk about the candidate status, which gives us the opportunity to come to other forms and financing, well, actually, to more clearly planning our accession to the european union, that is what we are talking about now on this is exactly what is happening now, and the question will not be considered because the decision of the european commission is still awaited, the actual conclusions or recommendations, or indeed the commission based on the questionnaires and answers that we provided and i am ready to say that ukraine has a positive track and it can already be a candidate for membership in the european union, and here there is a problem, there is a problem with the fact that there is no unity in the european union, there are countries that openly want to

block flights by putting forward some additional conditions for your the fact that now the european union itself is not ready because we have to orientate our own decision-making system in the block because now it is more and more ineffective system but on the other hand we see that there is an opportunity why because again right now, in europe, the level of support for ukraine's potential membership in the european union is very high, on average in the european union, it is about 66%, the europarometer , such and such an agency, and these are high indicators that show that the voters of european leaders are ready to support this initiative and that is why we need to work with her. i think that this is precisely what our special representatives, whom we started with mr. zelenskyi, who will have very dynamic visits to countries e.e. to countries of the european union, are dealing with have certain fears or certain doubts and we will fight for the time being 50/50 we can or

the potential status of a candidate is much worse because in reality it does not bring us to any other level but only records what we have been heard and expects from us others reforms, but without a review of relations, well , i really want and i really hope that, after all, it will not be just a potential status, not just a status of a potential candidate, and i think that our authorities will be able to agree on this with european officials after all, before the european union thank you, mr. hennadiy, for joining me in the program today. i will remind you that hennadiy maksak was with me on skype, the executive director of the ukrainian prizma council for foreign policy. i will talk about this as long as this war continues and until ukraine wins and drives out the aggressor, but until then we

will see you every monday at 12:00, approximately 12-13 on the espresso tv channel at least where it has not yet been turned off, and also in social networks, in particular on youtube and facebook, we will see each other, i will invite new guests and we will discuss very important topics. well, today my full name is yuri fizer. see you. i am from irpen and when the war started it was february 24. i went outside and already in the sky above the guest house there were russian helicopters and there was a battle. i am from sumy oblast, the village of nizhnya syrovatka. two months ago, none of us could have imagined that small villages in sumy oblast would become the epicenter of world events together with my family. i left the town of irpinets, a suburb of kyiv, on the

fourth day of the war, on february 27, when the advanced units of the russian occupiers were already entering the city, machine-gun fire could be heard. i truly miraculously survived the russian invaders and i am definitely glad about it. together with antin burkovsky, i have been in this studio since the fall for two hours of airtime every week. we tried to devote exactly the topic of war when western intelligence already began to tell us in detail how putin will kill ukrainians. i ca n't even now return to my hometown, but i had hope that i would return at least one of my previous life, this is my favorite job, she is lucky, my family is now safe and i

continued to work where i was needed on the espresso tv channel, but unfortunately, on april 4 this year, the state concert of the rtd turned off the espresso tv channel from the crooked broadcast of t2 to lviv in order to continue working, but you didn’t even go home with one little girl, and at least to have one normality to work first the russian authorities took away my house and the opportunity to live in my hometown now the ukrainian authorities are trying to take away the opportunity to work in my profession to inform ukrainian viewers we refute russian fakes we explain to people where the truth is and where lies we record the crimes of the russian occupiers so that kara does not pass them by, we will definitely stand up because

we are fighting for the country of our children, we simply do not have these options, we will stand so much so much please return our broadcasting to the ukrainians i am sure that they need us president zelenskyi return expresso to the air let 's protect the information front together glory to ukraine april 4 concert rrt 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 was registered in which is required to return ukrainian tv channels to the digital airwaves in order to sign the petition first you need to register, it's very simple go to the website petition.tmu.gov.ua there go to the tab registration and enter all your data, say your

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very beautiful city but kyiv is more beautiful for me one day russia attacked my country but we were lucky and my mother and i went to poland i like poland but i want to go home water i have a lot of friends in the kindergarten i really want to go home and soon i will return i will return i will return i will return i will return i will return i will return i will return i will return ukraine i will return when we defeat the evil christians then we will return to our apartment i invite all poles to visit everything will be ok ukraine, it is very important in

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