in ukraine believes that the next few weeks can determine the further course of the war uh, what else could escalation look like, what kind of turning point could this be, please, one by one, but briefly ivan stupak let me be quick uh, this escalation is already there, they already predicted it what are the escalations? escalate , yes, they exist, there is a war, what are the americans worried about, so that the war does not come out ? well, let’s say that it spilled over the borders of ukraine, so that it would not be dragged openly into russian territory , openly into the republic of belarus, and then don’t let it there oh god, also europe, that is, they are trying to save them there, is it flattened or is it like the chief of the joint staff of the united states of america? of course, he makes a geopolitical forecast. how can this escalation possibly take place, given today's negotiation component of russia with

its vassal satellites, the probability of using nuclear weapons, these exercises which conducted by russia. but at the same time, in order for it to spread, in order for the situation of the military component to intensify, russia had to have much more reserves than it has on today, throwing practically all the available reserves and having already thrown into the crucible of the ukrainian war, trying to change the situation in the small town of severodonetsk in the territory of the ukrainian luhansk region because of that. i will use my power in the same way as before. thank you for the fresh, up-to-date information, iro. hello, thank you,

colleagues. in just a moment, i will tell you what is happening. at this hour in ukraine and in the world 15.01 in ukraine news time on the espresso tv channel in the studio of iryna koval russians are shelling mykolaiv with artillery explosions are heard in the city mayor oleksandr senkevich said he called on residents to be as careful as possible and stay away from windows this is all our information for now the command will continue to monitor the situation and the russian military controls 70% severodonetsk part of the ukrainian troops moved to lysychansk to more advantageous positions, the head of the luhansk oblast reported of the military administration, serhiy gaidai, according to him, western equipment is coming to the front in the luhansk region, but not in the volumes in which he would like, he emphasized that ukrainian soldiers

are ready to defend ukrainian territory, stop the invader and then de-occupy their cities, russian troops launched a missile attack on the city of slavyansk in donetsk region, private houses were destroyed in one of the micro-districts of the city. there are no victims. according to the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine, the day before in the slavyansk direction , the russian troops regrouped. good morning slavyansk destroyed three houses with a rocket attack, destroyed about 10 privately built houses, evacuate. take care of yourself, we are together. four people were killed in kharkiv region as a result of enemy shelling . among them, a 12-year-old boy, seven civilians were wounded. the head of the regional military administration, oleg sinogubov, said that the kyiv district itself came under fire from the invaders. there were no casualties in kharkiv, and the russians shelled the

kharkiv izyum bogoduhiv and chuguyiv district regions for more than 10 hours , continuously shelling the village of zolochiv with artillery the enemy continues to destroy our civilian infrastructure, along with this, our armed forces are conducting active operations in the north, in the north-eastern direction, and the raisin direction remains a hot spot for us there, our armed forces are actively destroying the enemy, causing him losses among his manpower of armored vehicles among its aircraft tonight, another helicopter was destroyed by 52 polish and ukrainian government officials opened the first modular town in kyiv region, 40 modules will be able to temporarily house 350 people who, due to russian aggression lost their homes in borodyanka destroyed 552 private

and 24 apartment buildings two schools and all administrative buildings a town like the previous one established in lviv given free of charge by the government of poland government officials promise the following towns will be built in buchi-makarov ivankov and gostomel as well as in the suburbs of chernihiv they are fighting with nuclear weapons in russia is holding regular exercises, this time in the ivankiv region, according to the ministry of defense of the aggressor country, about a thousand servicemen and more than a hundred of technical units, in particular, these are launchers of strategic missile systems of yars. they are known for being carriers of warheads with a nuclear charge. they often like to threaten

muscovites with their strikes. germany announced today in the bundestag that the iristi system, which is in service with the german army, is capable of hitting aircraft, helicopters, and cruise missiles jet artillery and drones, in the coming weeks we will provide ukraine with 12 of the most modern self- propelled howitzers in the world in close cooperation with the dutch, the federal government also recently decided that with the air arrest system, we will also send the most modern air defense system available in germany. thus, ukraine will have the opportunity to protect the entire city from raids the sbu abducted the deputy head of the chernivtsi military administration in the humanitarian aid fraud of the russian air force. according to the investigation, he helped

to use for commercial purposes the ambulances that italy handed over to ukraine free of charge, the cars were redistributed to an organization that transports patients for money, the case was opened under the article of property destruction, the punishment for it was imprisonment for up to 12 years it was this profile deputy head of ova who was responsible for the distribution of ambulances and identified one from the regional medical facilities as the recipient of this assistance, the equipment was managed through the general director of the medical facility, the head of the hospital, in turn, reformed the five ambulances received on a controlled public charitable organization , the founder and owner of which is himself, to provide paid transport services to the sick, that is, the perpetrators earned money on cars that were actually intended for free assistance, gradually in many cities of the country the

cost of public transport is increasing on the way to this and poltava, meanwhile, private transport you corner and many townspeople have to walk what do the carriers want and what do the locals think about it anna morozova learned for two weeks public transport routes in poltava are provided exclusively by public transport, trolleybuses and buses, there are a lot of them, all the routes are no longer available, everyone drives a lot, a lot of poltava residents, a lot of visitors, a lot of people, there are almost no people in the cabin of trolleybuses, and it is difficult for us, people, it is very difficult, we are waiting until something changes, private route vehicles refused to transport passengers for 8 hryvnias per ticket, as it were. this amount is too small and does not bring profit.

different carriers named a profitable price from 12 to 25 hryvnias, on the other hand, the head of the association of carriers of the poltava region announced to us the conditions under which the minibuses will again leave for flights, in my opinion, somewhere up to 15 hryvnias, well, this is my minimum price, and when it is interesting, the authorities will decide the question how or by increasing the tariff or compensation or, well, some other options are possible, or with the help of fuel and lubricants , the residents of poltava are fearfully wondering what the fare is waiting for them, so it seems to me 15 uah no, i have a pension of 2,300, so you can ride well this is an unrealistic amount that they want. well, those minibuses should be removed in general,

so i think that all illusions think that it is expensive, no. there is no question of compensation or assistance with fuel and lubricants for private carriers. our criminal enterprise elektrotrans because it provides services for e-e transportation by electric transport and e-e buses, therefore we take them as a basis, they are currently making a calculation, what will this calculation be, we we will submit next week what will be the new fare on public transport in poltava , the city authorities have not said yet, but they are warning that they will focus on the situation in the region and the country in general. decisions will be made at the next meeting of the executive committee of the city council . children in one of the lviv schools organized parties for local schoolchildren and children of immigrants the organizer of the event the

all-ukrainian democratic forum whose team previously created the project shelter and friendly lviv and every week holds several different events for children from forcibly resettled families at the school. they are confident that after long distance learning, live communication and mobile games are important for students, and the organizers say that the communication of small lviv residents with displaced children will contribute to the latter's faster adaptation to the new in general, our project is more aimed at involving internally displaced persons, but that is, to adapt them to life so that they understand that they have forgotten about the war and understand that they have a childhood, although unfortunately the enemy is taking away their childhood, but we adults have this childhood for them to create create a holiday for our children today is a very big holiday this is a holiday for even

those children who are still with us these internally displaced persons and we have them about 50 are studying, about 50, because they change every time, because they change their place of residence, and there are also those children who currently live with us. this is quite a big holiday for them, because it is their living communication , they met and today is children's protection day really organize a holiday for your child literally in an hour, wait for the updated news release on my colleagues anna valevska and yehor checherinda continue this broadcast literally in a moment, watch on the air of our espresso channel news and euro programs espresso for ukrainian refugees in europe joint broadcast with the atp channel programs radio svoboda , time-time voice of america programs, inclusion of

journalists from public television, bbc news ukraine and france 24 news releases, as well as the broadcast of the informational marathon, the only news, together we are strong glory to ukraine this was already the third rotation of the border guard ihor dashko to the east, the contract was due to end soon, his wife and daughter were waiting at home, but ukraine was attacked by an aggressor on april 9 during the battle in mariupol, seriously wounded ihor dashko blew himself up with a grenade so as not to be captured himself but not to give the enemy seize the radio station his last words on the air were glory to ukraine ihor dashko was posthumously awarded the title of hero of ukraine heroes do not die we

continue the broadcast on the espresso channel thank you to irina koval for the news these are scary numbers we saw in the video, the children of the war are no longer grandparents, they are our children, whom we are forced to protect in the literal sense of the word, or they want to be physically destroyed and are already being destroyed. i am with the head of the european union representation in ukraine in the years 16-19 hugh minkareli let's sit down and watch. congratulations my name is yuriy fizer on the espresso tv channel as you all know very well i conduct international news and talk about what the world

is saying about the war that started in ukraine 24 more in february of this year, how do we hold the defense for three months and even push the enemy out of our lands? well, how does the world help us? well, who better to explain and tell about it than people who know the west, who know the world, who worked in western structures, my guest today is a person who we quite often saw on our tv screens in 2016-2019 hugh utsyngoreli, the ambassador of the european union to ukraine precisely in 2016-2019 , but congratulations p mingorelli congratulations thank you very much for joining me today and what talk about how the west helps ukraine and how the west will help us in the future. so, my first question is, in your opinion, is the european union doing enough today to

make russia pay for its aggression against ukraine, the european union has no choice in this conflict, it must stick to it a very clear and understandable position, because this is a war not only of russia against ukraine, it is the aggression of the autocratic putin regime against all democracies when the putin regime decided to encroach on sovereignty such an independent country as ukraine, in this way he decided to violate the basic principles of the european security architecture, and in this way the putin regime attacked us, that is why the european union is obliged to support ukraine steadfastly. ukrainians have died, millions of ukrainians are trying to flee their homes, but i

repeat once again, this is the war of the putin regime against the democratic world, so we must to support ukraine in february - european plus adopted sanctions against russia, you probably remember that already on february 23, just a day before the start of the aggression, the is adopted and applied the first sanctions package, which included the cancellation of visas for a large number of deputies of the russian duma and members of the russian security council, in addition, the european union introduced sanctions against a number of state-owned companies, the eu introduced restrictions and sanctions against the economic sector of russia, for example, the financial system the energy sector, technology transport, the european union decided to suspend visas for russian diplomats and businessmen, in addition, the eu decided to introduce a ban on the import of russian coal, on the import of russian iron , steel, cement, wood, and a large number of

other goods, so at the moment, the european union has already introduced sanctions packages, but this it is not enough. it is clear that the eu should introduce a ban on the import of oil and gas, but as you know . because of this, we also face a large amount of difficulties two weeks ago, the european commission proposed to ban the import of russian oil , unfortunately, now we have a hungarian veto at the meeting of the heads of states of the european union, this issue will be discussed again, and i hope that the ban on the import of russian oil will be approved. because now it is very important that the eu stops financing the russian aggression against ukraine and therefore it is also important that we stop importing oil and gas as soon as possible vistop inbox do you

think these sanctions will be enough to stop russian aggression, is it possible that at some point there will be a seventh package of sanctions, this is not enough, we must do much more, we must continue to do everything so that the putin regime pays for this aggression against ukraine and against the democratic world . it is quite clear and everyone should understand that putin's regime only understands the balance of power, so if we can make him pay a high price, then they will understand that they themselves are not interested in to continue this military aggression against ukraine. therefore, in this confrontation, we must be as strong and unmoved as possible, mr. he hareli, let's talk a little about the year 2014, because as we all know, the russian war in ukraine began precisely in 2014, after

russia illegally annexed crimea and started the war in donbas, just then the european union introduced sanctions, do you not think that these sanctions were a little too weak and therefore they did not stop further aggression against ukraine? you are right. at that moment, the european union did not react properly. as you already said in 2014, after the russian aggression in crimea and in the luhansk and donetsk regions, the european union introduced sanctions , then decided to stop holding certain meetings at the ministerial level, then also decided to exclude russia from the g8 and did several things with which they wanted to convince russia that aggression against ukraine was unacceptable, but this was not enough, so a number of european political leaders who continued to conduct dialogue with putin must have convinced him that he could

continue his aggression against such countries as ukraine, moldova, georgia, that is why i believe that at that time we had the opportunity to show more confidence and strength towards putin and then we could make him pay the highest price for this aggression to explain to such politicians that it is impossible to conduct a dialogue with a country that does not respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of its neighbors, so i completely agree with you that the reaction of the european union at that time was not enough powerful thank you mr. wingarelli, you have already said that in the european union there is a kind of opposition to the introduction of the sixth package of sanctions and there are several countries that do not want to adopt this package in its current formulation with a ban on russian oil and gas, does this mean that it is

correct to say that there is no unity in the european union now from the notes look again yulyite induyupin junin right now it screen that uh, it is quite clear that in this european union, which includes 27 countries, it is becoming more and more difficult to adopt joint decisions on sensitive issues , there is no doubt about this, and this applies not only to the import of russian oil, for example, when the european union tries to reach a common opinion on migrants or refugees from syria and afghanistan, it is very difficult to do, nevertheless, we must find points of contact and adopt common i am sure that during the meeting of the european union, we will receive a ban on the import of russian oil, and if hungary continues to save the adoption of such a decision, the other 26 member states will be able to adopt such a ban is possible, and it is possible that we have adopted it. but i am sure that a large

number of eu members are convinced that the european union can no longer import russian oil and gas and thus finance russian aggression against ukraine, which is why the european commission has already published its proposals to end dependence on of russian purchased fuel, especially from hydrocarbons, namely oil and gas, i am sure that we will make such a decision and i really hope that the sixth package will be approved, i really i hope, sir, he is hot, why did some leaders of the european union now start talking about putin's appeasement, we believe that now everyone's greatest interest lies in a ceasefire as soon as possible, but at the same time it is quite clear that it is the ukrainians who must decide on what conditions they will agree to a ceasefire, we are talking about the territorial integrity of ukraine and only the ukrainian people and the ukrainian political

leadership should decide when and on what conditions they will agree to a ceasefire and i believe it is right to try to find better ways to stop the fire as soon as possible because tens of thousands of ukrainians have already died. as you know, the civil infrastructure in ukraine has been destroyed. many roads , railways, ports have been destroyed . many houses have been destroyed. own homes, and therefore we must do everything possible to achieve a ceasefire as soon as possible. but i repeat once again, only the ukrainian people should decide on which under the conditions, it should not be decided by the west. thank you, you understand, you worked with various institutions of the european union and you were

the representative of the eu in ukraine in 2016-2019. you know very well, how to say it, the internal european cuisine. therefore, maybe you will tell me and our viewers about when will ukraine still be able to receive the statute of obtaining the status of a candidate country in june, in june, in a few weeks, the opinion of the european commission will be given, but as we know, there is no unanimity in the european union on this question, however, all political leaders of the eu have already very clearly said that ukraine is a part and a member of the european family, there is no doubt about this. however, there is currently no consensus on how to best integrate ukraine into this european family, some eu members such as the baltic countries or poland clearly states that the status of

a candidate country in the country must be granted immediately and that we must also immediately start negotiations on the inclusion of ukraine so that ukraine can join the european union as soon as possible other member states such as france, italy, and germany believe that it will take 15 to 20 years to complete the negotiations on the accession of ukraine and the accession to the european union itself. and for this, it will be very important to establish and create a new format, which the french president has already called the european political community. to integrate such countries as ukraine, georgia and moldova, and every time the heads and governments of eu states meet, for example, twice or three times a semester, political leaders could be invited to this meeting ukraine, georgia and moldova, they could participate in them in order to discuss political and security issues that are of interest to everyone and

at the same time ensure that ukraine gradually adopts european laws and regulations in order to sometimes integrate a whole series of european regulations into its own system. such a situation, this issue will be discussed in brussels. and in june, the next meeting of the european council will take place. i cannot say how these discussions will end, but i advise my ukrainian friends, first of all, to implement the current association agreement as soon as possible why because godi's act on association contains the conditions for a deep and full free trade zone, which means that ukraine can relatively quickly become a member of the single european market, and this means that according to the current association agreement we can integrate the ukrainian economy into the economy of the european union, and this will be extremely important in order to, firstly, improve the living conditions of the ukrainian people, and secondly, in this way, european businessmen could

to convince our political leaders that ukraine should be integrated into the european union as soon as possible, this is the first thought of a friend, i would advise my ukrainian friends to speed up political and economic reforms to the point of using the incredible economic potential of your country, because if you introduce the necessary reforms, you will convince the european leaders that ukraine will not be a burden for the european union. and the advantage is that ukraine is a country with fantastic potential . if you use it properly, you will be able to to convince the political and economic leaders of the eu that it was they who were interested in joining the european union relatively quickly, mr. minvareli, i really hope that our government officials will watch our interview and hear what you just said and what you proposed, and this will help speed up the process. i really hope so thank you so

some european leaders at least that's what i've read about they say it's time to abolish the unanimity article they say it can help to make decisions very quickly important decisions