here is the traditional choice between prices and values , the value is because of being in solidarity with ukraine in countering russian aggression, but the price that is looming and that russia did with its special operation even last year, escalating gas prices on the european market, they write above $1,000 per 1,000 cubic meters. by the way, it is successful continues and this price scares the tender european souls of european politicians and bureaucrats, and that is why they have such an internal struggle, although they perfectly understand what any kind of mitigation is there they say that well, let's postpone this issue and so on, this is simply not a solution to the issue, so i think that in the coming weeks we will see before the holiday season in european countries, that is,

in the next month, we will see certain battle scenes, and still, i think that the united states will not stand aside here, trying to influence its european allies in order to keep them on their toes. well, actually speaking, two important summits in june of the european union and at the end of the month in the last nato, they will not only are devoted to the issues of economic development for the eu in these conditions, or is it only a security issue, namely the issue of energy, energy security will occupy a dense place. what to do next because it is not possible during the time it does not work also in the european union it does not work our it works uh, from the point of view of not solving the problems that have arisen, and from the point of view of

prolonging them, that uh, it does not help anyone and no one, and therefore we hope, mr. mykhailo, that the european bureaucrats will work in an accelerated mode. thank you very much for this a thorough and objective analysis on the air of the information and analytical marathon of the espresso tv channel mykhailo gonchar, an expert on international energy and security strategy , the president of the center for global studies, strategy 21 worked for you dear viewers of the express , together with khrestina yatskiv, what a borkovsky meaty thing to us and e thank you, mr. mykhailo, for reminding us about two important events that will take place in june , we are talking about the summit of the european union and it is nato at the summit of the eu. candidacy for membership in the european union, we

are already in touch with us anna hopko, people's deputy of ukraine of the previous convocation, head of the verkhovna rada committee on foreign affairs from the 14th to the 19th year mrs. ghana, congratulations and glory to ukraine glory to the heroes glory to the lord and we will fight on thank you for your work because we follow your international activities very closely and on the one hand we have two processes, i.e. the so-called eurobureaucratic process, on the other hand internal ukrainian processes very often these moments are not synchronized or we do not fully understand what our god-saved government is doing and what it is doing wrong. we cannot criticize it, so to speak, under conditions of war. well, we understand that this is not a conversation about the activities of the general staff, it is a conversation about the activities of change and the preparation of our state for the nearest future. khrystyna rightly pointed out that the fate of our

european integration will be decided in the near future, and we understand that if we don't get it now, but i don't even want to think about it, although there are such risks next will be the presidency of the czech republic, then sweden, but the main thing here is not who will continue to preside, but the presence of political will and the absence of these excuses, why and now ukraine cannot get the status of a candidate although all the arguments are precisely in our favor because the questionnaire that we sent and those the reforms that were carried out after the revolution of dignity , they are helping to resist the full-scale invasion for 103 days and within the framework of the nine-year russian armed aggression, so we perfectly

understand that the eu has its own reform needs the issue of the integration of the western balkans, which have also been waiting for a long time for the fact that the policy of expansion will change the perspective of membership, but in all our arguments we clearly say that this is a powerful signal, in particular for those who are reformers inside the country, so that later there will be a road map for accelerating reforms on the way to eu membership, therefore that the status of a candidate strengthens the position, gives access to financial funds, strengthens or deepens cooperation . therefore, it is in our interests, in the interests of the country , and i believe that now the government should send those in particular, the signals that concern the reforms will recognize the appointment of the head of sap, the adoption of those laws that concern the environment, many others that are on the agenda, and demonstrate that during a

full-scale invasion of war, it is precisely the potential that everyone is surprised who comes to ukraine and in kyiv that during the war, the railway works and the government institutions work, the verkhovna rada, therefore, it is very important to emphasize the institutional capacity of ukraine to act effectively, and that is why i really hope that we will choose with joint efforts the status of the candidate in june at the summit is one of our tasks, and here both the government and the opposition, now you are showing it seems berlin, here we were in berlin, where there were representatives of european solidarity, the head of the eurointelligence committee, ivanna klympush, the head of the industrial policy committee, dmytro natalukha from the servant of the people party, there were members of the european parliament from different countries, lithuania, the czech republic, france, estonia, who came with us as a delegation to berlin and convinced the germans to

speed up, in particular, the granting of candidate status and do not look for various pseudo-arguments why the european union and the european commission may not give us the status of this issue. in my opinion, probably the best recipe would be the creation of such a mechanism in ukraine that would involve the inclusion of representatives of the european commission in the implementation of the ukrainian reform plan in order to ultimately implement this plan yes, because it is one thing to rely on certain advisors who give advice to someone unknown and responsible for what they are responsible for, and if eurobureaucrats were involved, they would be responsible for making certain decisions. perhaps i am wrong about the road map, which after receiving the

candidate status should speed up the reform of ukraine, should strengthen trust in us, and this is important, since we are already talking according to various estimates, from a pion to a trillion dollars, which we expect through various, in particular, the eu fund which will come to compensate for the destroyed buildings, the reconstruction, the damage caused to the surrounding families. all the tenders for carrying out various works will be held, that is, even now during the war . i would like to see more transparency, more inclusion, in particular, representatives of local self-governments who have now in those cities where people are returning, where life is gradually normalizing, where hospitals, schools,

kindergartens are being rebuilt, in particular such small communities as the trostyanets community, others would like to see better involvement of representatives of agromat local self-government in the decision-making of mrs. hanno, a few moments, just in the last three of during the month of the large-scale invasion, we heard statements. well, it's not that you're a statement, but thoughts and messages. if you want to talk about the possibility of liquidating the constitutional court, in a very strange way, during the war, it attacked the institution of the ombudsman. and i would like to remind you that the ombudsman should be fired during the war it is not according to the constitution, yes, it is the same. we have an understanding that the oask will not be dissolved, for example, the supervisory councils with their representatives, who should return to ukraine in a certain period in the event of meetings there, etc. further

there are many such things that in no way contribute to the guidelines outlined for us in the european union and in the united states when it came to our financial support even before the war. please tell me whether it is possible to continue to make reforms during the war. maybe at a slightly slower pace, but move after all in the intended course in the intended way and not resort to very er-er strange er-er insinuations that do not contribute to strengthening our role as a legal civilized country after all, the actual full-scale invasion as well as the beginning of armed aggression is an additional reason to make more quality changes because people are waiting for them, these are powerful signals for our international partners, why ukraine is a democracy in action, unlike the totalitarian regime of the russian federation. yesterday was environment day, and we and environmentalists just they said that if the

verkhovna rada were to implement the association agreement and those needs, which are, in particular, legislative initiatives that lie before the second reading and about environmental control and what concerns the reduction there is a lot of industrial pollution, which area is not . are there restrictions on tv channels, in particular espresso, and that's why it seems to me that those who think or what they already know , when i come to ukraine between visits abroad, i sometimes get very upset because when i see in kyiv, some people have a feeling in their heads that they have already stopped fighting there, because after all, compared

to the front line, even those uh, missile strikes that are there. that is, it is not that you can die every second , it is a feeling that for some it is no longer the same that the war is won, but somewhere not this thirst to win quickly. someone is already building a different vision of how to divide, as in the grand theft, how to divide the future, the money from the reconstruction plan, some people, i generally have a feeling, some kind of wild feeling that someone is preparing for the elections, and that's why i i would like just to emphasize the first eh-we will win the war but before that, more efforts must be made, and these must be accelerated deliveries of heavy weapons, everyone here must work on reforms - this is one of the tasks of the verkhovna rada, precisely at the time of the full-scale secondary demonstration of commitment to the interests of society and to adopt extremely important initiatives. because when i hear abroad how some of the perpetrators say that you

know the issue of corruption. of a full-scale invasion, they continue to steal, earn from humanitarian aid , discredit ukraine with fuel, and so on, so it seemed to me that there should be more political determination, in particular, personnel changes, this is for those people who, on february 24, disappeared somewhere from their responsible positions, and you perfectly understand who i am i mean, that's why these people are still in power . are they the people who will be the people who then resigned from their responsible positions so that they simply would not return to these positions? honestly, well, they ran away they escaped, but on the other hand, i would like to implement some kind of effective mechanism. well, i don’t know if the european commission does not have questions for our cabinet and if something happens there, our cabinet could not

refer to bad europeans because, you know, sometimes we hear some you understand these or other such notes in the tonality, but i wanted everything to be clearly and honestly, and well, i do not know whether the current structure of power provides for the involvement of some european commissioners, well, commissioners from the european commission who could really have a certain status, that is, not to have no status you know that they came there to advise something and no one listened to them. and there they ran around the offices. well, we remember the previous experience so that they could influence the decision and, accordingly, that their one or another position was taken into account in brussels, that is, so that no one is smeared by the failed cases with the european integration of ukraine, what arguments were not put forward, well, for this, a road map is prescribed, there are clear conditions, well, as before, we had a story with the imf, where there were demands for judicial reform anti-corruption and how to launch the anti-corruption

higher court and so on, that is, there are specific indicators for this and, accordingly, execution time frames , so it seems to me that it is not difficult to write such a road map with clear obligations, it's just that i believe that on the one hand, it is necessary to clearly collect the evidence base for the international tribunal and work with various governments regarding those e-e assets that are currently under sanctions so that in the future they will be confiscated and in a legal way e through reparations transferred to ukraine, that is because e when we talk about billions of dollars, we understand very well that even now the aid is 5 billion a month, which we receive in order to be able to make social payments to support the armed forces of ukraine, this is now during the war. and when we talk about the agenda after the victory, it is obviously billions dollars, and here there should be

several directions and obviously the involvement of representatives of different governments, but here it is very important to understand that this was, let's say , an initiative of ukrainian entrepreneurs, but ukraine is not represented by a single president or head of office of the president and what were involved, the holders , representatives of the expert community, not only loyal extras who have the best expertise, who have a reputation, who were not involved in any corruption schemes there and who really represent the interests of various veterans or internally displaced persons or the medical community or of local self-government, so that it doesn't happen, you know how they say, when some representatives of international triangles cover themselves, that's who will be paid expensive fees and they will sing along to what the government needs, we are such examples in the same way, when the representatives of supervisory cities

received incredible fees or salaries for ukrainians, but then their decisions were not in the interests of ukraine, and these risks must also be taken into account, which should be thanks to ms. hanna hanna hopko, people's deputy of ukraine in the previous convocation, head of the committee from the 14th to the 19th year of the verkhovna rada for foreign affairs, she was in touch with us, who emphasized the fact that we should continue to change for the better for the purpose of joining the european union, in particular, this is what we now have to do in parallel with defense of our country, i would like to remind you that today is journalist's day, and ukraine has already lost more than a dozen of its best journalists who fulfilled their professional duty, and some did their civic duty and went to defend our country from aggressors, let's remember these people and remember them russia is killing medical workers who

are trying to show all ukrainians and the world the horrors of this war. on march 1, during a missile attack on the capital's tv tower, the operator of the kyiv-life channel, yevhen sakun, was killed. he was then working together with by colleagues in the building and the face of the center and his body were recognized by the speed camera. second covered the events for the national marathon as a result of this attack , four more people died. on march 13, photojournalist and war correspondent maksym levin disappeared on the front line near kyiv. at that time, part of the kyiv region was controlled by the rashisti lev. he went there to take photographs . hostilities subsequently began intense fighting in that area, on april 1 maksym was found murdered in the village of huta mezhihirska in the kyiv region, the prosecutor's office opened a case based on preliminary data unarmed investigators max levin was killed by the russian military with two shots from a small -arms weapon, he was left with four minor

sons, his wife, only max cooperated with the rotarians of the bbc, dry under the press of lb.ua and the public, during the hostilities in the kharkiv region, on the fourth of may , the journalist of the tv channels ukraine and dom oleksandr makhov was killed he went to war for the second time as a volunteer. he was born in oleksandr uluhansk and more than anything, he dreamed of seeing the city again under the ukrainian flag. he was always like that with his own position, patriotic and sincere, always without vanity and was always among the bravest among the first always worked in the hottest spots the journalist was left with a bride and a son oleksandr makhov was posthumously awarded the order for courage of the third degree russia kills not only ukrainian journalists during the three months of the war foreign media workers who cover the war an american military reporter and the documentarian of the new york times brand and

renault were shot by the russians on march 13 at the checkpoint in irpen, he came there to film the evacuation of us we crossed the first bridge in irpen, we were going to film the evacuation of people. we got into the car, someone offered to take us to another bridge, and we crossed the checkpoint, then they started shooting at us. the driver turned back on my friend's renault brand. they shot him from the back. i saw blood pouring from his wound . sometimes they don't have time to spare themselves. irishman pierre zakshevsky, operator of the american tv channel fox muse, came under artillery fire from russian troops in the village of gorenka in the kyiv region. he worked in war zones in afghanistan and the series, together with zakshevsky, died ukrainian journalist oleksandra kovshinova, who was a foxtrot consultant in ukraine. on may 31, 2022 , a tv journalist of the french tv channel bfm tv frederik for clerk imhof was killed by russian shelling in north donetsk. russia

committed 280 crimes against journalists and media in ukraine during the three months of full-scale war, according to the national union of journalists 32 media workers have already died, bright memory to those who died in this war well, khrystyna yatskiv and i wish our colleagues in the workshop to be objective and honest in for his work, this is the most important thing. now the espresso tv channel is broadcasting an information and analytical marathon for june 106, and he talked about several topics and told ukrainian journalists that there are about two and a half thousand fighters from the azovstal plant in russian captivity. regarding the situation on the front, we have a difficult situation on in the east, in the north-donetsk direction, you know. we are holding the situation, we are holding them

more, they are more powerful. but nevertheless, i think that we have every chance to fight in this direction - the president says the most threatening. according to the president, the situation in zaporizhzhia oblast is due to the plans of the armed forces of the russian federation to capture the regional center itself. i would like to remind you that 60% of zaporizhzhia oblast is currently occupied in the kharkiv direction. the president thinks there is more positivity . i can not pay attention to the special situation on the raisin direction, the direction there has become more complicated in recent days because the enemy understands how important this is the key to our the territory of belarusians along the state border of ukraine, this does not mean that belarus will declare war on ukraine, it will try to break through the border, but it means that they will try to withdraw

part of our troops from central ukraine in this way. history is dangerous. we understand that zaporozhye for the russian federation is an attempt to to occupy or attack remains a priority russia is planning a terrorist attack in europe to prevent the supply of weapons to ukraine this is reported by the center for countering disinformation about the nsdc the russian federation can to carry out a provocation in europe with the use of similar weapons that are transferred to ukraine. in this way, the kremlin wants to prevent further supplies of weapons to ukraine and use a terrorist attack for propaganda. well, according to everything , one or another terrorist organization located in the middle east can be used. they exploited something similar in the 80s and and in the 90s. well, what are the terrorist attacks in madrid worth, for example, which

led spain out of the great afghan war? well, let me remind you that today there were talks between the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi and the good the friend of our country, the prime minister of great britain, boris johnson, and they were crowned with the understanding that the united kingdom is transferring the m-270 to ukraine, it is about the combat range of 80 km to 80 km for free, johnson writes we cannot stand aside while the russian long-range artillery erases the city from the face of the earth and kills innocent civilians. he writes about this on twitter , i.e. all of ukraine holds fists today for boris johnson yesterday. for example, we understand that if you are talking about the competition between ukraine and wales, wales an integral part of the british crown well, accordingly, everyone was rooting for their own, but today

the whole country has to speak out, so to speak, let it be impeached, or rather, do not trust the prime minister of the united kingdom, boris johnson, we really need him, the ukrainian diaspora does not sleep, work with your british mps. but it’s interesting to watch boris johnson in this vortex, still not stunned by the story of a possible party there in the backyard during the quarantine that great britain is on our side because british justice works, so to speak , although slowly but extremely carefully, that is, like god's mills, that is, something happened there once there, uh, so to speak, a foam party, so to speak, johnson

and friends well, accordingly, violation of quarantine quarantine, but no despite this, all are forces to force to work in this way in the legislative and legal field and to be honest this leads me to think about indulgence for the representatives of our government in particular and our position in general with this e-e of our modern politics after the war e-e for all that maybe it wasn’t done so easily, it wasn’t finished, it was sabotaged before the start of a full-scale cake , rostovych, so to speak, searched for fukalus somehow, that’s what’s waiting for us, it seems to me hm, such a hot one is waiting somewhere in the world, or this discussion can , so to speak, throw a cotton wet blanket over this discussion turn off, for example, objectionable tv channels, even from youtube from a satellite, and so on. well,

you can do this and there will be no discussion, it is a very dangerous path, russia has taken that path. there were similar precedents and these are extremely dangerous precedents, similar precedents of attempts to silence public discussion by destroying the opposition from the opposition media were in poland , there was a similar one in hungary, there it flourished , so here is ukraine, if ukraine audi and the ukrainian authorities are really aiming at the european union they should work in to a normal democratic legal field and these related things because no one will then be able to explain to european officials that it would be bad hungary blocked ukrainian transit to the european union if the ukrainian authorities will not act in accordance with the standards of the european union, that is, it does not happen that way , that is, the right and left hands must act synchronously to push in the same direction. moreover, i

was surprised by the argumentation, as it is absolutely relevant to me, representatives appear on our air of different political forces eh well, we didn't know that it was necessary to make someone persona non grata in order to remain available to our tv viewers on all platforms, we made a decision for ourselves eight years ago, we did not include in our broadcasts those who are now called collaborators and those who brought the war into our common home with you. er, we were able to prepare the russian federation for what it is doing now on the territory of our country, at the same time we tried to emphasize our internal policy in order to emphasize the need to strengthen the defense capability at the exit found themselves hmm well, somewhere behind the brackets of the information field. although i hope that our viewers are still from platforms where we can be available

, there are still many, and we still hope for justice and some kind of rollback, we must stop and look at the situation soberly understand that we are not enemies in any way, we can only strengthen the information front of the authorities so that the authorities comply with the legislation, the legislation says that the disconnection of the espresso tv channel from the t2 network was illegal and that the most important dear tv viewers, this is the solemn day of journalists, which we spend at our black and green machine with khrystyna yatskiv. we invite you to sign the petition in support of the espresso tv channel. this is extremely important. it is not against the espresso tv channel. it is about the situation in ukraine in general. subscribe and be with us. what are our boys and girls fighting for now at the front , in a few moments our colleagues

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