in fact, it has been 5 years since ukrainians got a visa-free regime, or was it? it ’s simple, let’s remember this time. we also didn’t believe and doubted probably more than now about the application, but we very clearly said then, please tell us what standards ukraine must meet. the whole list , in my opinion, is more than 200 points, what did we say then, this is all there will be no more, there will be no more if we fulfill all these points, the question will be signed, will be signed, we just went through and presented to the europeans that we meet all these standards, what answer did we get yes? and today, when we talk about the candidacy, we should not think about whether the leader of that country is good or bad, does the kremlin master have influence on him or not , we should talk about what the standards are the members of the european union must answer,

and of course we have a unique chance, because in addition to these standards, as a result of russian aggression , the europeans are still more favorable towards ukraine today. that is, we have a certain window which opportunities should simply be used? and this already depends on the skill of ukrainian politicians, ukrainian diplomats, ukrainian authorities, because everything depends on european solidarity, starting with leader poroshenko and ending with any of the 33,000 members of european solidarity. because we believe that our membership in the european union is not just a geopolitical and worldview choice of ukrainians, it is a fact that will jeopardize our future victory oleg synyutka, the people the deputy of ukraine was a guest of our studio. thank you, mr.

vezha. and accordingly, we continue the analysis of our european integration perspective according to ihor kharchenko, diplomat extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador of ukraine, and several important touches, so austria is ready to support granting ukraine the status of a candidate for eu membership only on the condition that the same decision is adopted regarding moldova and the countries of the western balkans, and denmark will make a decision based on the conclusion of the european commission, which, as we understand, will be finally formed on june 17. and tell me, please, mr. igor and the fact that we have to go in the forward direction of other countries that also aim to join the european union, how relevant is it at all, if you want to modern realities, listen

, let's not complicate the issue. the choice of ukraine, it has been fixed in our legislation for several dozen years, government committees of ukraine check the compliance of this or that legislation, at least the practice was like this, i remember from 2000 for compliance of the legislation of the european union, all of them are literally legislative questions. ukraine, er, wants to become a member of the european union. on the problem and did not burden her, whether there are still balkans there, whether there are still there, i don't know, these are the countries that decide the fate of our candidacy, and of course everything depends on us, the club makes the decision, we can

talk about what is in that club it means they don't look like that, they don't look like that, they do n't look like that, it's their decision, gentlemen, today we are preparing with your analogy that the european union is really a club in order to become a member of the club of those people who wear a hat and smoke cigarettes, you must wear a hat and smoke a cigar, for example if you want to become, i don't know, a member of the club of classical music fans, you have to listen to classical music and so on. we don’t fit in, where exactly well, in the end, it’s not a full membership, it’s just that, it’s just the status of a candidate, but it’s quite such a political assessment , in fact, so and so. it’s this element of the political assessment that i’m ready to briefly comment on. crazy

funds, financial, biological, political, were invested at one time the kremlin to various european countries so that the moscow slogan for us in europe, no one is waiting for you, it worked from that side, at least with the voices of supposedly europeans who have doubts that we do not meet the criteria there it is another matter, our internal situation here is to comment during development, i don’t particularly want to do anything, but there really is a political component, and this political component just depends in many respects precisely on the subversive work in europe that he carried out all these years somewhere worked better somewhere it worked worse, but again i would not overestimate the political importance of this very issue today in this historical

context because look comparatively i already mentioned the beginning of the 90s there was no european union yet there were european communities they were much less, the bureaucracy was also a little less, although there was a lot of it now and the european union is more complicated, there are many more members, the bureaucracy is more complicated, but look carefully at what you do in the same eu from a political point of view, and then you will understand that in any situation, consistent diplomacy is with the right effort, as the buddhists teach us, a result is achieved that is possible at the moment, or if we remember the ancient greek philosopher, a skeptic, who said that god's pancakes are washed slowly, but

doing, but carefully, this is now the inertia of this historical process, where there is a lot of politics, but politics in the strategic plan of the eeu, we don't know whether we will be members of the european union is an extremely important issue, a priority issue , but today, when we are fighting off russian aggression, it is, i would say priority number two, one, number one, but it is going in the right direction, it is going in the right direction, today we hope that we will be able to break the resistance of european politicians who have been on the kremlin's payroll for a long time. very thank you, mr. ambassador ihor kharchenko, diplomat extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador of ukraine, worked on the live broadcast of the information and analytical marathon of the espresso a tv channel, which we started a few hours ago, and i immediately decided to outline one of the topics that we will raise today, and we exchanged pleasantries this is exactly what

can be said about the defense ministers of china and the united states, and to be honest, i don't like rhetoric very much . of the asia-pacific region of nj politics 6 network greetings mr. yuri thank you for joining our broadcast good morning what about china will not hesitate to start a war if taiwan declares independence this was reported by the minister of defense of china vaip-feng is transmitted like this the minister expressed confidence in victory china said that military action may begin regardless of the human cost if someone dares to separate taiwan from china, the chinese army will not hesitate to start a war regardless of its cost taiwan is china's taiwan and here the pentagon responds , the minister of defense has promised to support taiwan in the future

against the background of china's aggressive rhetoric. the head of the pentagon reacted to weifenghei's statement and noted that the prc is using an increasingly aggressive approach regarding its territorial claims, and our policy will not change, what can yuri do? to call it the start of some new escalation, it is already usual, in fact, the games of world hegemony. i think, in fact, that we do not see any serious drastic changes yet , because the policy of the people's republic of china with regard to the so-called unification with china, it has been going on for several decades after the one china principle was announced, the one china principle and most countries of the world, practically all countries of the world including the united states of america and including taiwan if we talk about it as a state entity they have joined these principles and they recognize that

there is only one china on the world map but simply the people's republic of china and taiwan they interpret this situation differently but in fact other countries of the world do not recognize taiwan very much this about 10 countries. these are small islands in the pacific region, and so on. if we look at china's actions in this direction, we can analyze them in three aspects. if we analyze, for example, the constitution of the people 's republic of china, the white book of defense, national defense, the people's republic of china, then we can see in the direct text that unification with taiwan is the sacred task of the entire chinese people. the practical and main threat to the national security of the people's republic of china is the declaration of independence by taiwan. i am quoting from the white

paper on national defense of 2017, as for the other aspect, it is the rhetoric of the top political leadership, we see that it is quite aggressive. well, it has been straight-forward for a long time i will remind you that, for example, last year, the chairman of the people's republic of china, xi jinping, during the celebration of the centenary of the proclamation of the communist party of china, said that china would break its head in anyone who tries to build a wall will try to divide china and so on , so the rhetoric itself is nothing new, and we see the actions of the people's republic of china, they are also aimed at returning taiwan under my leadership, but i do not think that it will be a military way, despite the fact that the military component is developing quite intensively, as for the marines, as for the naval forces, especially in the

eastern fleet of the people's naval forces of the chinese liberation army, so my so far is such a summary of what it is. so far, the rhetoric is real, military , military actions, war, it is so far unlikely, but it certainly does not rule out that it can happen in the future, well, look at the prime minister of japan in fomiyo, which sida emphasized that today's events, as in ukraine, may be repeated tomorrow in east asia, in his opinion, authoritarian regimes will be able to try to reshape the international order, adding that japan will have to strengthen its armaments, that peace and security in the indo-pacific will be preserved region. and i would also like to add that japan and nato are obviously moving closer in the near future due to the aggressive actions of the russian federation in ukraine in particular. please comment on the strengthening of armaments. if we are talking about japan, this is not

a fast process. if even the japanese leadership is talking about it, it means that if a rearmament program is adopted today, a program for the adoption of new weapons, improvement of military equipment , modernization, this does not mean that it will already be in the armed forces tomorrow. and that tomorrow it will be implemented, these processes last for years, it can be five years or 10 years, and therefore, of course, if the war around the thai straits starts tomorrow, as the japanese side says, then it will not be japan that will not be ready for this before this situation that's why i think that the japanese side is talking about tomorrow, not about next year, for example. and about the coming decades, during the next decade. i think that the probability of a military conflict will increase. the question is that the chinese liberation army is a military at the moment, the component is not yet ready according to a number of different assessments of military experts, including american experts, it is not ready for

such a military operation to capture and ivan, as far as its naval component is concerned , there are not enough amphibious boats. training is necessary for the marines, equipment, and so on, and secondly, it will be important for china. and what china has been doing recently, it usually threatens with force, we see the threat of using force, but so far it is very careful er, it balances, it doesn’t cross the red market , well, china is balancing, but we actually know the state that would like to, just so i don’t know, it prays to its er, necrophiliac monuments, yes , somewhere in distant siberia, it is about the russian federation and the main beneficiary now it would be if the situation related to ivan escalated, the kremlin would be directly yes and he i understand that he gave very clear signals on the eve of his aggression

against ukraine because it would generate enormous additional tension in the world yes well, it would accordingly, the kremlin thinks it could bring china closer to russian interests, this should also be taken into account, i absolutely agree with this, but we can see that china is acting autonomously from the actions of the kremlin, just as russia is still acting autonomously. it is beneficial for china to start a military operation, but for example, i spoke with a number of chinese experts and russian experts before, before, before a full-scale war, and they said that the main idea was that china would never tie your military operation against taiwan to the operation of russia against the possible operation of russia against e against ukraine because the consequences of this military action of russia and its course of this war

is unpredictable for no one and we can observe it at the moment and what will be in three months, what will be in six months, in a year, it is very difficult to predict about china. of course, he will try to return to taiwan, of course, i think it will be in a peaceful way. first, he will use the so-called raw probe operations at the moment, he is using this blockade of economic taiwan, diplomatic taiwan, and forcing other countries to break relations with taiwan, and china says that the operation against taiwan will be, on the one hand, more difficult, and on the other hand, it will be easier, why is it easier because taiwan is almost no one recognizes it and it is not a state, therefore , according to the deceased, international support for the taiwanese will be much less, in addition, taiwan is far from the european soy of its partners, it is an island and therefore support

military from the side of the alliances will also be quite difficult for china, it will be easier to block possible supplies and block possible military aid , therefore, at the last moment, mr. yurii would like to clarify whether the chinese are currently engaged in the supply of so-called dual purpose goods to russia to circumvent sanctions. well, this is your private opinion, we understand that in the public sphere there are various denials, but we understand that a significant part of the sanctions, that is, the real sanctions that the kremlin felt, concerned the supply in particular and microcircuits, well, you know this question for a million dollars, and whoever would have the answer and possess the evidence, the real evidence of this situation, he would certainly be able to influence the governments of many governments in many countries of the world at the moment, the intelligence community as far as i understand countries of the west, including the united states of america, is working very intensively to find

evidence of the so-called material aid to china to the russian federation, especially this concerns the armament of the military equipment of the military components of technologies and dual- use products, so far, there is no evidence of this . i think that in china they can transfer some components. but if we look, for example, at the destroyed samples of weapons of military equipment, equipment of the russian federation on the battlefield of ukraine, we see a number of microcircuits of elements and components west of the production of the necessary countries but we practically do not see evidence of chinese components, therefore china will be quite careful about this, i think that some deliveries are individual point they may be, but everything will be very carefully calculated so that china does not harm its own interests, because it is important for china to

implement its strategic tasks, and russia's help. if it is detected, it can threaten chinese economic interests and the chinese image, and so on in us actually with india the chief of staff of the indian army general manoj fande met with the command of the pacific command of the army shag general charles flynn e meeting forgot e took place in new delhi in general. if we talk about the indo-pacific region, the position of india, we understand that it is a significant country in terms of its size and the weight of its own economy, in terms of its military capabilities, including where is india's place among all a-a let's say that those who are in one india is a strategic partner of the united states of america in the region, and it is not for nothing that you even called the name of the region the indo-pacific region, because before it was called, well, the name of the

asia-pacific region was used, and just changing the name shows that the united states states america's alliances are trying to increase india's role in this region, including in counteraction with china. the people's republic of india, i repeat , is a strategic and very important partner of the united states of america in the region . we have quite intense political economic ties, technological ties, and so on. to understand that india is also a member of the so-called group of four quota countries - this is an association of countries, the so-called asian nato, it is also called the quadrilateral security dialogue, it mainly unites naval forces and efforts naval forces of four countries: india, japan, the united states of america, and australia, therefore, india is very important, but the problem is that india is extremely dependent on military-technical cooperation with the russian federation. this is what happened. since the cold war and until now, the russian the federation is in fact a

monopoly supplier of military equipment, which means that almost all the planes of the indian armed forces fly on russian platforms, soum mig and others naval forces largely depends on russian e-e supplies and russian weapons tanks that are in service with the indian armed forces this is the t-72 t-80-90 and so on. therefore , in this regard, india usually depends on russia. approximately more than by 60-70% in terms of its technology and it is quite difficult for india to give up such dependence at the moment, but according to my latest observations and we can see it in the statements of the top military leadership of india that currently cooperation with russian federation by the russian federation may be reduced due to the fact that india is very closely following the situation

in ukraine and it sees that the effectiveness of russian weapons, russian tactics, approaches to the strategy is significantly overestimated, and there are increasingly voices in india saying that it is necessary to give up russian technologies in favor of western ones, because in a possible war with china they will not be effective and so on, and the second aspect is that the military defense industry of russia is significantly dependent on western supplies of western inventions elements that we miss in one of the losses that are already felt by the russian armed forces because of the introduction of sanctions and, in general, the introduction of hostilities in our country. let's go to the head of the section of the rural pacific region, let's hit now andryus tapinos, lithuanian journalist , writer, director, literary critic, radio and tv presenter, i hope he's here now there will be, well, here, so to speak, a shake-up that the russian federation

has decided to take and cancel the act of recognition of the independence of the republic of lithuania in the 91st year the wise lithuanian for the summer, in response, began by offering to cancel certain peace agreements with the russian federation, respectively, well, smolensk, whose smolensk will be the question for you to see dear an andrews on the espresso tv channel. so, you feel the loss, the threat of the loss of independence in lithuania due to the russian statement, good morning, colleagues well, you know, i'm not very upset with this news, i don't think that we will become part of the lithuanian and soviet socialist republics of the russian federation or something else. well, it's just a full daughter and nobody

lithuania, uh, you don't take it seriously as uh, how uh, what is something that might have some consequences, but you should probably understand that uh, this all already has some kind of approach, that is, uh, russia is trying these are the ways that probably puts pressure on lithuania as a country that is one of the most active countries that supports ukraine not only with weapons, not only with humanitarian aid, but lithuania is very strict in favor of sanctions for more sanctions like that so we probably see here some kind of demand together i’m so clumsy, of course, uh, the state duma of the russian federation, how do we already say it , the lady of the russian federation, and the deputy who asked this question doesn’t understand that this

is stupidity, and it’s some kind of fool, but he’s such a deputy of the country. how uh it is said there that the most childish deputy in russia, i think so, yes, that is probably our reaction , and if it is a little easier to say yes , we have a lot of all kinds of agreements that lead to 14th century with russia, which we are we can also cancel it and probably we can stop and we can also resolve the issue in our parliament so that somehow we can return to the borders of the 14th century at the end of the 14th century when our prince the great alberdas knocked with his spear both around moscow, but in principle we could do it

, but we don't really need it. why do we need this wild land? she is very angry with lithuania, but let it be чем она будет злее е тема она будет больше музыков чем больше мужбовых eh-eh we are clearly at the will of two late political beings named zhirynovsky, do you remember what he said there in his age in a full address to bush so when he said let's go together. let's hit the underbelly, maybe they are actually starting to probe their internal anti-lithuanian sentiments , because we understand that in addition to the ukrainians of bandera , there is another enemy - these are the bandera or forest brothers of the baltic countries, estonia, lithuania and latvia. here

maybe they are just preparing for the next attack on you, well, you know, er, these er, er, such cases, and from zhirinovsky, i am the second one regarding lithuania, they have existed for a long time, and zhirinovsky there several times threatened to join all three baltic countries to russia, eh anti-lithuanian er and anti- baltic is let's say this is the mood they are fueled in russian for a very long time очень серьёзное что высоме here fascists even before they started calling er ukrainians nazis so we were already fascists a long time ago maria zakharova has it repeats probably since 2000. i don't know what year and when i was last there, the last time was uh in russia in 2016, i was in siberia there. we

built the graves of lithuanian cheese makers. the country looked at us first because their brains were already zombified by this russian television and they knew for sure that the fascists had come here to visit them . well, two days of conversation and everything changes. vladimir putin compared himself to peter the great. and said that i also collect land there and at least that's how i perceived it. well , it also fell to my fate. we collect land and improve life on these lands. well, i'm just curious. how did your society, in particular, react to this in the societies of your neighbors in the baltic countries, because this is what their non-collecting looks like. as a very sick and endless ambition that will not stop in ukraine, we understand that lithuania has a very categorical

attitude towards the russian federation. the question could be repeated in russian because i do not 100% even understand the ukrainian case there eh life and it is clear that this does not only concern ukraine but also the baltic countries and lithuania, including dangerous, perhaps with aggression, how exactly, you don’t know. we already look at him with a little pity, because this is probably napoleon’s kit, very advanced, and not this. do you understand that the imperial ambitions and that before peter the great will always extend to the strange

barth and it was always like that maybe there was some small there was such an uh interval of time came and in principle we always lived in this we всегда готовились е к этому so that we are quite calm as members of nato and in our society, in principle, they are now depicted very much and they talk about the fact that here and there putin makes a furrow in our society, everyone is talking about how to help ukraine, and in principle, the discussion is not going right c is wrong russia, and about germany, france, and the countries of the european union, because, uh, this is politics about ukraine, about the supply of weapons to ukraine.