angels, the key lies in france, germany , uh, smaller countries, they just act when the french and germans don’t want to shine, that ’s why, of course, you have to work with everyone, but the key countries, well, in my opinion, these two, a lot will depend on uh, words which will be recorded in the conclusion of the european commission, which will be on june 17, just the other day , ursula fondularne was for the second time during the full-scale invasion of kyiv, and i know for sure that there is quite a lot of pressure on her from various political leaders in europe to so that the wording is so vague, but she is on the defensive. i hope that the words about ukraine's candidacy will be clearly indicated and then it will be easier for us to act politically with the joy of europe. thank you

for joining our broadcast. connection on the topic of the european union and our candidacy, i.e., this status of a candidate for membership of the european union, we will talk about this in more detail with the minister acting as the minister of foreign affairs of ukraine in 2006 , volodymyr khandogii, he joins of our broadcast, volodymyr, good night. glory to ukraine. i was not there to correct you in 2009, but it was a long time ago. now i am the president of the ukrainian foreign policy association. i apologize. we will now call you mr. volodymyr. so, why is your position? at the beginning of the invasion, we saw such a surge

of support for ukraine and now this information appears that someone there no longer wants us to be candidates. they call three countries that will want to vote against, at least at that moment, the normal position is very simple. i would very much like to at the summit of the european union, the union granted ukraine the status of a candidate, and we all expect it. western friends who wanted to support in every possible way, including politically, what we managed to achieve at the beginning, namely the european union accepted ukraine's application. this is what is important for many years, they they didn't even want to hear about the fact that ukraine

will become a member of this organization of the european union in some future. therefore, consideration of ukraine's application to provide us with a candidate is a very important step that we have overcome very quickly. today, the situation is 50 to 50. i wanted to talk about three countries or a larger number. but there are forces in the european union , political forces that would like to slow down the process of granting ukraine the status of a candidate, and secondly, to be realised, and to acquire membership, remember a few days ago, a week ago, a member of france , metro macron, spoke about the tens of years that ukraine will need to become a member of the european union, so we are all waiting for it . this is where it is very important what

the european commission will write in its conclusion, but today fondoland was in ukraine, she conducted all the necessary negotiations i am sure that they have explained from all sides the importance and necessity of such a step, and it seems to me that the commission will still give a positive recommendation to the european union. namely to grant the status, although this is from some sources, we know that two options have been prepared. let’s say this is the conclusion. the first option is to grant the status from the candidate’s country, and the second is the circumstances or whether the granting of such status depends on various conditions. first of all, i will say what , in my opinion, are the main requirements for us, the first is

that, let's say, ukraine still has a lot of work to do in terms of bringing domestic legislation to, let's say, the standards of the european union, the fight against corruption is called and so on, and the second such set of problems or problem is that some european countries have been waiting for a long time to receive such a candidate status, and therefore, let's say, some european countries already members of the european season believe that if ukraine is granted the status now, it is to some extent if to say in simple words would be out of line well, it seems to me that both the first and second arguments do not withstand any criticism and in my opinion the main problem is a political political decision i would say the political courage of the country

of the leaders of the countries of the european union about the fact that in these conditions, when ukraine withstands russian aggression and actually stands and defends freedom and democracy for the whole of europe, such a step is absolutely necessary, and at the same time it must be absolutely clearly emphasized to them that today it is not about membership, i agree that for in order to become a member of the european union, we will then need a rather long period of time, but today we are talking about e-e candidacy for membership. and this is primarily recorded in article 49 of the treaty on the formation of the european in the union, any country can become a european union, a member of the european union, so let's not get confused here about what it is supposed

to be. to remind that ukraine declared its readiness and desire to join the european court back in 1997, when we signed the first agreement on cooperation with the european union, thank you volodymyr volodymyr khandogii president of ukraine foreign policy association and acting minister of foreign affairs of ukraine in 2009. thank you, mr. volodymyr. so, next we will talk about our diplomatic front, and then we will talk about the front, about the front, about our front, but about those who fight not only with weapons. in ukraine, on june 12, christians of the eastern rite celebrated the holy trinity and celebrated it in particular and on the front lines, our military chaplains helped them in this. what services do you now have

the right to do? of the orthodox church of ukraine by dmitriy the juror p dmytroy good evening glory to ukraine good night good studio god give glory to ukraine heroes please tell me how they celebrated the trinity in the trenches no matter what, this is a great, bright holiday and i am sure that even in the trenches today there were appropriate prayers well, they sounded and will sound, that is, we will not say in the past tense, because they sound constantly, and as you can see from the chaplain service, it covers not only the morning, day, but also the night time of the day. with the prayer of our soldiers, they blessed and consecrated a strange potion, but most importantly

today they prayed to our native ukraine for our defenders, it is constantly changing how many chaplains are in the army now and how many of them are directly in the hot spots, well now it is difficult to answer these questions because before the active phase and the military there were 650 actions from the orthodox church of ukraine. now, since the events were very fast and did not change, it is difficult to tell how many orthodox churches and how many catholic or protestant communities, but our chaplaincy family is even more united and motivated because we know that service to god is service to one's people. that's why we don't have time now to keep any statistical indicators closer to our ukrainian victory. i think

we will make it public, but the chaplaincy service continues until now, that is, kpi. i correctly understood the chaplains of various and they are now telling how only one army serves god, except for the representatives of the hostile moscow patriarchate. please tell me how actively or willingly the chaplains are currently going the hottest spots, unfortunately, we do n't have more than one, well, actually, we have been in these hot spots since the 14th year. so now the hot phase of the war and the large-scale invasion of muscovites on our god-given land, that is, we went in the 14th year , we will continue to go and now and actually speaking, we have the same motivation from the 14th year until now

, that is, the service continues. we go, first of all, according to the call of the soul and heart, despite the fact that the law on chaplain service was recently adopted, but unfortunately it has not come into force yet , because there should be more some agreement under legislative acts. that is, we served, serve and will serve. and for that, thank you very, very much for defending our defenders and in this way . russia's war against ukraine killed 33 ukrainian journalists - these are data from the institute of mass information eight media workers died while performing their professional activities 24 died as participants in hostilities or as a result russian shootings or torture, however, how

has ukrainian journalism changed since the beginning of the full-scale offensive of russia, we spoke with the head of the national council for television and radio broadcasting, olga gerasimyuk . listen more good day, mrs. olya. war in ukraine uh-uh ukrainian journalism has undergone changes a- ah the leading channels have merged into a single news marathon many media workers have gone to the armed forces of ukraine for territorial defense actually, what trends of change in ukrainian journalism do you see, you know, one colleague said when it all started and it started exactly on the morning of the 24th, it was already on the air, it seemed like a rope on the rada channel, then everyone connected and one journalist then said the following phrase that from today the ratings are not

important when your audience is shot, our profession today is the information fighters of the front. of the world moved to ukraine today, and once our journalists went to war, we saw off one or two of them, we were terribly worried about them, and there were deaths, uh, we all remember them, but what happened here fundamentally changed the approach to journalism in general, and all over the world today they say what is the most dangerous point for the work of journalists ukraine is the way they say it in the world, they say it in europe, you know why last

year, 46 journalists were killed all over the world, six of them in europe this year alone of a full-scale invasion, journalists record the number 32, 15 wounded, it is not known how many are missing, but i would say that the number we repeat here constantly is 32, it is not exactly a number because the war has been going on here for 9 years already, and those people are our colleagues who died, who disappeared, who were captured which we took away oh someone and no , that's all, that's all that you asked about. what has become of our journalism, our journalism has become the most difficult, as it were, even the most dangerous profession. although she was among those who were considered such, and

many media workers worked for some people had to leave the temporarily occupied territories, what kind of journalism is it? during the occupation and how dangerous it is to work in such conditions. i think that you and i. when we win the victory, when our armed forces throw out the aggressor from everywhere, we will learn about a lot of things. well, at least trostyanets, we will take sumsk tv just now, the head of this company finished her interview with the head of the city, when she left it and saw russian tanks on the streets, it was exactly february 24, she and her son were working and they immediately turned on

the united marathon and the runners in a row were given local news so that the people in trostyanka , who were already surrounded by tanks and murderers were already walking around the yards, they did it, they did it in their cellar, they installed a router right there on wednesday of these concern cans the guy set it up and searched so that the internet could make its way to the townspeople so that they knew what was happening. well, when the tower was broken and the towers were first broken by the aggressors, then this signal disappeared . partisan war is partisan resistance. it 's just, well, you can't put into words what kind of

feat it was, and all the people in the city knew where the rashists were, they started looking for them, they walked , they looked for where they came from, they brought them their equipment and everything turned on and they didn't have enough and they were looking for those people, you know, no one gave out where they were, they didn't even know where the studio was, then when there was an opportunity, people started looking for the two because they were in danger, how to leave, how they were already leaving, this is another separate one the series of the film, how did they miss it at all, but they have already returned, they are now already trying to restore broadcasting there everything is shattered, we are now looking for opportunities for them to rebuild this studio, i can also say separately about chernihiv, which was, well, this is a heroic city that everyone knows in which blockade they are were there, and by the way, the journalists

did not leave their workplace at all, what became of chernihiv region, they were terrible in terrible circumstances, they tried anyway , having no gas, having no transport, they moved and filmed everything, they filmed everything there were two operators, one among the other , of public broadcasting a1 from new chernihiv, two andrii. they said that they were going to work at the sound of the place where they were shooting, they rushed there, they filmed evidence of crimes, they filmed just six disabled children, they forced them to take away their crutches and forced them to to run , they filmed witnesses of how beauties put a grenade in people's hands with this check drawn out and forced them to walk with it in their hands for 20 days, this

is what should be announced in the gas station. that is, this is a feat . who was initially released, but he hid his son's phone because they took the phones and he hid it, and while they seemed to turn away, he conveyed the danger that the aggressor was here, it was noticed that his terrible death befell him, in which regions is the most critical situation with the work of the snake and in which cities is a takeover taking place, there is a case of taking over the editorial office, well, everywhere where the aggressor entered, everywhere in some cities our colleagues simply refused to broadcast to berdyansk, such were their examples to us

asked that we stop broadcasting so that suddenly someone would go on the air under their brand , so that they would know that this is not ukrainian broadcasting, some people dismantled it, as in mariupol, they simply dismantled the equipment completely in order to provide an opportunity to use, well, zaporizhzhia , kherson region, these are all the places now, what is happening in the east, it's about where it's most difficult for journalists to work, how did they end up on the orcs' lists, they are under personal danger , their families. in our council, the members of the national council also volunteer because we are trying to find an opportunity somewhere to restore broadcasting, by the way, in relation to captivity, cases of

captivity and persecution of journalists are recorded. how widespread is this problem now compared to 2014 ? there are no full ones now, and i’m glad you’re talking about the year 2014, because when it was so long ago that we honored everyone, well , on journalist’s day, we honored our heroes and the dead and the living, they were awarded, i think that this the list of awardees will have to be increased , but the data are complete. we should not therefore compare. we cannot, at a certain time, we lived in such a double reality that and now it is starting a little bit. then it was ato, it was not declared as an unofficial war, but what happened in donetsk on the donbass and those people

who were cut off from us were already going through what we are going through today everywhere at the beginning of a full-scale war in ukraine . to the employees, do they know about this problem in the national council? undoubtedly, we do not just know, we are also concerned because all these people are our colleagues, they are our licensees, they are people with whom we communicate and we all know by name a lot of people and those who i lost my job also because of that. of course we know about it, but here it is also important to know that it is not because this is the dismissal of commercial broadcasters. these things are happening everywhere now. because our and our

information space now has very serious problems with funding. how how and the whole country is the economy and the united marathon, for example, big campaigns have united there, state broadcasting, public broadcasting , and everyone knows very well that uh, this uh, media movement, this front is informational, and it really needs financial support, first of all , because i know that the companies invested in keeping everyone at work, uh, even those who didn't go on the air, who didn't serve the daily air, they were all busy in some kind of work. there is something being produced that goes off the live air, it is definitely a huge expense. and i

understand that, well, this is all exhausted , accordingly, the national council has been for a long time already, and this is not the first month that we, er, are trying to draw the attention of the state to this problem, you also turned to me with letters to the cabinet of ministers to the concern that provides broadcasting so that they can ease some of the financial pressure on broadcasters so that they can survive. we are now thinking a lot about how to help. we at the national council are turning to our partners in europe. she recently returned to strasbourg and spoke with many people there. and many people offer their support. we will also get such financial support from the economic and uh, from those countries that currently take certain

regions under their auspices in order to rebuild them. we are appealing to them to also allocate some part of its attention to support local broadcasters with unesco. we communicate with er to help also with equipment and protection for journalists, so this objective problem arose because the war is here, but we think that the information front is the most important thing. although now the most important thing is that people need to eat and we need someone to work in production and we need you to work as teachers at school and medicine and say what from this number two we will do everything in order to support these people, and by the way, with regard to the committee on freedom of speech, the meeting of the committee on freedom of

speech was held with your participation, and actually it is interesting how the council of europe is reacting to the situation in ukrainian journalism, now , persecution, captivity, work in the occupation first of all, the council of europe expelled the russians completely from its walls, there are no members of any of our committees, certainly, too. and this is very important because the russian delegation in our committee tried to block all decisions related to the fight against disinformation and propaganda, and those they blocked everything related of cyber security, i want to say that the message about the work of the unified news was given a high rating, and after listening to how

completely different newsrooms, completely different approaches and the state came together, they said that this just some incredible experience and that it needs to be studied although, er, i told them about the fact that we, how can i say that they were only 100 days ago, a little more, but at that time there were 100. they understood everything that we told them about how to attack freedom of speech by russians about how dangerous russian propaganda is about what should be blocked about the fact that it is not aimed only at individuals and that it poses a threat to the whole of europe, i talked about this ms. olga thank you very much for the interview thank you for your interest then thank you and that's it was the head of the national council for television and radio broadcasting olha gerasimyuk

to the marathon the only news continues stay with us to know more we bandage we will bandage we will win whatever you don't news together we are strong invincible cities of ukraine zaporizhzhia the city of strict metallurgists, glorious engine builders and the powerful hydroelectric power station on the dnipro and this is also the cradle of the cossack family of ukraine, which never knelt before anyone. for centuries, zaporizhian cossacks defended ukrainian lands from invaders during the war of liberation . fought for independence for the whole country in the second world war, the city withstood the soviet undermining of the dnipro and the german

occupation. now zaporizhzhia is full of the cossack spirit, as always, it stands steadfastly in defense of ukraine. zaporizhzhia is unconquered when it is necessary to save the country. they came and set it up, i left after a while , took away the mines, learned on my own how they are installed, how they are removed, at the cost of my health, i saved dozens of lives, i stood during the infantry stepped forward, we are waiting in the ranks of the rescuers, we will still put a foot and drink in the emergency department ukraine is a nation of heroes who lives under the protection of the most high , under the protection of the god of heaven, he will settle

on his shoulders he protects us with defense, we will be true to him, we will not be afraid of fear at night, nor arrows that fly by day will fall near there are a thousand of us and 10,000 on our right, but he will not come close to us, because he commanded his angels to guard us in all our joys, for what we put on him, he will deliver us and protect us, because we know his name with long life bestows us and will give us his salvation, amen, we will overcome what you are, news, together, we are strong, this is a marathon, the only news for you, works for the public my name is denys zepsun, congratulations, one person died as a result of the attack