for example yes, unfortunately, unfortunately, it works, but on the other hand, this indicates that even in the european union there are such safeguards for small countries, for countries that are not leaders in the economic plan, in order to protect their national interests, igor, thank you for the conversation with us was ihor burakovsky, the head of the institute of economic research and political consultations. after this conversation, he mentions the well-known column pole krugman, the nobel laureate in economics, who wrote in neurocrimes that trade it is always more profitable for all parties than war, but unfortunately, wars are still going on because some people do not know how to play the economy. and i have the latest news for today about the european union, which is increasingly moving away from russia. fortunately, the european union will buy more israeli gas to replace russian gas, the parties have already signed the corresponding according to the

agreement, israel will send more gas through the pipeline to the egyptian terminal in the mediterranean sea. egypt has the ability to liquefy it, then the gas will be transported to europe. on tankers across the sea and as reported by the story press last year the european union imported about 40% of its gas from russia and now there is an opportunity to reduce such dependence on the russian federation on this today all the news of the economy during the war watch weekdays on espresso at eight in the morning and repeat in the evening i'm andriy yanitsky, espresso tv channel , we will win together

and immediately we reached our friends in irpin. that is, you can see it all. you can hear the story, it's like that. well, i already mentioned that you don't know rudely, not rudely , you drive cars to the front, emergency hospitals, and i i noticed on your facebook page that you

are tagged in these posts about cars and there they write the number eh 600-700, the last one was 742 - this is the number of cars, how many are your team, just such dry numbers. you also spoke and continue to speak in front of the military, how is it for you what does it look like for artists, they invite you, you offer them, because that’s how they are meetings. we used to call them “ rolling with meaning” into whatever backwoods we went , uh, when, for example, if we took the chernihiv direction, we stopped by the first tank station in our country they conducted reconnaissance, which immediately gave the ticks greetings, the ticks conducted first, we brought tank jeeps to them and, of course, all these jeeps are stuffed with provisions, medicine and food, and we saw and that’s how it

always is, and we just drive into positions , the commander asked me to go to the chernihiv hospital there first gave concerts there, then went to the position of the guys on the border with belarus, this is in the next few days. as we know, for this we will need the unanimity of 27 member countries, and i will advocate for this unanimity germany advocates a positive decision regarding ukraine myroslav the recognition of ukraine as a candidate must be unanimous by all 20 seven countries that are members of the eu, we know that president macron and chancellor schultz previously spoke about granting ukraine a certain conditional status, which is currently their position and when can we expect the adoption of the corresponding decision well, here we are. we just heard the position of the sun, in principle , he spoke the same way, and president macron also supported him. other european leaders, by the way , are also here, and they took the president of romania

him with himself eh saying that this is, so to speak, to demonstrate the unity of europe by the way all the presidents stayed in the same hotel eh and today we all had the opportunity to communicate with them right in the field of the hotel eh well, it is clear that it is very important a very important aspect about which today, president zelenskyi and president macron spoke about the very help to ukraine, and repeating, returning to the idea of ​​possible persuasion of ukraine to the peace plan, president macron justified himself to some extent and declared that they would not conduct negotiations without ukraine and this morning, when we spoke with president hron before the meeting with president zelenskyi, he said no. france has always advocated that ukraine determine its own destiny and we are very proud

to say that ukraine is fighting and defending itself. let's listen to the president of the ato france will never negotiate with russia on behalf of ukraine this is actually what we have never done we did not make concessions and did not discuss any concessions it is about asking for clarification and put forward our demands as a european power, as a military force and a member of the security council, but never conduct negotiations on behalf of ukraine, perhaps another important issue for ukrainians is, of course, aid to armaments . to kyiv, well, look, both will come and the president , in fact, in particular, france and germany said that they will help ukraine as long as it is necessary. i also have to say that already in the evening

i did not have the opportunity to talk to the ambassador of the united states to ukraine, the new new new ambassador, and she also assured the united states that the united states will help the ips in all ways, and in particular, with weapons, and this is what she is talking about . yesterday's statement we know the white house about additional military aid to ukraine so americans appreciate american help europeans are ready to provide additional weapons and continue to support ukraine as long as ukraine needs to liberate its territories i i also had the opportunity today to talk with the mayor of kyiv and with his brother with the nickname brothers and they talked about the fact that they see the victory of ukraine only in the liberation of all territories and about no peace negotiations to go no no no no ca n't talk and in fact peace negotiations and

stop the wrong war can only be one person and this person president putin moscow thank you myroslava i will remind you that my colleague myroslava gongadze was on a direct call from kyiv how are they reacting in the white house to fears that ukraine will try agree to sit down at the negotiating table with russia, as well as the passage of nato defense ministers' meetings, we will talk with yulia yarmolenko, who is now joining our studio from the white house. congratulations yulia congratulations natalya yuliya so, i am commenting in the white house on fears that european leaders may push ukraine to negotiate with russia or what concessions she does not want, what is the position of the american administration in general regarding the possibility of negotiations with the aggressor natalya in the white house, it is painful not to comment on the positions or statements of certain leaders the position of the european states, in particular, and those who came to kyiv today, is that the war may end and that ukraine will directly consider it a

victory, and the day before john kirby, who is now an official of the national security council of the united states, said that president biden stands with the people of ukraine and he wants to make sure that the united states , on the other hand, is doing everything in its power to ensure that the ukrainian armed forces are successful on the battlefield, and therefore ukraine has a stronger negotiating position in the negotiations if or when such negotiations will take place. yuliu, the head of the pentagon is in brussels today, where the two-day meeting of the nato defense ministers is ending. what are the results of these meetings? yes, natalya today and the head of the pentagon and until now, the nato ambassador and genstolton discussed that these meetings were extremely fruitful and productive. and of course, as she said already in myroslavl, the meeting of the third contact group with assistance to ukraine ended yesterday, and there the

united states announced, in particular, the allocation of an additional billion dollars for defense assistance ukraine, but also a number of other countries , have announced additional military support. if we are talking specifically about the nato defense ministers' meeting, that is, this meeting was also very important, it is essentially preparatory to the nato meeting before the nato summit, which will take place in 10 days in madrid and several main issues that are being discussed today and will be discussed later it is actually and how to help ukraine just now and for the future but also how the alliance can settle its positions in the light of russian aggression and this is exactly what the head of the pentagon, louis dostin, said about the work of the ministers at this meeting. we all have the honor of standing side by side with the courageous people of ukraine who are defending their democracy

and sovereignty. i am very proud of the progress we have achieved over the past few months, now this beautiful the work must continue, i used this time to call on my fellow ministers to do even more, and also the secretary general of nato and genstoltonberg today he also spoke to the press and he emphasizes that the nato summit which will take place in madrid, it will be historic, the nato general secretary, in particular, said approvingly, he turned his back on what kind of assistance some nato countries provide defense assistance. he said that this assistance is extremely powerful, but he also announced that nato in madrid itself will talk about a plan to help ukraine in the future perspective and also bring ukraine closer to the standards of compatibility with the nato alliance and this is how he announced the main basins and how he generally announced this nato summit

in madrid and aid directly to ukraine we are producing a comprehensive nato aid package for ukraine to improve its operational interoperability with nato and to help transition from soviet- era weapons to modern kyiv weapons, as well as further strengthen security institutions. i am sure that madrid itself will be transformative. important decisions will be made there in several key areas this is a significant strengthening of deterrence and defense continuously in support of ukraine and other partners who are under threat and i am glad that president zelenskyi will participate in our we will also make a decision on the new strategic concept of nato and establish our position regarding russia, new challenges and, for the first time, regarding

china . in the last package of military aid, he announced that ukraine would receive four himers and the ukrainian military, as reported by martmili, this is a top american general, as well as lloyd, the head of the ukrainian pentagon. the military is now completing its training in europe on how to use these installations, as general milli said, by the end of the month these installations will arrive on the battlefield for their effective use by the ukrainian military. we also know that yesterday germany announced that it would provide ukraine with several more installations of multiple rocket launchers and earlier, we remember, great britain also announced this and together, as general milley and minister austin said, this will actually help the ukrainians on the battlefield, because the ukrainians according to the pentagon's estimates, they are extremely capable artillerymen, of course, there are now many questions about whether these installations are enough, because a small

number are now ready to be provided by the countries of the world, and today this question was asked of the national security adviser, jake sullivan. he said that this is only the beginning and he believes that he is convinced that in the next tranches of military aid to ukraine , more rocket launcher systems will be provided ; again, it is about the ukrainians undergoing training and the number of installations which is provided for arms to the ukrainians, corresponded to how many ukrainian soldiers can effectively use it on the battlefield. once again, natalya, let's remind our viewers that the senate and congress have generally approved aid to ukraine , funding of $40 billion, and half of this aid will go specifically to defense. and now out of this money, literally on a regular basis, the white house will allocate funds and the process was also announced today by

sullivan . thank you to julia for all the information. yarmolenko, the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyi , received the charles manat award, the award was established by the international foundation for electoral systems , the award recognizes the work of outstanding people who work for freedom and democracy, in addition to the ukrainian leader, the award was also received by the employees of the us agency for international development, the award was accepted on their behalf by the american diplomat samantha power, as well as senator rob-portman attended the event, kateryna lisunova and oleksiy osika awarded volodymyr zelenskyi, the participants of the ceremony met with loud with a standing ovation and a standing ovation, the award in the name of the american diplomat, public and political figure

charles zamanota for president zelenskyi received the gift of ukraine in the united states oksana markarova today, when we are fighting for our independence and freedom and democracy, we see that a lot of foundations of such prominent organizations in the united states give e- e different awards of our president to our people, sometimes to the president and the people, this is one award and today's award from the international foundation for electoral systems just the democracy award solomonto- pofer diplomat and permanent representative of the united states to the un during the obama era accepted the award on behalf of all employees of the united states agency for international development who work on the issue of democracy and human rights, the co-founder of the ukrainian congressional corps, a republican senator , also received the award this evening portman, both figures emphasized that the main war for world democracy is currently being fought in ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyi said that it is on the

battlefield in ukraine that the rules will be decided live the world and it is absolutely true that putin attacked ukraine precisely because it accepted the democratic values ​​that we all hold dear putin clearly explained his motives in the speech before the invasion this is an organization that supports democracy and freedom all over the world and they actually support ukraine since its independence but never before their work has been more important than now, now we must ensure the victory of ukraine so that the unjust, barbaric and completely unfounded attack of russia will suffer a crushing defeat and democracy could flourish again, the international foundation for electoral systems was founded in 1987 in response to the mystical speech of ronald reagan in which he called for the promotion of democracy throughout the world. this is a non-governmental organization of the united states that supports the right of citizens to free and

fair elections and also helps election commissions and conducts research on the ground. currently, its representatives work in 145 states, both mature democracies and those that are developing. they work not only in ukraine, but also in ukraine since our acquisition of independence to help us precisely in the democratic reconstruction of our electoral systems, their let's say this, their consultants worked very actively and on the electoral legislation, all of them are veterans and observers at the elections and on our constitution and in fact i worked i started my career working in africa, e.e., in the distant 90s in ukraine, the foundation has been working since 1994, in particular, on technical assistance in elections, involving civil society in political processes, and on sociological field research, the largest office of our

foundation is located in kyiv, ukraine, and i manage this office. of helping non-governmental organizations in their struggle for democracy on june 14, the lessons of their existence, according to its representatives, in the last decade, the challenges have changed a lot. if before their work was focused on development democracies in the world so now the democratic system of existence needs protection our foundation has changed its mission now we focus as much on elections as on democracy itself the world has changed and the threats against democracy in the world have increased in the last few years we see the threat to democracy due to the rise of authoritarianism but

democracies use technology and disinformation, now the world needs not only to work on the promotion of democracy, but to protect it from attack by both organizers and nominees the awardees emphasized in their speeches that if ukraine used to learn how to promote democracy in its state, now kyiv defends democratic principles for the whole world kateryna lisunova oleksiy osika - voice of america washington what threats faced ukrainian journalism during the war what is happening to the free press and how to deal with it can help to preserve the pluralism of words in ukraine, i talked about all this with the ukrainian journalist kateryna lykhodlyad stepandiat named after vaclav havel kateryna, the war caught you i understand in prague and where are you you are on an internship with us under the havela program, tell us a little about this program, the vaclav havela program is a program, it is a

scholarship that is given to promising journalists from countries where there is a threat to democratic development, such as moldova, for example ukraine, well, it is already difficult to compare it with belarus, because everything is bad there. this is not only for ukraine. this scholarship program is also provided for other countries. this program involves a six-month stay in a one- month internship and obtaining the best practices of an independent media international, because i remembered that you are talking about the immediate problems in journalism that currently exist in ukraine, what exactly are you talking about, what are the problems, you know

when i am sitting next to my colleagues, who, well , they also came from moldova, belarus, georgia and listen to their problems. i am so ashamed to open my mouth , because after all, the situation is much better in our country, despite the fact that we have a war, but there are problems and there are threats and we need to talk about it, and the first thing i would like to draw attention to is of course a security problem, and there are still journalists in the occupied territories. and here is my colleague. he now changes his location every day. he continues to write about what is happening in kherson, but if they find him, well, they can torture or kill him, they were already looking for him, they came to his house, he just managed to escape from there in time, that's why the first problem is,

of course, it's safe, journalists are dying. it's not for it's no secret that people are dying in the war zone, but these territories, which the aggressor country would like to call calmly taken, there is also such quiet terror happening there, and journalists, of course, are especially focused well, here we are, if only we didn't appeal to anyone. well, anyway, we are next to a terrorist country that decides what it will do, but there is a problem that depends on us, that depends on our government, and our government. for example, now i see certain the threat is that all the largest ukrainian tv channels with the largest audience broadcast in a single marathon. it was a great idea in the first month of the war, when it was necessary to mobilize people a little, if only to orientate them, to give

them some tone, to give them some understanding of what is happening, but now it is all more reminiscent of the desire to monopolize the information space how how do you feel about the idea of ​​a marathon, selected channels are allowed, and there are no channels that are connected in one way or another with the previous government? but it seems to me that in general, this is such a phenomenon as a single the marathon about er should be curtailed a little bit we need pluralism one way or another many say that it is inappropriate during war it seems true to me it is always appropriate but of course there are things that cannot be announced due to er military actions, i understand when these or other things are not announced about where it happened, where it exploded, where the attack went, or how many people

died, there are things that are currently under investigation, i can understand it, but i cannot understand when the answers to the questions that hang in society are not announced, they are frozen and when there is no answers to this questions, and there are none precisely because the space is like this, it is the only one, it is not competitive, then in an empty place, speculations appear, for example, such questions what happened to kherson people is very disturbing and what suggestions do you have that can be done to refuse the marathon go to the topic of broadcasting that existed before the war. this is a rather difficult issue. on the one hand, we understand that in our country, all tv channels with a key audience are controlled by oligarchic business groups, and a certain competitiveness may begin there. destabilization of the information space and so on, but it seems to me that there may be other mechanisms to ensure the interests of national security,

forgive me for the tautology, but it is important to talk about a lot of things so that pluralism is important , money will come to us, support will come now, not only the issue of hostilities in time at the same time, the issue of people's housing is also relevant. how is this money spent? what programs exist? is related to the issue of a free press, of course, over the years, ukraine has gone through different stages, different periods, for now after february 24. how would you rate the state of liberation of the operation in ukraine, if compared to

the beginning of the war? to ukraine, what is it just like that, well, don't get rid of it, it's already a certain thinking, it's already if it's a certain progress, it's our big, um, our contribution to the democratic development of the country, there are a lot of objective reasons why it has become more difficult to work, in particular the same one investigative journalism, but i worked in investigations. i understand that now a lot of registers are closed, also due to objective reasons, because according to these registers, i can simply determine the place of residence, addresses, well, people who work with registers, you do not know what danger this can bring, but also well, i see certain threats that can, well, the issue of war is very easy to manipulate, but you can't do that, because war, er, you can't talk about it, because war, where does this war end, and er, you

can't talk about everything in the world, because war and that's it that's why i think it's very good that we already have a lot of independent media. the only problem is that they don't have such a large audience as in the tv channel, or is there a threat that this war will lead to the fact that journalism will roll back to the times it was in for president kuchma, let's say no, i'm convinced that no. maybe i'm wrong, but i don't see such grounds. but i see a different type of threat here . power

deserves respect, certain actions that deserve respect and support, but there are also many questions, and i see the risk of this excessive fascination with power, so that they build idols for themselves that are simply untouchables . what are our weaknesses and we need to keep them in tune all the time, this is our job kateryna, you mentioned the huge help that ukraine will now receive security aid, financial humanitarian aid, what kind of help does ukrainian journalism need if it needs an event and partners support for independent media because, one way or another, despite the fact that they do not have such a large audience as

tv channels, independent media are read by a lot of people who are the drivers of change in the country, these are not people who simply switch channels there, everything is bad there, they quarrel with the tv and then well, simply they do n't do anything. no, these are young and active people who are able to change something. accordingly, as long as there is such an audience, intelligent, effective, young, active in independent media, as long as these independent media are larger, they are stronger, more powerful and more powerful, they gradually grow their audience, so uh, there is a lot there are many chances that our journalism will remain strong, it will only improve, have you watched the program of the ukrainian service of the voice of america usa time join our specials