of an american art film, the germans began to really worry about what they had done for hitler, we broadcast radio svoboda on this air radio svoboda, we warmly invite you to express or espresso, the guest goes to radio svoboda good luck with her, gentlemen, thank you for your attention ukraine introduces a visa regime for citizens of the russian federation from 1 in july of this year, the european commission recommended granting ukraine the status of a candidate for joining the european union, and another russian ship is burning in the black sea. my name is vlasta lazur, this is freedom. radio svoboda on facebook and youtube, as well as

on the espresso tv channel. well, now about everything in order. this morning, russian invaders attacked mykolaiv with rockets. as a result of the shelling , two people were killed. another 20 years were injured , including two children. mykolaiv mayor oleksandr senkevich said that as a result of the rocket 21 apartment buildings were damaged, we can see the consequences of the shelling of mykolaiv. well, it's very scary, the most scary, it's what happened to them

. everyone was shocked after the explosion of the mykolaiv city council they arrived here, mykolaivovlenergo also arrived here, our communal services are now helping people to sort out the rubble, e-e, they are cleaning up the remains of the explosion after it worked, the ministry of emergency situations got the person who died in the car, e-e, and they got everyone who needed help, now press the police and the prosecutor's office are coming to the hair managed the collection of evidence here. as you can see here, only people's homes. that is, this is the residential sector

. about 40 people were in the building. they were hiding there from shelling, and according to the state emergency service, at least four civilians were killed and seven more people were

injured. i ran, i saw the ruins and the pipes that were not carried out by hand, i don't know who was alive. i no longer understood who was here, what was here, what he will be, mother of god , it will be us, tomorrow something will be sad for us большой но онкончаться the war is over, we are old men, we are going nowhere, we are going nowhere, we are going somewhere, i am 72 years old, i am going nowhere, not everyone is saying why i am going nowhere,

i am going to throw it in the village, we are going nowhere, you guys are fighting for peace, so that peace may come, how to characterize the war correctly, the truth is now officially, the european commission recommended granting ukraine the official status of a

candidate for accession to the european union, the president of the european commission, ursula von deryan, announced this, and the european commission also recommended to ukraine grant the status of a candidate for eu membership to moldova , while georgia, which also submitted an application, will receive candidate status only after fulfilling certain conditions decided at the european commission, the correspondent of radio svoboda in the european union traditionally works in brussels zoryana stepanenko she followed current events verb historical day today for ukraine, the conclusion of the european commission regarding the candidate is positive, and this is much more than the political leadership in kyiv could expect until february 24. previously, the european union was limited to with abstract statements that ukraine belongs to the european family, but today they have gone much further and officially recognized the european perspective of ukraine, which they previously refrained from, and the main achievement is recommending that it be given the status of a candidate for membership of the european union. ukrainians are now shedding blood

not only for the future of their country, but also for europe and its values here they understand it and know that ukrainians are ready to die for the european perspective, so they want them to live together with europe, united by the european dream, this is a quote the president of the european commission at the same time noted that their decision was made not because of the war, but because ukraine has made significant progress in the last 8 years in the establishment of democratic institutions and with economic reforms of a separate nature, they also praised the merits in the field of digitalization, so after analyzing all the achievements, the decision was approved accordingly, our message the message is clear, yes, ukraine deserves a european perspective, yes, we should welcome ukraine to the status of a candidate, this is for everyone to understand, it has already done a considerable layer of work however, important work still needs to be done further. everything is in ukraine's hands to decide how best to shape its future. here is an intriguing recommendation: will the

european commission grant candidate status to ukraine in its pure form, or will ukraine have to fulfill certain conditions before receiving it? 7 points and all of them must be fulfilled by ukraine, only then will official negotiations on accession there begin, in particular, reforms in the judicial sector, the fight against corruption, anti-oligarchic legislation, the adoption of laws about the protection of national minorities and our sources in diplomatic circles will say that on the point about us minorities are at the threshold of the european commissioner from hungary, ukraine , moldova and georgia want to join the eu, they emphasized this clearly and loudly , they believe that membership in the european union will provide them with peace, stability and prosperity in the long term today the day when we make our proposal, we then make a decision according to the leaders, the re commission recommends that stage, but

georgia was refused because there are complaints about the situation with democracy in this country, now its will to follow the recommendations of the european commission at the summit in brussels, the leaders will announce in less than a week the support of the leaders of the leading countries of the world ukraine, in particular, had already engaged the day before and skeptical data the netherlands hesitated regarding the latter said they are listening to the recommendation of the european commission volodymyr zelenskyy positive conclusion congratulated said this is the first step towards eu membership which will draw closer to the victory of ukraine, the decision of the european commission was not overlooked in the kremlin, and piskov said that it requires increased attention from moscow without deciphering what it means if the leaders will approve a positive decision, and in principle there is almost no doubt about this, the conditions for further progress towards membership ukraine will have to fulfill such a deadline by the end of this year, the european commission has set a deadline that will monitor further progress and at the end of 2022 will publish its conclusion on

the fulfillment of these conditions. well, here it is worth to emphasize that for the first time in history the european union has given the green light for european integration to a country in which, firstly, there is a war going on, well, and secondly, part of this country is occupied. well , the main question is what happens next, how much time can pass before ukraine becomes a full-fledged member of the eu, for example, turkey received the status of a candidate back in 1999 and is still a candidate . we will talk further about ukraine's european prospects . congratulations i congratulate you well, by the way, you have doubts that something will change before the eu summit, which will take place on june 23-24. is this already the final decision? well, first of all, i congratulate you all. today is really an important day, it's an important day, the conclusion of the european commission is an important step for

to wait with such optimism for the meeting of the european council that will take place at the end of next week, i would wait for now, let's wait for the decision of the eu member states, because it is adopted by consensus, but what happened today - these are really important steps in this connection, i would once again like to pay tribute to the heroism and courage of the ukrainian soldiers of the ukrainian armed forces, who today are on the front lines not only protecting the freedom of the democrats, but actually promoting the european integration course of our country. of course, after a positive decision of the european council, e and e in the formalization of the status of the candidate. what, but 90% will now depend on ukraine in 90% of the pace of integration into the eu and obtaining e-e, as they say amg, the status of a member with full

rights, a full member of the european union and of course e it is very important that the european commission is doing everything possible and impossible for ukraine, let's be honest, i will say from my experience that it has never been so intense. and so i would say that in the turbo-mode mode, it does not work, the european commission did not work, therefore we really have to give credit to president yur of the commission and the european commissioners for what they are doing, because in the history of the european union there has never been such a fast pace of consideration of an application for the status of a candidate in almost two months considered that less and made this conclusion and literally somewhere in a week there will be a decision of the council of the european union for comparison, for example, the country of albania, which submitted an application in 2009, received the conclusions of the commission

only in 2012, and the decision of the european council in 2014 you see, they waited 5 years for the formalization of the candidate status. that's why it is. so to speak, accelerated acceleration of the pace of ukraine's integration into the european union, and of course it's here to pay tribute to ukrainian diplomacy, ukrainian politicians, the ukrainian government. i would like to celebrate the ukrainian government, ukrainian diplomacy, ukrainian e-e non-governmental institutions, let's be honest , civil society played a big role in lobbying our interests, and by the way, today at the press conference - it was noted separately president of the european commission, and of course it is very important that this is not the first step, i would say it is the third step, because the first step was the conclusion and the beginning of the implementation of the association agreement, it was the implementation of the e-e zone and e-e free trade

, that is, integration into the internal market of the european union and the third step was the one that brought us closer to the visa-free regime, and now we are moving to the fundamental step - this is the candidate status with the prospect of starting before the opening negotiations. but we really need to fulfill these conditions, which were clearly written out by the european commission today, so that later, as the next stage, the european council concluded that we have fulfilled these conditions and gave the green light to the start of preliminary negotiations and the opening of the relevant 35 35 chapters in order to talk directly about membership, let's overcome the consequences of the war, rebuild ukraine, rebuild the economy, what does this give ukraine the status of a candidate, first of all, i would say

that today, and i hope in a week, we will formalize it, we will receive a powerful geopolitical weapons with geopolitical weapons that will help us , first of all, to clearly demonstrate that the end of the so-called policy of zones of influence , which you know kremlin propaganda , kremlin diplomacy, has finally come. we are finally really proving that we are a country with a european identity further, does this clearly show that we are already a country that is a prospective member of the european union not on slogans, but in real affairs it will already be formalized, and it is no less important - it is a powerful stimulus for investors because that if an investor understands that sooner or later ukraine will be a member of the european union, of course he will have a stronger appetite to

invest and come to ukraine. including the temporary transfer of persons who, in principle, will understand that ukraine is no worse and ukraine will sooner or later become a member of the eu with the corresponding advantages in terms of social benefits that will also return to ukraine and already here build a european powerful prosperous country well, of course, one more question from a slightly different topic , because on the same day today, the ukrainian government made a decision to end the visa-free regime with russia, quite symbolic in one day a-a tell me it's not too late, you know, it's better late than never. that's why you're absolutely right, the decision is very symbolic and long-awaited, and i think

that we need to know how to use the principles away from russia, away from russia and closer to of course, the house to which we belong is the european house, and of course, once again, i congratulate everyone , but we must not rest on our laurels, and it is i. to integrate into the european union, thank you very much for your comment kostyantyn eliseyev, ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of ukraine, representative of ukraine, arrived in 2010-2015, the naval forces of ukraine announced the task of striking a tugboat of the russian black sea fleet, vasyl bekh, what spring is zmiiny island ammunition, weapons and sailors, russia has not yet commented on these reports in the naval

forces of ukraine, they report that even the tor anti-aircraft missile system that was on board the russian ship did not help the tug to avoid being hit, the operational command of the south reports that according to preliminary data, 70% of the crew were affected and that currently, russia is trying to conduct a search and rescue operation, the report of an attack on the tugboat vasyl bekh is also confirmed by the head of the odesa regional military administration, maksym marchenko, according to him the ukrainian military used american harpoon missiles against the russian ship; also a short video appeared on the network, which allegedly recorded the moment of the impact on the russian boxer . we cannot reliably establish the time and circumstances of this impact, but ukrainian high-ranking officials , in particular andriy, report that this is the exact moment of impact of the russian ship well, i will just remind you that at the end of may, the ministry of defense of ukraine published a video in which it was said that ukraine is receiving ground-based launchers and

the corresponding number of anti-ship harpoon missiles from denmark, great britain and the netherlands, about harpoon missiles, a sunken russian ship, from the strategic importance of the snake for the russian invaders , let's talk further with us, pavlo lakiychuk , head of security programs of the center for global studies, strategy 21, we are greetings to you good evening glory to ukraine glory to heroes well, the fact that ukraine, as i already said, received a harpoon, was already reported by the ministry of defense back in may, and now it seems that only they were used for their intended purpose. do you have doubts about that it is vasyl bey, because we have not yet seen confirmation from any independent sources, there is an intelligence on the silhouette of the ship . i know. i hope intelligence

because we s- it is well known about this and that this ship left sevastopol. i confirm that it was located approximately in that area . allegedly an air defense system was installed, well, you can see from the video, and in principle, the naval forces confirm that the ship was hit by two anti-ship anti-ship missiles and cruise missiles - these are more complex targets that have low effective, well, about the scattering area, that is, the radar reflection is high speed e-e growth and speed and high maneuverability in fact, it is, well, let's

say a means of mass destruction at sea, modern , that is, the presence of anti-aircraft missiles ensures a high probability of destroying enemy ships and what if when the russians are hitting our cities with caliber cruise missiles, and our anti-aircraft defenses manage to shoot down some of them, which shows that we have a very high air defense system, high -quality professionals. can you tell us a little more about these harpoon missiles? what else can they do? well, let me uh, i won't say that it's uh, unequivocally missiles. it's definitely against ship-based cruise missiles. i can't say. maybe it's neptune, maybe it's our domesticated

birds. britain or denmark may be against a ship missile of a different type. let it be a little intrigue for the russians. and the most important thing for us is that we sent another unit of the auxiliary fund to the cruiser moscow, not that the battleship will not change, but i will also start well . well, every such impression i i understand, well , it will have some effect and will influence the decision of the russian fleet to send ships somewhere or not. well, for example, they were carrying reinforcements to the serpentine . this is a very serious signal, like a red light

. actually, before moscow was hit by the neptunes, the russians behaved in the black sea. i would say brazenly. well, because the rest of the ukrainian navy has no missiles. the distance is very muffled by us, they are quite careful, but i understand that the russians convinced us that they convinced us that we have neptunes, but you know, the small number of missiles does not allow you to hit everything you can, but the world is moving if the russians have thousands of semi-gonixes of x22 caliber and other missiles, then they shoot, well

, even at the sorties on the odesa beach, we keep them in this form. and when each new defeat indicates that we have additional combat reserve will force the russians to be much more careful and maybe in the end we will drive them out to the crimea altogether. well, i expect that in the process of this expulsion we will send to the bottom a few more ships carrying cruise missiles of the caliber, so to speak , in revenge for the destruction of our cities and villages. and it is possible very in short, literally, what is the importance of snake island for russia now? snake island provides

surveillance, first of all, on snake island. in this way, in a serpentine way, he performs the control base on the routes of traffic of ships that we have left free between the danube ports and the black sea, thank you very much for your comment, pavlo lakiychuk, head of security programs at the strategy 21 center for global studies, was in touch with us. over the past day, donetsk region has been subjected to massive

shelling, as a result of which more than 40 structures, houses, medical schools, non-residential premises, have been completely or partially destroyed. russia continues to concentrate its forces to attack the slavic radio liberty correspondent serhiy horbatenko serhiy is currently in yanska. my greetings. what is your current situation? well, the russians are really concentrating their efforts on the following hot spots in this city the village of bogorodichne and the village of dolyna continue to remain, they are located approximately 20 km from slovyansk, it is very difficult to get information from there because there is no electricity, and there is no communication. the military , they told me that this morning ukrainian troops tried to knock out russian units from the village of bogorodichne, but i do not know what

the result of that battle was, also according to the report of the general staff and according to information from of the ukrainian military, the russian troops tried to storm the village of dolyna and the village of krasnopillya, which is located nearby, but so far they are unable to advance. oh, so far the russian troops of sloviansk are unable to advance and the ukrainian military is holding back this inscription. thank you serhii serhiy horbatenko works in donetsk region in the city of slovyansk , the commander of azov, denys prokopenko, temporarily handed over command of the regiment to major mykytin, and it was reported to mykyt's headquarters on roll call, one of the first ukrainian soldiers to be evacuated from mariupol on a helicopter due to a serious injury , radio svoboda correspondent taras levchenko met with him near the front line and asked

about the details of this special operation and the events in mariupol in general. was the commander of the second battalion of the separate special-purpose detachment of azov, now the temporary commander of the regiment was studying to become a historian at the bohdan cherkasy national university khmelnytskyi, as the aggression of the russian federation had already begun, together with his guys, who had been on friendly terms for a long time before that, went to war, he arrived in the territory of the donetsk region in september 14th, and there, in principle, he began his military career as an arrow, roughly speaking, an assistant

a machine gunner and so by the 22nd year i reached the battalion commander, my zone of responsibility was the western side of mariupol, so we, uh, we fought with the group that came out of the crimea through kherson, through melitopol, berdyansk, those servicemen of the russian federation who were captured by my units, no one touched them even with a finger, you simply took one of these soldiers and handed them over to the higher management, all the prisoners said that we did not understand at all where we were going in all the main vehicles that were during the offensive, there was a gps the point was made, the city of mariupol was specifically written there, under what conditions were you injured, i was taking out 200 and 300 soldiers, i was bringing them to the

hospital in australia, where the assault aircraft were activated a rocket fell very close by. shrapnel hit the head, hit the hand, hit the left leg , the leg, and on march 21, by the way, it was the first attempt to evacuate, which was successful, that is, i was among the first to be taken out of mariupol by air corridor, some were unloaded there the provisions that were brought to the azastal and the loading of all the wounded in turn began, at first lying down in this number, i flew to the territory under the control of ukraine, they rejoiced a little.