read the news, watch informative programs and videos, as well as listen to the podcasts of the ukrainian voice of america service, and this is the end of our issue . also join our daily briefings 18 and on youtube and facebook. thank you for being with us. have a good night and a good morning . time of the alarm, i want to use this opportunity to once again appeal to all citizens of ukraine to comply with the

evacuation procedure during the announcement of the air alert , to go to shelter or at least to the street, because these people who were actually slightly injured got a contusion, they were right now on the street , so please do not ignore the air alarm signals, this is extremely important for your life and for the safety of those around you, this attack was unprecedented in terms of the number of dead and wounded so far, because in this part ukraine, the central western part of ukraine, excluding the east, this attack and we can say that over the past two days, putin has fired about 100 cruise

missiles over ukraine that destroy civilian objects that kill of civilians today, in particular, kharkiv was also hit by rockets, we have so far information about five dead and more than 36 wounded at the moment, this indicates that putin is hitting and gave the order to hit civilian objects indiscriminately there is choosing a time when people or if we talk about residential areas are still sleeping, they rush in the morning or if we talk about how these shopping centers were struck at a time when there were many people there, namely the end of the working day when people had the opportunity to shop, to look in stores, that is, in fact , to return to a peaceful life, there are still questions, maybe there are

questions to the head of the administration or to the mayor of the city, thank you, this was a briefing by the minister of internal affairs of ukraine, denys monastyrskyi, near the shopping mall bombed by the russians in kremenchug, at least 11 people died there, the rubble continues to sort it out will last until the very morning, we will follow it and move on with the marathon, the only news, together we are strong, will support the ukrainian army with money, scan the code good evening our unbreakable country. congratulations, invincible ukrainians. the facts of the week analyzed the key events of the last few days and we will try to figure out what will happen

next . the decision of which ukraine has been waiting for decades, which should change our future, how exactly why is there so much talk about the historical significance, what it means for each of us , and how far the road is from the candidate to of real membership in the eu, more about all this , volodymyrets is now a candidate as a new status will help ukraine, our state had almost the most flags of a united europe, such as ours why are the balkan candidate countries unable to become full members of the european union for decades and how does it affect ukraine every new the wave of eu enlargement will be more problematic than the previous one, why while ukraine and moldova are trying to jump into the last car of the train to the european union, turkey is trying to jump out of it, the rhetoric of the leading publications and tv channels are also not in favor of

european integration and how georgia stepped on the turkish rake, here are the historical shots of the spring of 2014, the symphony orchestra joyfully performs the official anthem of the eu at the donetsk airport, then this melody was also heard in the terminals of kyiv, lviv , odesa, dnipro, and kharkiv, so the musicians honored the memory of those who defended the european future of ukraine and died during the revolution of dignity. and this is the historical footage of the summer of 2022. the leaders of all the member states of the european union are coming together for ukraine is officially recognized as a candidate for eu membership probably in our country there were almost the most flags of a united europe they were in the hands of our people during the revolution they were in the hands of our people in the trenches since 2014 the status of a candidate is an important

step towards full accession to the european union but what does it give just now, does it guarantee eu membership and when, what lessons does ukraine still need to learn now? so, the four countries that were part of the former yugoslavia, albania, montenegro, serbia and north macedonia, are now candidates for the eu. the last one, back in 2005, was the first to apply for membership in the european union and a visa and is still there. the greeks firmly tied the hands of the macedonians in the european embrace gorky natukhina brussels correspondent of the balkan service of radio svoboda explains that the athenians did not like the name of the country because macedonia

it is also called the region of greece and two macedonians - ps there will be no entry of the balkan neighbor, the greeks blocked the disputes between the countries lasted 13 years and in the end the parties reached a compromise macedonia adds the word north to its own name and it would seem that the door to the eu is wide open, but no , it is now putting forward its demands bulgaria, the main two , is for macedonia to make changes to the constitution where bulgarians and not macedonians would be called the ethnic group forming the nation, and they demand that the name of the macedonian language be changed to gromstke, the official language of north macedonia, because they say the current name offends ethnic bulgarians macedonia agreed to change its name, but it cannot change its identity, it cannot change its language, it can not change its history, but in the end, the bulgarian parliament, with an absolute majority of votes, lifted the veto on the macedonian question. thus, the country got a chance to start negotiations on full

eu accession the gypsies are here. now let's imagine that ukraine is already today in the eu, the decision to expand the union is adopted unanimously , so the new candidate has to agree with everyone who is already in the elite club, and sometimes without political very painful compromises cannot be avoided. what can hungary demand from kyiv? the problem is that each new wave of eu expansion will be more problematic than the previous one. kyiv's demands regarding the ethnic minorities of transcarpathia, i.e., the precedent that is being created inside macedonia does not predict anything good for ukraine, every country that hopes to join the eu will pay a high price for the mistakes made the european union in the past, therefore, in ukraine, will definitely have to make unpopular decisions. but

before that, it is still necessary to do homework in the eu resolution, it is clearly stated that they are waiting for real and not facade reforms and overcoming corruption, and it seems that the open door will turn into a dead end for kyiv, which other countries have already faced turkey a vivid example: ankara officially became a candidate for the eu in the last millennium, in december 1999, when the country transitions to this status, the european union begins to invest money in attracting a potential member to its own level this applies to all areas from road construction and energy-saving infrastructure to the modernization of government bodies in ukraine - this is still ahead. but turkey then very well felt the friendly push of europeans, they began to invest, for example, in agriculture , special funds were created. so we began to receive help from of those funds in order

to bring everything up to eu standards, the turkish publicist yelmas kinca tells about all the progressive laws currently in effect in turkey, which are popularly called eu laws have brought trade and production up to high european standards in the country over the years, but in brussels they were always worried about the fact that, of all the european ones, ankara gives priority only to material human rights - this is a particularly big problem in turkey, there is a decision of the european court of human rights that turkey does not fulfill, they relate to certain things and certain people, the list of obstacles on the way to the european future does not end, the so -called cyprus issue is another dead end that turkey entered instead of the door to the turkish eu troops are still on the occupied part of the island, and despite all the resolutions and international condemnation, ankara continues to insist on the independence of northern cyprus, and here the dilemma is to give up the invading ambitions to develop civil

society or to continue to stay aloof while the turkish government chooses the second. the mass media and the rhetoric of the leading publications and tv channels are also not in favor of european integration, so in reality everything is on pause, even though it is official. no, of course, the eu is afraid of turkey's neighbors in syria, where a bloody war has been going on for several years in a row. due to the constant flow of refugees, the european union does not even grant visa-free access to turkey. it seemed that a multi-part turkish series on how not to become a member of the eu should have taught other candidates something, but georgia stepped on the turkish rake. that is why today, instead of the eastern trio of tbilisi, kyiv and kishenev i wrote down only a duo of austria as candidates. unfortunately

, georgia is not a liter. the politicized judicial system and oppression of freedom of speech are among the obvious mistakes of the current government in our country. conclusions below, it was there 4 weeks ago, and the founder of the largest athletic channel was drawn in an accident. and we have political justice, we do not have reforms that are still important for the european union. unfortunately, our government is running an openly anti - western campaign. the union demonstrates unprecedented unity in countering russian aggression, whitewash, not sanctions, not condemnation of the kremlin 's policy, no one waited. you are already in the club, because nowadays there are more than ever defends the very values, according to the opposition, the absolute majority of georgians support the european future, that is why when they reported that

even the status of a candidate for georgia will not be given , tens of thousands of people took to the streets, once ukrainians, now georgians are trying to send a western a signal of what the government wants and what the people want is not always the same thing but the european union is not only tectonic changes in state administration and the economy here, the people also need to, as they say, tighten up because the level the compromise is very big, a gigantic transformation of society is needed, this applies to the political elite and the worldview of ordinary citizens, this is a painful process, a few years ago there was a change in the doctrine of expansion, now even the status of a candidate can be taken away. about the existence on the map as an independent state, because resources are needed to confront russia and to restore the economy and to rebuild everything

destroyed by the russian occupiers, and the status of the candidate is like a magnet for foreign monetary influences of investors, when it comes to ukraine, which will soon become a member of the eu, this will significantly increase the attractiveness of ukraine for foreign investors about the fact that the decision to open the doors of the eu for ukraine is symbolic, all western politicians frankly say their own the right to be called europeans, and for it the same european values, ukrainians are currently defending at the cost of their lives on the battlefield. therefore, now we must win two wars against the russians invaders and those who rob the state from the inside , the prospect of membership is a salvation for the recovery of the economy and the reconstruction of post-war ukraine, and joining the european union is the only way to finally cut off any ties with aggressive russia, and the candidacy wants and important step, but not a guarantee that the country will be admitted to the elite club , the main thing here is not to step on someone else's rake and

remember that the road to is a two-way road and without certain concessions this road cannot be overcome volodymyrnec facts of the week ictv - the only news the fire season in russia continues this week, someone carelessly launched drones in the city of novoshakhtinsk, belgorod region, failed to control the controls and they crashed directly into the oil refinery, causing a fire. it is interesting that the drones noticed dozens of cameras, but not the russian air defense - mocked on social media. by the way, the air defense of the russian federation turned out to be powerless and in the black sea, where gas towers captured by the occupiers and the snake island were burning this week, along with the equipment and the occupiers, at the expense of which ukraine gives to give russians a cigarette in the black sea, pavlo vasilov will tell russian tactics in the black sea, a little bit of

ukrainian tactics, how our strikes on sea platforms and the snake island nullify all hopes of the russians to dominate the sea, someone there was unsuccessfully smoking those spoons and that we would succeed in sinking the entire russian fleet facts of the week played a naval battle with the captain of the first rank andrii berezhenko, the destruction of the moscow cruiser was primarily a gift to nato countries, and we will show you in which museum the remains of the former russian flagship are now in general, we told the commander of venesa, well, at least the entire black sea fleet, the national military historical museum of ukraine with the beginning of the large-scale russian invasion. its collection was replenished with hundreds of new exhibits , some of them in the open air. perhaps the most interesting exhibit of the museum is a part of the same

russian warship, museum workers say that everyone will be able to see it already in july willing, but only the facts of the week were allowed not only to see but also to touch, they say that the historical and museum value of this lifebuoy is as high as the military skill of those who sent moscow to meet the black sea fish. flagship missile cruiser, we expect that every day our exposure, our funds will increase. and in general, we ordered the commanders of the msu, well, at least the entire black sea fleet for ukraine's war in the black sea began with a world-famous request for the flagship of the russian black sea fleet from ukrainian border guards. currently, the underwater group of former russian surface vessels has 14

boats, among them, in addition to moscow, such large-tonnage targets as the rescue tug vasyl bekh and the large amphibious assault ship saratov are less than russian boats of the sarna and raptor types proved to be defenseless against the attacks of the bayraktars, now ukraine is doing something previously impossible in the black sea without actually having its own ships erases all past achievements of the russian fleet february 24, the enemy fleet is trying with all its might to support the land operation of the occupiers in the northwestern part of the black sea, among the main tasks of blocking ukrainian ports, neutralizing the naval forces of ukraine, amphibious operations, fire support of the russian army on the coast, missile strikes throughout the territory of ukraine , march 22, sevastopol in relation to they are shooting at the russians for this, there are 18 carriers of missile weapons, 12 amphibious

ships plus supply ships, but something went wrong, what is the secret of our success calculated by russia and that it helps us to destroy russian tactics on the black sea. the facts of the week put these questions to authoritative ukrainian experts. andriy ryzhenko spent 16 years working as the deputy chief of staff of the ukrainian navy, and we analyze the mistakes of the russians using the example of a school toy of a naval battle, if we take the north-western part of the black sea, it is necessary to take not 10 by 10, but by taking eh well, let's say, let 's say six by eight, the captain of the first rank explains in a real sea battle in this part there was simply no place in the black sea for the infamous moscow. the ship, which was called the killer of aircraft carriers, was used as an air defense barge. the destruction of the moscow cruiser

was primarily a gift to nato countries, such as great britain, and the united states, because the main task was the destruction of aviation strike groups. to the mediterranean sea and the atlantic ocean, the painful loss of the flagship only weakened the russian surface forces, but it did not hinder the performance of the tasks of blocking parties of the coast, so ukraine makes a new accurate shot, the variable island is an extremely important piece of land in this theater of naval combat, in fact a bastion of the northwestern part of the black sea water area, from the variable to odessa, 120 km, but to romania and the danube delta, only 40, the expert of the army research center mykhailo himself explains the strategic significance of this a piece of land, all information just passes through this border to control all commercial navigation and, moreover, they can establish a blockade and threaten not only ukraine, but also the romanian economic zone where the romanians expect to extract e-e gas and oil,

regular strikes on the russian military infrastructure and means of the ppp on the variable destroy the attempts of the occupiers to control these forts in the perspective of blocking the sea ports of ukraine. damage to one of my ships and yours, that is, the intelligence worked. and although this is rarely mentioned in the public information space, intelligence data from our allies quite likely they help to clear the black sea from the invaders, but the russian naval forces rely not only on the temporarily occupied island, back in the 14th year the russians stole the drilling platforms of chornomornaftogaz, now these objects are used for aggression against ukraine from the west and to the east, the invaders are trying to create such the attack support zone is conditional it starts from the variable passes through the towers of chornomor naftogaz

and ends on the coast of crimea, strikes on the platforms make the russians blind and deaf, he says mykhailo himself was there in the 14th year in the russian special forces, there were relics of the electronic system of e-e coverage of the situation , surveillance of the situation underwater, surface and air, and the intelligence system, and it was e-e these systems were destroyed in an interview on military television by the minister of defense oleksiy reznikov explains what exactly the russians lost, the russians used them as protection a-a for their ships, hiding behind them so that our magical neptune could not er-er get them with his guidance systems. so it so happened that today someone there unsuccessfully fired at those towers and today they are no longer used for the purpose for which the russians intended them , the leader used them, here is the neutralization of the towers, which destroys not only the intelligence and anti-missile

capabilities of the russians. imagine what is in the sea 110-120 km from the coast of odesa region it is much smaller than the coast of the kherson region, there are more than a dozen helipads that can be used by the occupiers for various sabotage and amphibious actions , the success of ukraine at sea is indisputable, says andriy ryzhenko, not having a commensurate fleet, ukraine wins with relatively cheap land-based anti-ship missiles, neptunes and harpoons, meanwhile, the ex-deputy chief of staff of the ukrainian navy confidently wins the naval battle tournament, the team of facts of the week, destroying more than 40% of our fleet in real combat conditions, the expert says this is enough to other forces were unable to fulfill their tasks and already now we are showing the russians where their place is in our black

sea. we have actually established such a zone around of our shores at a distance well, i would say there , well, at least 150 km, but we immediately see that the russians, they are mainly in their ships now holding near the coast of crimea under the umbrella of air defense, by and large, it is relatively safe for themselves , they can only launch the caliber from submarines . but amphibious operations can only be dreamed of, and the more we have against ship systems, the more difficult it will be for the kremlin to scare the world with the prospect of starvation. if uh, we will have a sufficient number of uh, that means against shore-based cruise missiles, we can theoretically clear this formation, so it also means to guarantee that a

russian landing force will not go to our ports through these cleared ports. well, while ukraine is destroying russian ships and tactics in the black sea here, 600 km from of the place where the missile cruiser rusts forever moscow is already preparing an exposition for new exhibits and who knows. maybe soon, next to this lifeline , another one of the new flagship of the russian black sea fleet of admiral makarov will appear here pavlo vasiliev ictv facts of the week the only news on the front this week one of the key events is the withdrawal of ukrainian units from north donetsk for four months our soldiers heroically defended this city, breaking putin's plans to capture the entire donbas by july, the last weeks were simply hellish, the russians destroyed 90% of the buildings with their shelling

that is, the city itself is not leaving bitterly, but this is a temporary maneuver to a better position for the sake of saving people, we will definitely return, as the defenders of the north wrote this week on social networks in the meantime, the russians on the other side began to push donetsk, a small but very brave lithuania, how can it change the general situation, the conflict around the kaliningrad region, forecasts were built by artem , the bullet, the passage is blocked, how lithuania scared russia by banning the transit of russian goods of the russian federation, and what in response does the kremlin threaten the air corridor and whether it will start putin is waging war against the baltic countries, which have been annoying moscow for a long time

. after lithuania's decision not to allow sanctioned goods from russia to pass through its territory last weekend, restrictions on some goods included in the sanctions package , namely steel and ferrous metals, in kaliningrad itself, the news of the transit ban, traditional for russians, was received with empty shelves, but not grocery supermarkets, as was the case in moscow, and construction and woodsheds - what will they be, or will they have moods at all? andriy klymov of russia called the situation a prank by vilnius and announced that for self-defense russia will solve the issue by any chosen means. the representative of the foreign ministry, maria zakharova, threatened with inevitable consequences. отвейный действо will

be inevitable, they will be not on a diplomatic level, but on a practical level. even arrived in kaliningrad and spoke about measures in response to threats to the border of the appropriate measure are worked out in an interdepartmental format and will be accepted in in the near future, their consequences will have a serious negative impact on the population of lithuania, the kremlin mass media spread accusations that lithuania blocked the air of kaliningrad at its own discretion without warning, however, first of all, the restriction affected only goods that fell under the fourth sanctions in march, and this was known for a long time, and after secondly, two days after consultation with the european commission, so far all attacks are verbal steps from russia, they are directed not to poland, but to the european union, this is very important, they are directed it is exclusively against the lithuanian republic, although the lithuanian republic did not unilaterally

accept all these sanctions in march, but on the other hand , it will also be incorrect to reduce the role of lithuania in this fateful decision, says political technologist mykhailo scheiterman, and there are actions that cannot be moved across the territory of the european union, there are some russian cargo is from one country, and from the other side there is actually an agreement that anything from the russian federation can be moved to leningrad on the territory in the european union, one agreement contradicts the work or the goods already accept the political solution. that's how we will do it. restrictions from last week are only the first link. on july 10, the ban on transit will be extended to cement, furniture and luxury items . on august 10, the transportation of coal and other types of solid fuel will stop, and already p' on december 1st crude oil, 50% of the goods that were previously transported to kaliningrad will be banned, among the sanctioned goods there are completely unexpected items such as russian vodka and red caviar and

although these products do not replenish russia's budget so much that the kremlin could wage war against ukraine , they are the ones that russia is associated with in the west . саксонных листо как много много физических лицы е-э россии безней коменье е-е мужать быть контакты с э-е водочный проводканности three days after the ban on the transit of russian trains, lithuania also banned the transit of russian trucks in fact, in russia, there is only delivery via the baltic sea and will these capacities be enough after the numbers of seven ferries were announced, the numbers 10 were already sounded, the password was then spoken by the officials of the stalingrad region, 15 ferries is very incomprehensible