which took place in december, we made this parliamentary assembly with the youth, which is now the youth in the volunteer headquarters, as she understands very well that it was important to accept the status of a candidate for ukraine, because it is the framework of those reforms, the necessary changes that are needed. the intersection of goods, for example, these are such simple, ordinary , elementary things that should be developed by a society that removes a lot of corrupt things, this is all ahead, we have to do it, we have to at the public level sector to continue this work with what we have and what we can because it is important in general ukraine is unique in that we have many public associations braga many people who are trying to resist doing my name is hryhoriy zhigalov let's summarize this day together great britain allocates for ukraine will use this money to buy a billion pounds of weapons and equipment and

conduct training for the ukrainian military . that numerous evidences confirm that the russians deliberately fired at a shopping center in kremenchuk, the madrid nato summit ended, the leaders of the alliance countries made their final statements , french president macron said that support for ukraine cannot end, us president biden announced the allocation of another 800 million dollars of aid to ukraine, there will also be additional weapons and

ammunition according to british prime minister johnson, only the ukrainian people should decide whether and when they want to conclude an agreement with russia in order to achieve peace at the same time, the prime minister of britain said that nato is more than ever determined to support ukraine, according to him, almost everyone at the table agreed to provide more aid to ukraine, and one of the results specifically from london, britain will provide ukraine with another 1 billion pounds - that's one and two billion dollars of military support, the funds will go to strengthen the defense density of ukraine, including air defense systems, unmanned aerial vehicles, new equipment for electronic warfare and thousands of pieces of equipment for of the ukrainian military and we will sum up the results of the nato summit with the bbc correspondent sviatoslav khomenko, he is

joining me from madrid, congratulations sviatoslav, well , we have already talked several times about the fact that it is not the right place to ask for weapons, but today nato ended and we heard a whole series of statements about the allocation of additional aid to ukraine from nato countries. i have just already talked about the usa, britain, france, can you briefly summarize the other statements, it is really true, the north atlantic alliance does not give ukraine armed because it stingy or is it against some rules, the countries of the alliance simply agreed among themselves that each of them individually can provide ukraine with weapons and lethal weapons. and all of them together are the north atlantic alliance. at the same time, i will repeat each individual country of the alliance, and yesterday deputy head of the administration of the president of ukraine ihor zhovkva, who headed

the ukrainian delegation at the nato summit, spoke about this with each of these countries are conducting separate negotiations with someone, they are more successful with someone less, but there are no such oil countries that have stayed away from the supply of e- weapons to ukraine, and here it is necessary to understand correctly, they really really put nato - this is not the place where the supply to ukraine is decided weapons but at the same time, this is such a platform to which the attention of the whole planet is riveted, where the leaders of each of the 30 countries are present and therefore make an announcement about the supply of weapons to ukraine right here - it is even better than doing it in some in another place and here is exactly what you have already mentioned , us president joe biden said that in the coming days ukraine will receive a new aid package of 800, which will have a volume of 800 million dollars, the prime minister of great britain, the fighter johnson , said that the next trans aid to ukraine is 1 billion feet, and here it is necessary to clarify, and he mentioned exactly what will be given to

this aid package. but the most important thing is that these aid packages will include air defense equipment, which is not the first volodymyr zelenskyi is asking western leaders for a week, not for the first month. as for other countries , we know that france will put several caesarian artillery units here in ukraine, which receive excellent feedback from ukrainian artillerymen, and we know that heavy weapons will help ukraine further. here we can say less due to the fact that the specifics of this gunner will be transferred to ukraine, i did not see it, but i stated about it stoltenberg, in the end, it was the norwegians and some batch of heavy weapons transmissions of ukraine in the near future and his native country norway thank you very much for the important clarification regarding the military aid provided by great britain. did you manage to communicate with the representatives of the ukrainian delegation on the sidelines of

this ? summit , since ukraine is not a member of nato and these were meetings in the fields . the summit was received by volodymyr zelenskyi, moreover, until recently there were such jokes about the fact that volodymyr zelenskyi could, without precedent, go abroad to ukraine and take part in this summit personally, in the end, this did not happen. and he turned to the leaders of the alliance countries traditionally for via video link, what is important is that he spoke in the first panel, in fact, he opened this summit, he had such a rather extensive speech, which, according to jens stoltenberg, the secretary general of nato, received an e-e caused a crazy feeling of support from everyone the ukrainian delegation of the alliance leaders was headed by the diplomat and deputy head of the presidential administration ihor zhovkva, of course his

level of access to each of the leaders of the alliance was a commensurate style if, for example, volodymyr zelensky came, but from what he told us to ukrainian journalists, he is completely satisfied with the results here for ukraine, he is quite satisfied with the place in the new constitution of the alliance, and here are the strategic concepts occupied by ukraine , precisely those formulations and the amount of betrayal about ukraine seems to have pleased him enough, on the other hand , we can only repeat the assessment that exactly from this event, from this to nato, ukraine did not expect any results, therefore, his results were completely satisfied. and i want to ask your impression, if you look at today's statements and the results themselves are nato, can it be said for certain that nato has found itself again after a decade of confusion, let's be honest , there is also no simple answer to this question , that is, on the one hand, what nato decided the strategic concept in which russia was called

the greatest threat in its existence, this shows that nato came to its senses due to the fact that in 2022 we live in a world in which you call russia with all the actions that we have seen from it during the last eight years at the same time call it a strategic partner it meant showing one's inadequacy to the challenges of the time, it would mean showing the whole world that you do not see what is happening outside your window, therefore already one thing is that nato has identified for itself the main threat and a lot goals of the nato constitution, we are talking about china, it is also like that, maybe it is a little distant in the city and in time it is a threat, but it is also a lot discussed in the strategic concept, everything shows that nato at least understands what kind of world it lives in. but is this mobilization or is this coming to its senses if it lasts a long time, we cannot say now. here i can quote volodymyr zelenskyi and his speech, he talked about the next nato summit and said that if things go well, then already at the next

nato summit he will address the leaders of nato from the big screen in the hall, and he himself will be sitting in some secret bunker in kyiv, he will come to them and be among them. if things go in a worse direction, then russia will bomb not only ukraine, but also other european countries, including possibly nato exactly in a year, at the next nato summit, we will be able to draw up certain conclusions about how nato feels. after that, it is encouraging and very symbolic that this next nato summit will take place quite a bit. and in vilnius, in a country that is currently experiencing a serious conflict with russia, which is now a hot spot on the border of nato and russia, and actually in a year in vilnius, we will be able to make absolutely clear conclusions about the shape of nato and what form it is in and what it will eventually be in thank you thank you very much bbc correspondent sviatoslav khomenko was our eyes and ears at the nato summit, which ended today in madrid, and

in a statement on the sidelines of the summit, the secretary general of the ato from toltonberg says that the allies discussed efforts to mitigate the food crisis caused by him in ukraine, according to him alliance works on the export of grain from ukraine by land and moore, russia continues to seek political, military and economic benefits, he added, he warned that moscow and beijing use economic leverage to destabilize, and stated that nato resolutely accepts this challenge in order to preserve peace with stoltenberg added that putin should withdraw his troops and stop attacking the democratic state, also the nato secretary general at the press conference called the same one that just ended transformative and stated that the members agreed to a significant increase of the alliance's joint budget, according to him, the funds will be directed to additional investments in the

equipment of military positions, infrastructure and conducting military exercises. well, finally it became known that finland and sweden will officially sign the protocols on joining nato earlier on tuesday about their joining the military alliance of 30 countries , the decision has already been made preparations for the war, which is already underway, the training of the ukrainian military in britain was approved, this is part of the package of british military aid to ukraine, which now amounts to almost 2.5 billion dollars here at the nato summit in madrid, western leaders sought additional aid to ukraine and nato to counter what they called non-russian aggression. we face the most serious security situation in decades, but we face the challenge with unity and determination. to stand guard for peace and prevent conflicts and

protect our peoples and our values, this summit witnessed the harshness of nato's attitude towards russia, which was called a direct threat to western security on it invited two new countries, finland and sweden, to join the alliance and also decided to deploy additional forces in europe, which is approaching a return to the positions of the cold war, the ukrainian army is losing ground in the east and is asking for more weapons to deter the russian offensive, some leaders are saying more loudly than others that the western help in case of need should last for years, i clearly defend the right of ukrainians to defend themselves, this is what we do, all of us in the alliance, and we want to provide them with the means so that they can fight back to the russians to expel the russians from the territory they occupied because it is fair according to international law

from behind i asked the prime minister of estonia if the measure was naive about president putin, i think the measure was introduced by putin with two well it's true that he lied a lot and didn't fulfill the promises he made gave and that's why we shouldn't believe him anymore besides the mistake we made is that war crimes were not punished and work friends am not springs this summit tried to show unity but when these leaders come home they will have other internal priorities not all

the promises the data at the summit will be observed, and even less, it is hardly worth underestimating the importance of nato, and the position of the countries of the eastern flank can really be insured by the brightest indicator here. by the alliance's decision to protect the states in the baltic states . earlier, she criticized the previous plans of the alliance in the event of a hypothetical russian aggression, saying that they provided for the occupation of the states in the baltic states for about 180 days, and this is how the president of poland andrzej duda commented on the results. are you satisfied with what you heard here, church, i want to note that this nato summit is without a doubt historic because it gave the green light for finland and sweden to join the alliance and this is extremely important for the entire alliance and especially for nato's eastern flank, this will significantly increase

nato's border with russia, so this decision will undoubtedly go down in history, another very important moment, all the decisions made in response to russian aggression against ukraine, of course, it took some time, and today nato makes a decisive decision to strengthen the eastern flank and changes the very approach to russia i have to remind you that according to the previous concept adopted in 2010, russia was a strategic partner of nato, of course after the invasion of ukraine everything changed even today russia poses a threat to the countries of the alliance, especially to its eastern flank, the flank where poland is located, and now the chairman of the verkhovna rada committee on the integration of ukraine into the european union, ivan klymposhtyntsadze, joins our broadcast. i congratulate you. thank you for taking the time to join us. well, let me ask a question . as for how you assess the results yourself , that of nato in madrid for ukraine, i will once again

allow myself to remind myself that the same one a year ago when the threat of war was still very imminent ukraine really wanted to receive an action plan regarding membership, and good evening, thank you for the invitation, of course, you and i have witnessed such a powerful reformatting to a certain extent of the tasks of the alliance for itself, with the identification of three priority directions, starting from collective security of crisis management and deterrence, and of course i would like that even if the ukrainian authorities sound satisfied with the results, it is precisely for us to get more from this summit. it is a pity that we did not prioritize as a state the task of getting more from this that's how we all did it by joining forces and focusing on keeping

ukraine's candidate for the european union well, but uh, we know that increased hmm aid to ukraine - that's good uh, it's important that non- lethal aid will be provided through the alliance, but still after all, military aid in priority areas where we need it is also very, very important. well, it seems to me that it would be correct to set such a goal for myself that after the victory in this war, ukraine should have the opportunity to follow the same path that they followed finland and sweden and actually, well, it doesn't sound right today, as the politics of ukraine mentions again the action plan regarding membership for ukraine and georgia that they will have it one day, but it seems to me that for us it is time to

transform internally at the same time as the war there is already a transition to the e-e standards of military equipment and weapons. also, in terms of management . were insisting on such an abbreviated path as how finland and sweden went eh, that is, if you when you say get more from this summit, you primarily mean the membership action plan, i understand correctly, well, either the membership action plan or a clear one a clear road sign or a road map of how er how do you see the future er geopolitical er it is of course unfortunate for the alliance that since 2010 the alliance has not revised its strategic concept and even in the 14th, despite the fact that it changed its

tactics, it changed its behavior in relation to to russia, of course, we have to give it its full credit, but he did not change his strategic plans regarding russia and its understanding. it is good that they did it now, but it seems to me that today we should have set for ourselves higher tasks, more ambitious tasks on the part of ukraine. and we at the moment, the state has not done this, and what do you think, is the alliance ready to go further than these statements, a reminder of the conclusions of the bukharev summit, because i worked in brussels for a long time, and i have the impression that nato now has such a red line that he is not ready to cross, what can he do, what can ukraine do in order to do, well, to force too much to cross

this red line. and you know, three weeks ago it seemed to us that it was quite likely that there would be countries that would block the the granting of candidate status to ukraine in the european union in order to obtain a roadmap for membership and work for the membership of ukraine, that is why i believe that the unprecedented conditions and the unprecedented development of events that we have today require unprecedented decisions and why we decided that this is the only way events can develop, that we must get an action plan regarding membership there, it could be something completely different and something separate, not even for ukraine, well, exactly the same as we see in finland sweden, and they, well, bypassed this stage of obtaining an action plan regarding membership, well, and one more thing. i think that it is very important and what has not found

such a reflection in the decision of the hookah, i think it is fundamental to realize that the so-called policy of finlandization has suffered of a complete collapse, many of us have been leaning that way for a decade with various variations, and i think that this should be such a certain argument for the a-a decision that we m-m and the way that we went sweden and finland that it is the same is an argument for us, if we want peace, security and prosperity on the european continent, and the spread of this to the world and compliance with the rules, there is no other way than ukraine as part of the collective security organization of the free world. i think that the term finalization can now be used already in the session of what is very fast, very fast accession to nato. please tell me to sum up this conversation, and what are the top three or what are now

facing ukraine before the ukrainians in order to stop the war and then quickly go on the way to the european union and nato, well, the maximum acquisition of weapons from our partners is, of course, a key task for me, and at the same time transformation, er, transformation within the state er, it seems to me that during a war, the most effective way to change er approaches to management approaches to logistics, because the results, positive results can, uh, give a quick result, positive changes can give a quick result, which will be reflected in our victories on the battlefield, so i think from the point of view of this, these are two main tasks. well, it seems to me that fundamentally, not only to declare as much as possible everything that can be done , even during the war, to implement e-e changes

within the country in accordance with e-e european integration tasks, they are 70-80%, and if it does not concern the economy, they agree with what we need to do in order to join then dalliance thank you, thank you very much, the head of the verkhovna rada committee on the integration of ukraine into the european union, ivanna klympush, tsedtse and russian troops have left zmiinyi island. the island of change and acquired an almost mythical status in this war is an unremarkable rocky outcrop in the black sea, which was previously captured by russia, has now returned to the control of ukraine, the retreat of the russians is analyzed by an expert from of the british royal institute of defense research, the zmiiny island for the russians has always been

a place where it was difficult for them to contain ukraine's build-up of forces and the conduct of a series of technical and impressive attacks using drones of the tb-2 type, bayraktar jet aircraft and missile systems, all of which successively destroyed the russian defense system, which were placed on this island, so russia constantly has to deliver new equipment there, the next batch of which was also destroyed. i believe that this is russia's recognition that ukraine now has a significant amount of long-range jet artillery hypercars, and britain is also sending similar mlrs weapons, they can hit the island from the shore, and therefore of course this is not a gesture of goodwill. as russia says, it does not have goodwill towards ukraine and wants to exhaust it to death , but at the same time, it is an acknowledgment of the fact that ukraine's use of new impression systems gives them the opportunity to continue to hold the island, so the combination of all these factors forced the russians to retreat, just as the ukrainians were forced to

retreat from severodonetsk and more about let's talk about the situation in ukraine with our correspondent in kyiv, zhanna bezpidchuk, she joins our broadcast. greetings, zhanna, all day. today, i read about the fact that the retreat of the russians from the serpentine can have far-reaching consequences. of this war, the russian army and the russian navy sought anything to create a permanent military base on snake island , although it is really a very small island with an area of ​​less than 200 m², but its strategic importance is very large for several good reasons, first of all, this island is the gateway to control over the northwestern territories, part of the

black sea water area, and actually the russian army fleet, it was needed in order to place powerful long-range anti-aircraft complexes there, and they are needed in turn to cover the amphibious operation, that is, the amphibious landing operation, and there was nothing to fear on the ukrainian coast, the ukrainian side was afraid that the russians might dare to carry out an operation to seize odessa from the sea, and then precisely the value of snake island is very great for such an operation, in addition, snake island is located very close to the southern flank of nato, exactly to romania, only 45 km. this is a small distance, the distance of the reach of almost all types of weapons from artillery and beyond, and so in essence

the ukrainian army, after regaining control over its territory over the island belonging to ukraine, pushed back the russian army and navy from the southern flank of nato, another important point . this island is also close to the mouth of the danube river in in the context of export, and more precisely, the problems with these ukrainian grain, which today is awaited all over the world, it is the danube. in terms of security, it is extremely important for ukraine to control zmiiny island, we can say from our own experience

when we went to shoot material about the blocked island grain in the south of ukraine, the military forbade us to remove grain trucks that were located right near the mouth of the danube river near the island of zmiiniy because there was a real threat of missile strikes on the grain trucks. well, in fact, in addition to all this, this island is also important for the resistance of the ukrainians in this war became known from the very beginning, and it can be added that some of the ukrainian experts abroad are convinced that the liberation of the island of snakes and the blockade can begin of the black sea to restore grain exports from seaports, although for now this forecast should be treated with extreme caution and reservations, since the blockade is mainly connected with the

presence of russian warships in various parts of the water area, not only the northwestern ones, and they continue to remain there also from because the black sea is essentially one of the bazaars for missile attacks on the entire territory of ukraine and only south hryhoriv thank you very much, jeanne, i had a lot of questions , but you practically took all the questions off my tongue. thank you very much. bbc correspondent zhanna bezpyachuk works in kyiv, monitors the situation on the southern flanks of ukraine, and that's all. we will be on the air again tomorrow at 21:00 take care and we will definitely see each other

glory to ukraine, this is a program, my name is serhiy rudenko, everyone, have a good day and good health, today is the 127th day of the heroic resistance of the ukrainian people against the russian occupiers, the ukrainian military forced the russians to leave the island of change about this is reported by the head of the office of the president of ukraine andriy yermak, the russians call it an act of goodwill , they say we left because we wanted to, the day before the largest exchange of prisoners took place, 144 ukrainian defenders returned home, 95 of them are the azov defenders, meanwhile, the nato and north atlantic alliance summit continues in madrid decided to accept sweden and finland into the alliance and russia and recognized russia as the number one enemy, but the russians do not retreat, they continue