solution when we talk about what is happening in europe, uh, in my opinion, it is important to look at the general trend, the general trend is very simple, and europe is really now making every effort to get rid of dependence on russian gas, and russia is actively helping europe to do this with its actions, it is clear but here is another important point, these are the conflicts that russia incites, let's talk about this in more detail and financing, because this money is also coming from the energy sector, so the tension has subsided, the serbs have sorted it out barricades that were built on the border with kosovo , the process was monitored by k-fort peacekeepers who operate under the auspices of nato, the dismantling of the barricades began after the president and prime minister partially recognized kosovo met with american and european diplomats, and then the kosovo government announced that it was postponing the decision to ban serbs from traveling to their territory with serbian

documents. allow me to remind and repeat once again that all open issues between serbia and kosovo must be resolved within the framework of the dialogue under eu assistance is important for the people of kosovo, as it is for serbia, and it is important for the european union. the escalation between kosovo and serbia began after the kosovo authorities announced a ban on citizens with serbian documents from entering their territory on august 1. in order to get there, serbs should apply for documents and car license plates to kosovo institutions. the government of kosovo called such a move a mirror, saying that serbia has not recognized documents issued by pristina for more than 11 years. as a result, border disputes began riots and people even built barricades . the republic of kosovo is a partially recognized state . it declared its independence from serbia in 2008. serbia does not recognize the independence of kosovo and considers it its territory. kosovo's independence

has been recognized by more than 100 countries, including the united states. ukraine does not recognize this status, ms. kateryna. taking into account what you have already said about the situation in the balkans, this conflict is as far as the kremlin's hands or money in the fact that again kosovo and serbia provoked well, i call it felt the balkan media call it a pampered revolution , i.e., a barricade revolution, then right here, right here, in this uh, such an incident, there are no years of the kremlin, the kremlin was involved, uh, on july 31, uh, the dissemination of information, that's all the information that spread through the telegram channels of the media a -and she was just inspired by russia through social networks, in russia it was necessary to

rise a-a great wave e-e misinterpretation of information and a-a russia just provoked the serbs e-e with such publications inciting a-a moods in society to more active actions i i wouldn't say that the teacher was ready but to panic, because it was not panic . last year, at the end of september, a more serious incident happened, and because of license plates, there were also barricades, and these two checkpoints of barnyak and yarini were blocked again, and there were barricades there for two weeks. the voice of the special forces and the space e of the kosovo law enforcement officers was located e-e nato peacekeeper troops on the serbs from their side was located then the situation was more threatening because the e-e

military planes of serbia they were flying and bi- nearby of the border, russia, and in this situation, this is exactly how i act, a propagandist, a disinformer, and, yes, through social networks and telegram channels, etc. and we can simply ukraine, too, becomes a victim of these information wars. can we even use informational and psychological special operations say what funds are approximately spent on this, all this is enough for a troll factory that is somewhere near moscow. are these inspired agents - are they local media that are supported through i do not know gas about media or others. hmm, the rt satellite that worked in europe until recently. i can't tell you, i searched for this information many times because it is a little help in the last

report of gazprom, the amount of money spent on sponsorship and media in europe, when in the last public report of gazprom it was 38 million euros, this is public information for the 20th year and beyond they carefully began to hide this information, and the larger part of it was simply not visible in the report, but the fact that they showed 38 million is without taking into account the sponsorship of football clubs and without taking into account investments in pan-european rt and satellite channels, this is only what was invested directly in the media and at the regional level in europe, they have a fairly powerful network of local managers, this applies to media that operate online, and this applies to print media, because here, er, the kremlin is quite subtly approaching study of the specifics of the societies in the balkans, because these are the societies that

still buy, for example, printed newspapers, and many publications are published in print. many of them have local owners, but they are financed separately from russian money nine editions with the title there, for example, the russian doctor, and the russian lineman, that is, it is not difficult to guess because of which there are different ones, well, that’s it, in fact, that’s not hidden anymore, about, well , propaganda exactly and russia, further on separately they have created a-a telegram channels, that is, the greater balkans, they don’t know what a-a telegram is, but in montenegro, in serbia, er, they specifically monitor this, and er, there are quite a few telegram channels that er, also operate against ukraine and against kosovo and against serbia, there are dozens of them in

each country, and you can count dozens of them hundreds of channels, they a-a spread news and information and conduct a-a different analytical reviews there, that is, the coverage goes in different directions and to completely different audiences, and the same situation does not play in favor of ukraine, because there are constantly published materials that are they are talking about nazification, about a special operation, and just now, this degree is heating up, which is a social degree, which is playing into the hands of the kremlin, and there is unofficial information with you. well, the experts are explaining it. in the balkans, what are all the centers of what? opened by russia, for example, in montenegro, a-a, the service means a center, well, non-governmental public organizations that open there for

humanitarian issues, for cultural issues, for scientific issues , they all help to form a media network that will work for individuals, they help to a-a build a spy network, that is, this all the money that comes in from different channels and they have quite a wide reach in serbia and well and in the society it is clear eh p dmytro and what region are you researching if we are talking about the central europe. how powerful is the influence of the russian media or the media affiliated with russia? it is very powerful. this can be seen from recent sociological studies, not only in hungary, but also in slovakia, for example, in romania. how strange is such an anti-russian attitude? what is this mood based on? not necessarily pro-russian, although please. for example, if you are talking about slovakia, hungary, it is really about the

russian mood, that is, support for almost russian aggression against ukraine, they say it was fair justified or russia was provoked , anti-western sentiments are also visible in these countries. they often overlap and in the last two years have overlapped for the anti-briction movement, you can say so, and this is the only thing that distinguishes, for example, its region. well, here russia does not work so much through the eyes such well-known media with clear ownership there, it’s better to go there and the satellite is here. well, although there is a little about romania there, but there are such media whose ownership is very difficult to establish. that is, it is a gray zone media, i would so he said the second point, what is the problem of these countries, that here russian propaganda and russian assets meet from time to time, uh, there are

state doctors, that is, in the public media of these countries. here is the second point, that these russian narratives are broadcast by national politicians, that is, if we we are talking about slovakia, for example, the entire party of the former prime minister of the country, robert fizzo. yes, and he personally broadcasts just russian anti-ukrainian, anti-western, anti-vaccination in hungary, if there is such a thing combo i would say uh, because here, in addition to uh, these uh, if there were gray zone media that broadcast russian narratives, russian narratives are also very often present on the public broadcaster, and in the first days after the invasion, the term special operation was used, yes, this is horror. unfortunately , politicians broadcast not just russian narratives, they broadcast russian disinformation, that is, they tell lies to their voters, this is terrible. i would like to draw attention

to the fact that it is central europe and the balkans that have become, you know, a hub of espionage and information. for russia to carry out operations both in these regions and in neighboring regions from hungary in the balkans, and here, by the way, i would like to draw attention to the role of the orthodox church. that is how it seems to me that this is not accidental regarding the position of official budapest to exclude cyril from the sanctions package 6 that is, there is not only such a christian position of viktor orbin, there is also politics and the desire to play in the balkans , including that is a very complex story. for example, which countries in central europe sent diplomats. after the invasion, we will visit you hungary, this will be a zero indicator, then another important point, and if we take away russian influence through

money and through gas through energy carriers, then how long will it take for central europe to be cleaned, well, conditionally there you want specifically for countries, say from russian propaganda and russian narratives or playing along with russian narratives how did you say it was at the beginning of the full-scale invasion of hungary on the public broadcaster it is difficult to say so, but i do not rule out that it can be very fast, it can be like this, you know, the domino effect, so to speak, the only thing is that this is a question of political stability, instability. i think without russian influence and all this, so to speak , of the russian infrastructure and these councils, giving politicians just a loss the ratings will also go away from politics, that is, the political landscape will change completely, that is, it will be significant .

for sure he is very paradoxically, he intersects with far-right fascist and nazi forces. that is, you know this kind of schizo-nazification. mr. dmitri understood the same question for you, kateryna. and what do you think, if we remove the financial and energy influence of the russian federation, how long will it take to clean it up ? on the balconies, well, theoretically and practically, it is impossible to do, because in the balkans it has its own troika horses, and this is serbia , the republic of serbia, and in serbia, all about the powerful media broadcast pro-russian narratives about it and buchach himself says that he repeats the same rhetoric that any russian media repeats, and all the powerful media, they translate, they

don’t write anything of their own. they take everything from russian sources, accordingly, serbian sources take the montenegrins take partly the bulgarians there, and other countries take it, and the serbs themselves in the republic of serbia, they do not call it war, but in ukraine it is a war. since the end of february this year, the concepts of aggression and conflict have been spread. buchach has not once since february 24 he said the word war, he says that it is a crisis, that it is a conflict, but it does not sound even in the rhetoric of genocide, that is, they can mention crimes, but it does not come to more specifics . to croatia, it will fit to north macedonia a-and maybe a partial to

slovenia a-and if it is removed completely e-e well, the influence of both gas and financial, well, i will repeat myself again, the balkans. this is the historical sphere of influence e-e russians a-a with other countries for example, serbia will do it it is not possible at all serbia is almost 100% owned by energy carriers e-e from russia this and gas is e-e energy is everything because serbia itself does not have energy resources and e-e minerals to be self-sufficient and taking into account its it is difficult to have relations with neighbors in the region, so to get gas from somewhere, well, gas, other resources will be extremely difficult, the only thing like this is that the life circle can leave, but turkey will not leave serbia because it is... well, and partners and uh, from

cooperation in many areas of this hungary but again, hungary is, well, i would say it is a satellite of the kremlin, therefore it is absolutely impossible to reduce the influence of russia in this country, plus this very society is serbian, and russia uses it through its media, through which they belong, it is unknown. and to which owners it promotes not its own narratives she plays on those images that exist in serbia, that is, if you compare the narratives, for example, that are printed by russians and serbs, they are the same, they are absolutely identical, the main thing is, what are they talking about, this is the people who are the most suffered and in the second world war, what we constantly hear from the russians is also exactly what they say about er, researchers of russian researchers also call the category ms. i am

grateful to you. unfortunately, we are limited in time, but thank you for your thorough analysis of the situation in the balkans . and expert of the analytical center for balkan studies thank you dmytro vituzhansky director of the institute of central european strategy we will take a short break after which we will continue the conversation with oleksandr kharchenko director of the center until the end of energy, stay with us, we will convince, we will win, we will win that you are not news, together we are strong unconquered cities of ukraine kryvyi rih the iron heart of ukraine and the longest city in europe its man-made landscapes attract guests and industrial tourism is actively developing in the city kryvyi rih lands were part of the zaporizhia army in the city the central the governing body of zaporizhzhya sich, during

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about 12 billion have been accumulated in gas storages, the government noted that kyiv is asking the united states will include in the langley law the issue of gas supplies to ukraine in case we run out of fuel. the authorities are already preparing documents for the agreement, we are ready to react very operationally for the needs of the regions in additional resources, including those related to the restoration of the infrastructure elements destroyed there, we have already allocated more than three and a half billion hryvnias there, we are also ready to allocate additional money if necessary as he was called in the government, the most persemistic i would say that the demand for gas for this winter is 14 billion cubic meters and so that it will remain well even if there will be a very cold winter even if by this very cold winter for some reason unexpectedly, we have a lot of coal in the warehouses, there is already

enough coal, but suppose that something happened to all this coal, we will need another one and a half billion cubic meters of gas to generate electricity, in fact, in the country there is no problem with either gas or coal, with which we have a real there is a problem and that's why i'm personally very afraid. so it's specific, focused attacks on the objects of heat supply in cities, because when you have a broken chp plant and apartment buildings in the conventional city of kremenchuk, there is simply no source of it will not be warm in this place, it is impossible to live, well, in the reference regions of the head of the regions, they are already talking about the need to evacuate for the heating season, we are considering both options with you, positive, yes, ukraine is regaining control over mariupol, but if not, if this city enters the heating season under the rule of the russians that then they

can guarantee, but they can only advise people to leave there urgently, as soon as possible. you can go anywhere, that is, the russians will not be able to provide it, no one will be able to listen there the city's heat supply system, pipes, boiler rooms, all this has been destroyed into firewood, along with factories that could theoretically act as backup sources of heat, how to provide them with heat, there are no tools, if someone has the illusion that he is in an apartment, put some kind of stove there and there will be happiness then he should understand that he most likely won't have any, he won't be able to go to the toilet in this apartment and he wo n't have water. ukraine plans to accumulate two and a half million tons of coal by this winter. this is one of the priority tasks for the heating season. the ministry of energy reported that the department emphasized the need to improve

the production and logistics of coal transportation, since this heating season the highest priority will be given to domestic production. and you said that in we are in principle all right, because i remember his previous years, 14-15, it seems that when we showed videos, empty warehouses and such years really happened and for example last year there was a very difficult situation this year already now in the warehouses almost one and a half million tons, at the same time 20,000 t 103 20-30 thousand tons are accumulated daily only at the expense of the ukrainian species, the money allocated is distributed and the only danger is broken roads uk railways, if they don't , the rockets start to attack them intensively again, but from the point of view of production, everything is fine, we will produce as much as we need, we don't need imports , in fact, the situation with coal is completely under under control now and indeed the ministry of energy

there has taken all the necessary steps to make it work. this is true, but another matter is that again it is a danger, and yes, the zaporizhia npp has already been captured at the station, and the vugleghirskaya thermal power plant has already been captured, and the zaporizhia thermal power plant has already been captured, that is stations are captured, and those stations that they cannot capture, coal stations, can be attacked with missiles, and this is a huge , huge danger that our physical generation will simply be destroyed, quickly restore them it is impossible, that is, if we take the kyiv thermal power plant that you mentioned, if the generator is destroyed, produce it for two years and install it for another year, and of course we have spare parts in our warehouses, of course, there are no spare parts , this is a separate machine that costs tens of millions of dollars. this is a technology that is specially needed design bring put fix it it doesn't work so you pulled out one module inserted another it's written like this it turns out that in the event of the destruction of

certain chps we say let's get them quickly it's impossible so look at one heating season and about there are a few that may be problematic in the long run, and they are, although in a situation where we tentatively know in february that something has been destroyed, yes, by next november, we can develop a plan of measures to bring some small installations to install autonomous boiler rooms for a quarter and so on and so on and so on you can go on and on and make up ideas, but you can also restore a large station of the scale of kyivska. there will be a powerful blow to the capital 100%. i'm sorry, and it's very similar to terrorism, well, this is what we see, look now, it means that people have focused on the destruction of the city, that is, such objects , they actually shape the life of the place. i can

suggest one more object, i don't want to, i don't want to tell the russians about it . although they know for sure, try to destroy the water intake in kyiv, it will leave kyiv without water . well, it seems to me that you can talk like that with any city if you cut off the main communications in which more than 500,000 people live without sewerage, electricity and heat supply, it is not possible to live physically, it is not possible, that is, this is a city that must be evicted urgently, transport people, save them. okay, well , then let's move on, because on the one hand, we have positive information that, well, the tariffs will not increase, no, absolutely . a clear decision was made at all levels, tariffs for heating and gas and electricity until the end of the war and for some time after the war, this decision will not change at all. well, i consider it

correct and fair, and the government adopted it, but excuse me, the mechanism, it turns out that the state will compensate for this difference in the cost of the energy carrier . and we have the funds for this. and if there are delays with allocation from the budget, since you and i are already following not very positive scenarios, can our suppliers also delay the provision these services, you know what will not happen, that is, during at least this heating season, there will not be such situations, it is clear that there is a certain agreement, that is, there are schedules, there is an understanding of how everything works. it's all well prepared and i'm sure that we won't face this kind of problems this heating season. it's clear. thank you, mr. oleksandr. on the one hand, it's not something that was horrified, but it's information for reflection. and this is just an objective

situation, so it's more dangerous than it is today this is russia's military aggression, this is a war, and if they start attacking those objects that are, you know , city-forming, unfortunately, this may lead to the fact that we will have to evacuate cities. that's understandable. by the way, however, air defense is what it is. the most important from the point of view of what is not given to us, that is why it is so often heard that give us more records of air defense means for cities, because it is very, very important to cover cities from such danger, well, in particular, we are waiting for two norwegian installations that are located in washington, one of the germans promised to install cha- to install before the heating season, but something already says about the end of this year oleksandr spasybi, thank you oleksandr kharchenko, director of the energy research center

was with us well, finally, probably no myth of soviet propaganda has taken root in human consciousness like the one i cite ukrainians and russians one people with a common culture my generation people were brought up with the understanding that they are united by rites , customs and traditions but this is far from being a historical column in reality with olesya, he puts dots over the method, but this is a big mistake, because our culture, rituals and customs are completely different, let’s understand the way of life. the ancestors of the ukrainian ethnic group were farmers, while the russians are like nomads. they are used to traveling and therefore they lack values ​​and democracy. this way of life gave rise to the corresponding oral folk and song creativity, and about this a little later, ukrainian songwriting in ukraine, rites and creativity

are mostly connected with the land, cultivation and harvest, everything begins in winter with carols where the owner is glorified, to whom they wish prosperity and a good harvest. while in russian carols, the central motive is the desire for reward, we all remember the christmas carol, a good carol with honey, a christmas carol, but not like that without honey, give dyadku pyataka yes, these are ukrainian words, but they are borrowed from the russian version where the original is even tougher carol carol who won't give a pie we're a cow for cones who won't give a pig around the neck on a barrel wedding marriage another tradition that significantly differs from russian in ukraine the traditional season for matchmaking and weddings is autumn, when the harvest is harvested and pumpkins ripen, which the bride can hand to a suitor who is not to her liking, a ukrainian wedding begins with the song blagoslova bozhya maty, the wedding begins