and every day he says i am not tired, i am not tired of defending ukraine unconquered cities of ukraine kremenchuk is a modern industrial giant hardened by hundreds of years of struggle for freedom in cossack times the city was an outpost against the tatars there was a fortress built by the french military engineer guillaume vasser de beauplan kremenchuk was constantly in the center of armed skirmishes, the second half of the 17th century, the period of almost continuous wars on these lands, during the liberation struggle, kremenchuk was caught in the wave of the anti-bolshevik uprising ataman hryhorivna, 150 jews and communists died as a result of the pogrom. during the years of occupation, the nazis created a network of concentration camps in the city, where more than 90,000 civilians and

prisoners of war were murdered in two years. murilio, but then they were last seen, their fate is currently unknown, today kremenchuk reminds the world that ukraine is fighting not just the occupiers, but absolute evil. but this evil has no chance against the warriors of light kremenchuk the unconquered war in ukraine is the main topic for ukrainians victories and losses analysis and forecasts politics and geopolitics serhii rudenko and the guests of his program will talk about all this people who have information and shape public opinion

people who defend ukraine and create the future right now the most important and interesting thing in the program verdict by serhiy rudenko from monday to thursday at 1:00 p.m. repeat at 9:30 p.m. some creatures hunt washing machines and we are from ukraine and insure our machines online at hotline-finance hotline finance insurance of course online glory to ukraine is a program, my name is serhiy rudenko. good day and good health to all. today is the 168th day of heroic ukrainian resistance to the russian occupiers. on the night of august 10, the

russians struck the city of marganets and the village above tarasivka in the dnipropetrovsk region. unfortunately, 13 people were killed in the shelling. in zaporozhye, kharkiv, donetsk, luhansk , mykolaiv regions, kherson region, the armed forces of ukraine continue to hit enemy warehouses and, in particular, destroyed russian positions last day an enemy camp in the heniche district of the kherson region , as of august 10, russia has already lost 42,800 personnel in the war with ukraine in the last day alone, the armed forces of ukraine have eliminated 160 invaders since the beginning of such a war, the russians have already lost in ukraine 1,832 tanks, 9,076 armored combat vehicles, and 971 artillery pieces system 261 reactive salvo fire system 133

air defense means 232 aircraft 193 helicopters 35 units of automotive equipment 15 ships boats - 185 cruise missiles 766 drones 89 units of special equipment crimea in the fire of the kremlin panic ukraine claims the foreign property of the soviet union and when the organization of the united nations will finally expel the russians from the entire organization today we talk about all this in our program our guest diplomat permanent representative of ukraine in the organization of the united nations in 2015-2019 years volodymyr yelchenko p volodymyr good day good health to you and thank you for participating in our program good day to you mr. volodymyr let's start our conversation from crimea yesterday

explosions rang out at the russian military airfield on the occupied peninsula, according to the armed forces of ukraine, nine planes of the russian federation were destroyed yesterday. the ministry of defense of ukraine said that it could not establish the cause of the fire, but once again reminds of the rules of fire safety and the prohibition of smoking in unspecified places. so, nine planes in a day, this is the largest loss of russian aviation since the beginning of the full-scale invasion . yesterday, in his late-evening address, the president of ukraine noted today that a lot of attention was paid to issues of crimea, because crimea is ukrainian and if we do not give it up, said president zelensky, we listen to the president, the presence of russian occupiers in crimea is a threat to the whole of europe and to global stability

. coast of the mediterranean sea while russia is able to use our peninsula as its military base, this russian war against ukraine and against the whole of free europe began with crimea and has to end crimea with its liberation, mr. volodymyr, moscow constantly threatens ukraine that if we liberate the peninsula by armed means, they will use nuclear weapons. a year ago, the crimean platform was held in kyiv, where the leaders of many countries gathered and discussed options for solving the crimean issue, but considering these six months which have already passed, what order or procedure do you see for the liberation of the crimean peninsula from the russians?

i think that today, apart from the military path of the liberation of the crimea, there are no other options remains. we remember that in the 14th year, in the course of 5-6 years, we talked about that and in the summer, our western partners about the fact that, well, if the question of donbas is such a short perspective the liberation and return of this territory of donbas to ukraine, besides that, well, it’s such a long story, because it actually turned into such a huge military base instead of a resort and a health resort, as it was called before, and it was clear to everyone that, well, the kremlin will not give up crimea just like that but how strange it is the paradox of this the reason for the war lies in the fact that even our western partners, who in every possible way restrained ukraine from making any such aggressive statements regarding crimea

, because they believed that this would lead to the start of such a large-scale war, but as we saw, it started a long time ago. before, before, how did the prospect of the liberation of crimea arise, that is, actually speaking with their own hands, it seems to me that putin and his scumbags are simply bringing the return of crimea closer, because if this continues, then, together with the liberation of the entire south of ukraine, i think that the question remains and liberation of crimea although of course it is up to our military to decide when and how to do it, i think that we will see this prospect quite soon, and yes, rome is the territory of ukraine, and therefore any other situations regarding who is where and who fired what means everyone heard the whole world heard the e-e statement of the ministry of defense of ukraine. i think that from this version you should refrain here and smoke less and rest less there and think about

the fact that there is the crimean bridge, you can't leave there quickly, and in the future, the bridge is also possible will not be then it will be much more difficult to do it so that in the place of those crimeans who became crimeans, let's say, in the last years of the 16th year, they have to think very hard, and from the unity of the information that is in the media, the russian military is already taking all kinds of people there let's say our relatives' families, that is, they probably know something. well, we don't know yet and we haven't guessed. volodymyr, even before the beginning of these events in the crimea and, in general, before the outbreak of a large- scale full-scale war in all regions of ukraine, the kremlin said that well, we ready to negotiate with by ukrainians, if they recognize crimea as russian, if there will be a certain status for the so-called lpr and dpr, if

ukraine will be demilitarized, i understand my question to you as a diplomat, to a person who professionally deals with diplomacy, what are the diplomatic ways in general, in the current situation, to resolve the issue russia's war against ukraine is no longer there in general, and yesterday it was a point that indicates that ukraine will obviously not agree with russia on anything. well, what concerns its territory . well, frankly, knowing the russians and their diplomatic activities, well, it’s been a long time , well, several decades. from the very beginning, i didn’t believe in any prospect of peace negotiations, well, at least with this russian regime, we don’t know what will happen next, when it goes there, how will putin go, hmm, but i look pessimistically at what will happen to russia in the future, because after putin,

it seems to me that it will not be better. it is possible that a more diplomatic solution will appear, but i hope that russia will just change its way in one day. position and their aggressiveness will tell so let's sit down and agree on how we will return ukraine to you, eh, you know. pay attention to the fact that all russian factors of all kinds and constantly repeat that eh, giving up crimea is a kind of sentence for any russian president , because it a sacred question for them is the place there, the city of slavy moryakov, and so on, but for some reason no one thinks about the fact that, apart from uh, he was and is ukrainian , secondly, no. and what is the uh, how about the leadership of ukraine in any ukrainian president to give up crimea for some reason no one thinks about that this is the same adventure, that is, even if hypothetically some president of ukraine agreed to this, well, he will not even start talking about it, well,

society, first of all, will not allow him to do this , and secondly, president zelensky, well, every day. this confirms that there are no negotiations about return there or about er, well, some other status of crimea than the territory of ukraine, er, there is no way to speak. so, er, i do not reject the possibility that some diplomatic ways will appear or prospects will be seen, but you know, i constantly emphasize that er it's mine i am deeply convinced that today the main negotiator from the ukrainian side is the armed forces of ukraine and their success in the future. i am sure that they will not allow the ukrainian diplomats to proceed to any serious conversation. and all those conditions that we have been hearing about since the end of february this year. they don't talk about identification anymore, bandera is gone, they probably caught him somewhere and hanged him i don't know

, but everything else just looks ridiculous they will say yes, let's leave now. we will return everything to you except crimea, and crimea will remain russia . i don't think that anyone in ukraine will agree to such conditions. volodymyr, you said that you have known and cooperated closely with russian diplomats there for a long time, including the un. in general , there is now some kind of russian diplomacy as such, which can conduct negotiations with which you can conduct negotiations, because we are watching how over the last years, the entire contractual base between ukraine and the russian federation is in principle everything is ignored. that is, we remember that there was a big agreement on the recognition of the sovereignty and

territorial integrity of ukraine and russia, where the stay of the russian black sea fleet in crimea was sealed. this agreement was signed in 1997 by yeltsin and kuchma, then we had a series of different agreements regarding cooperation, including economic cooperation, then - these quotas were before the war before the big attack then there were the minsk agreements 1 minsk agreements two all all documents the entire contractual base that was between the two countries was simply ignored by russian diplomacy and the russian leadership. this raises the question of whether to restore or let's say some kind of dialogue or to agree on something, what documents should be relied on in bilateral relations between ukraine and the russian federation, there is no trust in russia and it cannot be that you have repeated this long list of things that

russia has violated. i think that it is difficult to find anything in international law that russia has not violated, and actually speaking, russian diplomacy, starting from around there, from the same year 1997, maybe a little later, from the end of the 90s. she destroyed with her own hands the entire base of trust of some kind of mutual respect that existed in principle. that is, we sincerely believed that the agreement on the distribution of the fleet had been signed to the black sea, well, in general, a large agreement and a board were passed between ukraine and russia , uh, i'm not talking about the budapest memorandum anymore. that was before, uh, later. i remember once we calculated that uh, the contractual basis between the whole of ukraine was somewhere, well, more than a thousand contracts in all kinds of fields and in principle it all worked,

but what russia started to do in 2014 destroyed and destroyed this database no longer exists. well, many documents were simply defunded by us russians, but in fact, even if there is something left. well, there are still some agreements as part of the cis that we signed with ukraine from the cis. and all this is not left either, that is, there is no trust. and when there is no trust, then there is no need to talk about diplomacy i just wish that all this it ended sooner, but i don't believe that, well , at least with this generation, we will be able to sit down at the negotiating table with the russians, as before, and negotiate something with them, because they only understand power, cunning, cynicism and all kinds of destruction of everything

that is called normality regarding the state. and the most important thing is that there is no trust. i think it will not be for many more decades, mr. volodymyr. i want to mention one more agreement between ukraine and the russian federation. it was signed by kuchma in 1994. it is about the so-called distribution of assets and liabilities of the soviet union, this agreement was called the zero option agreement. i remember very well how in 1995-1996 they tried to ratify this agreement through the verkhovna rada, because it was an international agreement and it was about ukraine renouncing its debt obligations yazan in the part of the soviet union, and it was 16.38% of our share, that is, our assets and liabilities were 16.38 hundredths of a

percent, so just a few weeks ago, the ambassador of ukraine to great britain, vadym prystaiko, spoke about what he stated about that ukraine can return er to er declare your claim to a third of the foreign property of the former soviet union, which after 91 passed to the russian federation hmmm, that's already the story regarding the return to this zero option, the revision of this agreement on the zero option in 2014 was introduced , said the then minister of justice, uh, pavlo petrenko, but in principle, nothing happened, well , for 30 years there, as they shared, how kuchma and yeltsin agreed on this zero agreement, this is how it is happening, do we have a prospect in the case of our victories to return to the agreement before the revision of this agreement on the so-called zero option is so constructively clear that there is simply again, for

this you need trust eh and russia actually, speaking with its own hands, created this problem because there really was an agreement there was a so-called zero eh option, and there were still a few more steps to be taken there. well, in fact, we almost voluntarily gave up, for example, the diamond fund, part of many other things, russia allegedly paid some soviet debts for everyone in that number of e-e for ukraine, but she categorically refused to give even information about that what are the sizes of this diamond and gold or gold or currency fund when we talk about foreign property and you really do not know when people hear such a term foreign property well , the first thing that comes to mind is the former soviet embassy there, but in fact in each country there are tens if not hundreds of objects, i

answer when i was working in austria, in one day, we counted on our own ago that the russians categorically denied you this information. well, there are about 25 or more various facilities there, some hospitals, some dachas of the ambassador, uh, well, you understand in austria, which part was actually occupied by the soviet troops until 1955, in general, there are a lot of things left there in such a strange status, let's say so, but even in such a country where, well, you just know when the houses that were standing were destroyed, that is, give these houses to ukraine and exactly the same could be done in the same great britain in the clothes of other countries, and then maybe we went to this one the final distribution and today we wouldn't have a legal base, that's all, let's say so, to appeal or buy again, it didn't work. and instead, she

gave us some such things, the list there seems to be 20 or 20 objects, there are some former ones dilapidated houses in africa, mongolia, somewhere over there on the outskirts of china, that is, everything that was absolutely unnecessary in ukraine, of course we gave up on that, we made our list of normal objects in the food of austria in the same in london many other countries ie those the objects that were acquired were necessary in the years when we were developing our type of service in the 90s and we desperately needed money, there was no money, there was no financing, what is an embassy to buy, well, in the same london, but after that, ukraine with its own funds acquired property for these purposes where we needed it and we were exhausted on this issue. but it is clear that we can legally claim all of this even then and today. i

think that the time will come when we will be able to return to this issue, but it is much more important, i think for today, think about the future of the reparations that russia has to pay us for all the horrors of destruction that it has created since february 24 of this year. it is no longer necessary to pay for everything hmmm but the naked ones that were brought to ukraine will have to pay for it and i think it will be done today we know that many russian assets have already been frozen in the countries of western europe in canada and australia and in the united states of america and the time will come, well, these countries just need to find such, you know, a legal, principled approach

in order not to violate laws and bilateral agreements with russia, and so that all property can be sold, uh, and money should be allocated to ukraine at least well, if not as reparations, then at least as funds for the reconstruction of everything that was destroyed starting from february 24 of this year, mr. volodymyr , i cannot ask you about one more legacy of the soviet union that russia appropriated - this is a place in the organization of the united nations, we know that in 94 in 1945, when the united nations was just being organized, among the founders of the united nations was the ukrainian ssr, the belarusian ssr and the ussr as a structure of the unification of the republics in 9 the first year, ukraine, accordingly, as the legal successor of the ukrainian ssr, received a seat in the un, or rather,

belarus left this seat also remained in the un, and russia declared that it is the successor of this ussr and the place in the un belongs to it, although according to the procedure of the un charter, it should have submitted an application, this application should have been considered and in this way confirmed membership russia in the un and in the un security council, how do you now look at these inconsistencies and are there any motives or reasons to question the vote of the russian federation or because russia did not necessarily go through the process of joining the un? to this organization. it seems to me that all the accents were placed absolutely correctly - this is really an interesting story, and by the way,

i think that, again, it was such a serious mistake of russian diplomacy by russian lawyers who did not think at the time, you know, it is not i wanted very much as soon as possible to take away everything that was soviet, including the place of the soviet union in the security council and the un, respectively, this is the main right in the security council, that is, for this purpose, some red lines were transferred. well, they covered themselves like a rag with the so -called almaty declaration, which was signed in december , it seems, on december 21. uh it all looks quite legal hmm let's say it's not

serious ukraine wants to sign the almaty declaration but as we know we have never ratified the cis statutes and any lawyer will tell you that ukraine was de jure and was not a member of the cis so the signature which stands under the declaration in latin, the signature of kravchuk, and by the way, the ukrainian diplomats of that time, and in particular the late anton buteyko, who was then the legal advisor of the ministry of foreign affairs of ukraine, then he became the first deputy minister, this is one of the famous ukrainian diplomats, he caterichno was against it, as far as i remember, as some witnesses say, he literally held kravchuk's hand, tried to hmm, well, he spoke from the fact that he would sign this hunting license, or at least he did it with some reservations. they didn't listen to him. well, then

you know, there was such a political expediency and everyone was and that yeltsin is such a good russia and the main thing is that we , uh, peacefully separated and that there will be russia instead of the soviet union, no one thought about the possible consequences by the way, exactly the same here it is the situation was also during the signing of the budapest memorandum. well, there was also pressure from the usa, uh, such positive pressure, because everyone was afraid to leave uh, let's say, the remnants of nuclear weapons to ukraine, and ukraine, technically, uh, could not use and control the americans very much they were afraid, they were worried that it might be some very unpredictable er consequences, then we just wasted our hands, but in almaty it was just pressure from russia and plus, well, such a good will on the part of ukraine, the cis , so er, once again returning to history the signing of this declaration by friends, for example, they did not

sign it and it would be possible to use it, let's say 10 years ago, and there were such ideas or proposals, present a doubt, that's all. and this declaration became the basis of yeltsin's well-known letter on general education the un at the end of december, it was a couple of days before the new year at the end of december 1991, when it happened, he wrote to the un secretary general at the time that look, this was the decision in almaty and all the cis countries. he does not object to russia becoming a continuation of the soviet union u.n., everyone breathed a sigh of relief, you know , it’s easier to transport mares to the maidan union. well, let it be russia. nobody is against it, and again, uh. we managed to find uh, much later, uh, in the un archives. by the way, it was quite

we wanted to give a secret document, but we found our agency there . well, i’m just kidding, of course, one of the un secret staff just secretly took a copy for us, and this copy is in our archives . two uh the hierarchy of the secretariat, without which no decision is approved without his visa or opinion being there, so here he is on a page very simply. he wrote what you actually said at the beginning of this story. what if you look at it from the point of view of legal purity, russia must submit a new application and be approved by the un general assembly, and then this recommendation of the general assembly is approved by the un security council, and by the way

, there would be no problems with this. that's why i said that it was a mistake that seems to me to have been playing for a long time russian diplomats. they wanted as soon as possible, and now 30 years have passed and this mine would have exploded. i am absolutely sure that this issue will continue to progress. our diplomats are currently working on it. the main thing for us is to gather such a base of support, that is, that this solution it was damaged in some way, there are different ways, you can just go to the general assembly eh