the consequences of saturdays vitaliy portnikov and maria gurska will discuss the most relevant to draw appropriate conclusions, do you want to know how what is happening today will affect our tomorrow see the saturday book that saturdays nespresso our flag lead us into battle, the victorious shine of swords and see from the blood how our free people will be resurrected may he accept you under his protection happy national flag day of ukraine 2 p.m. in ukraine news time on the espresso tv channel welcome to the studio iryna koval and the first guest to the most current events at this time the president of poland andrzej duda arrived in kyiv, he

will take part in the second summit of the crimean platform , and during the visit there will be bilateral negotiations between the presidents and delegations of the parties, they will discuss the situation in ukraine, bilateral cooperation and support of our state in the military, economic and humanitarian dimensions , the office of the president of poland himself informed from the crimean platform, this year the online event will start from minute to minute. about 60 countries and internationals will take part in it organizations, among them about 40 at the level of presidents and prime ministers, the espresso tv channel will broadcast the event live and before the event in various regions of our country, the russians hit the dnipro with missiles, mayor boris filatov reported, projectile fragments fell on private houses, filatov called on people to be careful themselves and wait for official information from the military administration, the

occupiers still shelled nikopol with barrel artillery and volley fire systems, the head of the district administration, yevhen yevtushenko, said on kharkiv-muscovites opened artillery fire mayor igor terekhov says that the fsb has planned a series of terrorist attacks in russia with mass casualties among civilians, mayor igor terekhov said, according to him, the reason for this is the drop in support for the war among russians, such acts of terrorism are not new for the putin regime to mobilize the population in the current situation, to rally people against ukraine, the murder of the daughter of the ideologue of the russian peace, oleksandr dukhin, is the first on this list - says danilov, previously he also stated that the car bombing was organized by the russian special services, ukraine is not involved in this,

russia may fire at ukrainian civil infrastructure and state institutions in the coming days , the us embassy reports such a threat, the united states representation on duty during the full-scale war called on american citizens to leave ukraine, i will remind you earlier, the main administration intelligence of the ministry of defense also called on ukrainians to be especially careful on august 23-24 and 25 , because on holidays it is especially intensified the threat of missile strikes and provocations from russia in mykolaiv and the region on independence day will not strengthen the curfew and will not close the city to entry, this was reported by the head of the regional military administration, vitaly kim, at the same time he called on the residents of the region to be extremely careful in the coming days, we did not close

the city did not introduce additional curfews , but neither did the region, but we understand that the threat is heightened, so the authorities and utility companies in the city are now working remotely and oblasts, etc. we advise you to make maximum efforts in terms of security and to disregard the security rules. 18 yellow and blue square meters are the largest national flag of ukraine created from fingerprints in krypnytskyi. they willingly put prints on the canvas with blue and yellow colors. funds to help the armed forces of ukraine, how is the creation of a huge flag going? and so much money has already been collected , our journalists will tell and show. thank you. leave it where you want, thank you, the third volunteers

are unfurling the future flag in crowded places of kropyvnytskyi, they call on everyone who wants to join the campaign, the townspeople are happy to respond, this is actually the flag of our ukraine, our home, that's why i want to join this campaign to do something so small for our victory from the beginning of the campaign, prints on canvas more than two hundred people, including children and adults, have placed, if you wish, you can make a charitable contribution, and the collected money will go to help the armed forces of ukraine, and op op op op op op op op op op come on, yes, sit here, closer to me, closer to me, so that all who want to join, volunteers will go to the cities and villages of kirovohrad oblast, they plan to give the finished flag to the museum, they sat and thought about what to do

so that, well, people would be pleased and people would understand about it, so we decided to start to create until independence day, before flag day, here is such an action , but we will continue it because, well, we don’t have time and we want to go around the region. then it is possible all over ukraine, here, first in krypnytskyi, and well, everything has been rescheduled for flag day, but the action is about well, it will be within i don’t know, a month or two, maybe more. the area of ​​the future flag is 18 m², if necessary, the canvas will be made larger. they want to set a ukrainian record for the largest flag made of fingerprints during the campaign. volunteers have already collected uah 8,000. glory to the heroes and from kropyvnytskyi for the espresso tv channel in the capital of latvia. the russians in riga tried to prevent soviet soldiers from demolishing the monument , delphi reports that the action was organized

by the union of russians of latvia party, although the city council of riga for security reasons prohibited its holding, however about fifty people gathered for the rally. most of the activists stood peacefully, but disputes arose between the people after the call to disperse. the law enforcement officers had to disperse the rally. five people were detained. city ​​and took his dog zhuzhu worthy of an adventure novel we have collected for you the top 5 incredible stories of the rescue of ukrainians from the russian occupation see further in the plot

to get out of the occupation, as if getting a lucky ticket , that is often said by those who managed to do it, such as some defenders from azovstal during the military operation, the air corridor in mariupol managed to save 85 seriously wounded ukrainian soldiers , there were seven such rescue missions for this, ukrainian troops used mi-8 army helicopters, the last and seventh flight took place 20 days before the actual surrender of the azov residents to russian captivity on may 16. in mariupol, the family of ksenia kayan and nadia waited for the green

corridor in mariupol. however, every day the russians destroyed the city more and more. the woman and her family were hiding in the basement of their own house, and already on march 11, ksenia lost her dearest son bohdan, then she hid in the bomb shelter of the philharmonic with her mother after staying there for 16 days, she decided to run away from the city on her own for almost three kilometers. ksenia carried her injured mother in her car, she managed not only to leave mariupol, but also to get other people out the story of an incredible rescue was told by the presenter of espresso iryna koval, ksenia kayan, the release of prisoners in the kherson region on july 12, ukrainian intelligence reported the rescue of five compatriots from the captivity of the occupiers, among them a serviceman of the armed forces of ukraine, a former police officer and three civilians. one of the released had a serious combat wound at the time of their release of our command was critically

important for their lives and when asked how they came out on us at all called everyone to whom absolutely everyone and maybe it saved their lives let's put it this way and this story of rescue is worth filming a special operations force fighter together with his comrades saved people in the kyiv region in the spring, civilians fled from the occupied part of the region to the capital from the russian fascists , according to the military, people were trapped on a small island there was no way back because the occupiers shot everyone at the very moment our special forces were working in that area to get out of the occupation and also to save their family members pets a real feat at the end of april it happened to zhuzha the dog with which the owner was fleeing from occupied mariupol they walked for 5 days to zaporizhzhia they walked so long that the dog star ran all his paws in bad weather under shelling and mines and still

managed to escape from the war and just now these minutes, the second one has already started from the crimean platform, the espresso tv channel will broadcast the event live, so stay with us on the network in order to ensure proper communication between representatives of the ministry of foreign affairs this network is used to inform partners about the current situation in ukraine in the context of the russian war. we also started the work of an international network of experts on the basis of this platform, and on february 26, that is, the 23rd year, two days after the invasion, the crimean platform

adopted a joint appeal on the occasion of the day support of the occupation of the autonomous republic of crop unfortunately, due to security aspects, we had to gather at the table online, but i am glad that this table today is much more than last year, our crimean the platform has turned into a global initiative and it will continue to expand. so now i have the great honor to open today's summit and invite the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi to speak. we feel this dear citizens of ukraine from crimea and in crimea. i know that you are watching and

hearing us today. for us it is very important for me it is very important for society for everyone and i know for each of us that crimea is with ukraine and is waiting for us to return. i want you all to know that we will definitely return when we return and correct everything that the occupiers did to our ukrainian peninsula that came to crimea and the entire black sea region together with russian aggression together with russian weapons, catastrophic threats to ecology, ecology, unprecedented destruction of nature, nature of crimea, destruction of social life, economic decline , destruction of monuments, militarism. and when the russian fleet, which is based in occupied crimea, blocked our ports in the black and azov seas, this provoked a global food crisis and the rights of the people of crimea, our beautiful citizens, citizens of

our state, citizens of the unitary state of ukraine, but despite everything, despite any threats, ukraine is strong enough to see a perspective for ukrainian crimea. i have the honor to announce that the start of the second summit of the crimean platform in a year we managed to significantly expand the capabilities of the crimean platform, said minister kuleba last year 46 foreign countries of international organizations participated this year almost i am grateful to all of you, much more heads of state , 40 presidents and prime ministers, including the leaders of the big seven, i am grateful to all of you for understanding how important such actions are now, your actions, your support, our joint actions and our joint work, this year representatives of two more

african continents joined and south america and this demonstrates that there is no limit in the world that the truth would not overcome the pro-russian war against ukraine and our people . determines the fact that the summit is held online, but it has already been proven by international practice that such a regime can be absolutely effective for politics, diplomacy, the main thing for the protection of freedom, and especially now i want to thank one of the leaders who are with us today here in kyiv, it is anzhi and duda, the president of poland thank you, angela. thank you to our friend, the friend of all ukrainians, because your presence next to me , next to us, with the people of ukraine, once again confirms the extremely close connection of historical understanding between ukrainians and poles, and thank you

to you ladies and gentlemen when i speak to our citizens i often use the honorific address all our defenders all our defenders in fact today i address you to you dear leaders dear ministers i can use the same words and in a related sense all the defenders defenders of the international legal order exactly this is why we are here today, this is exactly why the crimean platform was created and has been working for a year. the flag on the ground on our land on the land of crimea precisely thanks to this we will bring freedom to ukrainian citizens in crimea and we will certainly restore

justice to all those who suffered from repressions from the abuse of russia by the russian occupiers but in order to win we need not to forget what the path was to the current situation, the degradation of russia began with the seizure of crimea, the terror against the crimean tatar people, the indigenous people of crimea, began with repressions with a religious character, which became almost the most large-scale religious persecution in europe in the 21st century century, against the crimean muslim community , there were expulsions from the occupied crimea of ​​all ordinary people who said that crimea is ukraine, who were not afraid to defend ukrainian culture , ukrainian freedom in crimea, and we saw murders and tortures, humiliation and looting, all this

was done by the occupiers, and they continue to do it did in crimea from the first weeks after its shameful capture and further spread these crimes already to donbas and to other countries, including african countries, where russian banditry is now present under cover mass terror of the russian special services after february 24 became the logical conclusion of the degradation of this state, which not so long ago was invited to the table with the big seven and which is now competing for supremacy with the most brutal regimes of the past, that responsibility for genocides, wars of aggression and deportations, we are grateful that many in the world did not keep silent about all this, many opposed, constantly helped us fight, but at the same time, many

remained silent, and it is true, tried not to notice what was happening in crimea, and this became one of the key in my opinion, everything that is happening now in ukraine and in the world, it is possible to remember that there was resistance on the peninsula. we are grateful to them, you know recently dear, i received a letter from one of the kremlin from nariman dzhelal and unfortunately he is now behind bars and the teams imprisoned him on an absolutely ridiculous charge, we know this only because he is fighting for his motherland because he

took part in the first summit of the crimean platform that took place last year. he came to kyiv last year from the occupied and already purchased crimea to tell the participants exactly what is really happening on the peninsula and what is real and what all this will lead to and 9 days after his return already back to crimea, the occupiers deprived him of his freedom freedom for the fact that he was simply a free man this was russia's response and in his letter mr. zhilyan wrote from crimea it began with crimea and it will end and this is really true i in i believe this one hundred percent in order to overcome terror, to return predictability and security to our region in europe, all over the world, we need to win a victory in the fight against russian aggression, and

therefore we need to free crimea from the occupation where it began and will end there and it will be an effective resuscitation of the international legal order, but this is not it's just politics, a legal task for the world - it 's about a specific land, about specific people who live in a specific crimea, about cities, about culture , about specific sights, about the hopes of specific living people people about the fact that someone invested his life in the crimea and after the arrival of russia was forced to either leave it to save himself in other lands or was forced to fear that something of his small house, land, work, any business would be taken away and was forced to limit himself or lose everything when everything

took away russia stole a part of life even from those in crimea who were lucky enough not to become a victim of repression and it was impossible to even imagine such a thing, but the occupation turned crimea, and it really is a paradise for all of us, a paradise was turned into a depressed place and a dependent region on a region of high-altitude fences of barbed wire and lawlessness on a zone of ecological disaster and a military bridgehead for aggression and the spread of grief. during february 24, 750 different cruise missiles were launched from the occupied crimea into our cities and communities. imagine 750 in six months, they destroyed at least hundreds of civilian hospitals and therefore ukraine's restoration of control over the crimean peninsula

will be a historic anti-war step in europe and it will restore security and somewhere justice - it will reintegrate crimea into the modern world and it will allow to each of us participants of the crimean platform to tell our children and our close relatives that they can be proud of us precisely as peacekeepers and i want to emphasize that for ukraine crimea is not just some territory, it is not a chip in the geopolitical game as for a terrorist state, for ukraine crimea is a part of our people of our society, the community of people to whom we will guarantee freedom and return to modernity, in addition to being and being ukraine after the deoccupation, together with our entire state will become part of the european union, i am sure of this, the passport of a citizen of ukraine will be and

the passport of the european union and this is a huge opportunity for our people living in crimea , the roads of crimea will be the roads of the entire european continent, the ports of crimea will be the ports of the whole of europe, only ukraine is able to connect simferopol with berlin, and yalta with naples, only ukraine is concerned about the real security of crimea, that is, normal supply of normal clean water normal disposal of garbage effective rules for handling waste and sewerage only ukraine can build a modern irrigation system in crimea and integrate the agricultural production of crimea and the entire business sector with the colossal european market. only our state will give crimea a modern affordable medical system, a modern affordable education

system, a modern digital system of public services. ukraine will remove this wire that blocks the way for ordinary people to the best. of our beautiful crimea, free access to beaches and real protection of protected areas of historical objects will be ensured only by ukraine and not by whoever came to capture, to steal, to humiliate people , it is ukraine that will restore the system of sanatoriums , rehabilitation centers, professional institutions in crimea, which will be able to receive hundreds of thousands of people every year, millions of tourists, children and adults, civilians , veterans of our citizens and foreigners, everyone who is helped by the precious nature of crimea and millions of

tourists, at least of the middle class, except they can stay stable only thanks to our state, only thanks to ukraine, there were never any repressions in crimea under the ukrainian authorities, and they do not know all this freedom or moral suffocation that russia has brought since the 14th year, and even more so, ukraine will never care about the social needs of pensioners or anyone else in crimea. ukraine will never tell people there is no money but you hold on i think we all remember this because we we respect people and even this year we already have a moment in such cruel and bloody times of a full-scale war, we have indexed pensions for all our pensioners, ladies and gentlemen, i think you felt from my words that we have a very uh well-thought- out view on how to restore our the ukrainian peninsula of crimea after the expulsion of the

russian occupiers and that is why we are adding two more directions to the work of the crimean platform, this is an economic direction and a legislative direction. those for whom crimea is even much more than a home. we adopted the law on indigenous peoples, which protected the rights of the crimean tatar people and the mezhilis of karaites and krymchaks, we are developing the crimean tatar language was adopted by the law on the protection of political prisoners, all those who suffered from the repressions of the occupiers, and these are only some examples. we are not going to stop there. there is still a lot of work to be done

this year. all the power of democracy to protect our state and the international legal order and returning to the letter of the bee imprisoned by the occupiers i want to read a few more words i think important thanks to the change in the agenda. on the world stage in europe and in ukraine itself, due to the aggression of the russian federation, the participants of the crimean platform have a more determined attitude, focused on the implementation of specific cases. all of us participants are participants of the samis summit and we all must not deceive this hope . we must all be strong and effective. i thank you for your

attention. i am grateful to everyone for participating in our to the second summit is to everyone present on this platform. glory to ukraine. thank you, mr. president, nava, he opened the floor of the english galaxy . now i would like to give the floor to the special guest of ukraine today, his excellency the president of the republic of poland .

was ukraine except - it is ukraine just like gdansk or lublin and part of poland, so crimea was, is and will be part of ukraine, ladies and gentlemen, president or prime minister, the minister of the president of the european union, the ministers of the state and the nation, i would like to say the obvious last for years this is an obvious thing that was not so clear and i still remember our first meeting on the crimean platforms a year ago and the fact that