today ukraine celebrates independence day, the world congratulates russia continues to bomb from the sky, a few minutes ago it became known that russia hit passenger cars at a railway station in the dnipropetrovsk region, 15 people were killed, about 50 were injured, president volodymyr zelenskyi said this in a speech by video link pre-bass of the un and all the details will be available soon on our website bbc.ua and there is also everything about the results of the un security council meeting, we will be on the air again tomorrow at 21:00 take care and happy independence day of ukraine if you have an allergy, the drug citrin will help to free your breath and get rid of itching in

the eyes and tearing - cetrin specifically blocks histamine receptors and usually begins to protect against allergies after 20 minutes, it must act in the center of the allergy, some creatures are not able to choose something else and we in ukraine like to choose everything even if it is insurance on hotline finance hotline finance insurance of course online dear ukraine, you know that in us everything will be as we want it together everything will be everywhere everything will work everything will be blue and yellow everything will be and everyone will be at home, our ukraine, you will bloom and smile again, everything will be native, everything will be independence, happy holiday like never before, our

ukrainian temporarily-occupied cities of heroes , ukrainians under occupation are heroically resisting the enemy and waiting for the day of liberation, support your people, join the flash mob with the hashtag city of heroes, write about occupied cities in social networks and geolocate them in posts, publish a photo with a yellow ribbon, this is a symbol of support for the people under occupation, ukrainians will be free, support the cities of heroes, god grant us to love ukraine above all today, having so that we don't have to love bitterly after losing vyacheslav chornovil, happy independence day, we will defeat the enemy, we dreamed of capturing ukraine in

three days, and we did not allow our freedom to be taken away , together we stopped the russian ortova and together we will liberate our native land, we will definitely rebuild the destroyed cities and villages, because we ukrainians, as we fight alone for our country and the security service of ukraine, we defend independence, we bring victory closer so that ukrainians don't think about it, so that they don't talk about it in the first place, it's still war, war and our victory, seven days a week from monday monday seven different spheres of human activity

sports culture politics eight presenters espresso journalists experts opinion leaders in real time about the most current events through the prism of war every day author projects on espresso glory to ukraine this is a program verdict my name is serhiy rudenko everyone good day and good health greetings everyone happy independence day of ukraine today is 182 days of heroic ukrainian resistance to the russian invaders six months of the great war on the night of august 24 russia fired rockets at ukrainian cities, zaporozhye was hit kharkiv-dnipro in the morning the occupiers fired rockets at mirhorod, the russians were shelling sumy, luhansk, cherkasy

, donetsk regions, at the same time, the enemy continues to lose manpower and equipment in ukraine , as of the morning of august 24, russia has lost 45,700 people in ukraine since february 24, in the last day alone, the armed forces 150 occupiers of ukraine were not eliminated at the beginning of the great war, the russians have already lost 1,924 tanks, 443 armored fighting vehicles, 1,036 artillery systems, 266 rocket launcher systems, and 147 anti-aircraft weapons in ukraine of defense 234 aircraft 199 helicopters 3160 units of motor vehicles 15 ships boats 196 cruise missiles 819 drones and 99

units of special equipment the enemy suffered the greatest losses in the donetsk direction on the 31st anniversary of independence 8 years of russia's war against ukraine and six months of the march of a large-scale operation as they call the russian federation against ukraine, to put it simply, the great war of russia against ukraine, we are talking within the next hour, contact us roman bezsmertny politician-diplomat, former ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of ukraine in the republic of belarus p roman holiday to you happy independence day i congratulate you and i am glad to see you on our air thank you i congratulate you i congratulate our viewers be healthy and happy despite all the troubles troubles will pass we will affirm everything will be fine so roman

today is the 31st anniversary of ukrainian independence to be exact the restoration of ukrainian independence and half a year of russia's large-scale war against ukraine. the russian-ukrainian war has been going on for the 9th year, that is, for a third of the time since the restoration of ukrainian independence, we are fighting for our independence with weapons in hand. do you think we were doomed to this war and could we have avoided it? you know, back in the early 80s, especially when the so-called perestroika with gorbachev began. theses about cleansing the blood were very popular, and it is clear that the majority of they don't remember these discussions that took place at that time, but this thesis was very deeply rooted in

my cities. i always remembered this, especially since all the classics of the national idea of ​​ukraine, the classics of ukrainian statehood, and i will start with mykhailo hrushevskyi and volodymyr vynnychenko but until this number i am happy because honestly, when yevhen konovaltsy and stepan bandera, they all said the phrase war is starting, there is a chance to build a state, and when yevgeny konovaltsy and stepan bandera, with a certain period of time, they spoke the phrase "war is starting, there is a chance to build a state . " and the mechanism of state building, many people will certainly discuss, especially specialists, but somewhere from the end of the 90s, and for example, for me, since 2005

, since the victory of the orange revolution , it has become absolutely obvious that the kremlin will not calm down and all these victories won ukraine on its way, they annoyed the creams even more and more because the cream considered , considers and will always consider this ukrainian , starting from people and ending with chernozems, as an ordinary resource. means that the kremlin was betting on their destruction and was getting more and more into the subsoil, grain, water resources, and so

on, but for me, for example, the history of ukrainian relations and what today is called russia and i use in this case exclusively the concept of cream, i can say . obviously, from the point of view of the current moment, phenomena that cannot exist at the same time can be a ukrainian state, ukrainians and all more than 180 ethnic groups and nationalities of russia, but kremin and ukraine are already on now it is obvious that either they will apply what is called a short pause and gather strength in order for the next stage

of this battle and confrontation to show the whole world that the only thing that really saves the situation is that ukraine every year with every decade and centuries are getting closer and closer, at the present stage, the civilized world is entering, as soon as ukraine will finally take place in this civilized world, and it will come the moment when you can say that the cream has disappeared, because for the kremlin, the existence of ukraine as a state of ukrainian society, a democratic society, a competitive economy is rivne the word death, the land, the last 31 years, we see how ukraine says goodbye to russia quite not

simply, quite bloody, and we pay a great price for our independence during these 30 years. we saw as a part of the ukrainian of the political elite acted as an open collaborator and played on the side of the russian federation, someone earned money from russian gas, someone was bribed, someone took part in elections financed by the russian federation for the last 20 years, we see how putin gained strength and formed his entire policy for in order to start a big war with ukraine because in 2004 he lost the orange revolution and lost his candidate viktor yanukovych, then he brought yanukovych to power. he lost again because there was

the revolution of dignity and yanukovych fled to the russian federation is now a decisive moment in our history in our independence, and obviously these final competitions that we are seeing now should put an end to the national liberation competitions that have been going on for several centuries. is in ukraine and we are trying somehow to break away from the russian federation, why do you think that since 1991 we did not have a sharp break with the russian federation, as was the case, for example, in the history of the baltic countries , why did we dare for a very long time and very have been separated from russia for a long time and why is this gap now so painful ah, mr. serhiu , in fact, there is nothing in common between what is

ukraine and what is the cream, there was never, never will be, but the trouble and the tragedy of ukraine is that this damn thing the word resource ukraine was actually a resource of the kremlin not just there for 100,200 years, but from the beginning, remember from the 11th century, from andrii bogolyubskyi, and andrii, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh , oh! and yesterday it is today the day of the cream because i do not identify the creams and the peoples of the people of russia, these are different things. despite their today's idiotic position in most cases, but it is not the same thing. and in fact, the problem is that

only this resource stream stopped, and silicon went crazy, he dried up, he intellectually, physically, materially , in any way, he simply ceased to be what is called power. i was very interested in studying history a-a always talk about outstanding ukrainians who achieved themselves and became someone in the russian empire, but forgive me, there is no one there and it has never happened to those who are called russians, it was all usually either germans or dutch or french or similar to the majority of ukrainians and so on . realized that

for them society, whatever it was, 50 million 30 million is a lot of absolutely no significance, because they all perfectly realized that grozny and stalin and putin do not exist, there is no ukraine, there is no such thing as russia, rasha, this is the problem and from this dilemma they never did not go down, never climbed down this white for them, it was a holiday and a mechanism and a resource for solving absolutely all issues, all problems , all external, internal, and so on. in fact, formally, it existed culturally , intellectually, it even existed in fact always, and the only question was that it took place formally and in fact

culturally and nationally at one moment. and as soon as this time came, it became clear that the thesis about anti-russia, which it is constantly on putin's lips, it constantly sounds from where a ukrainian is called an anti-russian, where ukraine is anti-russia, that is, it is an enemy and this enemy is called so only because there is a resource, this comprehensive resource, which allows the kremlin to rule and parasitize over nations, ethnic groups and nationalities, we have a huge party not to interrupt our program for a long time and go down to the bomb shelter because the alarm has been declared almost all over western ukraine, we literally for all over ukraine i am told by the editor all over ukraine that the air alarm is not we will ignore, we are going down the

bomb shelter now, we will get in touch literally in a few minutes i hope that everything will be fine , friends, please do not ignore the air alarms, go to the bomb shelter because today, as the americans and our special services are saying, missile attacks from the russian federation are possible, and massive because of that please take care of yourself and your loved ones, we will leave in a few minutes from another studio located in our bomb shelter friends, this is a program verdict i am serhiy rudenko we continue our program already from the bomb shelter the air alert continues in all regions of ukraine, please be careful, ignore the air alert signals, take care of yourself and your loved ones, we have a politician and diplomat extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador of ukraine in 2010,

we are talking about the results 30 of one year of ukrainian independence and also today is six months of the great war of the russian federation against ukraine. so, mr. romane, putin probably did not expect when he went on a large-scale offensive against ukraine that we will celebrate on august 24 of this year, as the day of ukrainian independence, he did not plan the blitz and hoped that the ukrainians of ukraine would surrender to the russian federation, and he certainly thinks that he will succeed in defeating ukraine. you are a historian and a politician with a lot of experience. how would you characterize these the first six months of the great war, and what do you think this war will be called in the future? well

, the fact is that this war is of a national character, that is, it is the motherland, in fact , we are talking about the fate of the national motherland and ah, it is clear that sooner or later they will be added to the list of wars that this liberation , national liberation wars, etc. who considers him to be a person who is seriously ill with power and has created his own world in his head where there are his own categories, which, well, you can say that he has

his own meter and his own kilogram he has his own to talk about the fact that we are dealing with a person who uses human categories of concepts . i am not talking about such things as morality , honesty and so on. it is obvious and in such a case it is clear that before a country that opposes such existential evil uh, i pay special attention to you here, the word existential means that it doesn't matter in principle , this is ivan the terrible, this is joseph stalin, this is uh,

ulyanov , vladimir ulyanov. in the conversation with you, mr. sergiu er, he spoke and referred to the famous british scientist mackinder, who actually laid the topic of relations between civilizations, inter-ethnic er, on the basis of geography, which absolutely clearly outlined the current eastern border of ukraine, belarus, the baltic countries, scandinavia as the next border, because this work was published in 1904, and after that we will survive the curzon line, so the next century, with the arrival of civilization on the border, should have been the eastern border of ukraine, belarus, the baltic countries

scandinavia and so on, this is actually what many scientists do not want to admit. this is how the relationship between the hardland and romeland of the two civilizational worlds on the eurasian continent and in fact this is the emotional exclamation of the president of the united states of america, ronald reagan, as the ussr, the empire of evil a later, mccain's russia is a big gas station, and they are, as it were, such an intellectual clot of the essence of what we are dealing with. that is, they are not quite human because they operate in not quite human categories. i mean putin, his the immediate environment and so on, from here it is obvious that with common sense what is

happening now seemed impossible to a person, but when you understand perfectly well that you are dealing not exactly with what is called a person with individuals who have their own scales of measurement, then you understand the regularity of this phenomenon, which is actually just a question time is now the answer of the present current moment and what can stop this tragedy that continues for a millennium only the capitulation of the kremlin and here a very simple principle should work: fascism won in berlin, nazism must win in moscow in the kremlin has a different option, any other option is just a fight for a pause . and it can last 10 years, 50, 100 years, but

everything will be the same. everything will return to its tragic patterns . a resource or is a central asian state resource a resource? unfortunately, this is the pattern of the life of the empire and these two empires that are now left on the planet. this is the earth, and russia is the empire. well, i would say so. it is the gulag, more than 190 ethnic groups, a-a peoples, nationalities and china, these empires that were late are clearly late with the disintegration and due to certain circumstances, let's say so to soften the answer to the question, they have preserved themselves. they must disappear from the map of the planet earth, and here it is very important

that this is what we are talking about not only ukrainians understood, but the whole civilized world understood, then it will be possible to form an answer to this question sooner. if not, then the history of this disintegration and pauses, and it will stretch in time not for years, it will stretch in time for decades, and maybe even more, you have already remembered about putin and not about them people, e.e. shoigu and their team, which is currently waging war against ukraine, today the minister of defense of the russian federation serhiy shoigu, speaking at the meeting of the defense ministers of the countries of the shanghai cooperation organization, said something about the fact that slowing down the pace of the offensive in ukraine is

a conscious decision what needs to be minimized civilian casualties let's listen to what he said and then continue our conversation, the harsh sanctions information war and the conflict in ukraine have become established because of the non -proposals for this declared by the united states of america as an enabler of russia's strategic shortage to eliminate competition and prevent another state conducting an independent foreign policy, we proposed a significant effort to form a council of dreams of stability in europe under new conditions, we ordered with washington, we refused to take into account our concern for the guarantee of mutual security, first of all we understood the rarity of the neutral status of ukraine ignored fundamentally for us the questions

understood need to expand to the east not the resurrection of shock weapons refuses soldiers the activities of publicists of the russian border , five instruments of hybrid warfare against russia were chosen by ukraine near kiev, which refused the minsk agreement and was a real threat to the residents of donbass. you are right when the whole world or the united forces or the united army of the world will stop in front of the kremlin, e.e. shoigu and putin will not they want to admit defeat. they are trying to find some definite arguments now in order to take a break. can

blackmail by the zaporizhzhya npp be considered such an argument, since twice in the last week the united nations, or rather the un security council, was forced to consider this issue at the request of russia. first of all, this is the empire, and especially there, the russian empire, the soviet union, today's russia - this, or rather, the cream - this is a lie and here it is a lie upon a lie, what a lie and the topic of nuclear threats that started a long, long time ago, back in 2000 two at the beginning of the 2000s, then it subsided, then in the 15th year it reappeared and, especially, began to spin up, and since february of the current year, it is, as it were, a very complex, a-a, a-a, pose, a

meaningfully complex mechanism in terms of structure and it is not by chance that they talk about the information war as a tool for waging war and immediately raise the topic of the zaporizhia npp zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in the hands of the kremlin - it is a weapon, it is not a civilian atom - it is not a civil economic entity - it is a weapon and a relationship to of this object of this companies are like weapons, because when we say that putin has his and this clique, they have their own categories, their own concepts and non- apparatus, then you have to understand that they actually refer to this object as