well, yes, yes, sometimes the british are better ukrainians than ukrainians said that for six months, ukraine invaded the russians in horlytsia, ukraine, god, that is putin, no, putin, solovyov said recently that if we had not attacked ukraine on the 26th, they would have they attacked us and reached moscow in 96 hours, and to whom you surrendered, lord, they would live there, and all this is important, so that they do not rush to us i have a lot of that brown now about fascism and about this and the quintessence of the russian world, which smells bad. yes, but before rammstein, yes, rammstein 5, that the first four

rammsteins were transmitted to him. the united states gathered partners from around the world for a conference on military support . it was held at the american ramstein air base in germany. at the end of april, the defense ministers of 40 countries agreed on the coordination of arms assistance in particular, japan, australia, israel, qatar and kenya joined nato countries with money training, the key tectonic shift was the very fact of the foundation of such a platform, which today is called rammstein, then for the first time the principled position of our partners on the system of assistance to ukraine in this open war against russia was discussed, where our partners want to make a decision to be our partners in this future victory, already after the first meeting, berlin promised cheetah anti-aircraft self-propelled guns, and ottawa rammstein 2 armored personnel carriers went online at the end of may, the official summary of

denmark's commitment to transfer anti-ship harpoon installations, additional artillery was promised by italy, poland, the czech republic and norway. the third rammstein took place in brussels on june 15. a week later, the minister of defense oleksiy reznikov announced that the first hummers had arrived in ukraine from the united states, which significantly changed the situation at the front. fourth rammstein held online on july 20, most of the decisions were kept secret. there are still many good and interesting decisions ahead , many e-e training programs that we talked about with partners, because without training it is also impossible to use weapons, so i am optimistically waiting for those things, although, of course, there are things that have not yet

been resolved in principle, these are modern tanks and airplanes . it is necessary that the fifth rammstein will be held face-to-face at the same base of the united states in germany, where the format was born, the meeting will take place against the background of the counteroffensive actions of the armed forces of ukraine and the nuclear threat due to the situation in our country at the zaporizhzhia nuclear plant the minister of defense will sum up the results of the six months of the war and make a decision on new supplies, probably not publicly again. well, now we will ask how taras zoftenko will evaluate it. and now, from the point of view of international security, the previous rammstein meetings and this fifth one, what should we expect from it, taras welcome to our broadcast congratulations. how would you rate the four that preceded five in the morning, do they maintain such an upward trend, the trend persists

with each subsequent meeting, starting with the first one? the organizational one is more even inaugural, but already the second, third and fourth. we could see an upward trajectory according to more complex agreements in more complex agreements and, accordingly, according to the results we saw from these agreements, that is, for the previous four ramsteins, we saw quite serious quite serious arms deliveries, which in practice the ukrainian defenders used and used quite effectively, and the minister of defense of the united states actually spoke about this today and noted that, in fact, today after 6 months after the start of the war, the front is demonstrating and the ukrainian troops at the front are actually demonstrating this qualitative transformation, a qualitative change that took place in favor of ukraine primarily thanks to the performances of the first four rammstein thanks to the

agreements and thanks to the mechanisms that the participants of this initiative worked out not only with the direct help of ukraine because the rammstein initiative is actually aimed at directly providing ukraine with military and technical assistance, including coordination of efforts between the participants of this initiative so that they can more easily and more effectively provide this military assistance to us without weakening their own defense capabilities, which is critically important for those countries that participate . also confirms this upward trajectory, which is primarily aimed at ensuring that ukraine continues to receive everything that we need for victory, actually if we talk about ours, what would be a breakthrough for us what do we expect from the fifth rammstein , and i also wanted to say that we are mostly

talking about nato countries and primarily about the countries of the european union or the european union and the united states, but other countries that have very powerful armies or capabilities also often participate in it such as, for example, korea. well, of course, the south or japan, can they also play on this rammstein, this is a very, very good initiative, first of all, of course, for ukraine, which gets what it needs to win and what it needs it is necessary in order not only to get success now at the front, but also to consolidate this success and, accordingly, turn it into, in the medium and long term, the best and most powerful guarantee of security that only we can have. in fact, it is a maximally combat-capable army that meets the actual military threats that we currently see from the russian federation, but also

ramstein is a very valuable initiative for the participants themselves, primarily for nato in itself, it was an initiative in the first days, in the first week, so to speak, when it was born, it was based primarily on the mechanisms of nato security cooperation, on the mechanisms of this cooperative security, where the countries that are members of the alliance strengthen their own security not only by providing security and support to each other, yes, but also by cooperation in weapons, in the supply of various protection systems, ammunition for these weapons , joint operations, and so on. actually , since this mechanism already existed within the alliance it was used as a foundation for the first rammstein, but in the future, with the expansion of this initiative itself, it began to play a very large and very significant role for the posidian itself, because in this way the alliance has the opportunity to

expand its partnership with those countries that are not formally participants of this organization, but nevertheless they can be assigned to these mechanisms of security cooperation, and therefore rammstein also increases the practical capacity of nato to interact with other partner countries, and it goes in favor of ukraine because it facilitates the task of nato countries to supply weapons to ukraine and it also helps nato because it is a very good chance to establish and work out security cooperation mechanisms by analogy with those that are in the alliance with states that are not are members of nato, but they can be involved to strengthen common security, even at the global level, mr. taras, and the article that came out the day before was co-authored by zaluzhny and zabrodsky, was it somehow timed for this meeting or is it a separate article and the meeting separately, will it still be translated for the members of rammstein? what do you think, is it being discussed

today, is it also a topic for discussion at this meeting, how much influence will it have on what can somehow result in military aid for us later? i think that so definitely this article , it was timed to today's meeting at rammstein, moreover, i think i think that these two events, uh, the output of this article and the rammstein meeting, they went in a parallel uh and interconnected course, because i am more than sure not that the theses that we saw in this article are definitely absolutely correct, rational and objective, and in fact, this is the basis of today 's discussion of rammstein, that is, this article is, so to speak, a public, er, a slightly simplified version of those professional discussions and that those those that professional topics that will be discussed today in and are being discussed today in rammstein we

actually this article is also very well parallel to the column of the secretary general of nato donts sportenberg which was also published yesterday and it is also in the same vein building up and a more systematic approach to the temporary support of ukraine in the field of security in the area of ​​rearmament of the army in the area of ​​the transition of the army to nato standards and in the end the construction of the security and defense sector in ukraine according to the same advanced western nato standard we actually these theses and eh, the article eh that appeared in ukraine in the form of jensistantinberg's column, they are very similar to what is being discussed today in rammstein. i think they eh can be expected to be consistent with the results that we will see the fact according to the results of this meeting and at the level of official statements in the public space. well, in practice, of course, on the battlefield there are new weapons that will help us liberate our territories, but such a small autop is now

from our main topic, if you allow mr. taras you mentioned jensus stoltenberg. and i thought about what you want to say, so about the fact that the name christi freelan is called, it's actually like that, by our standards, the vice-premier of canada, which is, let me remind you that her mother's name is hom as a half-ukrainian well, that's it canadian girls, after all, in the ukrainian manner , it is even called khrystya, freelancer, he is british, british journalist is well-known, but all but all three children natalka galya and ivanka, how much do they respond to this ? as far as it is for ukraine, it would be a positive moment that frila could theoretically become the leader, become the successor, but if the alliance of the north

atlantic well, judging by those cautious political comments that can be heard from about the change of the current secretary general of the northern analytical alliance, in principle well, if she has quite a good chance, but here it seems to me that the practical situation is the same as with the last change of the prime minister of great britain, so boris johnson, to a forest of tracks, that is, in principle now, taking into account the trend in the western world in western countries, taking into account their consolidation, the further the deeper and, in fact, the more serious, yes, in opposition to the russian aggressive policy, i think that also at the level of candidates, which uh, in addition to those already we know that yes, they can be considered because johnson, by the way, is also to some extent discussing the candidacy for the post of the future secretary general of nato, but in any case, this choice will, in principle, only confirm this

course of support for ukraine and he will confirm the course for consolidation of western countries, because over the past six months we have seen, well, despite everything, the west has been warming up for a long time and is warming up to such a practical reaction. nevertheless, we see these trends and that is why khrystyna freelan and boris johnson and uh, there's more. look for love, they also call one of the candidates for the post of nato secretary general. all three candidates are absolutely clear in their pro-ukrainian position and they are absolutely clear in their consolidating position against russia's aggressive policy and the threat to russia's e -e to world and regional security. well, it is difficult to call all three of these clear pacifists under such conditions, and the fact that they were thrown out so little from toltenberg, who in fact also turned out to be a quite worthy worthy leader

members of the atlantic alliance, but times are changing and things are changing, and we are actually together with them. finally , returning to the topic of ramstein and i will remind you that our final press conference should start in literally seven minutes. if it starts, we will broadcast it . as they say for our viewers, in an hour i tell our viewers yes yes at 4:40 p.m. and now it's 3:40 p.m. yes actually returning to the topic of rammstein eh i wanted to ask eh all the same about what they say, in particular, he wrote about it what mykhailo zabrodskyi wrote, long

- range weapons, will this be a leading topic? which is primarily related to such systemic weapons of the armed forces of ukraine, because what we have now is simply obtaining the tools that we take and immediately use at the front to solve military tasks, but in principle it does not quite fit into this framework of the restructuring of the armed forces of ukraine, the sub-nato standard and a full-fledged system rearmament . inherent to nato member countries, actually if we talk about the means of defeating this radio judge , in principle well, if these moments, i think that this rammstein will not be the first at which they talked about these moments so much more that, well, in the article zaluzhnogo and zabrukskogo time very such an interesting detail, which indicates that we are already partially

using these long-range weapons, the only thing we do is uh, well, to me, with minimal, minimal public dissemination of this information, because there is such a thesis that the defeat of the airfield of the russian a missile attack by the ukrainian armed forces was carried out in saki, that's why, in principle, i think that the fifth rammstein will finally formalize these issues and will determine the framework of how and with what degree of publicity ukraine will receive officially these long-range impression systems and, accordingly, already having the mechanism of their practical application in hand with the coordination with our western allies, i think that this issue will just now be finally formally resolved and will finally formally resolve the issue of the level of publicity of these deliveries and accordingly to what extent we will be able to announce that we are receiving such a weapon out loud and spread this

information officially. there was that cotton one with sounds with claps er with these beautiful beautiful mushrooms taras zoftenko expert on international security i was with us muscovites with their weapons they said that they are not there and now it will be like that er we are not there we are not there that is, ours was cotton, then it wasn't our rocket, then he sent it to himself. well, how do we live? so what is it that flies by, and it is a half-breed of a scumbag? you know, it hits at 3,000 km. so, on espresso, we will broadcast live the final press conference, which is expected at 4:00 p.m .: 40 so stay with us less than an hour before this one of the final press conference, follow our tears, stay with our marathon, now we will also talk about what happened on september 8,

2005, and what effect it had on our lives and still has, it is characteristic of the carbohydrates of the differential of russia, they signed a joint declaration about the intention to build a gas pipeline that will connect the two countries at the bottom of the baltic sea, bypassing the transit countries, and time has confirmed the right of the experts who even then called the nord stream primarily a political and non-economic project. now i jumped a little to another topic just while it is fresh 5 minutes ago the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine already gave official information about what is happening near kharkiv oblast if you are in kharkiv oblast if you missed it i will tell you now e 40 is the last 48 hours the armed forces of ukraine have advanced to the depth attention in 50 km, more than 20 settlements have been liberated. that is, of course, this is really a high pace - this is a real breakthrough. yuriy butusov is already writing to himself on his page in the ukrainian e-e, a well-known

military correspondent about what this depth is a breakthrough may mean that the russian army in izyum got into an operational encirclement. here are such news, so we will also follow them. well, for now, let 's return to the nord stream about the fact that this is more of a political and non-economic project, a real gas weapon. let's see what happened on this day, but already how many 17 years ago, on september 8, 2005 , russian president vladimir putin flew to berlin to meet with german chancellor gerhard schröder and take part in the signing ceremony of the declaration on the construction of the gas pipeline across the waters of the baltic sea in just a week, schroeder lost the election to angela merkel and unexpectedly joined the board of directors of the operator of the future gts, which was named nord stream

. europe from russia, my commitment to nord stream-2 was clearly a mistake, we held on to bridges in which russia no longer believed and about which we were warned by our partners, i thought that putin would not dare to completely destroy his country economically, politically and morally because of the drug empire, so i, like others, was wrong. merkel herself still does not admit that the flows were a mistake and claims that it was only business projects, although russia used gas as a political weapon for years in 2005- gazprom drastically reduced and in january 2008 it completely stopped transit through ukraine , everything to convince ukraine of the unreliability of ukraine as a transit, the germans agreed to build gas pipelines in a bypass in order to have cheap gas. as a result, in 2021

the share of russian fuel in the eu balance was 45%. the europeans paid putin 100 billion dollars for him, now the kremlin is turning on the faucet again to force europe to stop supporting kyiv or at least to ease sanctions, russia wants to destroy the normal life of every european in all the countries of our continent, they want to weaken and intimidate all of europe, every state cannot do this with conventional force weapons are made by the power of energy weapons, trying to strike with poverty and political chaos where i can't strike with missiles in the end although nord stream-2 was completed, it never became operational, and on september 5, gazprom announced that it would stop pumping blue fuel and along the nord stream alone, the european union assures that they are not going to give in to blackmail, the european storage

is more than 80% full, there are plans to build new lawns or increase the import of liquefied gas however , it will not be easy to completely abandon russian gas, the process will drag on for at least several years, during which it can be very cold with them spoke a fairy tale, remembering the cold winters with which he scares europe, now let's ask volodymyr omelchenko how realistic it is, the director of the razumkova energy program center is with us. the price of russian gas by setting it at the level of 50 euros per megawatt hour. what does this mean? well, it means that the european union clearly sees that russia is playing with the price and,

in essence, natural gas for russia is no business as claimed by the same gazprom and the same putin and mrs. merkel and the usual energy weapons and the nord stream 1 and nord stream 2 projects are essentially military military facilities, actually how it should work can be explained simply it’s just how will this limit on the maximum price of a work and it still needs to be implemented, it won’t be so easy to do because you need to clearly understand a very simple thing that as soon as this is introduced, you should expect that russia will gradually or immediately for those countries where restrictions will be introduced stop the supply of natural gas, even at

huge costs, they will even, i think, agree that they will burn gas into the air, uh, they will conserve gas wells, but they will go for it because they have essentially declared an energy war and will fight uh until in other words, it will even be more profitable for them, and it is more profitable for them to have an energy war than what they are sitting on a gas pipe, no, you are more profitable for them, they are counting on a very simple solution that the cold and large e payments for the population and for the industry will force will force the european politicians means to encourage the ukrainian authorities to negotiate with russia on russia's terms , this is what the main strategic

plan is, so for them another 500 €, that 1.4 that they will continue the war for as long as they want, it is simply necessary to clearly understand that this is the answer of the european it is the right answer for the union, but once again we need to wait for the game of russia for even more post this war. union, this will also mean for ukraine the cessation of the transit of russian transit of russian gas to put our transport system in a very difficult financial situation and will significantly complicate the supply of natural gas and the heating system. it will be difficult to maintain the working pressure in the system

. regions in the east and south of ukraine, but this uh, this thing, relatively speaking, is a pipe, this pipe that russia uses as a weapon, it has two ends. i understand correctly, that is, russia recently there was a big editorial panic dance about why it is relatively easy for russia to overcome the consequences of sanctions so far and here one of the three points of the explanation is that they have good competent people in the government and among them one of them is ot for example, the head of the kudrin chamber of accounts and he said yesterday, it seems, that russia 's dependence on the export of gas and oil remains a huge problem, and i am actually leading to this, that is, if europe can abandon gas and oil from

will russia be able to live without this export? well, europe can fight against russian energy carriers, there is no way here. europe cannot lose in this war. and this is a real war. wars in war do not happen . if i win, what will happen in russia, and this is the largest market today, it is the most liquid reliable market for gazprom - this is the market of the european union, eh, gazprom earns eh on it. well, this year, i think he will earn somewhere in the 200 million euro range, this is quite serious money and it does not compensate anywhere this market and does not compensate this

money all this talk about the chinese is such a leap for uninitiated people because last year russia delivered only about 10 billion cubic meters to europe in europe 155 there until they build and expand the system the power of sapira e for these will go there for more than five years, and besides, it is not a fact that china will buy natural gas from russia, that is, at the market price, because it is now buying not at least at the market price, but essentially at the cost level thank you thank you sir volodymyr, there's still a minute left. i'm still wondering if oil prices actually fell before the beginning of the war, the indicators are less than $90 per barrel, and if this trend

will continue. the global world crisis and politics means that the federal reserve system of the united states increases the discount rate. thus, so to speak, it increases, or rather, economic activity and demand , respectively, for oil, this leads to a decrease in prices what does this mean for us, well, it does not mean for us, for us, only that we can hope for the purchase of oil products at a cheaper price, this is quite a positive signal for the users of cars, as well as for our state budget, because we have a lot of money from the state budget going to the pleasure of uh, that means somewhere for fuel in the armed forces. thank you for the

explanation . in europe, are we really going to freeze like a wolf's tail, as putin said the day before what happened in the country and in the world in the last hour, our news service knows it anthony blinkin's visit to our capital