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minute by minute nato secretary general genstoutenberg will hold a press conference dedicated to ukraine, we will broadcast it live, so wait for the historic decision ukraine submitted an application for accelerated accession to nato, volodymyr zelenskyy said this following the results of the national security and defense council meeting and the rates of the supreme commander-in-chief, the president noted , de facto, our country has already made its way to nato, we have already proven compatibility with the alliance's standards, they are real on the battlefield and in all aspects the head of state added to our interaction, stoltenberg's press conference has started, so we are watching live

ukraine is sinking from ukraine from ukraine ukraine ukrainian territories are the very essence of the conflict in ukraine our support for ukraine we understand that nato is not part of the conflict but we provide and will provide ukraine only weapons as much as ukraine needs for its self-defense

becomes stipulated by the un charter, we remain united and determined to defend every nato ally, every millimeter of land, now is a historic moment, putin resorted to the mobilization of hundreds of thousands of people and he also plunged into nuclear blackmail, all this together represents the most serious, the most serious escalation since the beginning of a full-scale

invasion. a war that only putin is responsible for, and it is his responsibility to end it, to end the indescribable suffering of brave ukrainians, to put an end to food shortages and other issues that this war has led to, if ukraine stop stop uh, if ukraine stops fighting, it will cease to be a country, but if russia stops the war, then it will end and peace will come, that's why we strive to fight for the territorial integrity, the integrity of ukraine, that's why we emphasize that we will continue to provide ukraine with the support it needs, as much as

it will be we need a few questions, the news agency from ukraine has no doubt that we are dominating the liberation of our territories, but a few hours ago, the leadership of ukraine showed us a possible way out of this bloody war, namely application for simplified ukraine! every democracy every nation has the right to apply for nato membership and we repeat that nato's doors will remain open to all those who

met at the summit in madrid and then we emphasized support for the right of ukraine to choose its own path and its own wishes in this regard which in security regulation they prefer to pursue what decisions we make after reaching a consensus among all 40 members now we want to provide immediate reactive assistance to ukraine so that it can deter the brutal invasion of russia that is, what is the focus of our attention and that of all nato members, in particular, today you talked about another one, as much as putin,

the two of them are taking big steps for years. so then he threatens with nuclear weapons and announces the future annexation, what will nato's reaction be, of course we call on putin to stop the war, because he is responsible for its beginning and he is the one who must end it, this is his direct duty and responsibility, as soon as russia stops the fight , only then will there be peace, but if the ukrainians stop and zelenskyi, we understand that ukraine will not exist as an independent state, that is why we do not talk about any levels, uh, all parties are equally accused, we understand whose side is on whose shoulders the weight for all these actions is, that is why we supported ukraine, we do not

support and we will not support any - what kind of annexation , because this kind of pseudo-annexation will not change the very essence of the war, it is a war , russia's aggressive attack on ukraine, and in recent weeks and days we see that the escalation is gaining new momentum since february 24, we are already seeing the mobilization in russia of russia which is combined with narratives about the reckless use of nuclear weapons and attempts to annex parts of ukrainian territories, so together this is a very serious escalation, so putin's goal right now is to deter us from providing support to ukraine, but this does not scare us, we will

continue to do it as if it were ours us colleagues said that they will continue to provide even greater support, nato leaders are sending the same message regarding our support to ukraine because it is in the interests of ukraine that we help them defend themselves, but it is also in our interests ensuring that putin does not win because he seeks to expand his authoritarian power and ultimately achieve his goals through military means and bring an even greater threat to the world yes yes two questions if we allow er the first is related to our colleague's question so regarding the nuclear doctrine russia if you were asked to tell the armed forces to attack the occupied

territories, would this cause a new wave of escalation, in particular a nuclear threat, and secondly, today you spoke with chancellor scholz and you also discussed attacks on gas pipelines which will the answers and reaction of germany and nato, in particular, it is possible to increase the military presence in the baltic countries or something else, thank you, of course, ukraine has the right to reclaim its territories that were occupied by russian forces. that is why we support them. they can defend themselves, so they can continue to liberate their territories, as i already said. well attempts to annex ukrainian territories do not change the essence of this

conflict, if we are russia, and under that yandere blackmail, we understand that it will stop, we will support then it turns out that we are playing by the rules of putin's nuclear blackmail and suspending our support for ukraine, and we cannot allow this so that the authoritarian state russia achieves what it wants, namely to seize control of our neighboring country ukraine and its sovereign right to reclaim its territory, we understand how much -are dangerous. this is how we see what actions russia is resorting to. it must understand that nuclear

wars can never be won, they can never be won because the consequences are inevitable, particularly for russia. if they dare to take this step and we tried to convey this message to russia, ukraine!

e.e. volkswagen investigation to find out the facts and understand what was the cause of nato, yes, our allies, representatives of nato, as well as our presence of our troops, in particular, in the north sea, ukraine, the baltic states. yes, this also sends an appropriate message, because we are also ready to defend our facilities of critical infrastructure, as well as collect information data that can help us in conducting these investigations, as well as to monitor critical infrastructure objects also, we are starting to share our

information and well and the past two weeks without understanding whether there was anything actually related to the attacks on the two gas pipelines in the baltic sea. because this once again emphasizes the need for our joint work within the framework of nato. therefore, the first military presence is also the collection of information and data, as well as their monitoring in relation to infrastructure facilities, as well as the sharing of information with intelligence, which is very important for nato and our allies in order to mutual support to prevent something like this in the future. and the last question, please

thank us for the fact that ukraine now owes its success to the support of nato and its allies, and we understand that the more successfully they kill ukraine , the crueler and fiercer putin becomes. please tell me if this changes in any way your approach to the situation perhaps you are becoming more cautious or in some way understand that the better the ukrainians show themselves on the battlefield, the higher the stakes and the higher the threats from russia, what do you say about this it doesn't change anything, it doesn't change what we have to do, and we have to protect ukraine , if we give putin the opportunity to win in ukraine,

it will be catastrophic for ukraine. it will simply disappear, but this is an unspeakable threat to us . we will sit idly by, this is an even greater risk than when we resort to certain actions because putin's impunity consists in the fact that he resorts to even greater and more oppressive means, so if you listen to him not only in relation to ukraine but also in relation to our eastern allies of nato members, we understand that danger lurks for all of us, so we faced an extremely dangerous threat in ukraine, but don't tell us. don't ask us if it's ukraine or if this war will become even more dangerous if putin wins because the risks increase for the country and the risks are increasing for

all of us, that is why we are ready to bear the price here that we pay by supporting ukraine because if we do not support the country, this is the price of growing up, we are very carefully monitoring the actions of russia, we did not see no changes, we are on the alert, we share everything, we discover all the information, we, uh, we clearly stated to russia that in the case of the use of tactical nuclear weapons, the reaction will be very powerful, because we talked about different types of escalation, the first is escalation, in the territory of ukraine there is also a risk escalations outside of ukraine, in particular, nato members, nato member countries, now nato is not part of the conflict. we support the country, but we are not

directly involved in this conflict, because ukraine has the right to self-defense. besides, i want to say that it is very important to change and strengthen our military presence on the territory of the allied countries, because we are preparing, we are ready for the potential risk of a military attack on our territories , that is why we are additionally deploying our troops on the territory of the allied countries, and we also want to avoid any what misunderstandings are there in ugu regarding our action - our desire is to support the ukrainian therefore we continue to value these narratives to the kremlin we support the country as well as we prevent the deterioration of the situation by drawing what will be the reaction in the event of the use of nuclear

weapons and also demonstrating our readiness to defend our allies increasing the number of troops on the territory of our eastern allies on this we will end the press conference thank you very much in the evening we are celebrating a cold is already celebrating familiar symptoms try flucold-4 components of flucol and directed against i eat pain and runny nose flukolden mykola veresen vitaly portnikov and the main topics of the week history problems analysis and personality if you have questions you will get answers portnikov veresen every friday at 21:30 on espresso

this is my country, my fields, my friends, brothers, parents, children, neighbors, students, doctors, teachers, soldiers, we are all, everyone, regardless of age, faith, likes, beliefs , and we are all united now. we will win. glory to ukraine . good evening. we are from ukraine. greetings. colleagues, we will talk with you until 21:00 about what happened today, many important things , we will also report on everything that will happen during our broadcast. well, today is a decisive day at some stage of the war first of all, in the kremlin, vladimir putin, the president

of the aggressor country, his posypaks are among the accomplices in the crime he is committing against ukraine, against international law, against people, against humanity in general, he is these crimes, so his posypaks, together with him, also called his slaves from the temporarily occupied territories of ukraine who went to moscow with a label, well, in russia, this is hereditary, well, in general, in muscovy, this is hereditary, previously their princes went to the golden horde on the volga with labels for the reign and fell at the feet of the mongolian khan well, and then mon to me mongolians, in any case, they fell at the feet of the tatar khans, wiped the floor with them, cleaned the boots of the khans with their mouths and tongues, and now they are great rulers and now they come to them for shortcuts . he was treated there several times, he was in a coma, now he was resuscitated and sent to the kremlin, also a common beehive, they

came to putin and received shortcuts to rule in the temporary in the temporarily occupied territories , well, how do they think that this is russia forever because because putin today recognized the results of pseudo-referendums, even these are not pseudo -referendums. it’s just uh, well, it’s just some kind of delusion that they call pseudo-referendums and uh, he took the so-called dpr and lpr, the occupied territories of donetsk region, luhansk region, and also, as he said, in zaporozhye and kherson region although he controls a smaller part there, but he has already annexed it all to russia, now there must be a decision of the federation council there, the deputies have to choose it all, but we understand that it is no longer of any special importance, putin considers these territories part of of the russian federation. today he loudly announced it there in the evening in moscow, as griboedov wrote that ladies and the air throw caps, so about the same thing is happening there now with the reds on their

red square, so he said such an important thing, well, for them, for russians, it is important he said that now all residents of kherson region and zaporizhzhia region, because it is already clear about donetsk region, luhansk region, and they are citizens of the russian federation and we will not abandon them, we will not surrender them, that is, he means what it means now will there be any sanctions or some kind of harsh response if the armed forces of ukraine try to recapture one or another settlement, the ukrainian fighters have already shown a video of how after putin's address they shot at the occupied part of the territory of ukraine, well , they didn't shoot at ukrainians, but at russian troops, that's why the armed forces wanted to spit of ukraine for all these pseudo-referendums, the papers signed by putin and all these other things mean that after all this, volodymyr zelenskyy, somewhere around this same time, convened a meeting of the council in kyiv of national security and defense, which were attended by representatives of the main security agencies, the head of the verkhovna rada, the prosecutor general, the minister of internal affairs

, the minister of defense, etc. well, the chief of the general staff , the commander-in-chief, and so on. how is it all classified, but president zelenskyi announced that ukraine is applying for simplified entry into the north atlantic alliance we will continue this topic because there was already a statement by jens stoldenberg to the head of nato, the secretary general of nato, but now we are up to our current information, in fact, to the terrible events that russia resorted to anton zhuk, deputy of the zaporizhzhia district council, sir, i congratulate you, i congratulate you because of the feelings i want to express only to the residents of the zaporizhia region of the city of zaporizhzhia in connection with the terrible crime that they committed russians and in connection with the terrible losses suffered by the ukrainian community, and in particular in zaporizhzhia and the zaporizhzhia region , 25 people died, there was information, maybe now there is

more information because the statement has not been i watched there very much, they didn’t want it to be more. please tell me about this uh-uh, this is a terrorist attack. you can probably call it from the russian side, the russian army, the russian leadership . tell me what is known now , please uh-uh. i have the same information about who died . 25 people and five more are in intensive care, so in the morning at 7 a.m. they hit a rocket at a place where a humanitarian convoy was forming to go to the occupied territories. there were no strategic objects there. there was not of the military, it's near the car market, everyone in the city who is connected with humanitarian activities with the transfer of some medicines in the occupied territory , they all know this place, uh, for the last 1.5 weeks. well,

for almost two weeks, russia has been shelling our territories, that means with rockets 300, which are not very accurate according to the information i have, the shelling today, you see the footage, was more precisely made by a missile that was guided and hit exactly where it was flying, that is, can we attribute such terrorist attacks to the inaccuracy of weapons, what is it ? theirs with thoughts they wanted to hit somewhere, they hit here well, this is a probability, probably, well, a missile flew here, there is no well, i do not have specific data. is it iskander or what? but according to the available data and the number of impressions , it is not somewhere there, you already know after kramatorsk, after vinnytsia, after kremenchuk, it is already here in principle

, it will not be possible to blame the enemy for something, he is doing this not for the first time, i really wanted it to be the last time, but this is it . there were exactly laws on which principles it was formed, please, these are convoys of civilian people who go there and there. i think that one of the several goals can be the first - it is visiting relatives , the second - it is actually possible to bring out the same relatives, the third - it is the delivery of medicines or some specific products that are lacking in the occupied territories, that's why well, actually, these are the main ones. well, you see. these are completely civilian cars, some of them are like minibuses. these are probably the

cars that, among other things, take people away. wants to leave the occupied territories, the quality of food products, they can bring medicine there, because there is a big problem with medicine, insulin, and it is acquaintances who have relatives there, that is exactly why such columns are formed, they are under control, they are formed and checked by our authorities, that is, the ministry of internal affairs of the sbu on the basis of well, under normal conditions, this is not the first trip of such a necessary format to the territory of the occupied enemy. absolutely, i would say that, except for exacerbations and areas, this happens every day, that is, that the enemy resorted to such actions today, if there was any threat to him from such er volunteer columns, he could have bombed them every day, but they hit right now, it was, well, now let's not think for what purpose, the only goal

of the enemy is them openly says to kill ukrainians today, one russian soldier is there in the kremen, where they had a holiday of theirs, this is diabolical. he said that if they were to be killed, we would rob them, well, that is, they do not hide their intentions from her, so to speak, let's ask one more thing regarding the fact that putin today called the temporarily occupied territories, in particular, the zaporizhia region , the territory of the russian federation, how do the authorities of the zaporizhia region of ukraine react to this in principle? well, once again, what does this mean for us, because for putin and for his electorate, it is probably something means for the armed forces of ukraine i understand that it does not mean anything in particular well, but somehow they will start to be more active in handing out passports , please hand out summonses absolutely for local citizens, for activists it means nothing because it everything is attributed to schizophrenia, mania and an alternative perception of reality by patients in the kremlin, eh. we believe and hope in the armed forces. we

help volunteers to him and eh. a missile from the heimers systems with our artillery and it does not pay attention to putin's words and to those four bastards . sorry for the vocabulary that he said there that he represented the zaporizhzhia region or something else, uh, i don't even want to say his last name out loud, it's the local government that does its job, should do its job and support the armed forces of ukraine, because what putin wants to say is actually, unless in his to the head, there is already some sense. well, i will ask one last question. but in this colony that left today but never left for the temporarily occupied territory, are they mainly residents of the zaporizhia region of zaporizhzhia, or could there be residents of other regions? i think that 90% more percent will be e-e residents of the zaporizhzhia region

can potentially go to b through this corridor