threats to use nuclear weapons ukrainians have long lost the existential horror of the possible use of nuclear weapons against ukraine, the tactical giving of weapons and this is not the president to the desired result of putin's complete surrender or in any way the surrender of the west to the putin regime, this will not happen, i think that now they they are already beginning to realize this from here, what olya said about the change in the rhetoric of the main propagandists - it is from this opera, that is, they understand that there is no longer any point in emptying one with a blow because it will lead to even worse consequences. so, is there now the last trick, the last joker, which was allegedly in the hands of putin, it simply will not work, and this and this one is already a certain awareness, so i think that the question is where exactly will russia catch up, and then either a cascading collapse or transformation into the black hole of the russian federation, and we will get the russian federation, what will happen after russia, russia, we should have

talked about it some other time, but let's do it another time, because now we literally have a minute, i want you to do it in two minutes or even half a minute to tell me. well, look, there was such a thing in russia. it is very popular to say that it is like the caribbean crisis, we will now approach the limit and then we will leave, and the second is that there are rumors that the possibility of striking estonia is being considered suddenly. well, in order to raise the stakes you treat it literally for 30 seconds, i understand very little, and the possibility of a mission and strike with a tactical poison weapon exists and they should be rejected boat 6 propaganda or in russian information and psychological operation no such possibility exists raising rates as well one of the options for putin. but again, hitting estonia means war, you know, then not even a war with the alliance, but with the majority of its participants , and here it must be understood that the war will be with the majority of participants, and this option is also considered even if there is a veto from on the part of hungary, that is, nato

as a country, as participants will fight this. putin should understand it. i think he understands it . our command is not the leadership, there will be no capitulation, there will be no acceptance of bids, only driving putin into a dead end, from which there is no way out, anyone should die. thank you, it was vitaly kulyk and oleksiy holobutsky, and our next meeting will be on the espresso tv channel on tuesday at 11:40, i repeat once again tuesday at 11:40 a.m. and we will continue to do so on tuesdays and thursdays at 11:40 a.m. and on fridays at 1:00 p.m. yes. what are you watching? espresso tv channel and we will meet.

congratulations on the broadcast of the voice of america ukrainian service program time and host ostap yarysh combined the states introduced new sanctions due to russia's announcement of illegal annexation of ukrainian territories , restrictions were announced by three departments at once, the state department of the ministry of finance and the us department of commerce, for its part, joe boyden said that the current actions of the kremlin have no legitimacy and added that the united states will continue to support ukraine's efforts to return control over its territory militarily and diplomatically more about the reaction of the usa to the latest events, let's talk with yoga yarmolenko, who is joining us from the white house yuli greetings welcome to the beginning. please explain what the new american sanctions are about. this is russia's attempt to annex more ukrainian territories.

in particular, the state department has imposed visa restrictions against 910 russian and belarusian officials, in particular military officials. the ministry of finance has focused its sanctions specifically on people and companies that are so important to support support and military industrial complex of russia, in particular , introduced sanctions against 14 international large suppliers, and these sanctions, according to janettelan, the united states secretary of the treasury, they will further weaken the russian military machine and affect russia's ability to continue waging an illegal war. the department of commerce, for its part, imposed sanctions against another 50 companies for evading the united states' export restriction regime. secretary of state brinken also today emphasized therefore, the united states , together with the g7 countries, warns

any international players or to specific individuals or companies not to support in any way in a political or economic way, russia's attempts to encroach on ukrainian territories and, accordingly, the ministry of finance and the ministry of commerce also issued official warnings of the processes. today , the president of the united states, job biden, issued his address and also said that this is completely illegitimate. he emphasized that today's sanctions are being implemented against individuals and companies . inside russia or outside russia, who provide political or economic support to illegal attempts to change the status of ukrainians territories, he emphasized that the day before that the position of the united states remains unchanged. let's listen. i would like to draw attention to russia's shameless and transparent attempts to annex part of

neighboring ukraine. i want to be very clear about this. the united states will never, ever recognize russia's claims to the sovereign territory of ukraine, this so-called the referendum was a hoax, an absolute hoax, the results were artificially produced in moscow, the true will of the ukrainian people is evident every day when they sacrifice their lives to save people to preserve the independence of their country and to protect freedom russia's attack on ukraine in order to achieve putin's imperial ambitions is a flagrant flagrant violation of the un charter of the basic principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity somehow the announcement of the illegal annexation of russia yes to the support that the us and its allies are currently providing in ukraine you are the president of the usa, joe biden, he emphasized that the united states will continue to support ukraine's efforts to return its territories today as well canada's minister of foreign affairs, melanie zali, and

us secretary of state anthony blinking, based on the results of their joint meeting, also emphasized that nothing will change in their vision. they still consider these regions to be the territory of ukraine and, accordingly, their support will be unchanged . putin will not stop at anything. to strengthen their power and assert their dominance, voting for the accession of the territory of ukraine to the russian federation is a crude attempt to formalize the conquest of president putin. through the political theater as canada and nato allies have previously stated that the pre-arranged results of these referendums have no legitimacy and will never be recognized donetsk luhansk kherson and zaporizhzhia remain ukrainian territory of the country moscow

did not mislead anyone with its actions the world saw how russia held these so-called referendums when russian occupation troops went from door to door and forced ukrainian citizens to vote at gunpoint, the whole process surrounding these pseudo-referendums was an absolute farce, they did not the legitimacy of the legal status is valid, this territory remains ukrainian. it will always be part of ukraine. we will never recognize attempts to annex this territory. as i said, ukraine has every right to defend its entire territory and the people who are there and to return the lands illegally taken from it. our support for ukraine will be to continue and this aid can be used as ukraine deems necessary throughout the country to protect its territories and, if necessary, to return them, a fairly clear and unambiguous position usa yury thanks you for your analysis, let me remind you that

yulia yarmolenko was with us on the call from the white house. meanwhile, the us congress approved additional funding for ukraine for over 12 billion dollars after voting in the senate the day before, the same decision was also adopted in the house of representatives american congressmen condemned putin's announcement of the illegal annexation of ukrainian regions and called on the white house to send more weapons to ukraine on kapitoriya hill , our colleague kateryna lisonova is working today let's talk about it in more detail katya i congratulate you i congratulate you katya come on let's figure out what the new funding for the congress is aimed at and how its importance is commented by the legislators themselves, as noted by ostap two hours ago contrast weather in the partial budget of the united states of america for 2023 and sent it for the signature of the president biden, this partial budget

also includes additional aid to ukraine in the amount of 12 and 3 billion dollars in this aid from ukraine - 3 billion dollars for military aid in ukraine and one and a half billion dollars for replenishing the united states' reserves, 540 million for the manufacture of ammunition, almost 3 billion for security in support of europe and 4.5 billion of economic support for ukraine, in addition, the package includes 35 million dollars provided for countering a nuclear threat or a radioactive radioactive incident in ukraine. i spoke today as with democratic and republican congressmen and in particular they stated that the approval of this additional aid for ukraine is particularly important against the background of putin's announcement of annexation new territories of ukraine, additional financial assistance is now important because this is a constant struggle that has only intensified in some areas, but

even more important than that is the fact that we are sending a signal to vladimir putin that the congress will not go anywhere. we will be here despite his annexations, despite the mobilization, despite the nuclear threats and continued war we see his actions as more active perhaps panic and at this moment we must show strength and we must admit that we cannot give them a break at all we do not can we allow them to regroup politically militarily economically we need to strengthen our sanctions and continue to provide these aid packages and send a clear signal when a new aid package is needed for ukraine we will be here for that ukraine because ukraine is doing a great job right now they are showing courage but they need the support of the united states, as well as all the freedom-loving peoples of the world, and this includes resources , weapons and humanitarian aid, this is the fight of david

against goliath, and we stand on the side of the freedom-loving davydovites fight and we are going to continue to do it, we have a two-party bloc that will not allow us to make the necessary decisions and we will fight with all possible means for every smallest part of the funding that ukraine will need, this funding combines military aid , aid to emigrants, humanitarian aid and other things, it is always covers a number of necessary things, in fact , our voted decision gives the president the right to allocate these funds for katya's needs , a delegation of ukrainians is also in washington these days mps who meet with congressmen and senators, including those who have heard now, what the ukrainian mp emphasizes in his meetings and what years they expect from the usa in fact, the visit lasted a week and today a joint press conference was held with representatives of the ukrainian parliament and also at the ukrainian chamber of commerce focus, i spoke with representatives of both the congress and the ukrainian

parliament, and directly the head of the servant of the people david rogami faction told me that such speeches are important for the allocation of a larger aid to ukraine, and according to him, in particular, in this budget, 12.3 billion dollars have been allocated for ukraine, in particular, it was possible to increase the amount by 600 million dollars. he also said that during the meeting, additional military aid was discussed in particular, providing more heimers and he also emphasized that today's current visit is important due to the fact that it takes place on the eve of the midterm elections to the congress when the balance of power may change and for ukrainian parlanders it is important to preserve bipartisan support for ukraine, while commenting with mania on referendums. but not the announcement of the annexation of new ukrainian territories by russia, but by the president, arkhamia said that ukraine will win back these territories, we offer to listen to his comment right now, the plan is very simple, we

knew in advance that we warned all our international partners that putin would do this that he will not stop, although there were european colleagues who said that he would not do this in order not to neglect potentially a peace agreement or some kind of negotiations. yes, we see that we were right once again, and that's why the only way now is to free these territories by military means, as we are doing in the counteroffensive, and that is, we will simply take our territories by force and return them to ukraine, we will monitor katya for the development of these events, and thank you very much to you for your inclusion with us was kateryna lisunova from capitol hill. and in response to putin's announcement about the illegal annexation of ukrainian territories, volodymyr zelenskyi said that

ukraine is applying to join nato under an accelerated procedure, the usa reacted to this secretary of state anthony blinken said that the united states always supports the alliance's open door policy, for its part, the heads of foreign affairs of the baltic countries said that they are in favor of ukraine 's joining nato as soon as possible. the alliance itself comments on ukraine's submission of an application for ostap's saturday. we have this comment from the general secretariat of janson stoltenberg himself. press conference in brussels but before submitting his actual words, which were prepared today, i would like to emphasize that, first of all, this is probably not the kind of answer for today that many ukrainians who have already given to

want the north atlantic alliance to immediately come directly to help assistance to ukraine, in particular by taking ukraine to its ranks, on the other hand , it is necessary to remind that jens stoltenberg is the general secretary of this organization, that is, he first of all expresses the position that has already been approved of the country of this organization, he is the organizer and is a person who, like a mother, works to ensure that the organization works harmoniously and that decisions are approved at the moment. today, he said the following on this occasion: new rust road to the prime for me to membershipe, and every democratic country in europe has the right apply for membership in nato and nato allies respect the right, we have repeatedly

stated that nato's doors remain open and we have demonstrated in recent years at the nato summit in madrid, the allies are also very clear stated that we support ukraine's right to choose its own path and to decide which security agreements it wants to be a part of, of course the decision on membership must be made by all 30 allies and we make these decisions by consensus. bohdan's invasion, and after putin's current statements, can we expect an increase in this support in ukraine and pressure on russia from both europe, the european union, and britain, britain today announced sanctions, in particular, in the same way that the usa added the head of the central bank of russia, ms. nabiulingu, to the sanctions list. the european union is preparing its next set of sanctions, and it is likely that what

happened in moscow and what putin said will become another argument for the discussions that will take place between the representatives of the 27 eu countries today this was stated very seriously by the president of the european council, charles michel. today, we must all understand that we have entered a new world where many of our points of support have been turned upside down and we must clearly see the situation, russia has decided to expand the war with a huge mobilization, we europeans also need to mobilize not for war, but rather in order to preserve peace, to protect our security and guarantee the future of our children, bohdana thanks. it seems that the usa and europe really have a borderline position reason thank you, i'll remind you once again, abo bohdan tsyupin, in communication from london, russia's statement about the illegal

annexation of the occupied territories is evidence of russia's fear of the success of the ukrainian counterattack about this stated the minister of foreign affairs of the republic of turkey edgar rinkevich in an exclusive interview with the voice of america, he emphasized that russia is dangerous for the whole world and its threats are no different from the actions of terrorists. see more about this and other things in the interview of the journalist of the georgian service of the voice of america ekin metadze got you this well, in your opinion , russia held these pseudo-referendums right now, this is the result of the ukrainian countermeasures of the war, where are these fake referendums somewhere? and now a hasty decision to join these parts of ukraine to russia is happening because some of the bandits sent by russia demanded this on the ground. and this is evidence

that russia is afraid of the ukrainian offensive of ukrainian success. russia now understands that if the ukrainian armed forces are as successful as they were a few days ago, the ukrainians will liberate part of the occupied territories and russia will no longer be able to claim these territories, what is really impressive is that russia claims even those territories that they do not control, they chose such an aggressive position for a long-term war with from this point of view, the illegal referendums that were held in several regions of ukraine. i think they were brought only because russia felt that they were losing those parts of ukraine and ukraine successfully liberated them for the second time. i think that they are not so afraid of the further escalation of the west. i would not rule it out that someone in the kremlin is also counting on some use of tactical nuclear weapons, in this case i think that the position must be clear from the west too if someone in the 21st century uses tactical nuclear weapons in ukraine why is someone in nato is the european union so confident that it

will not become the next target of a nuclear war, that is why i am in favor of a very tough response, we are now discussing what the correct response was, but i do not think that another round of sanctions or something similar is the proper response. here is the sun, russia is illegally annexing ukrainian lands they hope that this will give some formal justification for using the principle of self-defense, do you think that this is another miscalculation russia, uh, 10°, the russians know that this is a rubbish decision because the international community and international law does not recognize that this is their territory , this is ukrainian territory. thus, the use of nuclear weapons in this case contradicts international law, even to a certain extent conflicts with the national legislation in russia, because it is possible to discuss how legally correct

they are acting even in accordance with russia's own laws, a kind of statement a smoke screen for all occasions, we are talking about tactical nuclear weapons, but let's not forget about chemical weapons, for example, because it is not excluded either they saw that it was used repeatedly in syria. russia is a really dangerous country and it is a clear and real danger for the whole world. votes for russia, a state sponsor of terrorism for deliberate attacks on civilians in ukraine, and also called on other countries to take the appropriate decision. the president of the united states said that at the moment sees such a necessity that this declaration means a diplomatic one, and whether other countries should follow the example of the russians, this declaration was initiated by the parliament, the deputies believed that the behavior of russia, which was tired

to ukraine in february, all the atrocities and genocide against the ukrainian population, the torture of prisoners of war, buch and irpin, all the examples we have seen, russian threats to use nuclear weapons, threats to the country in nato and the eu, in fact, there is no such thing as terrorists acting in european legislation, declaring someone a state sponsor of terrorism no legal consequences but politically it sends a clear message about what the people of latvia think about russia it paves the way forward and we believe that we also need work at the european level to consider further measures to ban russian citizens from entering the european union, you know that we have established certain restrictions for owners of short-term schengen visas, and we also have to live with measures to confiscate the assets of the russian government, which were initially frozen by the war, this is necessary to help ukraine in its recovery efforts, therefore from this point of view although this

political declaration does not have any legal consequences - it is the way forward also for the countries of the european union there is a big difference in similar statements from the united states was in the united states such a declaration had very clear consequences, and in europe it is more of a political statement by a politician, do you think that the test of european unity worked against russia, she did not get what she expected, what do you think ukraine needs now and what about the country with the west could do more like this number onere spones actually think the answer number one i sending more weapons to ukraine helping ukraine military financial political help refugees the ukraine army is fighting it needs weapons all types of weapons are needed, heavy tanks, artillery systems, airplanes. we must give ukraine as many

weapons as we can with place remasters without matyuks, even before the explosions of the nord stream gas pipelines, everyone for various reasons stopped gas supplies to the ends of europe. do you think or does the kremlin hope that using energy as a weapon, they will be able to blow up the help of the west of ukraine now that we have seen that for russia belarus almost everything weapons energy migration tools of digital propaganda we need to be ready for the fact that they will try to do many unpleasant things to influence public opinion about our way of life and of course winter is always a great opportunity for this at least in this part of europe sometimes it is cold and it snows i definitely think that there is still hope in russia that if they use propaganda in combination with

all these energy attacks against europe, they will somehow influence public opinion and european countries in their favor, i have doubts that this strategy will be successful. i think that they underestimated european determination and unity in february and march, they underestimated ukraine's readiness to fight, they overestimated the actual military potential, so i believe that this is quite a way of miscalculation on the part of russia, the foreign affairs of latvia, the united states and ukraine's allies in one voice also declare that they will never recognize the so-called referendums whether russia's attempts to annex ukrainian territories and does this process have any legal significance at all? held in the unoccupied territories of ukraine, so -called referendums, all western leaders and international organizations, lawyers insist that

these fake referendums do not have any legal basis, there have always been legal efforts to disguise what was happening in reality, either now or in the 40s. was it a military operation or something to others, this is exactly what the russians are doing, the fact is that this is a fake referendum, it is not a referendum, but the process of creating a bureaucratic base for carrying out military annexation, but later this entire bureaucratic base will end up in the trash, it won't matter what will matter so this is how the war will be on ukrainian land and in the ukrainian sky, the lawyer rejects any comparisons with the secession of kosovo or the division of germany and uh and roger it is quite obvious to me that germany is a case unequivocal and unconditional surrender it was a long process of negotiations and the occupation finally ended in the 90s kosovo was also the subject of

international negotiations which were not successful but negotiations at the international level which aimed to solve the situation happened in today's situation, this is not the case, instead , violent forced so -called referendums are happening right in front of our noses, they do not even hide the fact that their soldiers go door to door and demand ballots from people, military officers force people to vote, the russian occupiers and propagandists in their narratives also use the right of peoples to self-determination enshrined in the un charter, flatly explain why this argument does not work in this situation self-determination - this is all that they have been working on for tens of years. this is not the case. they organized a fictitious unilateral secession in donetsk and other regions, then they hold a fake vote on annexation, which they call independent, and this is a

fiction, in general, it is not worth considering this process in the right plane, says the lawyer -a canadian international of ukrainian origin, danylo belok, who lives in kyiv and has been in the ranks of the terrodefense since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, most if you start filing lawsuits against the russian federation for this in fact, you will confirm the fact that they have claims and guarantee that you want to substantiate this in some objective forum , instead, the governments of the world and international organizations should clearly state that they reject and do not recognize the attempt to annex ukrainian territories, says polska, the world should reject this energy should be clearly heard in the un building in new york to the headquarters of the asan, every organization should say that this is illegal and it will not be recognized, the answer should be the strengthening of all-round support for ukraine, lawyers say

every time putin increases aggression, our allies must increase their support for ukraine, especially with weapons and new weapons systems that they promised to provide to those who have not yet promised and with sanctions, the sooner ukraine gets it, the sooner the war will end, announcing mobilization and support for so -called referendums, president putin opaquely hinted at readiness to use nuclear weapons , the use of a nuclear trump card, experts note the old soviet method, we already experienced this during the cuban crisis and the position of the united states was a failure they just outplayed the russians the russians are good at bluffing they use bluff and arrogance to reinforce a very very weak position this whole story is a potemkin village they create something fake and then pass it off as real they have been doing it for at least 100 years