the international crimean platform will be met at the level of heads of the parliament, speakers and parliaments, in which you practically expect the result, what can it be? platform was initiated by the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi and it was first gathered last year on the 30th anniversary of the independence of ukraine and a high level of support for ukraine was shown at that time, a time when the leaders gathered very many countries of the world and began to discuss returning the topic of crimea to the international agenda this year, because this format was already held online, but there was an idea to continue it , but already at the level of a parliamentary format and at the initiated first parliamentary summit of the international crimean platform, which we will

hold in croatia in the city of zagreb on october 25 well , first of all, i want to thank our croatian colleagues from the croatian cathedral who joined and took on a great burden of organizational work regarding the implementation of this same here why is it important to you because the most important strategic decisions are discussed at the level of the presidents, but these decisions must be implemented through the adoption of legislative acts, and therefore it is very important that today, having gathered speakers in the parliament of the countries of the world that support ukraine, we have the opportunity to discuss how the crimean issue in overall, i think that there will be broader discussions about the global security system, this is actually a continuation of the discussion that we started together with our colleagues at the gathering of speakers. and it is very important today that the maximum number of countries, the maximum number of speakers were involved in this discussion, because then they will buy these decisions of the international

crimean platform at the level of their parliaments, adopt the relevant legislative acts, adopt the relevant resolutions of the parliaments, and this is a very important support of international ukraine at the level of direct representative democracy, which can be adopted will it be the level of the position of the countries or will it be the general position of those speakers called well, we are starting the parliamentary debate parliamentary the discussion involves the adoption of appropriate decisions and will be adopted based on the results of the first summit, respectively, the resolution of the first summit of the parliamentary and international crimean platform. this resolution is currently being worked on with those partners who have already announced their participation . platform, we will all vote for this resolution, it will be clear and

understandable, it will start with issues related to crimea and, including related to the reform of the global security system in the world, and this is very important because crimea is a vivid example of how the laws of international law and the principles of international law have begun to be neglected. for us, it is very important that this trend be stopped and that crimea returns home to ukraine diplomatically. i think that the way , which will be the most effective, soon ukraine will receive the first anti-aircraft defense systems in person. minister of defense oleksiy reznikov spoke about the results of ramstein, according to him nato is preparing to expand its support to ukraine, the only thing missing today to invite ukraine to the alliance is the political will of nato member states, the head of the ministry of defense emphasized. however, he said that ukraine will definitely not remain neutral. we have

mastered more than 300 nato standards. we are carrying out one of the largest transformations of the defense forces since of the second world war, moreover, during the active phase of hostilities, the ukrainians are now restraining the russian invasion, which has already been identified as the main security threat to europe and all free of the world maryana budzhurin, senior researcher at the belfer center of the harvard kennedy school, joins our broadcast, mrs. maryana, our congratulations to you. congratulations , my dear maryana. if we talk about joining nato, or more precisely, about the accelerated procedure , in accordance with the statement recently signed by president volodymyr zelensky there, the ukrainian side emphasizes that while this path continues, the accelerated regime should even talk about security guarantees, about iron security guarantees that will guarantee and hmm, which guarantees on international partners, but here it is an important point that these guarantees are not the same as they were at the time, and when signing the budapest memorandum

, so what is an effective alternative to this plan, you know, at the moment, it is difficult to see an effective alternative. i had in mind the er outlining actually these are effective er some real security guarantees, obviously nato allies have that security guarantee er which is actually included in the very format of the alliance outside the framework outside the format of the alias ​​as long as ukraine is waiting for a political decision yes, we heard from the minister of defense reznikov that in technical terms, in principle, ukraine is progressing very quickly, very quickly, er, it is making progress towards nato standards, here, of course, everything goes into a loop, there is this impasse of a political decision, er, and that is why, if we speak

purely from political and security issues of some, let's say, third format, it's hard to see it except for the actual security e-e those security achievements, let's say, which ukraine can achieve on its own with the huge support of the west that is, some such, let's say conditionally, israeli version of the fortress state, and actually, it is possible to implement this fortress state with the support and help of western and other partners, but the political formats here are quite limited, and speaking of israel, you have to note that this country is not a member of any alliance, but continues to maintain close ties and partnership with the united states. well, let's say that israel is a member of nato or some other alliance, but israel is extremely supportive

close ties with the united states, yes, to a large extent, it has a very powerful own defense industry, and there was a security capability, but it will also receive a huge amount of defense assistance, and supplies from the united states. that is, it does not just happen like this, and it is also a country that surrounded on all sides eh there are no no not tied, let's say by neighbors eh, that is, she already lives, spends her life in a rather unfavorable region for herself ms. maryana if we talk about concluding and signing security guarantees, this should be one document in which there will be everything is laid out, and is it still about greater multi-level support and policy in this direction, er, that's what i actually meant by president zelenskyi, i don't know what the actual format is.

we remember, we'll remember that even before the start of a full-scale invasion from russia to ukraine, there was a certain kind of tripartite format established with great britain, poland , that is, some very close friendly relations, including military support, which actually took place in this format, but here is the question the fact that, in reality, what do the members of the same north atlantic alliance use, first of all, they use the nuclear guarantee of the united states, as well as, obviously, other nuclear members of the alliance, such as france, great britain, that is, the very fact that the alliance includes these nuclear states and that they undertake to protect

others as if they were defending themselves er creates a risk er for the adversary of this alliance creates a risk that anyone can be touched by anyone , it is possible to escalate to this nuclear level and, accordingly, and in addition, it is an extremely powerful alliance in terms of conventional weapons, conventional weapons, therefore, in a country like russia, as we see now with its capabilities in terms of conventional weapons, starting a war with such an alliance as nato would be very, very unprofitable but now in this in this time in this situation the alliance can extend this guarantee to ukraine this is a very difficult political issue, we see that the usa does not react to it very quickly and positively like other countries mariana and the european union on the eve introduced new sanctions against russia in connection with the

strengthening of its aggression against it and please tell me what you think we should expect from the united states of america in terms of ukraine's accession to the european union no no in terms of strengthening the sanctions policy of sanctions pressure on the russian federation , well, the usa, in principle, has always responded to this process, and let's remember that even at the beginning, since 2014, they acted as the organizer and leader of these sanctions, that is, right now, it is very, very, very nice that the european union has embraced such this is the role of the leader in imposing sanctions, because it is obvious that the time is already far away. hmm, i am not sure and i do not know to what extent. this is another package of sanctions being considered, but the most important thing here is, it

seems to me, the question with rosatom. who is actually a collaborator ? and is part of this whole system, which is now creating a huge danger at the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and so on. uhu , ms. maryana, one more moment, soon there will be midterm elections for the house of representatives of the united states of america, and against this background, what kind of support it is worth speaking in our direction. i mean our ukrainian side, especially considering the fact that there is an initiative to recognize the russian federation as a sponsor of terrorism. and here the united states is delaying the adoption of a--a corresponding legislative initiative. so, of course, we need to be very, very, very careful here depending on the situation, there will be elections in november. it is expected that the balance will shift in favor of the republicans

, so mostly. can play quite sharp division quite sharp disputes between republicans and democrats is now very very heated and the domestic political situation is here here in the usa eh well eh considering the fact that in two years you will also have presidential elections here too a person like trump will appear in the future, so let's still hope that this general support from the congress and the senate, which has been up to now regarding what, what, what both parties agreed on, at least in relation to ukraine, although of course from the republican side, there were some uh, some uh, well, the opposition - let's say, the opposition voices are quite

uh, uh, odious, uh, let's hope that this support will continue. russia is a state sponsor of terrorism. it seems to me that this is just some kind of legal internal and external aspects. i don't think that they will change significantly after the elections in november. yes. of course, thank you. maryana bojurin, senior researcher at the belfort center harvard school kennedy joined our broadcast. well, ukraine freed 108 women from russian captivity, 96 servicemen and 12 civilians informed the office

of the president. detained in the ordlo even before the large-scale invasion for being too pro -ukrainian prisoners, the office of the president, the government and the ministry of foreign affairs began to involve all relevant international organizations in the issue of the release of prisoners. knew the conditions in which our people were and did not stop. to do everything so that they all returned, we clearly understand that our task is to return absolutely everyone, all heroes and heroes. we are not on this we stop, we have new ideas, how to

do it more effectively and more and more time to return our heroes and heroines crying for your happiness, they can't believe that they are already in their native land, the freed women say that this is a big surprise for them, and they didn't know until the last moment that they were going home, they say that after what they experienced in captivity, they will now be able to withstand everything in russian captivity. the women were abused, killed and humiliated, their belongings were taken not only phones, but also gold jewelry, watches and even clothes were kept ukrainian women in the pre-trial detention center and were transported several times from one city to another, we ourselves were in shock. well, hmm, we didn't wait , we didn't know, we didn't know, we were there for six months from 12.04

. everything was taken from us, even our rags, we don’t have any civil rights, the most terrible attitude was in taganrog, terrible, or even the girls , and how they mocked our captives, the whites were changing, they asked us to break them so that we would refuse to enter . two things, refuse from the status prisoner of ukrainian citizenship, i say no, i’m lonely noch, but i have to beat them for three days in a row, girls were for tattooing with ukrainian symbols for speaking in ukrainian, to

you that ukraine does not want you, that you are not needed by anyone they don't like not only not people, every state fires about 90 shells at the russian occupiers every day, the tankers are helped in this by both ukrainian artillery and modified soviet t-72 and t-64 tanks, they have been updated to the maximum comfortable level for operation, said the fighters of a separate motorized infantry brigade named after yakov kandyuk, now they are fighting in the kherson direction, especially the defenders praise our oplot, he says that this tank is easy to control because it has electronics , and it also maneuvers well and moves quickly both forward and backward, and the fighters are also waiting for german tanks, leopards, the last few weeks, our brigade today, with its responsibility, is fighting. well, as

they said before, we will fight locally every day for every landing for the bend of the canal for every house is fighting hard, one tank fired 17 shells the day before yesterday, and yes, the order is 86 88 per day, everyone is shooting at the enemy and throwing them out quite accurately, the enemy is suffering significant losses, especially in manpower, because they do not have much and a lot of equipment in this direction, but here we have caught up with a lot of manpower and we ask as much as it comes, so many questions are war crimes. such a statement

was made by the representative of the usa to the osce, michael carpenter , he noted that the occupiers fired at objects that had no military value, the power plant multi-apartment buildings, parks, playgrounds and heating facilities, in addition, the attack was cynically and purposefully carried out at peak hours so that there would be as many victims as possible. the us representative is convinced that all this is happening because the kremlin is aware that it is losing the war in ukraine and therefore decided to carry out a hard push at the expense of as much as possible number of people's lives, carpenter also called on belarus to stop contributing to putin's war of aggression dmytro onopchenko journalists from washington join our broadcast live p dmytro our greetings to you greetings good evening here in washington , you know, a calm, slightly cool evening between the seasons and more than that. this off-season is not only climatic, it is also political. elections are coming soon , and nevertheless, ukraine is being talked about a lot, and there has not been a day when ukraine has been talked about in the same way

there were a lot of statements today, i am ready to talk about it with you. of the state, as a result of which there are dead and destroyed infrastructural and civilian objects. well, of course , they talked about it, they talked about it today in the white house, and i got a little sick, but i specifically went to the state department and the white house in order to simply hear for myself what they would say e- from the spokeswoman of the administration, who is jean-ker? we have heard words of condemnation of russia, words of sympathy in ukraine, but you know. well, you and i are adults, it is important when a serious person sympathizes, but there is also a big question. well, what is the west doing to stop it? that's all well, this is also a question that other journalists asked both on camera and off camera and what we heard that there are two points here, the first point is the united states now and this is what karin jean-pierre said they will do everything possible to raise the price

for russia will there be sanctions? yes, will there be sanctions? will there be an increase in customs duties on russian goods? yes, in other words, they will do it on a large scale. everything that works for itself has felt the price of what it does, and the second point was that they talked about it today in the state department, this is the possibility of sanctions . today, i could not say exactly how many iranian drones bombed the capital, but by and large, we all understand that there are drones supplied to russia by iran, and now a large package of sanctions against iran is being prepared, according to the tradition of the american administration . announces until the moment until the signature of the president or the signature of the head of the state department appears, but by and large this is all being prepared to show those who supply weapons to russia that it also has its own body dima was made public the other day in the white house the national strategy, er, the national security strategy of the united states of america. and

please let me know what will happen in our country , what exactly was discussed in the ukraine issue in this context, you know. in fact, this is er, a very important story, because it can be a bit like a rather everyday comparison but when people start a relationship, they agree on how they will be open there, or we, i have the right to be jealous now, every administration is the same, and it does not appear every year, but once every four years, how long does the presidential office work the administration issues and approves the national security strategy, and there are some key things that cannot be deviated from, so that you don't say no matter what minister changes, no matter what law is adopted, and here in that document, which was adopted with a little delay, was presented just in time and prescribed firstly, that russia is the biggest threat to the united states, just like china, china is a strategic enemy, but firstly , it is russia itself, and secondly, they prescribed that aid to ukraine, which is in the strategic interests of the united states states, and that is, you know, if it is written down, no matter how

the balance of power in the parliament changes, no matter what happens there, if it is already written down, the american administration must adhere to it, well, at least until the change of administration, it is important that it is also written there about supporting european aspirations ukraine and most importantly about the support of ukraine and financial military servicemen dima thank you dmytro onopchenko, a journalist from washington, joined our broadcast live not once in eight months from since the beginning of the full-scale war, representatives of our state were not allowed to the places of detention of prisoners of war and civilian ukrainians in the occupied territories or in russia, today the international red cross organization, together with the ukrainian delegation, was to visit the camp for prisoners of war, volynivka of the donetsk region , agreed on a joint trip to the president's office the day before directly and again however, none of the

representatives of the red cross came to the meeting place i did not come as an ombudsman of ukraine, dear people's deputies of ukraine, we demand that the international committee of the red cross fulfill its mandate , dear dear, to the whole world, the international organization, as the international committee of the red cross, does not fulfill its mandate at all and covers it up by not giving them permission to do so. federation unfortunately, with every exchange we see that the inaction of the international committee of the red cross has led to the fact that our prisoners of war and civilian hostages are tortured every day, we understand that the red cross a-a emphasizes that they do not have a security guarantee , but one thing is to follow procedures and another is to make extra efforts so that

they still have access to our prisoners of war. today we can state that the red the cross is dead, because it does not fulfill its obligations, which are directly written in their statute , if the red cross does not fulfill these obligations, therefore we will look for other formats in which we will still find access to our prisoners of war, and in what conditions they are kept now, so they remain what the world needs to know about this we will definitely leave our servicemen, our boys and girls who are currently in captivity, alone with the aggressor, valentin glykh, a political scientist, joins our broadcast, valentina, i congratulate you. good night, mr. valentina. how can you

comment on the situation with the red godfather? to reform as a or is it worth creating another organization well , first of all, i would like to remind mr. yermak of this statement, which many called the ultimatum, although in fact he himself called it without an alternative demand and react is actually very simple folk wisdom who wants it looks for a way and who doesn't want it looks for a reason and the red cross today is making much more effort to find the reason why they can't do what their mandate requires of them. well, if if they had made as much effort to find a way to get there, then i think

the result would have been absolutely the opposite. well, it's all very concise and very simple. that it is very difficult to maintain privileges by referring to functions that you have not performed for a long time, that is, if this organization is unable to perform its basic functions, then what respect can it demand for itself? what's wrong with them, but there are zero results. i wrote about this in the telegram channel, calling to subscribe, by the way, i wrote that you know what a joke there is about how a policeman approaches a person who walks around without them the lamplighter is looking for something, what are you looking for, he says, i lost 100 dollars, and where did you lose them, he says, there it is, in the dark entrance, yes, why are

you looking for them under the lamppost, he says, right now, the light is dark there, yes, all these international amnesties, all of them these red crosses seem to me to be moving like electric current through the path of least resistance, yes , that is, if they are allowed to enter ukraine, then they can look, then they begin to look for some problems, violations of everything else, and if the russians, who commit numerous war crimes every day they are not allowed here, they are starting to pretend that they are not allowed in. well, that means there are no problems, the problem is if they do not want to notice this problem and do not want to work on its solution . well, of course. one more thing . but i think that all conscious people all over the world, looking at such a completely impotent, completely helpless position of the red cross, draw their own conclusions about the fact that if suddenly they need the help of the red cross or they i have to calculate and this, in turn, must inevitably

affect the desire to finance this organization in general to deal with it. well, for us, of course, as correctly pointed out, i saw deputies and a ukrainian boatman there, well, let us look for other ways, that is, if the international committee of the red cross is not an effective tool, unfortunately, we cannot use it to protect our interests because we will have to look for some others or try to create some other. and i repeat that if the red cross is not in the navel of the red cross for this behavior of the russians, proposals for strengthening sanctions well, where is the position regarding further pressure on the russian side? to ask about the strengthening of sanctions pressure in view of the raids

and massive attacks that were carried out on our people and civilian objects in the european union , the thesis that it is necessary to decide with by the russian federation, the issue through diplomatic means , because we see that new aid is already being approved, and monetary and e-sanctions are being conducted due to violations of human rights. i think that the european union removed this issue. the pressure on the russian federation to date is the position articulated by zelensky that there can be no negotiations with the putin regime and the decision is based on the fact that the russian political regime is recognized terrorist, well, in fact, it is you